The long-simmering controversy over Foetry.com seems to have erupted into a more full-blown tumult over its attack last week on the two fiction contests run by the University of Iowa—an attack in which (as last week’s MobyLives digest version noted) Foetry revealed that judge Kevin Brockmeier, a 1997 Iowa Writers Workshop grad, had chosen a 1997 Iowa Writers Workshop grad (Anthony Varallo) as the winner for one prize, and a UI faculty member (Douglas Tevor) for the other. Now, says a new—and still unattributed—report on the site, attempts to elicit an official response from UI’s legal department has elicited a curt “No problem,” but Foetry says officials at Iowa and other university literary prizes are nonetheless on “Orange Alert.” According to the Foetry report, “the official word is they’re not worried, while Foetry’s site statistics tell another tale. In the days following last week’s story, readers from the University of Iowa were among our top visitors.” Also, “A Dean at Colorado State, home to another prize with a Foetic reputation, joined our forums under a pseudonym. His purpose? To discredit us. ‘It’s like a whole movement of the entitled untalented. Fascinating. But whether your poetry is any good or not doesn’t seem to be the point, right?’ So to let him know that we knew who he was, we referred to him as ‘Dean,’ and he posted twice more and asked to have his account deactivated. And according to our statistics, he spent a good part of the prior night on the site.” Foetry also claims retaliation from other contests it has “outed” in the past, including at the University of Georgia and at Boise State. Meanwhile, another website, WhoisFoetry?, is collecting tips as to the identity of Foetry’s editors. The site has also posted contact information for Foetry’s hosting companies, and a note says, “We encourage you to continue to register your complaints about Foetry,” adding, “In our opinion, the administrators are violating their terms-of-service agreements . . . by engaging in defamation of character and providing a forum for members to engage in libel, all with healthy doses of malice.”