During Green Key weekend, which ran from May 15 to 17 this year, the Hanover Police Department responded to 28 calls “associated with the event area and surrounding campus activity,” including 16 “intoxication-related incidents” as well as noise complaints, “property-related incidents,” “minor disturbances” and follow-up investigations, according to Hanover Police chief James Martin. No students were arrested.
The number of “Good Samaritan” calls to Dartmouth Safety and Security — from witnesses or victims of intoxication requiring medical attention — increased this year, with 26 calls as opposed to last year’s 16. Twelve were treated at Dick’s House, nine at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and five were released to sober friends or for self-evaluation, Safety and Security director Keiselim Montás wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth.
Martin wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth that the Hanover Police Department “coordinated closely” with Safety and Security, the Hanover Fire Department and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services “as part of a comprehensive operational plan focused on public safety and emergency response preparedness.”
Hanover police used the Grafton County Sheriff’s Office mobile command vehicle “to support communication, resource coordination and public safety operations,” Martin added. The Lebanon, N.H., and Hartford, Vt., fire departments also assisted with medical responses during and after Friday’s mainstage concert event.
This is the first year in which there was in-person coordination between Dartmouth EMS, Safety and Security, HPD and Hanover Fire. A member of each organization was stationed between the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society and the concert stage on Tuck Mall, according to Dartmouth EMS executive director Alex DiCorpo ’27. In previous years, the departments communicated using walkie-talkies.
Dartmouth EMS had crews stationed from Wednesday at 10 p.m. until Sunday at 9 a.m., with three crews running simultaneously on Friday night, DiCorpo explained.
While on an average weekend night they usually get “one or two calls,” Dartmouth EMS received 18 calls on May 15 before 11:30 p.m, Dicorpo said. The “majority” were related to intoxication.
Kay Alvito ’29 is a news reporter from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil studying comparative literature and creative writing. On campus, she is very involved with the arts as a member of the Rude Mechanicals classical theatre company and the dance group Street Soul.
