<p>Diverse? Open-minded? Jackbooted neocon or socialist?</p>
<p>60% democrat, 15-20% hardcore liberal, 5-10% vocal conservative, 15% republican.</p>
<p>Mostly moderate Kerry liberals.</p>
<p>Since I am a hippie peacenik, my counselor suggested that I might not do very well at "strongly conservative" (his words) Dartmouth. It's just a myth...I think because most campuses are solidly liberal, Dartmouth appears to be conservative. What I've also heard is that there is healthy debate and discussion on campus.</p>
<p>i'm not so sure i'd want to go to a campus that was 100% liberal anyway. i love debates and seeing the other side of an argument can help to strengthen your views. i think dartmouth has a healthy mix of political opinions.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has a conservative "repuation" because in the 1980s it was a hotbed of conservative thought, with the review being founded and alumni like Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Inghram(sp?). </p>
<p>Since the mid 1990s its been solidly liberal, now about the same as Penn, Cornell, and Princeton.</p>
<p>Here is 2000's election poll, "Gore wins in landslide". 2004 was even more Kerry than 2000 was Gore.</p>
<p>It's time old school guidance counselors figure this out. Dartmouth is more diverse than Brown now!</p>
<p>Someone once told me, "Dartmouth is centrist on average, slightly left probably, but it gets a conservative reputation because the right is more vocal than the left".</p>
<p>My best friend is going to Cal (UC Berkeley for all of you that might be confused), and he's kinda out there on the left already. I'm afraid when we both come home for our first break, he's gonna have dreads, be a vegetarian, and yell at me for the leather in my shoes. Already, he only buys very few things not from Salvation Army/Goodwill...</p>
<p>If I have time, I'd love to write for the Dartmouth Review. That would be awesome.</p>
<p>I hope there are a few anti-war-paleocon-libertarians lurking there, just for the sake of variety. The pro-war right vs. the pro-war left debate gets tiresome.</p>
<p>More interesting than campus politics is alumni politics. The alumni are not happy with the liberal mindset of the faculty and the flaky administration and are now looking to stack the board of trustees with right wing red state types. Over time, if they are successful, Dartmouth will definitely be a haven for the conservative element. </p>
<p>Its a reason not to consider the school right now. The faculty is too angry and bitter and the administration too out of touch to make the undergrad experience healthy right now.</p>
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<p>Your counselor is a moron.</p>
<p>And what the guy above me just said is nonsense. Visit the school before you go popping off on it like that.</p>
<p>d-dad, i'm right here (ooo bad pun). Paleocon, though not with any racist/homophobe twinge.</p>
<p>I just read, but can't find, a study on the political stance of professors across the country. These numbers aren't exactly what they were, I'm just going off of memory. You can't believe how left they are. It was somthing like 70% considered themselves left-leaning, 15% right-leaning, and 15% moderates. 50-60some% were members of the Democrat Party, but like, they were like WAY LEFT. 88% were in favor of higher taxes to support social welfare programs. And the statistics went on.</p>
<p>not that I'm a left hater. gosh no, I live in California, and my best friends are liberals.</p>
<p>Are you going to Dartmouth? My daughter is debating between Duke and Dartmouth. Tough choice.</p>
<p>BTW, check out Justin Raimondo at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com%5B/url%5D">www.antiwar.com</a>, if you haven't already. He's as paleocon as you can get, and he certainly is no homophobe or racist.</p>
<p>I'm sure liberalism goes with the territory at just about any university, except maybe Liberty U. One can only hope for tolerance.</p>
<p>yep, heard of him and will either go to Dartmouth or Yale, probably Dartmouth unless something happens. we actually had to read an article of his in my gov class, after my teacher proclaimed me paleoconservative. Before that I just claimed I was a "states-rightist". This also was reaffirmed when I took a test at belief-net that said my set of beliefs were most like an Othrodox Quaker.
Though I will reach out and say I would support Israel to the bitter end.</p>
<p>i will never forget being at UCSB and getting yelled at by a group walking by as I was talking to my dad about eliminating a social program. But i've been shouted out by conservatives when doing campaign work for saying I thought the US should stay out of some free trade agreements.</p>
<p>Campus politics are interesting... they definitely lean left, but I think the people are generally openminded. Plus there are two conservative campus publications now: The Review and the Beacon.</p>
<p>The whole alumni thing is nonsense. Its not universal (only a certain generation) and it wont last as I seriously doubt their trustee candidates have a chance of winning.</p>
<p>Dartmouth seems conservative only because it is to the right of the people's republic of cambridge/new haven/princeton etc.</p>
<p>Actually left of Princeton...</p>
<p>Princeton is probably the most conservative Ivy.</p>
<p>There's nothing wrong with being conservative - just thought I'd throw that out there.</p>
<p>or being liberal lol. Did anyone read the article in the D today? It was totally about this.</p>