<p>I'm planning to join the CUCR this fall, and I'm wondering what happens to Republicans on campus. Since the campus is mostly liberal, are Republicans ostracized by fellow students/professors?</p>
<p>They're hanged, drawn and quartered.</p>
<p>At least we're not going to be ridden out of town on a rail.</p>
<p>"They're hanged, drawn and quartered."</p>
<p>i disagree, a moderate republican who can discuss a grounded thought process behind his or her views can convince many on campus of them. I have done so myself, i have been hanged, drawn and quartered a few times for being an @sshole about certain republican positions (when I let myself be provocative), but otherwise i've had people see the economically conservative side of matters many times, and i've seen others do it on a few social issues, and I know tons of people who say that you have to have a heart without a brain to be completely democratic. most of campus is liberal and many are very liberal, but that doesn't mean republicans aren't around and are prevented from speaking up/ protesting / having events etc. I actually think that with the econ department growing, you have more columbians becoming at least economically moderate/conservative. skraylor too at some point said that his floor was quite mixed, i too have seen many balanced residential floors and organizations.</p>
<p>We laugh at the ridiculousness of our university.</p>
<p>i'm not a republican, but people that are absurdly and narrow-mindedly left-wing in their beliefs drive me crazy. also people who blur the line between criticizing american politics tamely and hating american politics passionately to the point of questionable allegiance.</p>
<p>ahmadinejad, anyone?</p>
<p>Have to disagree with confidentialcoll. While a few Columbia students will be moderately tolerant of economically conservative positions (I prefer to call them classical liberal positions), most of them will tar-and-feather you if you think raising the minimum wage is a bad idea or if you don't want to see your tax dollars go for condom drops in Africa. But if you're a social conservative you're going to be a very small minority at Columbia and people will be very intolerant of your views.</p>
<p>if you explain minimum wage as being bad for business then you get tarred and feathered, if you explain high min wages as causing unemployment, like in france, leading to poor minorities and dissatisfied 2nd generation immigrants, many people are completely sold, likewise if you explain aid in africa as hurting it, using 3 decades of data, as xavier sala-i-martin (very well respected) does in his macro class of 350 every year, people come around. I think columbia has changed a little from your time in this respect. People are still liberal crazy, but adam smith in my CC class was quite well respected, a lot of the implications of his ideas went over people's heads but he was well regarded. I think it's the econ department growing, and 400-500 kids each year studying it and realizing that they need to take their heads out of the clouds. being socially conservative is fine, but advocating socially conservative policies is still frowned upon.</p>
<p>yeah, i would say economically conservative positions are respected, whereas socially conservative positions are probably viewed a little more harshly by the majority.</p>
<p>one of the nice things about columbia, though, is that nobody has time to actually harass you for anything. you can find a group of like-minded individuals and just sit around telling each other how smart you are. try it sometime :)</p>
<p>i've said it before, but really only about 10% of the campus actually cares deeply about politics - on any end of the spectrum. many people are very aware but not very "activist" and are generally tolerant of any point of view that can be defended intelligibly.</p>
<p>confidentialcoll, I was kidding.</p>
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<p>You mean I can believe in border security?????</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Minutemen Protest Storming At Columbia University</p>
<p>ok i mean individual students about their politics. seriously, is your motto "no nit too small to pick"?</p>
<p>"confidentialcoll, I was kidding."</p>
<p>ow i figured, but some people actually worry about columbia being that left wing, which it is not. I personally found brown and nyu to both be more liberal (two colleges that i have visited several times). I'm sure most of the top LACs are also more liberal than columbia is, isn't barnard (or the barnard section of columbia if you want)?</p>
<p>The better question is how a republican could manage to get through the admission screening process.</p>
<p>^Are you serious? The admissions office is that biased? Good thing I didn't mention my political affiliation.</p>
<p>This is a problem you'll find at almost every school...google the nifty documentary "Indoctrinate U"</p>
<p>It has some stuff on Columbia.</p>
<p>Of course it's not to pick on Columbia in particular. As I said, almost every school has these problems. Columbia is simply a target because of its high profile. You guys should be flattered, if anything ;)</p>
<p>Failing that, there is always Penn, where the Wharton School of Capitalism's Huntsman Hall acts as a giant talisman to ward away evil spirits and socialists :)</p>
<p>"The better question is how a republican could manage to get through the admission screening process."</p>
<p>do you have ANY real basis for this at all?</p>
<p>the adcom takes in openly republican kids all the time, the problem is a small percent of high schoolers are actually republican/conservative, and a smaller percentage acutally apply to columbia, knowning that it is a liberal place, professors outside the econ department, and apart from several poli sci profs are very much liberal. But in part, that's academia for you.</p>
<p>"Do you have ANY real basis for this at all?</p>
<p>No, just an apparently wasted attempt at humor.</p>
<p>CCAA:</a> Leftist Anti-Semitism At Columbia</p>
<p>Article 3. "Arab and their sympathizers?"</p>
<p>That's not Republicanism. That's just ignorance....bordering a hell of a lot on gross stupidity.</p>