The Harvard Police Log steps into the ring today for a bout with the reigning champ of dramatic renditions of campus crime, the Dartmouth Police Blotter. We open with a quick one-two punch in the mean aisles of Cambridge’s Au Bon Pain:

February 6
4:43 p.m.-Officers were dispatched to Au Bon Pain to a report of an assault in progress. Officers arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that when they attempted to sit down at a table they were threatened by another individual. The reporting party states that the individual then kicked them and struck them in the knee.

February 18
7:01 a.m.-Officers dispatched to Au Bon Pain to a report that an individual reported threw a chair at another individual. Officers arrived and searched the area for the individual with negative results.

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Originally, this post was supposed to be a round-up of ALL the Ivy police blotters, but that goal had to be abandoned for several reasons. Some schools — for instance, those located in real cities — have serious amounts of serious crime. Others choose not to publish their campus police blotters online, or at least in a way not easily browsable by lazy guest-editors trolling for scandal (thanks for nothing, Brown). However, the principal reason is this: Dartmouth’s police blotter puts all the other blotters to shame as the second-rate chronicles of petty theft and mild inebriation they are.

Hanover Police responded to a 9-1-1 emergency call when a 14-year-old female Hanover resident awoke to find a 21-year-old Dartmouth student beside her in bed. The student entered the unlocked private family residence and proceeded to the second floor where he entered the girl’s room. The subject allegedly removed his pants and climbed into bed with her. The intruder fled the scene after realizing the family had contacted the police. Alcohol was a factor in the event, according to Hanover Police.

Combine the following: an insular college-town atmosphere, a predominantly Greek social-scene, a culture of binge-drinking without real consequences, and an overzealous if basically good-humoured police force. Throw in a few local crazies and teenage delinquents from Hanover High, and what you have is essentially a perfect storm of alcohol-driven anecdote.

Hanover Police responded to a call from Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity where an arm-wrestling bout ended in a traumatic injury. An individual suffered a broken arm and was transported away by ambulance.

Somewhere in the Hanover Police Department there is an unrecognized genius with a knack for vignette and an eye for details.

Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone observed a male leave Stinson’s Village Store with four cases of Keystone Light beer and turn them over to a 20-year-old female Dartmouth student. The male then proceeded to load her car with three five-liter bladders of Franzia Chardonnay, three five-liter bladders of Franzia Merlot, eight bottles of Mirassou Merlot, eight bottles of Turning Leaf Pinot Grigio and one case of Brut Andre Champagne, valued together at $365. After the student drove out of the parking lot, police arrested her for the illegal transporting of alcoholic beverages.

Every once in a while the helpful staff at the D publishes a compilation from the police blotter. This is a compilation from those compilations. Enjoy.

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