<p>truth, do you have any actual experience of the University of Chicago?</p>
<p>This phrase “in general UChicago was seen as more conservative and didn’t quite as openly embrace gender studies, etc.” is about exactly half correct.</p>
<p>[Gender</a> and Sexuality Studies - University of Chicago Catalog](<a href=“http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/genderstudies/]Gender”>Gender and Sexuality Studies < University of Chicago Catalog)
[Lauren</a> Berlant | Department of English Language and Literature](<a href=“http://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/berlant]Lauren”>http://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/berlant)</p>
<p>By my lights, one of the things that makes Chicago admirable and unique is not that it’s “more conservative” or “more liberal”; it’s that people with different political orientations spend more time talking to one another and – here’s the really special part – actually listening to one another with respect, based on shared fundamental values about how to hold conversations about ideas, how to evaluate arguments, and what university communities are there for.</p>