Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Barnard College announced on Tuesday that smokers will need to find a new place to light up.  Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown announced that the entire campus, which sits west of Broadway between 116th and 119th, will become a smoke-free zone after spring break, taking place from March 12th to March 20th.  The ban will include all Barnard residence halls, academic and administrative buildings, as well as outdoor smoking within the Barnard gates.  Even smoking outside the perimeter of the campus is restricted, as an email sent to students urged them to “remain mindful of your proximity to office and dormitory windows, and to those passing by.”  The college joins Columbia, which passed a ban on smoking within 20 feet of buildings on the Morningside campus last December, Columbia Medical Center, which also recently passed a full smoking ban, and the high-profile citywide ban in parks, beaches, and Times Square, scheduled to go into effect on May 23rd.  [Source: Columbia Spectator]

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