<p>I don’t think it’s a typo, it’s a joke! Good to have some levity in the conversation every now and then.</p>
<p>Yup! still people not liberals.</p>
<p>Back to OP’s question … Furman University in Greenville, SC is a great choice. D went there freshman year & found lots to do that didn’t revolve around drinking and plenty of folks with whom she could do those things. She is now at a school with a big party culture & it has been a bit more difficult to find her niche. Like romanigypsyeyes, she loves the academics & is happy in spite of the culture. But not all kids would be, so if the OP’s D would prefer a certain campus culture, there are certainly options. I agree that more info from OP would be helpful, though.</p>
<p>ParentOfIvyHope, So you abhor the work of the ACLU, because their existence is founded on a platform of “victimhood”. They’re offended by everything.</p>
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<p>Being liberal I don’t abhor anyone work. ACLU is free to do what they deemed right as long as it is legal.</p>
<p>I believe in positive thinking and would prefer a constructive platform. I never disliked Palin because of her victimhood platform.</p>
<p>I’ve voted for socially moderate but fiscally conservative republican over socially liberal but fiscally liberal democrats.</p>
<p>Does your daughter prefer attending a conservative college too? If she does that is great and many of the suggestions here are good ones. If she does not, is there a lack of trust on your part? Every college as many students who do not drink or party yet have a great college experience.</p>
<p>We should start a thread “Colleges where drinking is not a major pastime” so that we can just refer all the new parents that ask. I think I"ll do that.</p>
<p>[Scouting</a> A Dry Campus | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/86823]Scouting”>Scouting A Dry Campus - Newsweek)</p>
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<p>LOL Mummom</p>
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<p>Who said the OP was trying to create an artificial bubble for their child? Everyone picks a college based on the best fit for THEM. For some it may be a party hardy school, for others a stone cold sober one, for some a religious school fits the bill, for others a very liberal school is right. None of these are artificial bubbles - but rather a description of the nature of the school. It makes absolute sense for everyone to find a school which will be the best fit for them</p>
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<p>This is one of the most ignorant posts I have seen here. Clearly if you are a parent of an Ivy hopeful - I hope your offspring does not share your ridiculous beliefs</p>
<p>Everyone picks a college based on the best fit for THEM. For some it may be a party hardy school, for others a stone cold sober one, for some a religious school fits the bill, for others a very liberal school is right. None of these are artificial bubbles - but rather a description of the nature of the school.</p>
<p>Your descriptions are too simplistic.
In our region there was a school that had a reputation for “acid filled pinatas”.</p>
<p>Some wanted to get a BA from the school that had a reputation as being in the top 10,of undergraduate schools where a large percentage of students eventually completed a Ph.d.</p>
<p>Maybe some were interested in the schools dorm mother was so attentive that she regularly made cookies and coffee for students and picked up kids from the airports ( and lent her car to a parent who couldn’t afford to rent one)</p>
<p>Some wanted to attend a laid back hippie school, some wanted a school with a rigorous required curriculum in classics and demanded everyone defend and publish a thesis for graduation.</p>
<p>Others just wanted to play capture the flag on chunk666 bikes.
Same school.</p>
<p>Reed College =)</p>
<p>My son checked it out and really was impressed. He is a very straight kid (although definitely on the liberal side), but he loved the serious academics and the quirkiness that seemed to go hand in hand.</p>
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I think the one who call others ignorant is generally the one who is ignorant.
Certainly it seems that you can’t take someone else point of view.
A conservative always call others beliefs ridiculous while a liberal allow everyone to have their own beliefs.</p>
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Nah nah nah boo boo…whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you…</p>
<p>(Sorry, couldn’t resist. Carry on…)</p>
<p>^^^: What else a conservative can do?</p>
<p>“A conservative always call others beliefs ridiculous while a liberal allow everyone to have their own beliefs.”</p>
<p>You just can’t help yourself can you. Lets try it this way. “There are some conservatives that call others beliefs rediculous, while there are also liberals who do the same.”</p>
<p>Or maybe you’re the final arbiter of the real definition of “liberal” and those who do not believe exactly as you do are not in reality liberal, but “fallen liberals” or at worst actually <em>gasp</em> conservative.</p>
<p>^^^: One can self claim liberal or conservative but the action speaks and make oneself either a conservative or liberal.</p>
<p>If some one call self a liberal but behave as a conservative then I’ll prefer to call them as conservative and not liberal.</p>
<p>I didn’t coin the term liberal or came up with a definition of it.</p>
<p>^^^^Yes you did. “a liberal allow everyone to have their own beliefs.” That’s your definition.</p>
<p>I like post #115 the best!</p>
<p>Hey, if you guys want to get into some real political arguing, try the Parent Cafe Election and Politics—where people get quite into it and some are very hostile. Though maybe that’s their way of having fun…it’s hard to tell the difference.</p>