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This is very true, for the *right<a href=“no%20pun”>/i</a> kind of conservative student. FountainSiren, for example, will take no prisoners wherever she goes, having the confidence and rhetorical skills that she does. Others, however, might be disheartened to find themselves in a situation where their beliefs are considered by many to be beyond discussion, and thus intimidated into silence. The “critical mass” argument used in AA discussions–a requisite size that a given “community” needs to reach in order for its members to feel a part of the larger community–would seem to be equally relevant in this regard. You know, you wouldn’t want the other students saying things like “conservatives are just mean” or “you belong at Ku Klux Klan U.”</p>
<p>The OP would do well to spend some time perusing the web site of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. <a href=“http://thefire.org/[/url]”>http://thefire.org/</a></p>
<p>And, of course, the degree of politicization varies wildly from campus to campus. As I’ve said, I’ve found Williams to be rather apolitical, and that when they have hot-button issues pop up, they’re discussed heatedly, but maturely. I have two friends and a relative on the faculty at Wesleyan, where, I’m told, the student body has gone far to the left of an already very left wing faculty, and it’s created issues for some professors in the classroom.</p>