<p>Facebook numbers for Berkeley sort of relect your assesment. What I found was about 1:11 say that they are conservative, very conservative, or liberateran, but this number excludes those that say moderate and may identify more with conservatives, those that do not have facebook, and maybe my calculations were wrong, amongst other things. It was fun doing some math, which I haven't done in a while.</p>
<p>I'm just adding a statistic found by a news organization.</p>
<p>I think if we want to talk about conservative schools on the West Coast, USF/USD would take first.</p>
<p>It's a fun exercise, but ultimately pointless. you're not going to go to usf over stanford because it's more conservative.
Where the comparison may matter is say stanford vs. peer institutions like yale or princeton.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure where the 67% statistic is from, but it's absurd. I'm a senior at Stanford right now, and I'd say over 75% of the student body here is very socially liberal. Particularly because of Stanford's northern California location, it's unusual to find people who are openly conservative and most undergrads tolerate -- but are not very sympathetic towards -- the Hoover Institute. Also, the gay scene at Yale is pretty comparable to the gay scene at Stanford purplerain666. I visited both schools and preferred Stanford because of its LGBT community and location near San Francisco. Good luck deciding!</p>
<p>As far as the conservatives who are here, most hardly belong in the heartland. You just really don't find people here who are openly racially, sexually etc... bigoted.</p>
<p>As for currentstudent2: his assessment is pretty fair, but there is some polarization here between people who actively participate in the campus lgbt groups and those who don't.</p>
<p>Guys, there's no way that Stanford is 67% conservative.
Around 80-90% of the students i've met are liberal.
That research is flawed for sure.</p>
<p>which paper was the one that recently, as its cover story, published an article about its own distribution patterns across campus. i think it was either the Review or the Progressive. It was just sad. Nobody cares about that. NOBODY. Worst article ever. </p>
<p>Also, the Chappie, our "humor" magazine sucks. It's the worst of the Stanford publications in my opinion. That magazine they gave us fall quarter. ***? Reading it was like listening to an awkward kid tell and really bad joke in front of the class and nobody laughes and everyone just sits there feeling sorry for him.</p>
<p>Wow, somebody sure is bitter. Agreed, the Chappie could use some dose of some of its past - (it used to be on par with the Lampoon). However, I suggest you read and understand the issues behind the distribution issues - it's a serious matter - how free expression is on this campus, and to what degree the university encourages or discourages this discourse. What is SAD and PATHETIC, Bilabong, is your attitude to this matter - that you would rather ignore these salient issues and live in your complacent, un-informed bubble than at least have a clue about your campus</p>
<p>Yeah, Stanford is very liberal, in my opinion. I'm from Houston, Texas, in Tom Delay's district (what a slimeball). However, going to Stanford is kind of annoying. In Houston, I'd always have someone to yell at. Here, everyone kind of quietly agrees, and liberal viewpoints are pretty much just accepted by people. Also, I'm a pretty staunch secularist, but Stanford in general is pretty damn secular. I feel that many religious kids don't make it too well known that they are religious - there's a small but pretty vocal group of people who openly sneer religion. That's not to say that a large percentage of the population is religious - probably considerably larger than the atheist/agnostic population - but still, there needs to be more balance, I think.</p>
<p>There's a group of students who openly sneer religion? Do I know these students? I've never run into that... I would agree that people are fairly quiet about religion (even some who might like to be less quiet about it). There are also many students who consider religion to be very important to them.</p>
<p>I would say that religious activity, especially amongst more religious Protestants.</p>
<p>It's much more pervasive than people think.</p>
<p>i'm also very liberal (hence why i like berkeley)</p>
<p>also, most of the SCOTUS justices from stanford are/were conservative. </p>
<p>i remember reading in the stanford newspaper, in the article on Rehnquist (after he died), that apparently, Rehnquist went East to Harvard for a semester or so, but hated its liberal-ness and then came back to Stanford...</p>
<p>i think it's pretty conservative, but we'll see in 3 weeks..</p>
<p>Haha, Rehnquist attended Stanford in the early 60s! 'Tis a truly changed institution. Ever since we participated wholly in the late 60s / early 70s radicalism (pipe bombings, arson, shootings etc... (things of the past, I do assure you) ), this has certainly been a left-leaning institution.
Not that that's a bad thing...
... even for conservatives</p>
<p>I don't find either the 67% conservative or 90% liberal figures realistic.</p>
<p>Why? Because at least 2/3 of the people I have met are liberal, whether in dorm, at the CoHo, or in class. Maybe the classes I take tend to be more liberal... but I doubt it because I'm a bio/psych person.</p>
<p>90% liberal from thefacebook is also ridiculous. Firstly, we are not all required to be on thefacebook. I hate the facebook, I am not on it, and I am conservative. I am aware of other students who are conservative who are not on thefacebook.</p>
<p>Which brings me to the final point... liberals on Stanford's campus just tend to be more outspoken. They are more likely than conservatives to organize a rally or protest-type event or print flyers to stick around campus. I don't mean this to be a bad thing; I just mean that liberals are more visible on campus. The conservative people and conservative organizations lay lower. Therefore, I really don't know what the exact percentages are. I would venture a guess at 70% liberal.</p>
<p>So from my point of view, Stanford is not a bad place to be if you're conservative. In general, people are very accepting, and you don't have to talk politics if you don't want to. I have had an encounter or two where a liberal person insulted my beliefs... but oh well.</p>