How liberal are students at Oberlin?

mchs
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:53:21 +0000

My son, who’s a rising junior, expresses a lot of the same concerns as shennie’s son. he feels a lot of the kids are very dogmatic and cling to a lot of knee-jerk liberal positions, without really ever being challenged. If anything, he thinks oberlin needs more conservative students to mix things up a bit. That said, I would agree that someone who is intolerant of the gay community may not find much support there. Tolerance is a big value at oberlin.