<p>How conservative/liberal are UVa students? Professors?</p>
<p>hahaha this has only a bit to do with the post, but anyone who went to Foxfield will appreciate this sight: typical tan suburban, McCain/Palin sticker, Episcopal Church decal, and a big ole sabers/V in the middle.</p>
<p>Well it is for horse racing after all</p>
<p>I found UVA, for a public flagship University, to be a bit conservative - but not in the sense that there are tons and tons of Republicans and conservatives around, but in the sense that their point of view is well-represented and there’s certainly a thriving conservative counter-culture, if you will, about Grounds. </p>
<p>That said, it’s still a University. And thus it’s still a more liberal-than-average place. I found the faculty at UVA to also be well-represented politically speaking, and not particularly partial to inserting an agenda into their classes. </p>
<p>It’s a nice balance, because it’s big enough to have vibrant groups on most sides of the political spectrum, if you deign to be involved.</p>
<p>Or at least that was my experience.</p>
<p>I enjoy appending/chalking/stapling atheist commentary to (the not very many) anti-abortion posters/chalk-advertisements around Grounds.</p>
<p>UVA is about as conservative as Obama’s administration. (“OMQ, there are Republican folks in there!!”</p>
<p>I find it quite conservative…but then again I lean very very far to the left.</p>
<p>UVa isn’t “conservative”, it’s just not as liberal as some other schools. Really, who cares though? It’s a good school with all kinds of interesting viewpoints, not some cesspool of idiocy like Bob Jones U or Hampshire College.</p>
<p>“UVa isn’t “conservative”, it’s just not as liberal as some other schools. Really, who cares though? It’s a good school with all kinds of interesting viewpoints, not some cesspool of idiocy like Bob Jones U or Hampshire College.”</p>
<p>bahahahaha</p>
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<p>I really love how the “Veritas” “”““forum””“” got chalked everywhere all over the place, all over the chem building plaza, all over O-Hill, and on every sidewalk, while the Richard Dawkins Foundation managed to get in a poster on the O-Hill bulletin board.</p>
<p>Oh well? I don’t think any of my friends take religion or “spirituality” seriously, dude. I think the “activist” atheists are really beating a dying horse. Give it 50 years and there probably won’t be a “veritas” forum (or anything like it).</p>
<p>The meme isn’t dying by any means. Granted it’s being pressured, like using antibiotics against a flu outbreak.</p>
<p>Dawkins cited religion as a “selfish meme” for a reason. It is an idea that over time has “adapted” and been “selected” under social pressures to infect and spread. (It’s also why you have like 10,000 species of religions.) This whole appeal to the banality of modern life is just one of the new proteins on religion’s evolving protein coat.</p>
<p>I’m not really worried abouts its effects in a bubble like UVa.</p>
<p>It might be conservative compared to other top tier universities, but it’s still liberal overall.</p>
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<p>That’s my take as well.</p>
<p>W & M is more liberal compared to UVA- I make this comparison from my experience of visiting both schools, but then again it’s a university so you’ll find liberal people in numbers</p>