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The Dartmouth
April 17, 2026
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A Call To Band Together

By Assorted Professors | April 20, 2001

To the Editor: We would like to express our solidarity and shared distress with those female students and others who are outraged and upset by the recent events at Zeta Psi fraternity.

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The System Must Change

By Michael Breen | April 20, 2001

To the Editor: The recent disclosure of Zeta Psi fraternity's now infamous weekly gazette, and, more importantly, Zeta Psi's all-too-predictable reaction to being exposed, are just new readings of a tired Dartmouth script.

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The End of the Greek System As We Know It

By Derek Lee | April 20, 2001

To The Editor: Two years ago, President Wright and the Trustees released the Student Life Initiative, a long-term vision that proposed to "end the Greek system as we know it." At the time, students and alumni feared the Trustees would uproot the storied Greek system and abolish a Dartmouth institution.

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Don't Derecognize

By Evan Richardson | April 20, 2001

To the Editor: When the news of Zeta Psi fraternity's Sigma report, a weekly newsletter that detailed the sexual exploits of the brothers, first broke in The Dartmouth, right there in the headline was the word that most folks in the Greek system fear: derecognition.

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Speak Out

By Joshua Marcuse | April 20, 2001

To the Editor: I do not envy the position in which the brothers of Zeta Psi fraternity now find themselves.

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Over-zealous Coverage

By Julia Richman | April 20, 2001

To the Editor: Although I am disgusted by the things written by the brothers of Zeta Psi fraternity, I am more disgusted that The Dartmouth is a moral vacuum weak enough to reprint such writings.

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Courage Equal To Desire

By Liam Kuhn | April 20, 2001

Talk about life imitating art imitating life. In Animal House, Otter says: "You can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals.

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Zeta Psi: A Response

By Michael Bern | April 20, 2001

Tuesday night, I, along with other Zeta Psi members, received a blitz from Katie Oliviero, '01. In her blitz, she wrote: "Thank you for altruistically reminding us that we are nothing but mere cunts, dirty holes, tits of varying cup-sizes for you to suck, to stick your purifying dicks into. That we are rancid snatches who have no right to say NO.

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The Culture of Denial

By Kinohi Nishikawa | April 19, 2001

To the Editor: What compelled me to write this letter was not the revelation that Zeta Psi publishes "sex papers" to distribute to its members, but the comment that the house's president, Gene Boyle '02, made in Wednesday's issue of The Dartmouth: "Obviously, we don't condone this kind of behavior." Wait a second.

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An Apology

By Matthew Egalka | April 19, 2001

To the Editor: The in-house publication of Zeta Psi fraternity's newsletters is quite clearly and without any argument a moral and ethical error of colossal proportions.

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A Revelation

By Melissa A. Heaton | April 19, 2001

To the Editor: Yesterday, in a letter to the editor, an anonymous female student wrote: "Coming forward with the feelings and statements included in this letter, I am afraid." I am that female student.

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Community Degradation

By James Wright | April 19, 2001

To the Dartmouth Community: I was deeply offended to learn that Zeta Psi fraternity had published a series of newsletters that specifically insulted individual members of this community.

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A Letter From Zeta Psi

By Gene Boyle | April 19, 2001

As members of our community, you deserve a complete and truthful response to the article in yesterday's issue of The Dartmouth describing two "newsletters" produced by members of Zeta Psi fraternity.

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A Former Member Speaks

By Alex Nazaryan | April 19, 2001

It is too late for remorse and regret. Condemnation of this act on my part would have rightfully come at the end of Fall term when I depledged Zeta Psi fraternity (I am mentioned in the Sigma Report -- a weekly paper that documented the sexual exploits of the brothers -- in relation to my unfortunate Dog Day audition). However, when I read the comments of Zeta Psi President Gene Boyle '02 in yesterday's issue of The Dartmouth, I felt the compulsion to speak out. His statements are pure lies, and the seeming innocence with which he makes them only exacerbate the situation.

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On A Different Note

By Michael Weiss | April 18, 2001

Abhishek Gangulee (The Dartmouth, April 10th, "Misguided Protest") makes a few nice points in his editorial, among them, that college students can be a bit myopic and overly earnest with what they view as horrible, Trustee-inflicted social injustice and undergraduate subjugation.

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Quit Kidding

By Alexandra Roberts | April 18, 2001

In a rough draft of its report to the College, the Greek Life Steering Committee proposed, among other things, that a minimum GPA of 2.3 be required of any student who wishes to rush a Coed Fraternity Sorority Council House. While I sympathize with the idea that membership in a Greek house is a privilege and not a right, I believe that it should be a privilege contingent on behavior and not academic performance.

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Horrified

By Melissa A. Heaton | April 18, 2001

To the Editor: Upon reading the newsletter published by Zeta Psi during the Summer of 2000, my reaction can only be described as horrified.

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