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phigamucsb 02-16-2004 03:00 PM

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.

Lady Pi Phi 02-16-2004 03:09 PM

Socialist

RACooper 02-16-2004 04:53 PM

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.....

kappaloo 02-16-2004 05:05 PM

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. :(

Taualumna 02-16-2004 05:06 PM

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!

ISUKappa 02-16-2004 05:07 PM

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.

Lady Pi Phi 02-16-2004 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
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!
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.

Taualumna 02-16-2004 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by RACooper


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

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.

Sistermadly 02-16-2004 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
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!
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.

Kevin 02-16-2004 08:14 PM

I'd have to say conservative.

But I think there were more registered Democrats than Republicans.

RACooper 02-16-2004 08:23 PM

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

Taualumna 02-16-2004 08:29 PM

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Originally posted by Sistermadly
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.

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.

Lady Pi Phi 02-16-2004 09:18 PM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
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?

Taualumna 02-16-2004 09:50 PM

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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
So I am assuming you think the Netherlands is a morally corrupt country?
What if I said yes?

Rudey 02-16-2004 09:56 PM

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.


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