<p>I hate to be stereotypical, but I think the nature of Rose-Hulman being a math, science and engineering school and its location make it prone to ‘political lethargy’, as nic767 put it. I am in no way to box Rose-Hulman before I have spent time there, but I personally would not imagine it to be a very politically active school from those 2 aspects. There probably are active people in the political process, but I would say the environment fosters that necessarily (and that isn’t a bad thing).</p>