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<p>Students enjoyed debating ideas. Instead of a conversation about football that you might engage in at some schools, Carleton students talk about some crazy ideas they’ve learned in class. Some students are more comfortable with “confronting” thing than others though…from my experience. Others students might want to chime in about their experiences.</p>
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<p>I see what the comment is getting at. Carleton isn’t an “activist” school like Grinnell might be. There also is a wide range of political beliefs in the students…at least when I was there. There are true conservative students at Carleton. Yes, sometimes people might mistake a conservative for somebody who is complacent, when, in truth, they are very different.</p>
<p>For example, I visited Grinnell when looking at schools. I didn’t like the “activist” culture. I thought it was somewhat of a distraction. For many of the activist issues, I simply didn’t agree…I’m not a liberal.</p>
<p>You’ll see a range of political and religious believes at Carleton. Everything from very liberal to very conservative, and Christian groups to Druids (a religion was founded at Carleton -> <a href=“Reformed Druids of North America - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Druids_of_North_America</a>). I don’t know the first thing about Carleton druids by the way.</p>
<p>The point is that there are a range of ideas and beliefs and generally people are accepting and willing to both talk about and debate their beliefs.</p>