<p>The Williams Record has a long article on this topic this week:</p>
<p>[Crosscurrents</a> of conservatism make way across liberal campus | The Williams Record](<a href=“thewilliamsrecord.com”>thewilliamsrecord.com)</p>
<p>I do note that a number of successful / prominent conservatives have attended Williams, in addition to Blatt (founder of Gay Patriot, mentioned in the article), they include William Bennett, Wendy Shalit, Daniel Drezner, Arne Carlson, Jason Poling, Walker Stapleton, David Kensinger, and Jeffrey Sutton, most of whom were involved in conservative activism while on campus. </p>
<p>Like all northeast colleges, Williams is and will likely always be overwhelmingly liberal. Part of the issue is that conservatives with the intellectual ability to become college professors are far more likely to choose more lucrative private sector opportunities than liberals. Part is the geographic location in one of the most liberal states. Part is that college-aged people, particularly those attending elite academic institutions, tend to be far more liberal than the mean, nationally. But so far as I have seen, there has always been a small but vibrant conservative student presence on campus, and the campus frequently invites conservative speakers to provide a balanced perspective. That doesn’t mean there will be many Republicans on campus, necessarily, especially as the party moves further and further to the extreme right (particularly on social issues), but there will always be plenty of classic small-government conservatives.</p>