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Dartmouth T-Shirts Show ‘Neanderthal’ Culture

By Jules Loeser

To the editors:



My son is considering Dartmouth (and Harvard), but I have misgivings about what I believe to be Dartmouth’s anti-woman, and possibly anti-gay, fraternity culture. By reporting on “Hard Guy Tees” (“Dartmouth T-Shirts Come Under Fire,” News, Oct. 13), you put that Neanderthal culture in the spotlight.

But why stop short of denouncing their creators, Robert J. Zangrilli and David Z. Grey? Just as frat “brothers” have always found safety in numbers, these two hide their odious opinions behind the claim that they are being funny. They must be called to account. Zangrilli says that the shirts express an “extremist, primitive, and self-destructive” idea. So why express it at all?



JULES LOESER

New York

October 13, 2005

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