Although Hanover Police Sergeant Michael Evans said it was an "abnormally quiet Winter Carnival," the weekend involved a few winter mishaps, injuries and alcohol-related incidents.
Several guests to the College became unwilling participants in the Polar Bear Swim on Friday when they fell through the ice on Occom Pond.
Marc Resteghini '99 said his parents were the first in the water at the Polar Bear Swim when they fell through the ice on their way across the pond.
"All of a sudden I turned around, and my parents were up to their shoulders in ice," Resteghini said.
He said a stranger saved his parents by helping to pull them out of the water. Resteghini said his parents were fine despite their traumatic experience and were "just really cold."
Rachel Gilliar '98, the chair of the Polar Bear Swim, said her father also got a chance to brave the cold when a layer of ice broke while he was walking across the pond, leaving him knee-deep in the water.
"He was fine," Gilliar said. "But, it was startling for a second."
Evans said there were not as many complaints as there have been in past Winter Carnivals.
Nine persons were placed into protective custody for the use of alcohol, one for possession of marijuana, one for possession of alcohol and one for simple assault, he said. Evans said he was not certain if the incidents involved Dartmouth students.
Firefighter David Hautiniemi said Winter Carnival weekend was "a little busier than usual" as the department had to dispatch nine or 10 fire trucks and six ambulances to the College.
Hautiniemi would not comment on the nature of the ambulance dispatches.
Safety and Security Department Investigator Lauren Cummings said firefighters were dispatched to Cohen Hall when someone set fire to paper towels in a ladies' room trash can.
Cummings said Safety and Security also responded to a call involving a female student who awoke to find a male student in her bed.
There were also two cases of graffiti, one on a student's message board and another in the men's room on the second floor of Little Hall, Cummings said.
Cummings said the total number of complaints this year did not differ much from the total in years past.
"All in all, I would have to say it was a pretty good Carnival weekend," he said.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the weekend was the untimely demise of the snow sculpture on Thursday, when the horse collapsed. Later in the weekend, the head of the sculpture's dragon disappeared.
Winter Carnival Snow Sculpture co-chair Chris Carbone '97 speculated the dragon did not die of natural causes.
"Someone decapitated it," Carbone said. The dragon's head "didn't just fall off," he said.
In keeping with tradition, Psi Upsilon fraternity's annual keg jumping competition was one of the weekend's most popular events.
Frederick Weeman '97 and David Mace '98 tied for top honors at the competition by clearing 13 kegs.
Weeman said the brothers did not attempt to break the house record by jumping over 14 kegs because "it got to be such a great distance, and we were hoping to save ourselves" from injury.
The only major injury of the day occurred before the competition when one brother cut himself after slipping on the ice and required 13 stitches.
Another highlight of the weekend was the annual mini-sculpture competition among the College's Greek houses and student organizations.
The Native American House won the Student Organization category with the snow people they carved in front of their house and Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity captured the title in the Greek category with their sculpture of the weathervane on top of Baker Library, according to Winter Carnival Chair Amy Henry '97.
Co-chair of the Alpha Chi winter snow sculpture Ben Chittick '97 said the brothers were "all fired up" by their victory.
