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Alcohol and Drug Enforcement: What We Can Expect From Charlotte Johnson
If Charlotte Johnson’s Colgate experience is an accurate indicator of future performance, Dartmouth students are in for some serious walk-through enforcement in the coming months. According to the Clery Act statistical database, while the Hamilton, NY police could not have cared less about underage alcohol and drug use by ‘Gate students, the Dean’s office there hauled students in for violations on a regular basis. Colgate has a total of 2,837 students; Dartmouth has 5,987 students, of which over two thirds are undergrads. In the 2008-2010 period, the Hamilton Police arrested a total of three Colgate students for drug violations and a whopping two students for underage drinking:
During the same period, the Hanover Po arrested 22 Dartmouth students for drug violations, and 263 students on alcohol charges:
However Colgate’s internal disciplinary measures under Dean Johnson tell a different story. The school disciplined 427 students over three years on drug charges and 701 students for alcohol infractions. On average, each year over 13% of Colgate students were brought up on charges:
Over the same time period, Dartmouth charged 60 students with violating the drug laws and 99 students for alcohol infractions — about 1.3% of Dartmouth undergraduate students were disciplined by the College each year.
Will Dean Johnson ramp up internal enforcement in Hanover by a factor of 10x in the coming year? If she does so, we might need to call April Thompson back from SUNY to help prosecute everyone.
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