Which Universities do you most associate with liberalism?

[mstrsplinter326]

Wisconsin (Madison)

Indiana University

UNC-Ashville

What else?

[The empressof all]

1. Berkley, Columbia........(eom)

[demnan]

2. Berkley, of course

[never_get_over_it]

4. Berkley

really no contest imho

[bluestateguy]

3. Michigan, Cal-Berkeley, UMass

[noiretextatique]

5. university of california

berkeley
los angeles
santa cruz

[Lavender Brown]

6. Are you just looking for universities?

For colleges, there's always Smith, Wellesley, Vassar...

[Webster Green]

7. Sonoma State University

Proud home of Project Censored

http://www.projectcensored.org

[Wickerman]

8. Texas A&M

ha! Sorry. I tried not to do it, but I couldn't help myself.

Great choices already listed.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I'll see your Texas A&M and raise you

George Mason & Pepperdine.

[Wickerman]

11. and will cause you to fold with

The Citadel

:P

[Jackpine Radical]

31. That's cheating.

Nobody told me this was a jokers-wild game.

On second thought, I'll see that Citadel & raise you the School of the Americas.

[salonghorn70]

62. Laughing Out Loud

A liberal agg asks you politely to please not desecrate the hallowed grass of Kyle Field by standing on it. A mainstream agg just tries to stab you with his sword.

A liberal agg says that he doesn't really believe that all all the dead mascots are really watching the score board at Kyle. A main stream agg honestly believes that all the dead mascots are really keeping track of the game and are barking in their graves.

A liberal agg knows where the library is. A mainstream agg doesn't think its worth it to look at the one book.

A liberal agg knows that THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS is the best university in Texas. A mainstream agg knows it but won't admit to it.

A liberal agg knows that there are better places to live than College Station. A mainstream agg still believes that College Station is the center of the Universe and that the sun revolves around College Station.

A liberal agg praises God for the beautiful burnt orange hue that the setting sun has. A mainstream agg curses God for making him an agg.

HOOK 'EM HORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tishaLA]

10. None that you mention, ironically

UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC Santa Cruz
NYU
Harvard
Reed
Swarthmore
Howard

[mstrsplinter326]

17. Some of us don't have the money for harvard

so Wisconsin seems pretty damn liberal to me.

[Buck Rabbit]

21. Reed College

The Reed culture is extraordinary. They call it the “bubble”, some students rarely venturing off the campus for years despite it being nested on three sides by a very liberal community.

My property is on the border of the campus nature preserve. The liberal aura is so powerful that it permeates my house. I wake up each morning with a great distrust of corporate greed and exploitation. Since my wife and I own a corporation and I voted for Kucinich she must be the corporate criminal. I stack a row of pillows between us.

[newyawker99]

52. Hi Buck Rabbit!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[leftyandproud]

12. ALL of them! ;)

especially the social science depts. :) :)

[physioex]

13. You forgot Carolina.....

UNC-Chapel Hill :)

[mrboba1]

15. You betcha!

Jesse Helms' archnemesis!!

[Literate Tar Heel]

16. Go Heels!!!

my alma mater and where John Edwards learned to be one of those big bad "trial lawyers"

[ncrainbowgrrl]

54. Proud to be a tar heel, and even prouder that Carolina is in this thread!

n/t

[SunDrop23]

55. Yes. UNC-Chapel Hill!

Proud to be a grad!

[peegee]

14. most liberal college

Brown

[Bush was AWOL]

18. These

1. Ann Arbor
2. Berkeley
3. UCLA
4. Columbia
5. Chapel Hill

[theboss]

19. The People's Republic of Berkeley

Michigan, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, Antioch, Brown.

[Snoggera]

20. Believe it or not, the smaller communities

with 4 year or graduate programs have the greatest diversity and ability to promote liberalism. There are many across the country, and they haven't yet been targeted.

[carolinayellowdog]

22. Duke, more than any other NC school

Undergrads aren't known for liberalism but they are outnumbered by graduate students. Faculty is very liberal.

[UdoKier]

23. UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UT Austin.

Don't know of any others offhand...

[Texasgal]

24. University Of Texas @ Austin

Extremely diverse!

[HarveyBriggs]

25. Many comedians hate Madison

Even though it is the home of the Onion, and there are some noted comics from the area, the Madison area has a reputation for high levels of intolerance among the far left.

As a former touring comic, I'm well aware of the saying among the touring yuckslingers, "You can always find somebody to offend in Madison."

It's liberalism to the point of McCarthyism. And no, the irony of the statement is not lost on me. It is though, lost on the radical left there.

This is where bombing government buildings started -- on the left, not the right. The likes of the anti-abortion bombers and Tim McVeigh only followed in the footsteps of the left-wing criminals who bombed the math building there.

Madison is also home to one of the very finest US Senators we have, a man who represents the very finest of liberal values and thinking.

But make no mistake, there is still an extreme faction of the left in Madison that is every bit as frightening as the extremists George W. Bush represents on the right.

Harvey Briggs

[Sabriel]

28. I think Stephen Ambrose referred to Madison as having

"liberal totalitarianism" when he spoke here. I can certainly see how one could form that idea.

[wuushew]

29. That is a poor comparison

the individuals that bombed the math building did so with the belief that the building was unoccupied. It also had slight role in supporting the military industrial complex, which at the time was involved in an immoral war in South East Asia.

McVeigh was trying trying to kill as many innocent people(and children) as possilbe to avenge his nutball buddy Korresh who was illegally stockpiling weapons.

Also the Madison bombing indirectly affects me as my dad's research thesis was destroyed in the bombing forcing him to start again from scratch.

[htuttle]

35. LOL! Go Cheney yourself!

I've been in Madison for 12 years, and it's not like you describe.

Sure, if you use the 'N' word in public in Madison, someone's going to come down on you. If you call a lesbian a name, someone's going to come down on you.

We are a left-wing city, sure. During the seventies, many of those who protested in the street went into city government, and made a lot of changes -- Changes that I'm very proud of, and wouldn't give up. In fact, those changes help us win 'Best City in the US' fairly often, and we always rank high on the list.

So Fred Phelps and Ron Greer find Madison pretty fucking unpleasant. In fact, Dick Cheney finds Madison pretty unpleasant, too. But that's fine with me.

Finally, I used to work with one of the Sterling Hall bombers, and know one of the other ones pretty well. As someone pointed out above, they thought the building was empty, unlike Tim McVeigh. And it's a been a longstanding belief among many here that Leo Burt, the one member of the New Years Gang never caught, was very likely an FBI provacateur.

Not that we don't have our idiosyncracies. For one thing, a lot of people here pay way more attention to city politics than state or federal politics. But that's what makes us who we are. Think global, act local. We walk the talk here in Madison on that one.

[mstrsplinter326]

36. Thank you - I love madison. n/t

[Nederland]

38. I don't get it

Why do you and wuushew seem to think that there is nothing wrong with bombing empty buildings? If I came in and bombed your house or apartment when it was empty I'm thinking you'd be pretty pissed...

[htuttle]

41. Didn't say there was nothing wrong with it

There was. But it wasn't the same as Tim McVeigh purposely bombing the daycare center at the federal building in Oklahoma City during the day.

It also isn't an excuse to condemn the whole city. There were four members of the New Years Gang. Four. They were independent of any other movement in the city at the time. Their actions were condemned by all of the anti-war groups as well.

All of the members in the group, except for the one rumored to be an FBI plant, served their time in prison, and are productive members of the community today.

Yes, they killed a guy. So did Senator Janklow.

[HarveyBriggs]

58. You sound like Bush explaining away the boming of innocents

"Hey, we didn't know anybody was in there! So we really didn't kill anybody!

I can't really accept the validity of an argument from somebody who puts a seal of approval on murder and tells somebody to go Cheney themselves.

You're a part of the murderous looney left and no different than the kooky righties who send their unsigned threats after every time I have a letter to the editor published against school vouchers, against tax cuts, or simply against George W. Bush.

You're an embarassment to the Democratic Party, and the ideals set down by the party in this year's convention.

Think global, act local, is a fine thing. But when the act local part becomes bomb Sterling Hall, kill somebody and make mealy-mouthed excuses about it, then you're a dangerous kook.

And so are all the nutties cheering for you.

There is no excuse for bombing a public building -- none.

As a defender of the bombing and the murder, you typify the deadly hostile environment of extreme left wing intolerance that flourishes in Madison, Wisconsin. It's McCarthyism of the left, and in Joe McCarthy we find a fellow whose principals many Wisconsin resident, on the left and right, just seem to love to embrace.

Harvey Briggs

[NewJeffCT]

26. Wesleyen Univ in Middletown, CT

As well as their sister college Trinity in Hartford, CT.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

27. Brown University / RISD

[Rockholm]

30. My replies:

1. Cal-Berkeley
2. Wisconsin-Madison
3. Harvard
4. Penn
5. UNC-Chapel Hill
6. Bates
7. Bennington
8. Williams
9. Smith
10. Emerson

[maveric]

32. Hah-ved

Compared yo Yale.

[RT Atlanta]

33. Carleton College, Northfield, MN (n/t)

[West Coast Democrat]

40. Ahh...Wellstone taught there!

[liberalpragmatist]

34. Pretty much any elite school. Hell, pretty much ANY university

The UC schools - esp. UC Berkeley, but UCLA as well. UNC, Brown, and ALL the Ivies. Yes, I know the Ivy reputation, but as someone who was privileged to go a good private high school and knows MANY ivy-leaguers, almost EVERY ONE of them is a liberal. Even Dartmouth. Hell, even Princeton. Easily Liberal. All of them. Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and UPenn.

Duke is more liberal than people think. So, of course, is Tufts, Boston College, Boston University, Washington University in St. Louis (my school!!!).

Basically ALL private, non-denominational schools are Liberal. And most of the more famous, more prestigious public schools. And of course, nearly all small liberal-arts schools.

[depakid]

37. U of O

and no, not the one in Norman, Oklahoma....

[West Coast Democrat]

39. Boston U, Brown, Reed College

(I went to BU by the way)

[stavka]

42. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Supreme court cases regarding affirmative action in education.

SDS was founded there.

"Great Society" was announced there....

"Peace Corps" was announced there...

[annarbor]

43. University of Michigan...

Go Blue!

Ann Arbor

[newyawker99]

53. Hi annarbor!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AntiCoup2K4]

44. It took 44 posts for someone to mention The Evergreen State College??

Un-fucking-believeable! :crazy:

[theboss]

45. Is that even really a college?

Oh, I kid. I kid.

Actually, is it?

[Buck Rabbit]

49. I was going to ....

and even throw a shout out in honor of Rachel Corrie. But I already made my post for the month. Well Cheney It! One more post in July.

Evergreen is so left that you're up to your waist in Pacific salt water during high tide. (And Rachel Corrie walked the walk!)

[OilemFirchen]

46. Hands down.

Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH.

[theHandpuppet]

47. Antioch College...

in Yellow Springs, Ohio and Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. Sometimes the best gifts come in small packages. :)

[EndElectoral]

48. Bob Jones U. There're just scared to admit it. J C was one helluva lib!

[Bo]

50. ANTIOCH...OF COURSE.

Yellowsprings, Ohio. I went there.

[chemteacher]

51. Not public...but what about Jesuit schools?

I graduated from Regis in denver in the late '80s. Being there when Jesuit priests were being killed in El Salvador was pretty serious for a lot of people on the campus.

Ironically, one of the Coors brothers was on the board of directors. An outspoken Jesuit from El Salvador gave the commencement address one year with Coors sitting behind him on the stage. The priest, Jon Sobrino, pretty much ripped a new one.

Anyone else have a liberal/progressive experience at a Jesuit college?

[WindRavenX]

56. I go to Boston College, which is a Jesuit school

And the theology department is WICKED Liberal. The school management is very conservative though, but the professors, for the most part, are quite intellectual and liberal and true to the Jesuit tradition. The Jesuit branch of Catholism is, IMHO, very liberal in principal, but people distort it :(
BTW, St.Ignatius rawks my world!!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

57. Don't forget Kent State n/t

[TNMOM]

59. UC Berkeley. Hands down.

[malachibk]

60. Back in the day, Columbia, guys!

Nowadays (I was there for Undergrad and now in Grad School there) it's taken a nasty turn to the right.

[SW FL Dem]

61. Oberlin College, Oberlin OH

Kucinich drew a huge crowd there.