Anonymous wrote:I recommend Princeton. There has always been at least a small group of conservative students there, and Professor Robert George is a model of civil discourse. Even as a well-known conservative professor, he seems to be respected by all.

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury will never have trouble filling its classes with talented young people.

And it's stupid to think that that's the only campus where young people would've responded to Charles Murray like that.

Wrong on both counts. Middlebury will go the way of Occidental College, which went too liberal and now has a 46.5% acceptance rate. Parents won't be willing to pay $65,000 for that kind of nonsense. Some might but most parents won't. As to Charles Murray, you obviously haven't read his works or met him or you wouldn't be making such bigoted remarks.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out there in DCUM-land, what has your student experienced or observed on campus with respect to openness to, or at least tolerance of, conservative opinions?

Here ya go: https://www.niche.com/colleges/rankings/most-conservative-colleges/

I am a graduate of Texas A&M and can attest to its place on that list.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out there in DCUM-land, what has your student experienced or observed on campus with respect to openness to, or at least tolerance of, conservative opinions?

Here ya go: https://www.niche.com/colleges/rankings/most-conservative-colleges/

I am a graduate of Texas A&M and can attest to its place on that list.

Yikes! I'm an Aggie too. Do you really think A&M is more conservative than Oral Roberts and SMU?
Of course, I graduated almost 20 years ago, so I suppose things have probably changed since then.

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury will never have trouble filling its classes with talented young people.

And it's stupid to think that that's the only campus where young people would've responded to Charles Murray like that.

Wrong on both counts. Middlebury will go the way of Occidental College, which went too liberal and now has a 46.5% acceptance rate. Parents won't be willing to pay $65,000 for that kind of nonsense. Some might but most parents won't. As to Charles Murray, you obviously haven't read his works or met him or you wouldn't be making such bigoted remarks.

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury will never have trouble filling its classes with talented young people.

And it's stupid to think that that's the only campus where young people would've responded to Charles Murray like that.

Wrong on both counts. Middlebury will go the way of Occidental College, which went too liberal and now has a 46.5% acceptance rate. Parents won't be willing to pay $65,000 for that kind of nonsense. Some might but most parents won't. As to Charles Murray, you obviously haven't read his works or met him or you wouldn't be making such bigoted remarks.

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Anonymous wrote:What we define as "conservative opinions" today are very rare on college campuses or university towns and always have been. Intellectuals, historically, have always been liberal thinkers.
That said, a good person will be accepted by good people anywhere. If your kid is a bigot, like so many Conservatives, he will likely have a very difficult time in college.

I agree with this 100%. "A good person will be accepted by good people." And universities and colleges have historically been liberal.

Where are people finding fault with this post? Not all conservatives are bigots but all bigots are conservatives.

This is sooo not true.

- lifelong liberal

PaleoConPrep wrote:As DCUMs arch-conservative anti-egalitarian Monarchist, here's what id say to conservative parents. Don't send your kid to a school that's too "conservative" or to liberal. Most of the schools that call themselves "conservative" today are just bastions of Neoconservatism. The main issue with these so-called conservative colleges is that they're way too focused on politics for my liking. Let's use Hillsdale as an example. It's advertised on all of the NeoCon talk shows( Limbaugh, Levin, Hanuty, etc) and seems to only invite NeoCons to speak there. They may invite a few Libertarians, but never someone who is truly on the Right.( Pat Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, John Derbyshire, etc) Hillsdale has statues of Reagan, Thatcher, and Churchill (all Saints of Neoconservatism) on its campus. Patrick Henry and Grove City are similar. I'd avoid these places unless you want your kid to be lectured by NeoCons for 4 years. I wanted to attend a college that would give me a strong classical education, not one that would lecture me on "American exceptionalism", the greatness of democracy, and the wonders of the free-market. A truly "conservative" college would be like what Oxford and Cambridge were in 1800. Christian, aristocratic, and devoted to the study of the Classics. No such college exists today. Look for a place where the primary goal is education, not Left-wing or NeoCon indoctrination. With mainstream colleges, you need to make sure the faculty is sane. There needs to be a good number of conservatives on the faculty. Whether the student body is Liberal or conservative does not matter. You can avoid students who are militant SJWs. If the faculty is Leftist, then conservative stdents will have a hard time. They're the ones who are going to be teaching and grading you. That's why I wouldn't go to a place like Reed.( even though the environment is really intellectual) Not only are the students Liberal, but it's faculty is overwhelmingly Liberal as well. A conservative can't survive at a place like that. When I was looking for a college, I was really looking for four things.
1. A college with an intellectual environment where EDUCATION is the primary focus( not sports, politics, social justice, or vocational training)
2. A college that would give me a strong classical education rooted in the Western canon.
3. A college where Right-wing views are tolerated, and where people with different political/religious views can co-exist.
4. A college with at least a few conservatives on its faculty
The only college I found that met all of these requirements is St. John's College in Annapolis. I'm headed there this fall.

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Anonymous wrote:What we define as "conservative opinions" today are very rare on college campuses or university towns and always have been. Intellectuals, historically, have always been liberal thinkers.
That said, a good person will be accepted by good people anywhere. If your kid is a bigot, like so many Conservatives, he will likely have a very difficult time in college.

I agree with this 100%. "A good person will be accepted by good people." And universities and colleges have historically been liberal.

Where are people finding fault with this post? Not all conservatives are bigots but all bigots are conservatives.

This is sooo not true.

- lifelong liberal

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury will never have trouble filling its classes with talented young people.

And it's stupid to think that that's the only campus where young people would've responded to Charles Murray like that.

Wrong on both counts. Middlebury will go the way of Occidental College, which went too liberal and now has a 46.5% acceptance rate. Parents won't be willing to pay $65,000 for that kind of nonsense. Some might but most parents won't. As to Charles Murray, you obviously haven't read his works or met him or you wouldn't be making such bigoted remarks.

Can't say for sure it will go the way of Occidental. But definitely not going to pay $65,000 for what I saw happening via media but more importantly by what I read from the professor who was attacked (see the NYT article she wrote).

PaleoConPrep wrote:As DCUMs arch-conservative anti-egalitarian Monarchist, here's what id say to conservative parents. Don't send your kid to a school that's too "conservative" or to liberal. Most of the schools that call themselves "conservative" today are just bastions of Neoconservatism. The main issue with these so-called conservative colleges is that they're way too focused on politics for my liking. Let's use Hillsdale as an example. It's advertised on all of the NeoCon talk shows( Limbaugh, Levin, Hanuty, etc) and seems to only invite NeoCons to speak there. They may invite a few Libertarians, but never someone who is truly on the Right.( Pat Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, John Derbyshire, etc) Hillsdale has statues of Reagan, Thatcher, and Churchill (all Saints of Neoconservatism) on its campus. Patrick Henry and Grove City are similar. I'd avoid these places unless you want your kid to be lectured by NeoCons for 4 years. I wanted to attend a college that would give me a strong classical education, not one that would lecture me on "American exceptionalism", the greatness of democracy, and the wonders of the free-market. A truly "conservative" college would be like what Oxford and Cambridge were in 1800. Christian, aristocratic, and devoted to the study of the Classics. No such college exists today. Look for a place where the primary goal is education, not Left-wing or NeoCon indoctrination. With mainstream colleges, you need to make sure the faculty is sane. There needs to be a good number of conservatives on the faculty. Whether the student body is Liberal or conservative does not matter. You can avoid students who are militant SJWs. If the faculty is Leftist, then conservative stdents will have a hard time. They're the ones who are going to be teaching and grading you. That's why I wouldn't go to a place like Reed.( even though the environment is really intellectual) Not only are the students Liberal, but it's faculty is overwhelmingly Liberal as well. A conservative can't survive at a place like that. When I was looking for a college, I was really looking for four things.
1. A college with an intellectual environment where EDUCATION is the primary focus( not sports, politics, social justice, or vocational training)
2. A college that would give me a strong classical education rooted in the Western canon.
3. A college where Right-wing views are tolerated, and where people with different political/religious views can co-exist.
4. A college with at least a few conservatives on its faculty
The only college I found that met all of these requirements is St. John's College in Annapolis. I'm headed there this fall.

Anonymous wrote:My DDs history professor told her yesterday that all Christians that did not live on the coastal democratic zone were creationists.