<p>The terms conservative and liberal dont lend easily to definition. </p>
<p>Immigration. If youre an economic conservative, then you will be pro-immigration cause it provides cheap labor for small and big businesses. If youre a cultural conservative, then you will be against immigration. </p>
<p>Centralized power: If youre a classic conservative, you will be in favor of small and unobtrusive government. If youre a religious conservative, you will want the government to insinuate itself in such personal matters as how to define marriage and reproductive issues.</p>
<p>Foreign Affairs: If you are a conservative/isolationist then you want to avoid getting involved with other countries. On the other hand, look at the current “conservative” administration wanting to spread freedom/ democracy everywhere.</p>
<p>If, by conservative, you mean HC values community and a tradition long forgotten of people respectfully communicating with each other and taking responsibility for themselves and for each other (collectivism a la Little house on the Prairie), then I guess HC has conservative/traditional views. However, such an It takes a village mentality, according to some conservatives, is next to communism.</p>
<p>If you mean social conservatism, then, as Archermom pointed out, HC is moderate for LAC standards and freaking liberal when compared to American society. For example, HC was one of the 1st colleges (along with Hampshire and Wesleyan) to allow F/M roommate options because the same-gender policy was considered heterosexist. While this policy wasnt controversial @ HC and barely made it as a headline in the Bi-co, the change was covered nationally on CNN and also by several other colleges including Dartmouth, Yale and Swat.</p>