Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Wittenberg: Liberal or Conservative?

Everyone know that Wittenberg is Liberal Arts school coming in, but this doesn't mean that everyone on campus is a liberal. There are a few conservatives within the crowd, but they are few and far between it seems. With so many students and faculty preaching the liberal way, I feel that it makes any conservative student feel hesitant to speak their mind on issues at hand. Walking through halls and parking lot the campaign signs favor Obama. It is in the classroom when professors are supposed to play devils advocate and let students see both sides of the campaign, but instead they don't they praise their preferred candidate, and bash on the qualities of the opponent. This leads to an unfair judgement by students of the presidency candidates, because as we have talked about before few students pay enough attention to the news to know what is going on, so they just listen to their biased parents, professors, and friends. I am not saying all the professors are bad at showing who they are voting for, but I think they should remember that freshman and sophomore students are still making up their minds and are very easy influence, so they should take into consideration how much they portray their political views.

3 comments:

  1. I agree that most conservatives here have a hard time speaking their mind. So there might be more conservatives than you may think.

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  2. I agree with what you're saying here, and I think many of the assumptions that liberal arts schools align with liberal political ideology because of the notion that most, if not all, college professors are Democrats. I always find it interesting that most of the people I've talked to know exactly who they are voting for in the upcoming election, but I honestly still have no idea who I will choose! I feel that I am not informed enough to make my decision quite yet, and I wonder if more people, especially students at Wittenberg can resonate with these feelings.

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