<p>“The c/l distinction is so slippery it is hard to get much traction on it without carefully defining what you mean first. To me, it’s an odd set of criteria that would lump Chicago and Brigham Young together at one end of the spectrum, then identify Middlebury College as a strong example of the opposite end (as cited by #11).”</p>
<p>Ah, but these schools were considered to be two different types of conservativism. BYU is a socially conservative mormon school. Uchi has had a major fiscally conservative outlook-- and was rated for just being more accepting of the conservative view point. More balanced, if you will. Uchi would be center-right to this book, not the complete spectrum end. </p>
<p>That being said, I only used the book in question because I had actually picked it up and read it for about an hour. I don’t honestly agree with the men who wrote the book, but the heart of things I found to be true: Many to most schools are center-left- have nods to civic obligation, liberal clubs, or liberal(ish) teachers or speakers- and some are center-right. Both center-left and center-right show the other sides generally speaking and extreme right or left schools do tend to have certain markers of their political outlooks. </p>
<p>Not many extreme right schools will have a Gay and Lesbian studies class was the gist of it. (Not all left schools do either.) As my mother pointed out-- Is is Berkley, where the first thing that comes to mind is anti-war protests? Or is it a Ministry school? </p>
<p>Most places fall somewhere in the middle- and political climates change. I wouldn’t worry about it too much OP unless you have a specific belief whereupon you want to participate in groups of students with similar beliefs. Then I’d look at the student activities center to see if they have some similar group. :)</p>