<p>Which colleges are the most accepting of controversial/fringe ideas? I realize many colleges lean towards liberal attitudes, but that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking about colleges at which a person would be seriously hard-pressed to be the most freakish, revolutionary, fringe-interested, or politically unhinged. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Wesleyan, Bard, and Hampshire should all be good.</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence, Pitzer, NYU, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>Also: Antioch, Reed, Oberlin, Earlham, Evergreen State</p>
<p>add another vote for the People's Republic of Berkeley</p>
<p>Eugene Lang</p>
<p>I echo Eugene Lang. Just <em>looking</em> at the "profiled students" in their literature just screams counterculture. I've heard that if you're not a Marxist, your professor just might not pass you. ;)</p>
<p>Marlboro, Bennington, Goddard</p>
<p>Thank you all. I'd like to go to a college where I fall somewhere in the middle of the "sick, crazy, and offensive scale". ;p</p>
<p>Well, aren't there different kinds of "sick, crazy, and offensive"? Like there's a difference between an outrageous communist school and an outrageous grunge rock school. I don't think oberlin's "craziness" is the same as berkeley's "craziness" for example (i dunno if that's a good example).</p>
<p>Yeah, I was thinking of that, but at least with this list I'll have a starting point. I can look into the various types of crazy... I've thought before that Berkeley sounds about right because of what I've heard about some of their students, but I really don't know seeing as I haven't visited.</p>
<p>My votes go to Oberlin, Skidmore, Bard, and Eugene Lang</p>
<p>Good luck on your search!</p>
<p>I think that some of the schools listed here are a little "tame" for the OP...but nothing wrong with looking at them.</p>
<p>Add Evergreen State College to your search.</p>
<p>Are you joking? What could be more "sick, crazy and offensive" than some of the things that go on at Duke and other schools like that? At most of the schools listed above, the political bent is one of wanting to improve the world and the social ethic is quite egalitarian. If you want sick and crazy go to the schools full of drinking games and date rape.</p>
<p>Bigredmed: Which schools here do you think are a bit tame? I imagine those ones won't work for me because I'm looking for one where I can honestly blend into the crowd of strangeness -- not one where I'll just be tolerated.</p>
<p>allthosethings: I wouldn't joke about my beliefs being sick, crazy, and offensive except for the fact that I've constantly been told how sick, crazy, and offensive I am for disagreeing with a bunch of sheeple. Humor is healing, yeah? So, yes, I'm doing a rather dry parody when I call my beliefs sick or crazy.</p>
<p>Bard
Hampshire
Sarah Lawrence
Warren Wilson
Evergreen State College
Bennington
Oberlin
New College of Florida
Reed
Eugene Lang/The New School
Wesleyan
Vassar
Pitzer
UC Santa Cruz
Emerson
Marlboro
Macalester
College of the Atlantic
Grinnell
Colorado College
NYU</p>