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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bigger the school the more diffuse the politically-minded kids will be. At a big school, the activists are a small group relative to the size of the student body, and you will likely have activists on all parts of the political spectrum. But, you can avoid them entirely because there will be far more kids who are not into politics. Big sports schools, big Greeks schools also will make it easy to avoid the wonky activists.[/quote]

The bigger the more apathetic, you mean. The bigger the more the dopey football team matters and very few even care about politics, which should matter. [/quote]

Interesting seems my previous response was removed so here it is again.  Please tell us why a young person attending college should care about politics, intelligent responses only you dolt.[/quote]

Because, even in an authoritarian society, the primary purpose of a selective university is to prepare top students to help run society, whether as public officials or simply as voters and civic-minded citizens.

When students from the DC area, of all places, treat selective colleges and universities as places to learn the PowerPoint skills to prepare investment banking deal slidedecks, or to learn enough about coding to turn slidedecks into phone apps, and not to become educated citizens, then they're smothering those schools' ability to educate citizens, and, ultimately, eroding those schools' ability to provide high-level career prep.

Certainly, a good college or university should teach the students how to participate in discussions with people with a wide range of political views.

But, if a school is really encouraging the students to be apathetic about politics, then it's preparing the students to be cogs in the society machine, not to help run the machine.

Another reason for college and university students to be care about politics is that politics shapes their lives.

Federal and state governments affect how much college costs, how much financial is available, how much of the aid comes in the form of loans, whether the professors will die of Covid, whether terrorist loons will attack, what kinds of lab tech positions are available, where a college can build new buildings, and whether students or recent graduates will be drafted.

Finally, students can have a practical effect on policy, by voting, writing letters, going to protests, attending meetings with public officials, working as legislative aides, and working as interns or employees for advocacy organizations. Most of the time, that kind of activity will have no clear effect on policy. Sometimes, student activism activity will have a big effect. You never know. You do what you can do and hope fate is kind.  [/quote]

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