MARK A. CUTOLO

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Hazing Does Not Define Manhood

In response to the letter to the editor "Hazing is Normal on Campus," in the April 9 issue of The Spectrum, I offer an alternative point of view.In his letter, Cain Morano would have us believe that hazing is an innocuous ritual useful as an initiation into manhood, that feminists are to blame for the end of chivalry, and that there is one particular way for a man to be and act.Morano's views are an example of an oppressive and insidious essentialism that would have all of us guarded by a stringent gender policy.