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Swarthmore is so far left overall that faculty and students self-select--at least that's what their tour guide told us when we visited . They don't ask questions like that because they don't HAVE to ask; they wouldn't invite anyone to interview who didn't ascribe to the latest "deconstructionist" theory.
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<p>Perhaps you would be interested in another quote from the same tenured Swarthmore History Professor, Tim Burke:</p>
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The entire class of people with postgraduate degrees skew significantly Democratic in registration: its worth asking how much academic departments differ from this general proportion. Granted, when you hit 100%, as with Duke's Department of History, you're obviously different from the general population of people with Ph.Ds, but I wonder how much so. (Extra bonus point: can anybody guess my political affiliation? Hint: Swarthmore's History Department is not 100% registered Democrat.)
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