What are the students like at Emory?

el_duque
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:26:01 +0000

Not everything comes back to size, but that word usually comes up when government expansion is in question. Conservatives say the government is inefficient and wasteful, and liberals say they’re afraid of change. However, “change” is the vague/broad term. To say that conservatives resist “change” is narrow-minded. The only way that could be true is if you redefined change to mean what you believe in. And that’s essentially what liberals did. In reality, all politicians do is make laws, or change things. Liberals resist what conservatives try to get done or change just as much as the conservatives resist liberal policies.

Anyway the connection to the OP is that Emory leans left but that doesn’t imply an open-minded campus because they’re not the same thing. For instance, we were debating the health outcomes of the recent reform in class last week. That day only two people believed that the country’s health would not improve because of the reform. Then after the debate, several people had changed their minds to the point where about half actually thought we would not be better off. To me, that was a very open-minded conclusion. They actually considered the other side and decided to change their mind. But they went from a liberal position to a conservative one. Hopefully that illustrates my point clearly enough.