Dartmouth Tightens Up

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Dartmouth College will prohibit all students, regardless of age, from drinking or possessing hard alcohol [30 proof or higher] on campus and will create a new network of residential communities for student social life in a effort to rid the school of what its president calls “extreme behaviors.”

The plan — a major cultural transformation of the campus, announced in a speech Thursday by Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon — culminates several months of soul-searching at the private Ivy League college in New Hampshire, a process akin to recent reviews at the University of Virginia and numerous other schools around the country. In April, Hanlon challenged students, faculty and alumni to brainstorm what Dartmouth should do to combat sexual assault, dangerous drinking and other problems at a relatively isolated school with a hard-partying reputation.