Proud Dad

I see a lot of young smokers at every school. My daughter at Bard is not a smoker, her friends there don't smoke, and there are "substance-free" dorms that don't allow any kind of smoking. I've never heard her complain about it as a pervasive problem. But still, sometimes the butts stack up outside the buildings. It might have been cool for these Hipsters once but now, like everyone, it's an addiction. And a fairly expensive one. I doubt it's any worse at Bard than elsewhere and I'm familiar with other LACs where there's more smoking that I'd like to see. It's not really so different than the same problem in the workplace.

In short, I wouldn't let that one of many Bard stereotypes bother you if the rest of what is so good about the school intrigues you. Even the food isn't that bad, but I don't have to eat it every day!