<p>To any current Brown attendees, a point of inquiry:
Would you say that Brown has a more liberal or more conservative atmosphere. Merci!</p>
<p>I don't even have to be a Brown attendee to know it's quite liberal.</p>
<p>It's supposedly the most liberal of the 8 Ivies.
A lot of conservatives get shouted down.</p>
<p>I've also heard that it was a very liberal campus. I was wondering if there were any current students willing to support or deny that claim.</p>
<p>Politically and culturally, yes, it is a very liberal campus. If you could give your personal definition of 'liberal' it might help narrow the field a bit.</p>
<p>Sometimes I think there should be a sticky post at the top of this board that just says "Brown is liberal, okay?" to avoid this oft-asked question in the future. The majority of people at Brown are liberals, in many senses of the word, and its just the truth.<br>
Culturally, Brown is liberal in quite a few ways. The truth is, Brown is very work-hard-play-hard, and this naturally comes out as a fairly liberal party atmosphere. Dare I mention "Sex, Power, God" (someone else can explain that one)? It's common for people to take liberal to mean artsy on these boards, and many people here are artsy, and dramatic performances are well-attended, but there is a large group who are not so inclined. Brown students are generally accepting of new people and new ideas, which I suppose could be classified as liberal or progressive, but for me this is no more than an indication of intellect and education. Personally, I don't see how anyone can be particularly opposed to most aspects of Brown's socially liberal atmosphere.
Politically, Brown has an undeniable liberal (read: anyway from moderate democrat to socialist) bent. The day after this recent election, the campus felt dead. This does not mean, as many insist, that conservatives are lynched here. There is an outspoken conservative on my floor, and he is constantly engaged in very constructive debate with other students - as far as I can tell, he enjoys it immensely. If you are a political conservative and you decide to come here, I think the worst you'll have to deal with is being misunderstood, not attacked.</p>
<p>Brown is mostly liberal in the sense that the collge democrats are a bigger club than the college republicans.</p>
<p>But conservatives at Brown have one of the most intelligent, informed, and vocal voices on campus.
<a href="http://www.brownspectator.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.brownspectator.com/</a></p>
<p>Moreover, prominent conservatives have graduated from Brown with extremely positive feelings about their education. In fact, Bobby Jindal is now a trustee.
<a href="http://www.bobbyjindal.com%5B/url%5D">www.bobbyjindal.com</a></p>
<p>is it really very communist????</p>
<p>I don't think it goes as far as "very communist." There's a difference between a hardcore democrat and a communist.</p>
<p>This whole liberalism thing is really overblow. You won't be given a Mao button upon walking through the gates or anything of the sort. The school because of its' liberal academic approach, attracts liberal students.</p>
<p>I had a friend who graduated last year... and he said there is such a large amount of liberals, that if the student body were to vote in the 2004 election, Nader would be a strong contender.</p>
<p>I would argue that to be the case of many northeastern schools and most if not all of its' peer schools. Even at the school where the 'Other Side of Paradise' took place, (Princeton) only 28% of the students approved of Bush's job in November 2003. This occured when Americans had a 54% approval. So, Princeton students disapprove of the president twice as much as the American public and Princeton is famed to be one of the more conservative top American schools. So, I mean, it's really not primarily a 'Brown' issue.</p>
<p>For Reference, <a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/11/10/news/9050.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/11/10/news/9050.shtml</a></p>
<p>For further amplification, in an October Princeton poll Kerry was favored over Bush by a 62-24 margin.</p>