More crime on campus was committed at the start of this year than last year, but the development is not disturbing, authorities said.
"It was the worst weekend in a long time," said Barry Weiser, Public Safety crime prevention specialist.
"I think it's [attributable] to the beginning of the school year. I don't expect it to be the norm. There are usually more at the beginning of the year, but not this many."
According to Public Safety's daily log, three parties were broken up for violating the University's alcohol policy in recent days. In all three cases — outside 1903 and Henry Halls on Saturday night and outside the seventh entryway of Little Hall on Sunday night — proctors dispersed the crowd and seized the alcohol.
Weiser said Public Safety received more student complaints than usual for those parties.
The only complaint investigated by the Princeton Borough Police Department stemmed from a disagreement between a female employee of the Frist Campus Center and a female member of Cap & Gown Club over "a mutual boyfriend," according to Borough Police Lt. Dennis McManimon.
"[The] employee . . . came up from behind and hit the student and knocked her to the ground. Then she hit her again," McManimon said.
The student received minor injuries and has not issued a formal complaint.
A dozen fire alarms went off over the weekend, but most were attributable to students learning to cook in their new rooms, Weiser said.
There were also several cookouts this weekend. A barbecue grill was confiscated on Friday from the fifth entryway of Spelman Hall. A janitor alerted Public Safety of the gas grill, and it was removed.
"Not only will that set off the alarms, but it could kill you," Weiser said. "Nobody's been that dumb yet."
OIT also caught a spam message in its filters which gave information on where to obtain illegal drugs.
OIT traced it to an anonymous off-campus address, Weiser said. The matter was referred to Borough Police, but McManimon said that they "didn't even conduct an investigation."
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