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
“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.