DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Iowa Professor Fears Fuzzy Hawkeye Mascot Could ‘Traumatize’ Delicate Students.

If you can be “traumatized” by a man running around the sidelines of a football game in a stinky polypropylene mascot head, you’re not mentally well enough to be in college.

01 Jan. 2016: Iowa Hawkeyes mascot Harky on the field during the Rose Bowl game played against the Stanford Cardinal played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. (Photo By John Cordes/Icon Sportswire) (Icon Sportswire via AP Images)
Jan. 1 2016: Iowa Hawkeyes mascot Harky on the field during the Rose Bowl game played against the Stanford Cardinal played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. (Photo By John Cordes/Icon Sportswire, via AP Images.)