Dartmouth had the highest number of liquor law violation arrests in the Ivy League this year with 106, up from 33 the year before, according to a report printed in last week's Chronicle of Higher Education.
By comparison, Cornell University had eight arrests for liquor law violations, Harvard University had two, the University of Pennsylvania had one and Princeton, Yale, Columbia and Brown Universities had none.
The Chronicle article surveyed crime statistics at 796 American colleges and universities.
College Proctor Robert McEwen said the increase in underaged drinking and public intoxication arrests could be due to better enforcement, rather than more incidents of possession.
"I think students are drinking less overall, but there's more binge drinking," he said.
This term, Safety and Security has encountered fewer inebriated students but has seen higher than average blood alcohol levels, McEwen said. "It's been fairly quiet," he said.
Last year, Safety and Security officers would often encounter large groups of drunk students walking outside at night. McEwen said such contacts contributed to the great rise in arrests.
He also attributed some of last year's rise to "pre-loading," the practice of underaged drinkers consuming a large amount of alcohol at private parties before going out.
Students are also "taking greater risks with false identifications," McEwen said. Last term, Safety and Security found a tremendous amount of fake IDs that McEwen said "were just the tip of the iceberg."
Dartmouth had no murders, no rapes, one robbery, one aggravated assault, two auto thefts, three drug arrests, zero weapon possession arrests and 2 burglaries in the last academic year, according to the Chronicle report.
The Chronicle based its Dartmouth statistics on numbers provided by Safety and Security and the Dean of the College's Office. The two departments also release the same information to the Dartmouth community.
Two years ago, the College had no murders, no rapes, no robberies, two aggravated assaults, five auto thefts, one drug arrest, zero weapon possession arrests and 16 burglaries, the report stated.
"The majority of crime on campus is property and alcohol related," Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaconne said.
Safety and Security Sergeant Harley Bettis said, "Violent crimes are not that common." Bettis said the College's small number of violent crimes are typically scuffles between boyfriends and girlfriends in the midst of breaking up.
But he said most of these disputes normally end in harassment and arguments, not violence.
Bettis also said many incidents are not related to students. Some of the local residents working at the College have recently began divorce procedures and, a few times, Safety and Security officers have had to remove spurned spouses from the campus.
Under the category of sexual offenses, the Chronicle stated Dartmouth's information was unavailable.
But Senior Associate Dean of the College Dan Nelson said the numbers were available in the Safety at Dartmouth pamphlet, that is released annually by the Dean of the College Office and Safety and Security.
There were no sex offenses reported to Safety and Security last year according to McEwen.
He said the College is currently trying to inform the Chronicle of the discrepancy.
"I'm not saying things don't happen, but if they do, they're not being reported to Safety and Security," McEwen said.
He said the only recent incidents of sexual offenses were the reported intrusions in the River Cluster last November.
Bettis said the College has checked out all leads and no suspect has been determined yet.
Although burglary and other property crimes fell last year both nationally and at the College, thefts are on the rise this term, Bettis said.
Bettis added that vandalism on campus, such as damage to dormitories, has declined.
According to Giaconne, two rapes, two robberies, 27 assaults, 18 burglaries, 313 thefts, seven motor-vehicle thefts, 10 forgeries, 81 incidents of fraud (mostly bad checks), one embezzlement, 131 cases of vandalism, four weapon possessions, 13 sexual offenses, 19 drug charges, 23 cases of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and 187 violations of liquor laws occurred in Hanover last year.
Giaconne said Safety and Security and Hanover Police do not normally combine their statistics, so Hanover's numbers do not include College liquor violations.
Giaconne said the numbers were "not unusually high or low" for the last calendar year.
The Chronicle report concluded that murders and rapes on college campuses decreased last year while drug and alcohol arrests rose.
