<p>@johnwesley:</p>
<p>What do you think of this assessment?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11931190-post18.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11931190-post18.html</a></p>
<p>I happen to like the framework for how the campus community dynamics get defined: communitarian v. libertarian. I think it’s a useful framework for addressing the age-old question: “Will I be an outcast because my politics may differ from the more widely vocalized political vibe on campus?”</p>
<p>This poster, on another forum, is under the impression that Wesleyan is tilted communitarian (basically, that it’s more important to be engaged as part of the community). I had very much the opposite impression of Wesleyan…while agreeing with his assessment of Swarthmore being more communitarian than libertarian and Oberlin being more libertarian than communitarian. I only know some Wesleyan grads and spent a day on campus, mostly reading magazines in the admission office waiting area while my son visited classes. The question’s not personally relevant to me (and I doubt my son has been awake nights worried about such things), but it’s still of interest.</p>