How liberal or conservative are the Virginia colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Washington and Lee have a conservative student body? How about U Richmond? probably a mix there

Washington & Lee isn’t conservative. Not sure why you would think so.

Liberty is right or center. But it also isn’t a real university so.

They still honor the legacy of Robert E. Lee. He and his horse are buried on campus.

Just to be clear, I am talking about Washington & Lee here.

would you prefer that they dug them up?

No kidding. Go look up Yale, Amherst, Stanford and tell me they should be honoring those gems.

Oh for the love.

A few old losers on W&L’s board of trustees are old and extremely racist. That is the only reason Lee is still in the name. The other 99% of the people affiliated with W&L are much more liberal. Not militants, but liberal.

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Anonymous wrote:When I attended university, no one talked about politics although it was a very liberal institution which made me a little uncomfortable at times the way people despised religion. Luckily though politics was in the background. Virginia colleges seemed much more balanced and I wish at times I had attended one of them. Now it seems politics is front and center and very divisive. Are Virginia colleges today more center leaning or do they now have clear political leanings? I'm hoping Virginia colleges are still places where very liberal people to conservative people can attend and feel comfortable.

Grow up.

Stop with the threads about people not being conservative enough or religious enough.

If you want religion in college there are private colleges for that. Otherwise it's comparative religions at a public university. Liberty comes to mind. Sucky education, but religion they got that down.

You don't get to decide how much religion or your ridiculous views get taught at public colleges. JUST LIKE PUBLIC LOWER SCHOOLS>

You seem to have forgotten the USA is made up of people of many religions not just your version of Christianity. Which by the way at this time needs some serious reckoning. Because the Bible says "Thou shall not lie" "thou shall not steal" Yet Trumpers seem just fine with both of those. Hypocrites!

NP. OMG, overreact much? Nothing in the OP called for your hysterical reaction. Clearly, it is you who needs to grow up.

[Anonymous]

UVA is very liberal. UDems is huge there. It’s one of those places where you can just assume everyone is liberal and maybe there’s a few southern sorority/fraternity members who are not but definitely the large minority.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Washington and Lee have a conservative student body? How about U Richmond? probably a mix there

Washington & Lee isn’t conservative. Not sure why you would think so.

Liberty is right or center. But it also isn’t a real university so.

They still honor the legacy of Robert E. Lee. He and his horse are buried on campus.

Just to be clear, I am talking about Washington & Lee here.

would you prefer that they dug them up?

No kidding. Go look up Yale, Amherst, Stanford and tell me they should be honoring those gems.

Oh for the love.

A few old losers on W&L’s board of trustees are old and extremely racist. That is the only reason Lee is still in the name. The other 99% of the people affiliated with W&L are much more liberal. Not militants, but liberal.

You missed the point. W&L is trying very hard to deal with the Lee legacy, which isn’t as simple as you think. No one seems to hold other schools accountable for their name connections to some pretty gross people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Washington and Lee have a conservative student body? How about U Richmond? probably a mix there

Washington & Lee isn’t conservative. Not sure why you would think so.

Liberty is right or center. But it also isn’t a real university so.

They still honor the legacy of Robert E. Lee. He and his horse are buried on campus.

Just to be clear, I am talking about Washington & Lee here.

would you prefer that they dug them up?

No kidding. Go look up Yale, Amherst, Stanford and tell me they should be honoring those gems.

Oh for the love.

A few old losers on W&L’s board of trustees are old and extremely racist. That is the only reason Lee is still in the name. The other 99% of the people affiliated with W&L are much more liberal. Not militants, but liberal.

You missed the point. W&L is trying very hard to deal with the Lee legacy, which isn’t as simple as you think. No one seems to hold other schools accountable for their name connections to some pretty gross people.

not many schools are named after notorious traitors who fought to prolong slavery

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Washington and Lee have a conservative student body? How about U Richmond? probably a mix there

Washington & Lee isn’t conservative. Not sure why you would think so.

Liberty is right or center. But it also isn’t a real university so.

They still honor the legacy of Robert E. Lee. He and his horse are buried on campus.

Just to be clear, I am talking about Washington & Lee here.

would you prefer that they dug them up?

No kidding. Go look up Yale, Amherst, Stanford and tell me they should be honoring those gems.

Oh for the love.

A few old losers on W&L’s board of trustees are old and extremely racist. That is the only reason Lee is still in the name. The other 99% of the people affiliated with W&L are much more liberal. Not militants, but liberal.

You missed the point. W&L is trying very hard to deal with the Lee legacy, which isn’t as simple as you think. No one seems to hold other schools accountable for their name connections to some pretty gross people.

You missed the point. Cronyism at its finest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I attended university, no one talked about politics although it was a very liberal institution which made me a little uncomfortable at times the way people despised religion. Luckily though politics was in the background. Virginia colleges seemed much more balanced and I wish at times I had attended one of them. Now it seems politics is front and center and very divisive. Are Virginia colleges today more center leaning or do they now have clear political leanings? I'm hoping Virginia colleges are still places where very liberal people to conservative people can attend and feel comfortable.

Grow up.

Stop with the threads about people not being conservative enough or religious enough.

If you want religion in college there are private colleges for that. Otherwise it's comparative religions at a public university. Liberty comes to mind. Sucky education, but religion they got that down.

You don't get to decide how much religion or your ridiculous views get taught at public colleges. JUST LIKE PUBLIC LOWER SCHOOLS>

You seem to have forgotten the USA is made up of people of many religions not just your version of Christianity. Which by the way at this time needs some serious reckoning. Because the Bible says "Thou shall not lie" "thou shall not steal" Yet Trumpers seem just fine with both of those. Hypocrites!

NP. OMG, overreact much? Nothing in the OP called for your hysterical reaction. Clearly, it is you who needs to grow up.

NO I am tired of conservatives thinking every college needs to meet their specific needs. They do not. The object of college is to get out and get a job. Ultra conservative views do not belong in public colleges. You want that head to religious private colleges. That is what they are for.

Send your kid to a school like Liberty and see what kind of education they get. Garbage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't Washington and Lee have a conservative student body? How about U Richmond? probably a mix there

Washington & Lee isn’t conservative. Not sure why you would think so.

Liberty is right or center. But it also isn’t a real university so.

They still honor the legacy of Robert E. Lee. He and his horse are buried on campus.

Just to be clear, I am talking about Washington & Lee here.

would you prefer that they dug them up?

No kidding. Go look up Yale, Amherst, Stanford and tell me they should be honoring those gems.

Oh for the love.

A few old losers on W&L’s board of trustees are old and extremely racist. That is the only reason Lee is still in the name. The other 99% of the people affiliated with W&L are much more liberal. Not militants, but liberal.

You missed the point. W&L is trying very hard to deal with the Lee legacy, which isn’t as simple as you think. No one seems to hold other schools accountable for their name connections to some pretty gross people.

You missed the point. Cronyism at its finest.

That’s not cronyism, moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

Read the wiki: It's CONSERVATIVE BAPTISM, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION. Lots of different political views on campus. You are conflating religion and politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

What are you talking about? I was discussing the quality and offering of classes, not Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

The number of students who go to Liberty but have test scores to go to Brown is small. This is, to large extent, orthogonal how well Liberty does at education. The important metric is value add.

For what it's worth, Liberty has "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation" as a followup to "Differential Equations". Someone uploaded notes for DiffEq at Liberty a while back; looks reasonable to me, though it's been a long long time since I've been doing higher math. https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/liberty-university/differential-equations/lecture-notes/lecture-notes-lecture-laplace-transforms-of-discontinous-periodic-functions/740498/view

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from Liberty if want them to be educated.

Otherwise all public colleges are good.

Kevin Roose, in "The Unlikely Disciple", did a semester at Liberty (average SAT score: ~1070) from Brown (average SAT score: ~1470), and claims to have worked hard and received a mix of As and Bs, which speaks rather well for them.

Liberty is a joke, I'd rather send my kids to trade school. I remember one semester at Brown with stochastic differential equations, inequality with Glenn Loury, and history with Vorenburg and crying myself to sleep. I'm not sure Liberty has any serious applied math courses. Liberty also doesn't hold a candle to Brown even in religious studies. I was lucky to take a class with Zaman before he went to Princeton.

Uh, OK, and Liberty is just one school out of 5,000. Get a grip. Also, you seem to equate Trumpism with Liberty, which is very bizarre. Liberty is a PRIVATE EVANGELICAL School. It has no political bent. I know liberals there. If a parent wants the private evangelical experience for their child - like a Catholic might want a Catholic experience - then they choose it. But it's not about politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

Liberty has no political bent - I hope that’s sarcasm

Read the wiki: It's CONSERVATIVE BAPTISM, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION. Lots of different political views on campus. You are conflating religion and politics.

The president of the school endorsed trump, it’s a conservative school based on a conservative version of a religion that is really only comparable with conservative political views