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As “deplorable” as students like Grace Charles, a sophomore studying classics, find President Leon Botstein’s relationship with Epstein to have been, she and others told University World News the revelations are a symptom of Bard’s darker side, which stands in stark contrast to its reputation as the nation’s most liberal college and Botstein’s reputation as a stalwart defender of liberalism.