Winter Carnival weekend this year saw a substantial drop in complaints and criminal reports to Safety and Security, according to College Proctor Robert McEwen.
There were only 31 complaint reports filed with Safety and Security for the weekend, compared with 45 for the 1997 Carnival, according to McEwen, who oversees Safety and Security. McEwen said the number may change as more reports are filed.
"It was much quieter this weekend than last year," McEwen said.
It was reported that a few students were arrested by Hanover Police over the weekend, but the police said they could not release that information, when they were contacted by The Dartmouth yesterday.
Two of the traditional party weekend problems Safety and Security has to deal with -- alcohol-related incidents and fire alarms -- were few in number this weekend, according to McEwen.
There were only eight alcohol-related incidents this weekend and one fire alarm. Last year there were 22 alcohol problems and eight "suspicious" fire alarms, probably "pulled or set off intentionally," according to McEwen.
The number of vandalism and "unwanted attention" complaints remained the same this year as last, with three of each. McEwen described "unwanted attention" as "people wandering into rooms or places they weren't supposed to be."
There were five personal injury reports this weekend, including injuries from ice skating, snow boarding and "other difficulties," McEwen said.
According to McEwen, the most common problem over the weekend was "propped doors" in the residence halls. The doors of residence halls are locked during big College weekends as a safety precaution against the large number of outside visitors to the campus, McEwen said.
As of Sunday morning, Safety and Security had collected more than 50 such reports, but McEwen estimated the number would rise to at least 75.
McEwen said Safety and Security considers propping residence hall doors open with bricks or by other means a problem because such openings "grant people access to where they don't belong."
In other Carnival events, David Mace '98 won the 17th Annual Psi Upsilon fraternity Keg Jump, tying the record of 13 kegs, according to Psi U president Sean Levy '99.
Mace came "pretty close" to clearing 14, "but didn't quite make it," Levy said.
There were several injuries at the jump on Saturday. Three participants -- Drew Pluhar '00, Mark Shuster '99 and Adrian Tompsett '97 -- went to the hospital.
"I aggravated a previous back injury," Pluhar said. He said he had no reflexes in his lower body when he arrived in the emergency room. He said he was told to rest in bed for three days and was given painkillers.
Tompsett and Shuster both received stitches, Pluhar said.
Teddy Rice '00 said he was also injured in the jump, but did not go to the hospital.
"I got a few bruises and cut my wrist, so it bled like hell," he said. "I could have gone [to the hospital], but I was having way too much fun."
