<p>Is Cornell liberal or conservative?</p>
<p>It's not near as liberal as I expected. People are generally liberal but most people are also commonsensical. Check out that thread about the people protesting "racist parties" on Ho Plaza recently - kinda sums it up. About 25 kids are ultra politcally-correct and stage a "rally" against "racist" parties - kinda the good old college liberal thing to do, Berkeley, CA style. The other 19,975 students on campus pass by thinking they are a bunch of overly sensitive morons. Liberal, but not annoyingly so (the campus as a whole).</p>
<p>Same with the lesser amount of conservatives on campus. Also very moderate.</p>
<p>Really, most people just seem apathetic anymore. Moderate is just the term we use for people that don't know or care enough about current political issues to do anything.</p>
<p>Which is BS. It annoys the crap out of me how ignorant 18-24 year olds are these days. I think less than 5% of us vote. I actually hope someone in the white house proposes a draft. I'd burn my card for sure but I think that would make some of us realize that this stuff affects us and everyone around us. I talked to a German exchange student tonight and I asked her if people in her country voted. She said of course. I told her that our turnout rates are constantly under 50% and that no one even shows up for primaries anymore. She asked, "Isn't that important?" yea, yea it is. I don't care if your radical or retrogressive, as long as you educate yourself you're at least not "apathetic." But what do I know about being an American, I'm a minority.</p>
<p>ANYWAY, off my soap box now...</p>
<p>Oh, and I heard the ILR people are borderline Marxist. Which is pretty tight I gotta say.</p>
<p>i am vry liberal (yay!!!) and i am goin to vote when i get my citizenship. i am just a permanent resident. only if gov would let me vote....</p>
<p>the only real conservatism is Zionism IMHO </p>
<p>people just have fun...though if you're gay...live in Risley else you're pretty much alone...</p>
<p>cornell is very segregated thanks to ujaama (SP?) and llc...if you want a diverse school i'm sure UCLA is your better bet...though CORNELL is probably the better academic...UCLA is so large it wont focus on undergrad as much...</p>
<p>New York State itself is considered very liberal. If you want a more conservative atmosphere you may want to look into schools in conservative states such as Texas. It all comes down to personal preference.</p>
<p>marxist? pftt.....I'm not even going into that one.</p>
<p>aren't pretty much all colleges except the military academys and religious schools liberal-sided?</p>
<p>I think Cornell is fairly conservative for a college. Though NY is liberal as a whole, upstate NY is a bit more conservative and a lot of students here come from upstate NY. I personally think Cornell students are more politically apathetic, since science majors are so abundant and they are usually less concerned with politics than arts and humanities majors.</p>
<p>Well anyplace with a bit more liberal slant would be welcome because right now i live in pretty much the most conservative county in new jersey. Out of my school of 600 students, there MAY be 10 people who consider themselves democrats. It may have something to do with our town being fairly wealthy, but the whole area is just conservative dominated. It has forced me to hone my debate skills a bit haha. Little more balance should be good for a change....</p>
<p>What it boils down to is that Cornell is neither annoyingly liberal nor annoyingly conservative. On the whole, obviously.</p>
<p>30% liberal
20% conservative
50% apathetic</p>
<p>that's kinda the feeling I get around here</p>
<p>If you're an engineer, architect, or a hard science major, or premed, most likely you'll be too wrapped up in your own crapload of work to care about the outside world. Ithaca as a whole is extremely liberal. I was walking through the commons one day and there was a rally for impeaching president Bush. I'd have to say though that it's nowhere near as liberal as Berkeley. Frankly most students don't care very much for politics since many feel that it has no direct effect on their lives, especially since they aren't paying for their educations and don't realize that the government has been cutting back funding for federal aid for the past 3 years.</p>
<p>Yeah...it's really not a good thing, and there are definitely other colleges that are a lot more politically active than us.</p>
<p>I'm super liberal. I hate that people are apathetic and think politics doesn't effect our lives...</p>
<p>UCLA diverse?...that was a joke right?</p>
<p>I wish it were more liberalllll! lol. I'm pretty heavy into politics (help with campaigns and watch debates sometimes n am in Dems club n such). I hope people get really into the '08 election! It'll be really interesting to c who carries NY, Clinton or Giuliani (hopefully the former! Although I'm more of an Obama guy myself). Hopefully since Ithaca is liberal they will have interesting and fun rallies.</p>
<p>While I may not agree with your side (lol) I love people who are interested!!! Gah...I hope that there won't be as many apathetic people as it looks like. I like people on my side and the other, as long as they can support their views.</p>
<p>i am so pumped about starting school during an election year!</p>
<p>If you join clubs you will be able to be around people with the same interests every now and then. I go to the campaigns, rallys, and such with my club friends and it's really fun.</p>
<p>masterofgrond- what county are you from? i'm in middlesex so it's pretty liberal over here. My school has about 2100 kids in grades 10-12 & i can only think of 20 republicans.
I'm a dem all the way.</p>
<p>you're a communist is what you are</p>
<p>...........lol. i think that there are three dems in my school.</p>
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<p>I am gay and I don't this is the case in Cornell AT ALL. The University has a large and politically active queer population, and there are lots of ways for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT,) and straight people to meet up with one another. </p>
<p>Haven (<a href="http://www.dos.cornell.edu/haven%5B/url%5D">www.dos.cornell.edu/haven</a>) is the umbrella organization for queer social support groups at Cornell. Haven is always planning fun events and wants even more people to get involved.</p>
<p>upstate ny is definitely pretty conservative, overall. i mean, you can't really call the region liberal if (in the 2000 elections) george w. bush won over 30 counties, while losing about 15 of the state's counties by less than 10% points. republicans typically most of the state's counties anyways (although, not the counties comprising nyc, where it all really matters).</p>