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Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

What University did you go to? How has it influenced you? Do you think it has an impact on how you view issues?

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

I tried to make an edit, it won't allow it now. I wanted to add both as I went to both.

This isn't meant to be a controversial post, I hope no one thinks that it is. I was curious after reading different peoples views and topics what type of Uni they went to and if this has an influence on thier political and personal beliefs.

If this is a controversial issue and maybe it is in your country, then I apologise as it isn't where I have been (or so I believe) and so let it die.

Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait

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krats1976 · Joined: 14 May 2003

Conservative... I went to Brigham Young University. Laughing

Ironically, BYU was where I became a Democrat. It had something to do with the ubititousness of the Republican Party there coupled with my inner (maybe very deeply inner) rebel that made me re-examine my political views.

In fact, my views didn't really change. I just realized that there were some key planks in the Republican platform that I didn't really agree with. I had previously assumed I was a Republican because my dad was (Mom isn't really political). Stupid, I know, but aren't we all a little dumb in high school?

Since I've left BYU, I've also left the Democratic Party. Truth is, I'm too moderate for either party. Laughing

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

I went to a little Lutheran university in Edmonton, Concordia (no connection to Montreal). For a Christian college it was surprisingly liberal-- Evolutionary biology programs, pub crawls, metal on the caf jukebox. I hope that it taught me to respect opinions I don't agree with.

Then I went to UM in Missoula, Montana (again, pretty liberal for rural Montana) and then Memorial in Newfoundland (wasn't sure if it was liberal or conservative as I was never sober enough to judge).

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Red · Joined: 05 Jul 2004

At my university, conservatives and liberals all joined together under the the great equalizer of the beer keg

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I went to the University of Toronto and it was horribly left wing. Or, at least most of the students in my English and History classes were painfully left wing.

I've always been around the middle, with some conservative leanings. All the left-wingers at UofT made me hate the left wing more than ever.

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

Mine was very liberal and quite known in the area for it. During my tenure there I was involved with many causes and waved the banner for many liberal groups. Interesting enough, after I joined the peace corps and went to Africa, I became a staunch conservative. After seeing welfare and liberal social policies in action (or inaction) I realized what for me were basic truths. According to various online tests (an addiction, I admit) I am a "california republican"

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

I was at UMass-Amherst (class of '71) for about two-and-a-half years. I'm sure it was relatively liberal, but I frankly was way more into psychedelics, "progressive" music, Viet-nam war protests, existential and mystical philosophies, abstract expressionism and all-night poker games to actually bother to attend classes. (I vaguely recall monitoring a Marxist professor's class a couple times though...) I somehow managed to avoid flunking out by attending only the final exam in one-or two courses, attempting to cram all the books with the help of crystal meth, and - either doing well - or ending up in the infirmary with dehydration and a medical excuse. One time I didn't read the books at all for a Sociology course - I just conferred with a friend who had taken it before - and who was also tripping at the time - and I aced the final (on "strawberry fields") and got an "A" for the course... Eventually, I dropped out - for maybe the third time - and became part of "Woodstock Nation" and a hippie artist in Cocunut Grove before joining the Hare Krishnas...I finally got my bachelor's degree at a business college in Orlando, Florida in 1996...(In my high school yearbook I declared that I'd dedicate my life to "promoting the spread of liberal thought throughout the world" - I still think I'm basically liberal, but I'm very conservative with respect to intoxication and other behaviors that keep us bound to this material world...)

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

I have absolutely no idea and absolutely no idea why it might be important Shocked

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waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

I don't know if USF in Tampa is considered a liberal school, but we sure had/have a lot of liberal profs.

Dude Love · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

I worked on degrees at two Unis. One was liberal in its student body and the other Uni was officially liberal, so I should have been ready when profs called me a bigot for not supporting multiculturalism and for expecting minorities to respect the culture of the country they're in, which is exactly what I do when I'm here without complaining about it. But I sort of did get off on the accusations, because liberals make accusations of racism when they can't think of anything intelligent to say.