<p>Not that I'm huge into politics (nor do I want a heated partisan discussion), but I hear the words 'liberal' and 'NYU' used in the same sentence wayyyyy too often. It's said that almost none of the student population (and only a few profs in the poli-sci dept) are conservative. </p>
<p>Is NYU really that left? Any current students here, feel free to elaborate.</p>
<p>I think “liberal” is used to stereotype progressive, artsy, eccentric, just like “conservative” is used to stereotype people as traditional, white-collar, etc. It’s an easy way to characterize a group of people. </p>
<p>NYC in general is pretty open-minded. That being said, NYU is in Greenwich Village, which has been historically very liberal. (Stonewall is in Greenwich Village, for crying out loud!)</p>
<p>The majority of college students in almost any university are liberal, and that’s true at NYU as well, but I wouldn’t say it’s overwhelmingly in-your-face liberal. Well I’m from NY originally, but I guess if you’re coming from a small town in the deep South, it might be a bit of a culture shock. Like missamericanpie pointed out, it does attract a lot of artsy types, and it’s easy to stereotype those types as liberal. Then again, Stern Business School also attracts more “white collar” types looking forward to large salaries after graduation 
(that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily conservative either)</p>
<p>I’m fairly moderate, and i’ve never felt uncomfortable here. Whenever a political discussion arises in class, it’s not like everyone takes the liberal point of view, people have different opinions and come from different backgrounds. As for Profs, I’m a Science major and our classes are pretty apolitical so I can’t really say. </p>
<p>NYU is definitely more “socially liberal” or “progessive” though. If you’re the homophobic type, don’t come here please. :)</p>
<p>It’s the nature of higher ed to be a bit liberal, considering that research is about finding new things about the world. Conservatives resist change more than liberals, so the former tend not to be as interested in endeavors where change is expected as a result of increasing knowledge.</p>
<p>We are NOT very liberal.</p>
<p>I’m a republican at NYU. Loving it. Most of my teachers are extremely respectful. And we have more active members than the Democrat Club has. We have scheduled debates with them (don’t know how often they have debates. I know one happened this October or so). We have parties. We are involved with local government republican politicians.
We have great speakers come to talk to us, speakers that have been on FOX, CNN, etc.<br>
We have, in fact, the largest Republican Club in NY (as far as last count I think, which was in September.) There are conservatives here too. You may just not know it unless you ask them.
Email President David Laska for more information. Google NYU Republicans or go to:
[NYU</a> College Republicans - Main Page](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/clubs/republicans/]NYU”>NYU College Republicans | New York NY)
for more information.
You can message me if you want to as well. </p>
<p>As Alex said, the only thing off limits is homophobia, as in any secular school. Our president is for gay marriage. We are affiliated with a pro-gay republican organization that at the moment I forget the name of. The NYU community will not tolerate bigotry in any form.</p>