Wake Forest and Conservatism

Thanks to everyone for the frank responses. I’m quite impressed with my initial visit to this forum as my experience with MANY other forums is far less … well … mature :wink:

“Part of the collegiate experience is being exposed to different perspectives and philosophy, conservatism included. I find it kind of strange that you are concerned about a university not being liberal enough considering colleges across the US are a progressive stronghold.”

The previous response was particularly thought rousing for me. Adam makes an excellent point. Part of my baseline is that as a father I’m going to be cautious and (over) protective and I think that instinct would tend to influence my position in representing this topic of concern. I’m less concerned with finding a liberal student body than I am about how a student body “accepts” others that may not be from a similar background. No doubt some of my concerns are rather naive and somewhat driven by false stereotypes.

As I consider the question and the responses, I guess my “perfect campus” would be one where the student body is dominated by centrist sentiment. How the heck one makes such a determination is certainly beyond my understanding.

If a student body is radically conservative or liberal, radically being the keyword I would liken to “unaccepting”, I would suspect that such “exposure to different perspectives and philosophy” might not lead to a comfortable college experience. That’s more to what my question is about. Likely I didn’t make that particularly clear.

In some other “college forums” that I visited, there was clear and significant opinion regarding WF’s “strong lean” towards conservatism. Whether that was the voice of an inflamed and motivated few (as someone noted) or a true depiction of the student body at WF is why I posted here.