Perspectives of a Freshman

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Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:44:43 +0000

Slushy -

While I agree with Cranberry that your beliefs will be constantly challenged, I don’t think that means you will be uncomfortable unless you don’t like having to defend your beliefs. If that’s true, you probably won’t fit at Pomona regardless of what those beliefs are. Someone who is culturally conservative, as in not OK with drinking, hooking up, gay people, etc. might be uncomfortable as well.

However, Pomona’s most active organization, the Pomona Student Union, is dedicated to challenging the dominant viewpoints on campus in large part by bringing conservative speakers to campus. And one of my friends is very conservative and has not felt the need to seek out a conservative friend group. Partly this is because conservatives are indeed a very small minority, but really it’s because in the end most people will accept you regardless of your beliefs. Some extremists won’t, but you won’t want to hang out with them if you’re conservative anyway.