Marlboro College
- Campus Strictness

Best Advice 'Dont Be Stupid and Don't Get Caught'

We're on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. During the week students work very hard so on the weekends, parties are raging. Don't smoke in your dorm, don't drink in front of faculty/staff if you're underage, don't smoke in buildings accept the Happy Valley common room. It's kind of a live and let live situation. Most of the campus drinks and/or smokes weed but the party community has a pretty decent relationship with the chem free social circle.

Make Your Own Decisions

I don't want to make it seem like we're a bunch of hoodlums, but Marlboro will allow you to do what you want. There seems to be the official policy of treating people like adults with the less talked about policy of not getting in people's way. If you're going to make a mistake, it's on your head, the administration doesn't care too much if you're not bothering other people; that is, security guards aren't sent out to find drug users and party-goers. The college is there to provide a place to study and live, not to force you to make the right decisions. If you're forced, how are they decisions?

On the whole, I feel that drugs...

On the whole, I feel that drugs and alcohol are very openly used at Marlboro, but I imagine that the policy may become much stricter over the next few years. People seem to have the impression that Marlboro is so far out in the middle of nowhere that everything that happens here passes under the law-enforcement radar. This is far from the case, though, and I’ve sensed a certain amount of fear among the administration that it’s only a matter of time before the police decide to put their foot down. There’s been some talk of an effort to at least make drug use more inconspicuous and possibly less prevalent altogether.