The Conservative in Us All
In the past 50 years, Dartmouth has enjoyed an undiminished reputation as one of the Ivy League’s most conservative members. But despite the impression Dartmouth makes on the outside world, most of its students consider it to be a liberal school tainted by an old and persistent conservative reputation that is unsubstantiated by campus life at present. In reality, conservatism at Dartmouth is more complicated than either perspective acknowledges. The truth is that many of us come to Dartmouth with liberal views and leave with those views intact. And because our outward views remain persistently liberal, we rarely realize that the fundamental values underlying those convictions become increasingly conservative during our time here. More »
