Bagels and Smear?

According to an article in the Valley News in New Hampshire, fans of the Dartmouth squash team heckled Harvard players throughout a December 2 squash match in Hanover.

The Big Green fans, reportedly men’s soccer players and Alpha Delta fraternity members, peppered uncreative criticisms (“dick”, “****sucker”) and standard chauvinist jabs directed at the women (“whores,” “sluts”) with some food-related fare, reportedly inquiring as to whether captain Frank E. Cohen '10 had a preference for bagels. They later defended the comments as a reference to his having zero games at the time, but his parents took the remark to be anti-Semitic.

It’s funny that the Big Green should ask about bagels, as the Dartmouth women’s squash team ate one of its own in a 9-0 loss to Harvard the same day. Meanwhile, the Crimson men won 6-3, to give the Big Green its first loss of the season, moving its record from 3-0 to 3-1. Maybe their fans should have given bagels a little more respect.