<p>Hey guys, I'm just wondering how Columbia students make do with the incredible diversity at the school? Are there lots of ethnic organizations, activism, etc.?</p>
<p>Also re. the activism part - how do people generally feel about the really liberal protester types in Morningside Heights (if there are really a significant number of them)?</p>
<p>you don't need to make do with diversity, it's just a plus. But there are many ethnic organizations.</p>
<p>on activism: there is a small but very vocal activist population at columbia, this population might be more prevalent than at peer schools, but they're still a small % (maybe 15%) of the student make up. 10% tends to be very liberal and 5% tends to be conservative / libertarian but strongly so. the 85% is generally liberal with some moderates, but doesn't protest at the slightest chance, and they usually are unaffected by small protests, and dislike larger more disruptive ones, seeing them as counter-productive.</p>
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on activism: there is a small but very vocal activist population at columbia, this population might be more prevalent than at peer schools, but they're still a small % (maybe 15%) of the student make up. 10% tends to be very liberal and 5% tends to be conservative / libertarian but strongly so. the 85% is generally liberal with some moderates, but doesn't protest at the slightest chance, and they usually are unaffected by small protests, and dislike larger more disruptive ones, seeing them as counter-productive.
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<p>Hmm, 10% very liberal and 85% generally liberal?? One, depending on his perspective, may find pretty much all of the generally liberal folk to be "very liberal." </p>
<p>As for the protester types, it's important to recognize that it's not always Columbia students leading and/or participating in some of these protests. They could be organized by various non-Columbia groups (the ISO comes to mind) and done under the guise of being student protests.</p>
<p>More like
10 % Moderate
50 % Liberal
20 % Far-left Liberal
10 % Extreme Liberal (Communist)
5 % Random (Liberatarian, Green Party, etc)
5 % Slightly Conservative</p>
<p>there are more conservatives than you give credit for, but you don't know about it because they are conservative in divulging their politics.</p>
<p>Also, Columbia is prob the most diverse Ivy. Great mix of ethnic, cultural, economical, and international.</p>
<p>by 85% generally liberal I meant the majority of those are liberal, i agree with miken my break down of political views would be:</p>
<p>1) 5% conservative
2) 5% economically conservative, don't care about social issues (lots of these in seas, econ majors, some poli sci majors)
3) 5% economically conservative, socially liberal
4) 15% moderate
5) 25% socially liberal, don't care about economics
6) 25% liberal
7) 15% very liberal
8) 5% radical, activist, communist</p>
<p>protestors come from the 8(esp), 7 and a few from 1 and a few from 3,</p>
<p>10% extremely liberal or 5% radical is actually quite significant when you guys think about it. I can assure you that the proportion is much much less than 1% here at Dartmouth (we don't really have bleeding heart types here - just kind of people walking around to class and stuff, bowing over to the fraternity system at night). I don't think we've held a single protest during my 1.5 years here. But I am intrigued about potentially transferring over from the "most conservative" Ivy to the most liberal one. Should be an interesting paradigm shift - one that I'm not necessarily opposed to.</p>