dawritingmachine

When I visited UCLA, I did not notice that it's a "liberal" school, which was what I've been told. To what extent is UCLA active in politics? To what extent are they liberal?

Compare the political atmosphere to other schools. Are conservatives frowned upon and are unpopular? Are they still accepted if they speak their views? Should conservatives remain quiet?

Also, about what proportion of the students are non heterosexual? Are those people noticeable? How do they fit in with the straight students?

Are there any good and bad stereotypes of specific groups of people (ex: athletes, ethnicity, sexual orientation)?

Changeling

I'm centre-right, so I'd hope it won't be a problem =P But if not, then me =D

peanutgallery

As far as college politics go, UCLA is pretty average. When you get this many people of the same age group together, it's bound to skew left a bit.
Conservative views (especially of the social sphere) are definitely less popular, but still quite prevalent and accepted.

namaste

Well I think UCLA is pretty conservative. Granted its no Midwestern school or even USC, but it's definately not filled with liberals. Although it does lean left, you can easily find many many Christians and conservatives, far more than I'm used to. IN THE CLASSROOM, conservatives should stay quiet, your liberal teachers might get ****ed.

Large and powerful homosexual community, that assimilates well with the heterosexual population.

Athletes are athletes. I hate to be stereotypical but I've had classes with several and those ones weren't into school. They have free tutoring and cheat sheets to help them through the class, and they even told me they dont want to be there, they are athletes first, not students (this is in 4 different classes).