<p>uhi was referring to efcsomethings post earlier about condescending liberals.</p>
<p>I'm not sure that Wisconsin is as liberal as people think. It is liberal compared to the rest of the state which has traditionally been Rebublican and conservative. Madison, and much of southern Wisconsin, is overwhelming Democratic but that hardly counts as liberal. The institutions on campus, particularly the two student newspapers, seem moderate to conservative to me.</p>
<p>Reed, Yale, Brown</p>
<p>UT austin, cal</p>
<p>I have the solution to find out whether or not a college is truly liberal.
We'll place people in the most public places at a university and they'll pretend to read "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" by Michael Savage. Next, just tally the amount of people that yell at you versus those that say it's a good book and the title rings true.</p>
<p>Also, come on, if you're not 17 then why are you even on this site? The last time I checked it was a discussion forum for people looking for opinions and information about colleges they're looking at and all that stuff. Get a life.</p>
<p>Hmm, conservative universities? Bringham Young University, definitely. Any extremely low-ranked state school, especially those located in rural hick towns. Aim for a university with a technical bent. Semenaries, I'm sorry, seminaries, are probably a good bet as well, though I'm not sure if that qualifies as a university.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that most universities, especially the top-ranked ones, have a left-leaning bent. I'm talking about the views of professors as a whole and such, of course. Financial conservatives who are smart enough to be professors typically act in accordance to their ideology and apply their skills towards aquiring money.</p>
<p>Wisconsin is still... liberal... but it has lost that 1960/1970s activism in my opinion. I think it's less like UC-B and more like Michigan now. However large the amount of democrats and liberals, the smaller Republicans on campus are VERY vocal and even won a large amount of seats on the student government.</p>
<p>As for the papers, I believe one (Cardinal) is moderate-liberal while the other (herald) is moderate-conservative. </p>
<p>As for who is liberal:</p>
<p>Reed. Macalester. Oberlin. Bob Jones.</p>
<p>Oberlin. Antioch. All the way.</p>
<p>i read in a college guidebook ( i think it was the "colleges for the highly motivated... or jsut plain different" one) that wisconsin is the only college with 2 dailies. the first one was the original student paper... it was never and still does not have a partisan allignment or political idealogy. the herald was founded because conservatives believed that the cardinal was becoming too liberal. </p>
<p>without getting too political, this seems just like typical conservative whining. At northwestern, for some reason we need an alternative conservative weekly paper... even though the daily is by no means liberal. </p>
<p>any college is going to have more liberal students than conservative students... there are jsut more liberal people our age than conservative.. especially people our age who are going to college. </p>
<p>tehre are obviously conservative groups at any reputable college... so nobody should fear that they arent going to find someone to get along with... look especially at schools with large business and engineering schools. Money-driven students are more likely to be conservative.</p>
<p>This shows how liberal Oberlin College, Kenyon College and Ohio Wesleyan University are.</p>
<p>The cardinal is recognized as being center-left to most and having read it for an entire year, I agree.</p>
<p>The herald was made in response to the cardinals coverage of Vietnam. </p>
<p>quite frankly... neither paper has too much ability to slant campus news except on very specific campus issues and editorials. </p>
<p>Other papers include the Socialist one (I forget the name) and the College republicans bi-weekly deal. Although it's largely used to just gather support from other campus conservatives and as a moderate myself, it's almost laughable/offensive for anyone to actually claim it's a reputable news source.</p>
<p>is tufts considered to be a liberal school out of curiosity?</p>
<p>Pretty much all the ivies are pretty liberal, in particular Brown is prob the most liberal of the bunch. Most of the top schools are also pretty liberal.</p>
<p>stud: any idea on where the sample data came from... who did the study, when it was done....
that is just a really basic excel graph that anybody whos used excel for more than 5 minutes could make. And wikipedia is not reliable... all the stuff on it is user-submitted and not verified. </p>
<p>still, the only shocking one is oberlin... the rest of them dont seem any more liberal than i would imagine for any top university... unless of course you took your sample just from Wharton or Sloan or CMU.</p>
<p>I can't believe only one other person thought of Notre Dame when asked about conservative universities--I think it's about as conservative as it gets.</p>
<p>TheCity, the bottom of the page says that that picture is referenced in the "Five Colleges of Ohio" article, and when you go to that article, the picture is captioned with:</p>
<p>Political leanings of students of Ohio Five Colleges from survey responses on thefacebook on April 10, 2005.</p>
<p>So I wouldn't call it accurate at all.</p>
<p>yeah.. notre dame is conservative</p>
<p>Yeah, I saw that. It does say "Political leanings of students of Ohio Five Colleges from survey responses on thefacebook on April 10, 2005". </p>
<p>rc251, why you wouldn't call it accurate at all? of course, it is not gallup international and surely, there is some adverse selection among students who sign up for the facebook but given that the people who are on the facebook for each of the schools is more than 3/4th of the total student population, I would imagine that if there is something systematic about the people who did not sign up it would be insufficient to skew the % in some substantial way. What do you think?</p>
<p>Or did you think there were any surprises from what you were expecting? Was Oberlin more liberal than you expected? I was actually surprised to see Kenyon College and Ohio Wesleyan University pretty much just as liberal as Oberlin. I was not suprised by the fact that Denison was the most conservative from all. That fits just fine with the general stereotypes.</p>
<p>Actually, I know practically nothing about LACs (heck, practically nothing about any colleges outside of California), so nope, I wouldn't know :) I just assumed that it's not the exact best indicator to use, and people could have different definitions of the terms in mind when using them.</p>
<p>Well, it is self-defined. Surely, this approach beats the anecdotal evidence approach of "he thinks, she thinks the most liberal school is". :-)</p>