--- description: Fraternities need to reform or disband, says Dartmouth president title: Dartmouth College Bans Hard Alcohol on Campus For All image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00287a33c10cd19f/69877c85e20a8763f5a84cb2/ap98955466381.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [universities](/tag/universities/) ## universities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dartmouth Bans Hard Alcohol on Campus For All by [Josh Sanburn](/author/josh-sanburn/) ## Josh Sanburn Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2015 4:19 PM CUT  Students walk across the Dartmouth College campus green in Hanover, N.H., on March 12, 2012\. The school is banning hard alcohol on campus. Students walk across the Dartmouth College campus green in Hanover, N.H., on March 12, 2012\. The school is banning hard alcohol on campus.Jim Cole—AP by [Josh Sanburn](/author/josh-sanburn/) ## Josh Sanburn Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2015 4:19 PM CUT Dartmouth College plans to ban all hard alcohol on campus following a series of high-profile reports of sexual assaults at universities around the U.S. Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon said on Thursday that all students, regardless of age, would be banned from consuming and possessing hard alcohol on campus, while warning the college’s fraternities that they would need to reform or disband. (**MORE:** [Dartmouth’s President on Sexual Assault Prevention and Bystander Intervention](http://time.com/100235/campus-sexual-assault-philip-hanlon-dartmouth/ "undefined")) Several schools have taken similar steps to reform their alcohol policies since a _Rolling Stone_ articlewas published about an alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity. While that story has since been discredited, Brown University announced this month that it would ban alcohol at its fraternities, Swarthmore College has banned hard alcohol from events on campus, and U-Va. has banned mixed drinks and punches at its fraternity parties. (**MORE:** [The Sexual Assault Crisis on American Campuses](http://time.com/100542/the-sexual-assault-crisis-on-american-campuses/ "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3687678/dartmouth-alcohol-ban/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3687678/dartmouth-alcohol-ban/"},"headline":"Dartmouth Bans Hard Alcohol on Campus For All","datePublished":"2015-01-29T16:19:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:40.424Z","description":"Fraternities need to reform or disband, says Dartmouth president","url":"https://time.com/3687678/dartmouth-alcohol-ban/","keywords":["universities","Living","Sexual Assault","Alcohol","Education","drinking","dartmouth","campus sexual assault","University of Virginia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00287a33c10cd19f/69877c85e20a8763f5a84cb2/ap98955466381.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Josh Sanburn","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/josh-sanburn/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00287a33c10cd19f/69877c85e20a8763f5a84cb2/ap98955466381.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dartmouth Advanced Placement","caption":"Dartmouth Advanced Placement","creditText":"Jim Cole—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/universities/","name":"universities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3687678/dartmouth-alcohol-ban/","name":"Dartmouth Bans Hard Alcohol on Campus For All"}}]}] ```