Low Crimes and High Misdemeanors

1775

Dartmouth students, worried that their morals may "be frustrated thro' the influence of Gentlemen (so called) of prophane and unsavory conversation," ask the Trustees for a standard "against all vice and immorality" The Trustees obligingly draft 11 brief laws; three legislate campus morals, and eight deal with the payment of College bills.

1840

The first and primary order of business at every faculty meeting is fining students for rule violations. Students leaving town without permission are fined $1.50 a day. Students caught dancing are fined $1.25.

1845

The first inmate at the new Grafton County jail is a Dartmouth senior accused of stealing, then reselling, 200 books from the College library.

1875

Nine students are indicted by a grand jury after ransacking a Hanover book shop. They say they were merely reven Dartmouth students can't alwaysevade the long arm of the law.

taliating for the store's high prices and and its refusal to stock the Aegis.

1947

The campus police force doubles in size by adding a captain and a radio-equipped patrol car. Nelson Worm wood, who up until then was the sole policeman, remarks, "It'll be nice to have company."

1948

A Harvard student accuses a Dartmouth student of stealing a blue garter and a woman's artificial leg from his dorm room.

1956

A Meredith, New Hampshire, landowner fires warning shots when a group of Dartmouth students en route to the Harvard game stop to steal pumpkins. Only after the students are apprehended do they learn that the owner of the patch was the town's chief of police.

1961

The campus police blotter for the year tallies 45 cases of public drinking, 42 violations of hours for women guests, six incidents of larceny, and 2,021 locked out students.

1977

Mark Ziter '77 steals the head of the Columbia lion mascot during a football game. Later he pleads not guilty in Hanover district court on charges of theft and resisting arrest. "I think the only reason I'm being charged is that clumsy cop fell down and ripped his pants," Ziter tells The Dartmouth.

1978

Mad Dog, the unofficial College mascot, is nabbed by Hanover's dog officer in the Phi Delta basement. The officer tells The Dartmouth that the dog's record includes the pursuit of police cars and fire engines.

1991

A delivery car for Everything But Anchovies, a Hanover pizzeria, is found at the bottom of Occom Pond.