The University of Iowa has responded to allegations that the football program's pink-colored visitors' locker room is a sexist and homophobic slur by announcing that the locker room will retain its rosy color scheme.

Usually, uproars of this sort don't get quashed so definitively--university administrators tend to employ appeasement tactics when someone on campus begins levelling accusations of racism and sexism (consider the recent case at Syracuse, in which administrators are violating the school's own policies on open expression in order to dramatize its distaste for politically incorrect commentary). But, then, the rules may be different when Division One football is involved. Iowa president David Skorton will anger a number of faculty members with his decision--but he may have calculated that it would cost far more to anger Hawkeye fans, alumni donors, and corporate sponsors.

Thanks to Maurice Black for the link.

I'd like to think that definitive action was made easier by the fact that the original complaint was so unutterably silly and trivial in the first place. But you're probably right -- you don't mess around with Big Ten football. Most likely that consideration is what put steel into the jello-like backbone with which college administrators customarily address complaints of deviation from political correctness.