<p>"About 300 fans packed into the narrow spectator gallery at Dartmouth Colleges squash courts, hoping to see their underdog team topple fifth-ranked Harvard for the first time. But the cheering soon turned to heckling - and then a full-fledged verbal assault.</p>
<p>For at least 90 minutes, about a dozen Dartmouth students pelted Harvards men and women players with obscenity-laced insults that some witnesses described as misogynistic, homophobic, and anti-Semitic. Women on the Harvard team were called whores and sluts, witnesses said; the men were taunted with crude comments about their masculinity…</p>
<p>The Valley News reported that Dartmouth fans repeatedly called Harvard players by derogatory names, referring to male genitalia, sexual acts, and sexual orientation. Cohen was also called a coward and a despicable human being, the newspaper reported. Another witness told the Globe that a Dartmouth student shouted, Cohen, do you cheat in business, Cohen?</p>
<p>Dan Keat, a cocaptain of Dartmouths mens soccer team, issued an apology to the Dartmouth community Tuesday on behalf of the team for behavior that crossed the line of what is appropriate and acceptable. His e-mail was followed yesterday by an apology from Alpha Delta, the fraternity that helped inspire the movie Animal House.</p>
<p>Sad. Really sad. I hope they expel the jerks–can’t hold the entire student body responsible for the behavior of a few but something is amiss in Hanover. Good luck President Kim–you have your work cut out for you.</p>
<p>This is disappointing…shows are real lack of sportsmanship, let alone respect…
Hopefully if the Admin knows which group was there and part of the behavior they can take some kind of action–I don’t expect it would be expulsion but certainly something should go in the record of each participant and if other racist/biggioted behavior occurs–then the Admin has recourse.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is a nice school and we had thought our student would keep it on the list (he’s a jr) yet its remote location makes for a heavy drinking population…wich isn’t attractive.</p>
<p>As for Animal House, my Uncle was a member of a frat that supposedly was one they supposedly based the movie frat on but it wasn’t at Dartmouth…
Certainly those frat behaviors existed and still do in many places so I suppose it is a compostie sketch.</p>
<p>[“We don’t know the etiquette, so it came off much harsher than we intended it to be,’’ the student, Bryan Giudicelli, told the local newspaper.]</p>
<p>Why are they at Dartmouth if they don’t understand the concept of etiquette?</p>
<p>I used to play squash when I was in college and we never had to wait for a court. It was quite an unpopular sport back then - maybe it still is. We usually went over to the squash courts when we couldn’t get a tennis court.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I would want my child to go to Dartmouth. The president may be able to somewhat control fan behavior at games, but it will take a lot more to change underlying attitudes on the campus. Apparently there is something in the campus culture that attracts and/or grows narrowmindedness and prejudice.</p>
<p>As the proud parent of a Dartmouth student (who is neither narrowminded nor prejudiced), please be careful in labeling the entire campus community due to the actions of a small subset. Apparently 288 fans were well behaved. I am sure there are incidents on every college campus that the majority of students neither endorse nor want associated with them. I am proud to say that my child is a student there, and I look forward to many wonderful years to come under Dr. Kim’s leadership.</p>
<p>I note that there’s no mention in the article of alcohol. If Dartmouth really wants to deal with boorish behavior, that’s where it will have to start. Drunk people tend to forget their sensitivity training.</p>
<p>Speaking as both a Dartmouth parent and a Harvard parent, I find this incident deplorable. However, I would also not condemn entire student bodies or entire schools based on the misbehavior of a few. In my experience with both schools, I haven’t seen any differences in behavior and manners between Dartmouth students and Harvard students. </p>
<p>I agree that Dartmouth needs to learn from this and prevent future occurrences, but the school is not currently a place where good manners go to die. It’s clear that a group a of Dartmouth students got carried away and need to clean up their act. Let’s not get carried away ourselves in condemning them.</p>
<p>A little Animal House background…
“The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine based on Miller’s experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, as well as Ramis’ experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and Reitman’s experiences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.”</p>
<p>It happens and often it’s the fans not the athletes. My son was upset this fall about a similar incident. His college was playing another college at his club sport. He was going to see a high school friend (on the other college team) for the first time in a long time. And they were looking forward to the match, seeing each other again. Both teams knew the boys were friends and there was some rivalry building in a positive way. The fans at my son’s college were downright ugly and rude. Lots of name calling and bad behavior. The other team loaded up the vans and took off right after the match instead of staying for a social hour like normally occurs. My son was so embarassed by his school’s student behavior. Again there is so much athlete bashing that goes on and often it’s the non-players who are downright rude.</p>
<p>The two Dartmouth grads I know are very classy, kind, people. One is a very nice middle aged woman, the other is a middle aged man who after Dartmouth spent 10 years as a Buddhist monk. </p>
<p>Too bad that the behavior of boorish students at the Dartmouth-Harvard game will be all some people know about the behavior of people connected with Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I posted the thread because it was so shocking to me. I had never heard of anything like that going on at any college game anywhere. It sounded like the kind of behavior I would have expected from drunken, illiterate rednecks or members of a hate group, not Ivy students.</p>
<p>This is the type of behavior that occurs at high binge drinking rate schools. I don’t know why anyone would be suprrised about Dartmouth. It is well-known to be a heavy binge drinking social scene, which in turn has an impact on the type of students who choose to attend.</p>
<p>“Ramis’ experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis,”</p>
<p>Interesting. When S was a senior, he was flown in to Wash U. One of the few things that he didn’t like there was the party culture. I now understand why.</p>
<p>I don’t think that the football conference participated in by a school has much bearing on the presence or absence of bigots or drunks. The Ivy League schools vary quite a bit in the types of students they attract.</p>