Public Safety was kept busy last Saturday with five counts of alcohol violations/minor in consumption, three hospital transportations and three arrests.
Names for those committing university violations - those charged with alcohol violations/minor in consumption and those transported to the Putnam County Hospital - are kept private. Angie Nally, director of Public Safety, did comment saying that the three hospital transports consisted of two first-year students and one sophomore.
However, arrests are public record and as such, the names of the three students charged with state law violations were printed in the Office of Public Safety's Activity Report. Those students were sophomore Hannah Short, sophomore Kellie LaMothe and sophomore Jake Miller.
Though Nally preferred not to speak at length about the arrests of Short and LaMothe, she did comment saying that the arrests were made by Public Safety early Saturday night. Short and LaMothe were found in possession of a stolen golf cart on the University soccer fields and were then arrested.
Both women declined to comment.
Miller was arrested by the Greencastle Police Department with assistance from Public Safety and has been charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Miller also declined to comment.
According to Nally, the weekend was ordinary in many regards aside from the arrests.
"We're always dealing with ten percent of our student population," she said. "It might be different people who fall into that category, but when we're interacting with people it's always a smaller subset of people who are at the extreme."
Nally also felt that it is a little soon to judge how well or how poorly the fraternity registered events went.
"I think some people will report things that occurred over the weekend and there's a delay in that," she said.
Tyler Notch, Interfraternity Council (IFC) President, felt that Saturday night was a success overall.
"I thought that the houses did a great job," Notch said. "They made sure that they were following all the guidelines that the University had submitted and that IFC had submitted."
Notch, who was helping make rounds Saturday night, believes that since five registered IFC events were taking place Saturday it allowed students to be dispersed among the chapter houses. He also felt that first-year students were respectful for the most part.
"I wasn't part of the actual events, but from what I saw they were wearing the wrist bands like they were supposed to, they were checking in at the front, they weren't really complaining," he said.
In fact, the only real issue Notch seemed to have with safety and event security Saturday night was in regards to traffic safety.
"People weren't really being conscious of cars coming," he said. "They were just kind of crossing the street, really not thinking about that kind of thing. That was the only thing I saw that was really concerning."