Community
Community life at Marlboro for most students means living in a dorm on the
edge of the woods and eating alongside faculty and staff in a dining hall
that was once a dairy barn. It means going to Town Meeting to vote on
where people can smoke cigarettes and park cars, and whether to give a
few hundred dollars to a community service trip to Costa Rica. It means
serving on a committee that decides which faculty will be hired, which
students will be accepted, which films will be shown and where community
art should happen. It means watching—or playing in—the soccer
game against Bennington on a Saturday afternoon and then getting dolled
up for the event of the season—the Queer Homecoming dance. It means
attending a presentation by the Chinese ambassador to the United States
and going to your roommate’s poetry reading. There’s a lot
going on at Marlboro outside the classroom, and most of it is initiated
by the people who live here.