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<li>sighs * yeah, you win.</li>
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<p>...i think i'm done with CC.</p>
<p>hey Alexandre, i esp. enjoyed engaging in conversations with you and in particular with Sakky and Slipper.</p>
<p>i wish everyone out there the very best of luck.</p>
<p>Ivy Grad,</p>
<p>You sure? We'll miss you. I wish I could leave but I'm addicted.</p>
<p>As for Dartmouth? In 2000 almost 80% voted for Gore or Nader, in 2004 85% voted for Kerry. Its as or more liberal than Cornell, Penn, and Princeton. Its too bad the 80s image lingers.</p>
<p>I'd say you could feel comfortable at Rice or UTexas. Neither are right wing, but both have a good number of conservatives and are fairly balanced.</p>
<p>"If you're under 30 and a conservative, you have no heart. If you're over 40 and a liberal, you haven't learned much" -- or some such quote. In fact, a great many of the elite kids are liberal as long as they are spending daddy's money, and conservative when they start making their own.</p>
<p>I don't know..... most Americans are moderate, at least more moderate than the media wants us to believe. Saying that Americans are moderate doesn't bring the ratings, but pretending that they are polarized and deeply divided does.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. You notice that on TV shows, the debates are always between two people on opposite end of the political spectrum: one a severe liberal and the other a severe conservative. The debate is largely fruitless because neither is even willing to change their position or observe from the point of view of the other. Most Americans are moderates. They share some conservative values and some liberal values. I am a steadfast liberal myself, but a lot of people seem to think I am a conservative because I am pro-life, for the most part. After listening to me explain my concerns about one issue, they jump to conclusions about my political standing. I have one conservative value, and suddenly I am conservative in the eyes of everyone.</p>
<p>(from princeton review)</p>
<p>"Alternative Lifestyles not an Option:"
Hampden-Sydney College
Notre Dame
Baylor
Wheaton (IL)
Grove City
U-Tennessee- Knoxville
Texas A&M
Holy Cross
Samford
Brigham Young
Seton Hall
Valparaiso
Pepperdine
Washington and Lee
Trinity (CT)
Vanderbily
Wake Forest
Utah
Providence
Southern Methodist</p>
<p>"Students Most Nostaligic for Ronald Reagan" (as opposed to clinton)
Hillsdale
Grove City
Brigham Young
USAFA
Hampden-Sydney
College of the Ozarks
USNA
U. Dallas
Wheaton (IL)
USMMA
USMA
Samford
Baylor
Texas A&M
Mercer U
Auburn
Clemson
Mississippi
Wofford
Southern Methodist</p>
<p>Prestige-wise, Notre Dame is probably the most conservative top college.</p>
<p>unwritten, W&L, Wake, Bucknell are not well known? maybe not to the average ESPN watching idiot who knows only about duke b/c of their bball team and thinks brown is only his friend's last name. in the academic world, i would say the three former mentioned schools hold as much weight as many of the large "elite" research institutions.</p>
<p>Re. UVA, nowadays Virginia is pretty evenly divided among conservatives, liberals and moderates. (I think sv3a, one of the CC posters, proved this by checking out UVA students' political leanings on Facebook.) Furthermore, the University Democrats has more members than the College Republicans. But I can see how people still think UVA is very Republican with the very conservative National Review Editor-In-Chief Richard Lowry as well as Fox News hosts Brit Hume, Fred Barnes, Bob Sellers, and Wyatt Andrews all being UVA alums.</p>
<p>EDIT:
Hahaha...I think there's a UVA mafia going on at Fox News, but they need to bring in some UVA liberals up in there, yo!</p>
<p>slipper, </p>
<p>thanks for the kind words, i tried shooting you a note, but your inbox is filled to capacity - shoot me a PM, wanted to ask you a quick q.</p>
<p>regards,</p>
<p>"side with Republicans"? Are you kidding? You're seeking an education not a competitive event (I presume).</p>
<p>er.... okay pirt. i didn't mean anything by that and i probably worded it wrong, it was just that the OP mentioned Yale and Georgetown, so obviously Bucknell is not exactly the same level as Yale. i'll be applying to W&L and Bucknell because i think they're great schools, just not exactly Yale.</p>
<p>"Most top universities are slightly left of center, including all of the Ivies,"</p>
<p>Please place the crack pipe down and walk away ;). During the election of 200, 92% of Ivy league profs. were registered democrats. Most prominant uiversities DEFINE liberalism and leftism. I am not sure what you are using as your guage as slightly left-perhapps if you consider Stalin as a moderate left, then you would be "right".</p>
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During the election of 200, 92% of Ivy league profs. were registered democrats.
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<p>Pretty impressive stat... that's a very specific number btw. </p>
<p>Though I'm not doubting it, do you by chance happen to have any links to back this statement up?</p>
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<p>Mass murder and rejection of alternative ideologies is a right-wing thing, actually. See fascism and then the ACLU.</p>
<p>"Mass murder and rejection of alternative ideologies is a right-wing thing"</p>
<p>-Oh my....</p>
<p>The more I think about the "slightly left of center" remark, the more I think it is out of amazing ignorance or a deliberate attempt to deceive.</p>
<p>I forgot the exact link but here are some supporting links-</p>
<p>"In our examinations of over 150 departments and upper-level administrations at 32 elite colleges and universities, the Center found the following:</p>
<pre><code> The overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans we were able to identify at the 32 schools was more than 10 to 1 (1397 Democrats, 134 Republicans). "
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<p>t other schools we found these representations of registered faculty Democrats to Republicans:</p>
<p>Brown 30-1</p>
<p>Bowdoin, Wellesley 23-1</p>
<p>Swarthmore 21-1</p>
<p>Amherst, Bates 18-1</p>
<p>Columbia, Yale 14-1</p>
<p>Pennsylvania, Tufts, UCLA and Berkeley 12-1</p>
<p>Smith 11-1</p>
<p>o At no less than four elite schools we could not identify a single Republican on the faculty:</p>
<p>Williams 51 Democrats, 0 Republicans</p>
<p>Oberlin 19 Democrats, 0 Republicans</p>
<p>MIT 17 Democrats, 0 Republicans</p>
<p>Haverford 15 Democrats, 0 Republicans</p>
<p>Conclusion
These figures suggest that most students probably graduate without ever having a class taught by a professor with a conservative viewpoint. The ratios themselves are impossible to understand in the absence of a political bias in the training and hiring of college instructors. They strongly suggest that the governance of American universities has fallen into the hands of a self-perpetuating political and cultural subset of the general population, which seems intent on perpetuating its control. This is an unhealthy development for the both the educational enterprise and the democracy itself.</p>
<p>Univ. of Chicago is notoriously Conservative.</p>
<p>Really? I always thought that Northwestern was more conservative of the two, and that even NW was still liberal over all...</p>