<p>For those who have not heard, a fight broke out at midfield after Holy Cross won the football game in overtime over a winless Dartmouth. The Dartmouth players felt their college was being direspected because the jubilant Holy Cross players were celebrating by jumping up and down in the middle of the field atop a large “D” that marks the midfield. Guess they just weren’t getting enough “respect” on the field during play that day. </p>
<p>Statement by Dartmouth Director of Athletics Jo Ann Harper</p>
<p>I have concluded a Dartmouth Athletics Department review of the altercation between the Dartmouth and Holy Cross football squads immediately following their Oct. 14 game on Dartmouth’s Memorial Field.</p>
<p>It is obvious that many players and some staff of both teams were involved in this incident. While I have been unable to determine individual responsibility, I have told the Dartmouth players and staff that this type of behavior is unacceptable. I have subsequently shared with the Dean of the College Office all the information I have been able to gather, for review by that office.</p>
<p>We have emphasized to the team and the coaches that representing Dartmouth in intercollegiate competition is an honor and a privilege, one that is contingent on our confidence that individual players, staff and teams can conduct themselves in ways that represent our values of sportsmanship. We have also told them that the College will continue its review of the matter, and that any further behavior that undermines our confidence would call that privilege into question.</p>
<p>Coach Teevens, his staff and his players have acknowledged that the actions displayed Saturday were not in keeping with acceptable standards of behavior at Dartmouth, nor with the great traditions of Dartmouth football and Dartmouth athletics in general. They join me in apologizing to the Dartmouth community, the Holy Cross community and the public. All of us pledge to do our best to see that this behavior is not repeated by the Dartmouth football team or, for that matter, any Dartmouth athletes or teams.</p>
<p>[edit: This is a repost from the Dartmouth forum…I’m not writing a new one just because it’s an older crowd]</p>
<p>…hey, Dartmouth is a tough school; don’t let the SAT scores fool you.
If the spirit strikes, we’ll kick your lily-ase for stepping sideways across the green.</p>
<p>The backstory:
Having just lost a tough game in overtime, the forlorn boys of the football team were informed that Dean of Admissions, Carl Furstenberg, had decided to move on to more effete concerns and predictably overcome with joy (…damn good coaching) the offensive line started throwing their fists into the air in glorious celebration and, alas, into anything else within their sinewy reach (there were reports from those on the sideline that tears of joy were observed caking-up in the black-shading below their, now, ecstatic eyes). </p>
<p>…you know, not all of us geniuses wander the halls dreamily translating Cattalus: that’s just marketing. Sometimes we just wanna give out a good ase whooping. </p>
<p>Just a heads-up to the pencil-neck geeks awandering in the Hanover woods.</p>
<p>FS - Wasn’t Furstenberg’s resignation a couple of weeks before the game? I am quite sure it was, and I doubt he could have gone on to more “effete concerns” than the abysmal productions the Big Green football team has been offering of late.</p>
<p>but a joke not without some substance of truth. Carl Furstenberg was the director of admissions. His disdain for athletics and other forms of physical contact and prowess was legend at Dartmouth. It is assumed by many that his has been a negative force on Dartmouth team sports, athletic collegiality and Greek high jinx.
The reference to “translating Cattalus” is cut from the same cloth.
Former President of Dartmouth, James Freedman, like the cuddly-wuddly C. Furstenberg, was quite put-off by the image of the Dartmouth-Man/[woman] as an intellectually and socially well rounded good-time person who could get ur done, as they say. He pined away for a day when Dartmouth would be populated by students with a yen toward translating Cattalus in solitude…if in a cloud of butterflies, so much the better. He went a long way towards making his icky dream a reality on our beloved campus, through restrictive administration policies toward admissions and the Greek life…had more of a big-brother or welfare state idea of Dartmouth, that is the nanny-college.</p>
<p>Why not just restrict the whole incoming student body to pocket-pen protectors and calculators? Stop ■■■■■-footing around: we need technicians and nerds! Pronto!</p>
<p>I hear Furstenberg’s fellow travelers have started outlawing the game of tag in primary school…and dodge-ball? You gotta be kidding me!</p>