Over Green Key weekend, the Hanover Police Department and the Hanover Fire Department received 11 medical assistance calls, a “few” noise complaints and two fire-related calls, according to police captain Michael Schibuola and fire chief Michael Gilbert. No students were arrested.
Campus security was also called during the ludic music festival from May 16 to May 18. The Department of Safety and Security received 18 calls for medical assistance along with 15 “Good Samaritan” calls and a total of 73 incident reports, according to an email statement from Department of Safety and Security director Keiselim Montás.
Every year, Safety and Security and the Hanover police work together to monitor Green Key.
“We work very closely with Dartmouth staff and students in the planning stages and during the events themselves,” Schibola wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. “This coordination is done with the goal that the events are enjoyable and safe for the participants.”
These numbers are relatively consistent with Green Key weekends from the past two years. In 2023, DoSS received 11 Good Samaritan calls and received 17 Good Samaritan calls in 2024. The number of medical assistance calls, however, was up this year, compared to six last year.
“It is encouraging to see that our community is calling [Safety and Security] for help and making use of the Good Sam policy,” Schibuola wrote.
Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services members were also active during and leading up to Green Key weekend. According to Collis Programming Board executive board member Loralei Forgette ’27, Dartmouth EMS was present throughout the concert with eight members on shift.
Forgette also said PB works closely with various organizations to “maximize safety and security.”
“We will always have Dartmouth EMS on standby,” Forgette said. “We have local paramedics and fire safety around. We also have local police. We hire Green Mountain Security, which is a security organization in the Upper Valley, and additionally, we bring in extra support from [Safety and Security].”
Concert audience members were required to wear Green Key concert wristbands as an extra safety precaution. Forgette noted that the wristbands help with ensuring only Dartmouth students and their guests enter.
“Once [Green Key wristbands] are on, you can’t take them off,” Forgette said. “… It’s our way to make sure that it’s Dartmouth students who are getting [in].”
However, there were issues with counterfeit wristbands this year, Forgette said.
“We were contacted by the Hanover High School about how [high school] students were making counterfeit wristbands,” Forgette said. “This year specifically, we had a separate guest wristband line and a student wristband line to make sure that individuals who are coming into the concert are individuals who either had their ticket purchased by a student or are a current student.”
Forgette added that PB does its best to ensure the safety of attendees.
“From our front, we’re always doing the most that we can to make sure that [the Green Key concert is] as safe as possible for everyone so that they feel comfortable engaging or being a part of the space,” Forgette said.