is berkely all that liberal?

GoldenBear10
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:30:00 +0000

“Agan, I’d be curious to see how many seniors identify as liberal, moderate and conservative, in comparison to the Freshmen.”

I havent seen any data specific to Berkeley students, however it has been proven in many surveys of students in universites across the nation that college has a liberalizing effect on an individual. When they survey students in each year (freshman, soph, junior, etc.), they notice a pattern of students becoming more liberal. Thus, i would assume that the seniors at Cal are more liberal than the incoming freshmen, as opposed to your assumption of the opposite.