<p>What is it like? Are most students political? Why are the views of the professors? Does every movement/ideology have a sizeable following on campus?</p>
<p>I think there’s a wide variety of political views on campus, there’s college dems, college republicans, my roomie was in a libertarian club, so there’s lots of options for joining the political side of campus.</p>
<p>I think that, in general for a pubic U, there’s a lot more attention to politics, because of Washington, DC being right there. Agree with mollterp…wide variety of political views (and views on practically ANYTHING!) on campus!</p>
<p>I remember picking up DS in Oct from his dorm (scholars) and every 3 window had a presidential poster in it! Remember that this dorm houses the govt & pol majors, also international studies for scholars.</p>
<p>Hmmmm. </p>
<p>Political climate…</p>
<p>I would say generally pretty moderate, to be honest, though liberal leaning (for instance huge turnout for Barack when he came to speak in the Comcast Center…and an awesome if somewhat disturbin rally/march/riot in the dark across campus when he was elected). I mean this is MD, it is a democratic state. And the most common OOSers are from New York and Jersey! </p>
<p>But desite that GENERALLY it is not a very politically charged climate. I would like to see some more radical activities on campus, really, even though I’m not radical myself. Just would have been a cool college experience. </p>
<p>There are some radical student groups that do things here and there but eh (see our chapter of Students for a Democratic society, SDS)…in general politics isn’t super super visible though if you’re into that, there will be plenty of people to talk to about it. There are groups for everything, but of course the College Repubcs/Dems are gonna be a bigger group than, say, the libertarians…though they do indeed have a group :). </p>
<p>I think this is common for most universities…and for life…for people to be too absorbed with the day-to-day realities (class, partying, etc.) than a huge amount of political activism.</p>
<p>As for the professors, it depends heavily on the department. Many professors (and even TAs/grad students) hail from foreign countries, though, so there is a huge variety in their backgrounds and beliefs. Overall I would say they tend to be, like the students, generally moderate with a slight liberal lean.</p>