“In light of his concerns,” said Hepler-Smith, “and in light of the potential of the T-shirt to offend some students, we have decided to take the shirt off the market.”
Hepler-Smith said he noticed little opposition to the shirts while they were on sale in front of the Science Center.
“The reaction of the majority of people to our shirt while we were selling it was either amusement or confusion from people who had no idea who ‘Jeter’ was,” he said.
Although the shirts are not currently being sold out in public, Kees A. Vandenberg III ’06, president of Satire V, says that the remaining shirts can still be purchased through e-mail.
The shirts, which sold for $10 each, were a hot commodity, with 130 of the 150 original shirts selling on Saturday and Monday. The shirts were not openly for sale yesterday, but Vandenberg claims that rain was the main factor in the decision.