Top 10 Most Politically Conservative Colleges
My alma mater.
But the description given here is that the school is Christian, like say, Bringham Young. It's not, or rather, the students are Christian in upbringing, but it's not discussed or even argued about, if you deviate from Christianity.
Most of the guys just want to drink a beer and hang out.
Any fellow HSC alums want to disagree?
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4 Comments:
I suppose they said that HSC was Christian because of our Presbyterian affiliation. Was it just me, or has that affiliation lost any meaning? When I was there, it simply felt "tacked on." Unless one was in the religion department, the subject was pretty much ignored. People cared much more about which political party one belonged to than religion. Unless you were one of a few who used the college church to "climb the social ladder." *cough*Vordermark*cough*
Honestly, I think the fact that no one truly cared whether or not someone was Christian was due to the laid back nature of HSC. Ah, how I miss thee...
--Johnson
10:35 AM
That was my impression, too: generally laid-back. Well, except for Colley in Rhetoric.
11:27 AM
I'm concerned that the Princeton Review has to categorize the conservative schools as if they were categorizing colleges with good quantum physics departments - both are novelties.
If these ten shcools are the conservative ones, what does that say about the other 200 plus top universities? Isn't that a sad commentary on the diversity of thought on today's college campuses?
4:20 PM
It is sad not simply because of the numbers. Of course my experience is limited having only attended one conservative college and then an ultra-liberal one for grad school, but the former actually promoted different different opinions whereas the latter supressed it at all costs. To possess another viewpoint at the ultraliberal was viewed with moral outrage and met with emotional arguments rather than anything even resembling logic. I'll not say that HSC was a utopia, but the students there never considered a contrary opinion to be a personal affront. Perhaps the rise of the liberal living in the ivory tower has contributed to the ever-increasing shrill cries heard in moral debate (to paraphrase MacIntyre).
--Johnson
6:50 PM
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