<p>I won’t disagree about the importance of sports, although there certainly are people who play only frisbee or quidditch. But Brown and Midd on opposite ends of the liberal–conservative spectrum really seems wrong to me. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most liberal, some southern conservative school would be a 1 or 2 and Brown might be an 8 or 9 with Midd a 7 or 8 right behind it. Obviously there are a lot of environmental activists at Midd and I would guess that the campus was 75% Obama supporters.</p>