<p>an interesting article about the non-liberal Brunonians in politics</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/news/2005/02/08/CampusNews/U.Grads.In.Politics.Shake.Liberal.Stereotype-855934.shtml[/url]”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/news/2005/02/08/CampusNews/U.Grads.In.Politics.Shake.Liberal.Stereotype-855934.shtml</a></p>
<p>What exactly happened with the anti-reparations ad anyway?</p>
<p>That article confirms the feeling I had about Brown's political diversity. I don't know why it gets a reputation for being so PC and homogenously liberal.</p>
<p>coz thts wht it used to be... only recently have organized conservative groups started gettin active at Brown. As the article mentions a largeR portion of brown students and alumni maybe (or are) liberal but they are more tolerant liberals (unlike Ted Kennedy)</p>
<p>lol about the ted kennedy thing. him and the "mysterious disappearance" of that prostitute. i actually heard a rumor that the founder of the neo-nazi party went to brown (he graduated in the 40's). anyone know if that's true?</p>
<p>the thing about the neo-nazi guy is true--although i can't remember his name at the moment</p>
<p>some other interesting brown politicians from history (it's from an old BAM so it doesn't include a lot of current folks):</p>
<p>"the thing about the neo-nazi guy is true--although i can't remember his name at the moment"</p>
<p>George Lincoln Rockwell, Class of 1942</p>
<p>scary.....</p>
<p>Just because two republican politicians are from brown doesn't mean much. the environment here is still VERY heavily biased towards the left. Lately there has been a lot of talk about moving the bias towards the center, but in order to do that, we're going to need to start with the faculty (most of whom are hardened liberals who have a penchant for slanting in-class discussions.)</p>
<p>It would be a pretty hard task to turn Brown into a politically moderate school, considering its image, philosophy and curriculum. Regardless of how the teachers teach, it still is going to draw a certain type of student.</p>
<p>the point isn't so much to make the school moderate, as to make sure it is tolerant to non-liberal views. there's nothing wrong with liberalism in and of itself, as long as it isn't stifling.</p>
<p>for example, when richard perle (pentagon architect of the "shock and awe" campaign) came to speak at brown, people didn't even let him talk. that was uncalled for. when horowitz took out the incendiary anti-reparations in the herald, and all the newspapers were stolen...this again, was an inappropriate limitation of free speech.</p>
<p>however, the majority of students are fairly tolerant and open-minded. it's just a couple of crazies that give brown liberals a bad name</p>
<p>Well, it sure must be fun to offend the liberal crazies. Do you ever say things just to push their buttons, like suggesting that bisexuality is a trend?</p>
<p>I, for one, want to try to turn Brown into a better place when I go. We have to change the stereotypes Brown has (of being a "slacker Ivy", and of being too hippy PC). Who's with me? :)</p>
<p>Of course, Brown's many charming aspects must be upheld to the end. I'm just talking about the bad stuff lol</p>
<p>I'm with you 100%, Tore. Let's offend some hippies :) .</p>
<p>The only problem with overly-PC liberalness is that it turns into a mob metality thing. They stop thinking and won't even listen someone labeled "conservative". Not that they are wrong in realizing that conservatives are generally wrong about most things ;)</p>
<p>I remember someone explaining to me why the newspaper uses certain words to describe black people; it was insane. "Well if 'black' is capitalized it is offensive, and you cannot use the term 'African American' because many of these people aren't even from Africa..." There was something about being obligated to use 'white' or 'caucasian' or something if using 'black,' also. Anyway, it was something like that. The explanation just kept going on and on, with backwards logic.</p>
<p>There is a great episode of Seinfeld about this stuff: Jerry buys a cigar-store Indian and eventually realizes that everyone has become just a bit too touchy about race and stereotypes. Very funny.</p>
<p>This is a bit off-topic, but why isn't the term "oriental" used anymore to describe something or someone from the east? Isn't "occidental" still used sometimes? Why has "oriental" fallen out of favor? A bad association, I assume? We still say "Middle East"...</p>
<p>Weird. I'm from India and I see a lot of oriental? I don't see much occidental though.</p>
<p>Astrix, do you go to Brown?</p>
<p>Well, there's Occidental College in Southern California...People would think it strange if a college were called Oriental College, right?</p>
<p>I didn't even know Occidental was a term used to describe Asians. Where did you hear it?</p>
<p>It's not. It means Western, like Oriental means Eastern.</p>