Republican/Conservative activism

<p>Would anyone know how active the Republican/Conservative student organizations are or if there is any type of alternative newspaper in the mold of the Darmouth Review at Chicago? </p>

<p>Oh, and did anyone else choose Chicago because of guys like Milton Friedman and Leo Strauss?</p>

<p>There is a campus republican group, and the seminaries/div school add to the conservatism. But the school is very intellectual/liberatarian, so it's a lot more of the small-government/free-market/individual freedom conservatism, not the nationalist/fundamentalist/jingoist neocon BS. But then again, it is the midwest, so...</p>

<p>I read that, when the college republicans debated the college democrats on gay marriage, the republicans said the kinds of marriages allowed shouldn't be determined by the state. That should attest to the strain of conservatism that uchicago has.</p>

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<p>FTR most "neocons" are minimally religious Jews, so lumping them together with the fundamentalists and the nationalists (<em>cough Pat Buchanan cough</em>) is a real stretch. Not that they can't be allies on certain issues, but it is similar to the Nazi-Soviet pact; an alliance of expediency not homogeneity;)</p>

<p>But I am much more a conservative in the Milton Friedman/Friedrich Hayek tradition than the Pat Buchanan/Mike Huckabee permutation</p>

<p>The College Republicans actually has some religious types. The Objectivist Club seems to have a stranglehold on the free market approach.</p>

<p>However, if you are a serious conservative you roll with either the Federalist Society or the Burke Society, both of which have undergraduates that are active.</p>