<p>Fit with the prevailing campus culture is a necessary factor in LAC matriculation decisions. And not everybody will fit with every prevailing campus culture. Oberlin may not appeal equally to everyone, but I’m pretty sure its appeal transcends the somewhat pejorative descriptor used above. It’s a good school, with many good programs, and many nice kids attend there no doubt. Many kids I met there are well grounded, not preppy or stuck up, and interested in intellectual pursuits and politics. They are nice kids, I like them. There are some characters too, I suppose.</p>
<p>But not everybody has to like it. Which does not mean others won’t.</p>
<p>If person #1 doesn’t like what he sees, then maybe he’ll describe something , from his own perspective as “going too far”, or whatever. But that perspective may reflect as much on his own set of values as it does on the prevailing campus culture. Someone else looking at the same thing may have no issues with it, and still others may love it. Perhaps those people might have a negative view of the atmosphere at the college that person #1 loves best.</p>
<p>And, naturally, the ones who don’t like it are less likely to attend, which is as it should be. Evidently there are enough who don’t find it distressing, the kids I’ve met who go there affirmatively wanted it.</p>
<p>No sense calling people names, even if some of them actually do have some values and priorities that are a bit different than yours. Which may not even be so hugely the case.</p>