<p>I was just wondering how conservative duke is. I'm an extremely liberal person and I wanted to know if Duke is realy as right-winged as people say it is.</p>
<p>Meh, I don't think that the campus is that conservative. I mean, I have friends who are conservative, and others who are liberal. We come from all walks of life.</p>
<p>I mean, any national university is going to be really liberal, esp. in the faculty. Duke may be conservative relative to that more general picture, but that doesn't make us a conservative school by any means.</p>
<p>And, frankly, even if we were, it's usually better for kids to go to the place where they're in the minority.</p>
<p>I consider myself incredibly liberal, and I've never felt uncomfortable at Duke. Yes, I've met people whose opinions I strongly disagree with, but as BDM said that's definitely something that you actually WANT in a college experience -- it's one of those "learning outside the classroom" things that will help you grow as a person. But in my experience, most people I know are liberal -- that could probably be because as a very liberal person, I tend to become friends with liberal people, but yeah. You will definitely not be in a minority.</p>
<p>same experience as bandcampgirl - quite liberal.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Duke has a few faculty members who are leading Marxist scholars.</p>
<p>Google "liberal bias" at DukeChronicle.com, haha</p>
<p>The fact that theres so much coverage of "liberal bias" accusations might actually prove its more conservative...who knows?</p>
<p>Plenty of conservatives, plenty of liberals, and plenty of room inbetween. I wouldn't worry about going to Duke because you'd be in a political minority, because that is by no means the case.</p>