<p>I want to go to USNA...</p>
<p>marines4me, my heart is still set to go to USNA but I hate to say this, I expected more from the people at service academies when it comes to honor and integrity. I'm no way trying to put down the academy and I don't have the right to say anything about it because I'm not there yet. I'm just very dissapointed in the way the some people here at NAPS have been acting. it actually pushed me this far</p>
<p>I think you can find groups of "moral people" which ever college you go to. I think just about every college has religious groups, and if you go to a large enough school you're almost guaranteed to find people like yourself.</p>
<p>This thread from the old forum might be of interest: Conservative</a> Colleges.</p>
<p>Really, usna_reject? Would you mind shooting me an email? I'm interested in hearing about your experiences, if you wouldn't mind.</p>
<p>Well, if moral people still exist, you probably will find them overseas.
Here in America, your best bet is something like BYU or Notre Dame (religiously affiliated). Texas A&M, however, is not religiously affiliated and is a very good school and is really conservative. I should know. I live in this crumby town!</p>
<p>ZZ3</p>
<p>P.S. At A&M, the school revolves around a) football and b) tradition. Tradition=our corps of cadets, which have been around since A&M was an all-male school. They still live on strict honor and discipline codes and are much revered by the rest of the student body. Did I mention the scholarship? Just a thought for you marine/navy guys.</p>
<p>I went up to visit Notre Dame for a weekend, and I have to say, I was expecting a lot more morals than I saw. Then again, it is a college campus. I guess I was expecting Catholics everywhere, but EVERYONE was drinking. I didn't feel pressured to drink, though I was asked several times. In fact, I played a drinking game, but with water. :) I'm pretty Catholic. Let's see... I was tackled 3 times that night, proposed to twice, and played a drinking game once. It was fun, though. :)</p>
<p>I could get into a whole Nietzschean diatribe about what morality really is. But I won't.</p>
<p>Just curious---and this question is open to everybody---what are the characteristics of a "moral" person? I think that 40 years ago, most Americans could say with frank certainty what constituted "morality". Nowadays, about the only taboo still widely agreed upon is, murder (and even the definition of "murder" is being hotly debated in some quarters).</p>
<p>I think there are moral people at every university/college - you just have to find them. </p>
<p>But as anecdotal evidence, the most 'moral' person I know (by which I mean a true gentleman in every situation) goes to Georgetown.</p>
<p>Many people don’t understand morality. To me, as a student of multiple religions and atmospheres, I feel that everyone has the basics (i.e don’t cheat, decency), I think what separates more moral individuals from others is their sexual reservedness, something which used to be socially repugnant but is now gaining approval.
BTW Haverford has an ‘honor code.’ Right, just make sure you parents are multi-millionaires and you have a waspy name. That goes for Swath too.</p>
<p>Reed College governs itself with an Honor Code.</p>
<p>
Oh, the irony.</p>
<p>Stop bumping old threads, your own thread got enough responses.</p>
<p>I find colleges with strong conservative and/or religious values that impinge on the freedom of inquiry and discussion to be the among most immoral places I know. Students’ primary task in college is to become critical thinkers, and many conservative / religious colleges prevent this process, while reinforcing their own authority and misleading graduates into thinking that they have educational skills that the larger world will embrace.</p>
<p>In the 50s and 60s, William H. Perry developed his ground-breaking model of the intellectual and cognitive development of college-age students. The model follows the development of students’ critical thinking skills through nine phases that can be summarized as follows:</p>
<p>1 - The authorities know.
2 - The true authorities are right, the others are frauds.
3 - There are some uncertainties and the authorities are working on them to find the truth.
4(a) - Everyone has a right to their own opinion.
4(b) - The authorities don’t want the right answers. They want us to think in certain ways.
5 - Everything is relative but not equally valid.
6 - You have to make your own decisions.
7 - First commitment
8 - Multiple Commitments
9 - Believe your own values, respect others, be ready to learn.</p>
<p>Some of the schools cited early in this thread refuse to allow their students to move beyond stage 2 or 3. I can think of nothing more immoral than filling a young person with bias-filled judgment and intolerance while telling him or her that their intolerance is the hallmark of a truly “educated” person.</p>
<p>^^ Yeah that, GADAD.</p>
<p>updated for today:</p>
<p>1) whatever your parents believe</p>
<p>2) communism
3) libertarianism
OR
2) libertarianism
3) communism</p>
<p>4a) moderate liberalism
4b) moderate conservatism</p>
<p>Why in the world would you pull up a 5 year old thread when you already have one going on the same topic???</p>
<p>gadad,
The MSM would never allow the truth to get out, but true conservatives are at # 9.</p>
<p>ORAL Roberts.</p>
<p>YES.</p>
<p>Some moral values are going down, unfortunately:
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