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whereas Princeton students saw the Dartmouth team commit more than twice as many infractions as the Princeton team (9.8 compared with 4.2 for themselves). In fact, there was such a discrepancy in perceptions that when Princeton sent a copy of the film to several Dartmouth alum ni for a group showing, one Dartmouth alumnus who previewed the
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