<p>College campuses have always been pretty liberal places. Nothing inherently wrong with that and it doesn’t necessarily make for a hostile environment - but it can. I was conservative even way back in the day on a pretty politically active liberal campus. It wasn’t a particularly bad experience, being in an infinitismally small minority I was more a source of amusement to my friends than anything else. But I think changes in the political make up of the country, conservative political ascendence has really angered and embittered many on the Left. What would only have amused them 30 years ago can enrage them now. Having never in their lifetimes been in the political minority they cannot accept having to defer to the majority.</p>
<p>The House, the Senate, the White House, most governors mansions and half the state legislatures in Republican hands and now the Supreme Court too! The heretofore mainstream media loosing readers and viewers in droves. All that is left of the Left is in the ivy covered halls of academe and they appear to finding it increasingly difficult to accept these political defeats with good humor or good grace.</p>
<p>So yes I can understand someone who would want to go to a school that is a little less in your face liberal than Oberlin or Swarthmore or UW Madison. You can want that without wanting to go to Ku Klux Klan U.</p>