Is your university liberal or conservative?
 

I was just wondering if your schools were primarily liberal or conservative. Out here in California the students and faculty are mostly liberal. I feel so alone being conservative.

Socialist

Students defintely Liberal/Socialist.... and maybe a few Communists and Anarchists for flavour.

Seriously most if not all Universities in Canada would be considered very liberal by students from the States. It is a little more complicated (isn't everything though) than liberal-conservative.... it all depends on the issue or subject. For example we have two colleges that are Catholic/Anglican and both administrations (and students to a degree) are more conservative socially, although they can be way out in left field on other issues.

However UofT is considered more conservative than other Universities like York or Concordia.... we don't have riots or brawls over Isreal/Palestine.....

We have really large contingents of both liberal liberals and conservative liberals. We see very few real conservatives. Even the four Christan colleges (Catholic, Anglican, United and Mennonite (sp?)) are rather liberal.

But my school is mostly apathetic. No one cares about anything. :(

In Canada, I would think that Queen's and University of Western Ontario are the most conservative, and even then, there are all kinds of socialists. But that may be because the student media give them the most attention. Sometimes I wish that Canadians would be more conservative like some schools in the US. In many ways, we're just getting out of hand! Pray hard Conservative Canadians!

Conservative, though every once-in-a-while there is a liberal push (like the fetish/SDM club that is currently under investigation).

The other school in the state is very liberal.

Oh god no! I can't stand the fact that my university is run by raving socialists, but if they were conservative I think I'd freak out.
Why can't we find a happy medium. Middle of the road liberal. I would like that.

Doesn't York have a large student body who are first generation Canadian? I'd think that their parents being immigrants would have made them more conservative. I'm considered liberal by Chinese Canadian standards (especially those who are religious), but certainly conservative by the mainstream.

Oh for the love of DOG I hope this doesn't happen. I love living in a country where people's civil rights and liberties are taken seriously, not as something to be steamrolled out of political expediency or at the whims of the religious right.

Canada has a beautiful thing going here. Please, please, PLEASE let it stay this way.

I'd have to say conservative.

But I think there were more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Boo... I'd have to say that Kinkfest was one of the more memorable parties of the year so far up here.... if only for the look on a sorority's consultant's face when she saw the girls getting ready for the fun :)

Yes, but sometimes we're so "liberal" that we're bordering on being morally corrupt! I'm praying that the pot laws don't go through and praying that some things seen on CITY-TV are transferred to the Sex Channel on digital cable (or at least Bravo! or Much). While I watch some of these things (namely SATC), I don't think they should be on regular TV. Another problem I have is multiculturalism. It only promotes racism and segregation.

So I am assuming you think the Netherlands is a morally corrupt country?

What if I said yes?

The University of Chicago is arguably the birthplace of the neoconservative movement.

Nonetheless there are a bunch of dirty kids with long dirty hair, acne, sporting hemp accessories, protesting through lies, etc.

-Rudey
--I hope their parents send them a check for those stupid Marxist literary critique classes or whatever they take.

UBC is an interesting one - I would say the student body is leaning towards socialist, however the administration is quite conservative, and there a lot of international students that add to the conservative side. I would say overall it is a very liberal campus - there's a good Canadian-Liberal answer ;)

Just checking.

Undergrad: Very Liberal.
Grad: Liberal, although it has a much more liberal history.

Pretty liberal.

Apathetic.

A few really intense liberals that try and push their views on everyone else, especially through the student newspaper and student organizations, but for the most part no one pays them any mind. In fact....I would say that pretty much no one on this campus pays attention to much of what is going on...

The biggest gathering I've ever seen in the three years I've been here was an anti-war/anti-taco bell protest. Something about not wanting our soldiers to pick tomatoes in Flordia for a dollar a day...:rolleyes: I think the protestors got confused on the issues.

I'd say it's pretty moderate to mildly liberal.

Moderate, tad to the left.

Most students are apathetic conservatives but there is a strong liberal presence on campus.

Definitely conservative! Hello!! It's in the Bible Belt!

Liberal

I'd say apathetic/moderate.

There's obviously some pretty liberal kids, and it shows when IVCF tries to appeal to them by advertising talks about PORN and HOW TO HAVE SEX. But at the same time, a lot of the kids are pretty conservative. Mostly, no one gives a crap.

Although the university President is hardcore Republican.

Wake Forest is Pretty conservative--for the past four years in a row the commencement speaker has been a prominent Republican Politician/Supportor (Barbara Bush, John McCain, Michael Bloomburg, this year Colin Powell). Its kind of hard because most liberal ideas here are labeled as unAmerican or treated as some infectous diease...

Washington and Lee
 

is annually rated one of the most conservative schools in the nation. We received an award last year from the Republican Party for having the largest per capital Young Republican club--60% of the student body belongs to Young Republicans; it's the largest organization on campus.

That said, I'm an unabashedly progressive femi-nazi. :D There is a large and vocal liberal minority here due to the political inclinations of many students. And the professors are mostly all liberals.

the professors at your school are liberal, na get outta here.

Rio=Conservative. *blah*

Student body: Apathetic with strong polarizing arch-conservative and arch-liberal forces. But the student papers are run by liberals so liberal views are seen the most while the conservatives get tarred by the College Republowicans rather out there and sometimes racist views. I'm personally a moderate conservative so I get it from both sides.

Professors: Very extreme liberal

Administration: Moderate Liberal

Ditto. The Baptist Collegiate Ministry is a HUGE force on LSU's campus.

Nonetheless, its a party school. Gays or abortion is bad, but drinking and sex are fine.

So in these schools lots of kids go at it and i'm sure girls HAVE to get pregnant. Do they sorta run away and get an abortion out of state so nobody knows or what?

-Rudey

Hmmm probably! :) Louisana has a large Catholic population :)

Actually, our highest rate of unwed pregnancies comes from inner cities, where Catholicism isn't the predominant religion.

Most people just have the babies and become a drain on the state.

my school was funny. We were in a very liberal city so other univeristies like it (we're a Jesuit school) consider us very liberal.

But the rest of the city looks at us like we're Republican Central.

Its all perception, I guess.

liberal, thank god, although our damn newspaper is being taken over by the conservatives. i saw they should all ship outta town.

I only knew of 1 girl the whole time I was in school who got pregnant...she went back home and got married. She lost the baby and had the marriage annulled. There were rumors that she was never pregnant to begin with...I don't know though. I think she may have come back to school...but I don't really remember, I didn't know her. She was in a good sorority too. You don't really hear about girls getting pregnant much though.

IU is a pretty liberal school, although there is a vocal conservative presence. Bloomington is considered an oasis of liberalism in an arch-conservative state.