<p>Brigham Young University (UT)
Wheaton College (IL)
United States Coast Guard Academy
College Of The Ozarks
Grove City College
United States Air Force Academy
United States Naval Academy
Wellesley College
Thomas Aquinas College
Calvin College
United States Military Academy
Wesleyan College
Franklin W. Olin College Of Engineering
City University Of New York - Queens College
Webb Institute
Berea College
Agnes Scott College
City University Of New York - Baruch College
Simmons College
Bryn Mawr College</p>
<p>If by moral you mean: Religious, Anti-Gay</p>
<p>Brigham Young University (UT)<br>
Grove City College
University Of Dallas
United States Air Force Academy
University Of Notre Dame
Wheaton College (IL)
United States Military Academy
Texas A&M University - College Station
Furman University
United States Merchant Marine Academy
College Of The Ozarks
Thomas Aquinas College
Auburn University
United States Coast Guard Academy
Xavier University Of Louisiana
William Jewell College
Calvin College
Samford University
St. Olaf College
Baylor University</p>
<p>hah, take Wesleyan off the above “non-party school” list. There is definitely a party scene there. Not to mention a terrible idea for someone who wants a more conservative setting–Wesleyan is the epitome of liberal (both politically, religiously, and socially).</p>
<p>You need to find a college where significant proportion of students (not all) will be socially conservative, then you will not get a feel that “everybody” drinks and hooks up.
You need to find “your” group of people in college, and in some colleges it will be easier than in others.
There is a website: [url=<a href=“http://www.campusdirt.com%5DCampusDirt.com%5B/url”>http://www.campusdirt.com]CampusDirt.com[/url</a>] that describes/compares students behaviour on many different campuses in terms of proportion.
People can be moral/socially conservative without religious affiliation and be politically liberal at the same time.</p>
<p>Hey Pierre, I disagree with “St. Olaf” being on religious and anti gay. Of course it is a religious school, but it is a very liberal and open one. They have a diverse community where many faiths are represented and are pretty progressive in issues such as homosexuality.</p>
<p>Hey OP-- learn to use language properly. I, for one, am pretty offended by your definition of morality, on nothing less than an intellectual level.</p>
<p>Of course, leave it to tk to post a wonderfully interesting comment/question in a totally useless thread I otherwise wouldn’t have bothered with:
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<p>This is something which is quite interesting, however, I think your next line is perhaps, not so correct:
I think many universities, while they wouldn’t claim it as a primary function, would view a major function as producing “moral” people, or at least “good citizens”.</p>
<p>In fact, the phrase, “preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation,” in the current Brown Mission Statement comes directly from the university’s charter, written in 1763. However, I think that morality is viewed as something constructed out of fostering intellect, in many ways, at universities these days.</p>
<p>There are interesting connections between the intellectual and moral aims of education. I see them connecting in the ancient concept of virtue as having four parts: wisdom, courage, temperance, justice. The best collegiate seminar discussions exercise all four. 10 or 15 students join with an able guide to seek wisdom on some important question. The timid student is coaxed out. Extreme, unfounded views are tempered. We strive for an atmosphere of civility, of fairness and respect for one another, even as we challenge one another with the hardest questions, occasional jabs of sarcasm, or a skeptical harumph.</p>
<p>The disciplined pursuit of knowledge is in itself a moral activity. It enriches life directly. It exercises the four cardinal virtues, which strengthen capacity for moral action. The best result is the ultimate in “transferable skills”, the skills employed in living a good life.</p>
<p>Just want to echo SmallCollegesFTW…St. Olaf is not anti-gay. Yes it’s a religious school but that doesn’t lump it in with the Bob Joneses of the world. There’s a world of difference there.</p>
<p>People seem to love Baylor… I’m an east coast kid,(from NYC) and I absolutely hate the stupid progressive, liberal and hedonistic motives which people seem to live by there. Naturally, I want the complete opposite, but I also want a prestigious school. For some arbitrary reason I’ve narrowed to down to Northwestern, Wash U and U Chicago, any advice?</p>
<p>Have you looked at student reviews at a similarly named website? Obviously, only one of many things to consider, but you can get some feedback from students who are attending or have graduated from the colleges that you are considering.</p>
<p>For the record I think I’d want to shoot myself at a college specifically picked out because students don’t even know how babies are made…aka Baylor</p>
<p>Akorn, you sound a little like a kid I knew at Chicago.
I think you could find a home there, as long as you go in with your eyes wide open.</p>
<p>At a few prestigious colleges, drugs or alcohol do seem to be among the defining elements of the campus culture. Chicago is not one of those schools. It never had much of a “gentleman’s C” subculture, which apparently dies hard at a couple of top colleges. I gather that at one Ivy at least, it is still popular to affect a breezy indifference to studying, as if one is brilliant enough to go from binge to binge, yet effortlessly keep up with the readings and the grades.</p>
<p>Chicago is not that way (not even in myth), but still, people there will do the things that people do. There’s an old story about a president wandering into Rockefeller Chapel one night and finding “more souls being conceived than saved.” He had the doors locked after hours. For years, there was an annual “lascivious costume ball” where you could get in free if you came naked. I’m told it’s been shut down (something to do with insurance issues).</p>
<p>The LCB was never an actual orgy (unless maybe there was a secret room I was not privileged to know about). It was more of an opportunity (on a campus with many introverts) to play at being daring behind the protection of a costume and mask.</p>
<p>Political opinions there (among both students and faculty) will pretty much run the gamut. You can expect yours to be treated with respect if you calmly articulate them with a little humility and preferably a sense of humor. Few people will share your apparent views on abstinence. Many will share the practice.</p>