<p>sempitern heres a challenge for you: try saying something logical. it might be hard, but ive even heard other liberals do it on occasion.</p>
<p>ok, to finally put to rest the controversy, here is the actual quote from my AP Gov textbook
" studies going back over half a century seem to show that attending college has a big impact on political attitudes, usually making them more liberal. College students are more liberal that the population generally, and students at the most prestigious or selective colleges are the most liberal of all… the level of political information one has is the best single predictor of being liberal. The political disposition of professors is in part the result of the kinds of people who become college teachers, but it is also the result of the nature of intellectual work. Intellectuals require freedom to explore new or unpopular ideas and thus tend to be strong supporters of civil liberties… college students who go on to get a postgraduate degree tend to become more liberal than those who stop with a BA degree"</p>
<p>Finally, there you have it all you reactionaries out there. btw my AP Government Book is "American Government by Wilson and Dilulio, 8th editition. Go check out the facts yourself (chapter 5)</p>
<p>First this post on the Princeton forum…now this post on the Yale forum…what’s your goal? to make sure everyone on cc is aware of your fanaticism? Who do you think you’re convincing with your slanderous remarks? ALL people are inherently fair…unless they’re a “diehard hard core” anything who like to name call. The only way you will truly sway people is if you consider both sides and stop the insults.<br>
I think fairly…therefore I am an openminded human being.</p>
<p>hmm, getting a little hot-headed arent we… just take a deep breath. People have different opinions and your opinion isnt necessarily more qualified than mine or vice versa, I’m just putting forth the quotation and watching to see the reaction.</p>
<p>we were talking about yale being someone’s #1 choice…
how did we get here??</p>
<p>read the posts, serious devolution into politics(though I did have some part in it by talking politics in the 1st place)</p>
<p>Let’s save the political discussions for college (or at least somewhere that isn’t CC). It just doesn’t work that well on internet boards.</p>
<p>you know, strange as it may seem, I do tend to get a little hotheaded when people randomly start ranting about their politics. What did Osama have to do with college?</p>
<p>Haha, I got a bit hotheaded, too–of course, it’s difficult not to when someone tries to start a flame-war on a site most people use to discuss the admissions process. So, back to “college-commiserating” I go…good times. ;)</p>
<p>sempitern, “some part in it” doesnt begin to describe ur involvement in the politicizing of a non-political issue.</p>
<p>also, just because you read what is clearly a vague generalization in your textbook doesnt make it true. you simply cannot apply education to political views, except that more educated people are usually more informed. further, if it were true that education, and not, perhaps, the atmosphere of youthful rebellion on college campuses, was the cause for liberal views, the example would apply worldwide and in all times. just a few examples of where it doesnt- the catholic church in the middle ages and rennaisance, the nobility and orthodox church in tsarist russia at the time of the communist revolution, and the first and second estates in the french revolution.</p>
<p>touche northrams…
though i consider myself a liberal</p>
<p>everything tends liberal in the end :)</p>
<p>just like the election?</p>
<p>I was accepted EA to Yale. </p>
<p>I’m open-minded, liberal here conservative there.</p>
<p>Why attack?
I’d think you would want ideological diversity on campus. I do. I’ve read through this whole post. This is not a dialogue. These are monologues. Talk to not through each other. </p>
<p>Young people, everywhere are more liberal (=libertine) than the population at large. I’d value any true conservatism on campus where it exists and count the blessings it offers through expanding the intellectual universe (university) of the overall monolithic liberalism. Sharpens the mind and helps you not to use ridiculous liberal troupes when clear thinking would have applied.
Politics does not necessarily=culture. Most debates weave in and out without observing the distinction. This one certainly seems to.
talk is cheap=thinking priceless</p>
<p>“there is a direct correlation between education level and degree of liberalism”</p>
<p>anyone who has taken basic logic would know that correlation does not always equal causation. There is also a direct correlation between incident of rape and ice cream sales.</p>
<p>How… comforting.</p>
<p>lol…this thread is all over the wall</p>
<p>ice cream… yum</p>
<p>I’m hoping there wasn’t a hidden message there.</p>
<p>Was “kaleidoscope” supposed to be mispelled as “kalidescope”?</p>