Dartmouth Leader Tied to Animal House Vows Tolerance Amid Outcry
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Less than two years after Dartmouth College’s new President, Philip Hanlon, graduated in 1977, the school got so fed up with fraternity hijinks it gave the groups 12 months to end all racist, sexist and alcohol-abusing antics or face banishment.
Now Hanlon, who as a student belonged to the Hanover, New Hampshire-based college fraternity that inspired the 1978 movie “Animal House,” is inheriting a campus roiled by a federal probe into student sexual harassment and once again grappling with a fraternity-dominated social scene considered by many to be toxic to women and minorities.