Makes me happy. I’m a Jayhawk but have said I won’t pay for our granddaughter to go there because it is a party school and a bit wacky and left wing. It would be a bit painful to send her to K-State but the tuition would be instate and it would be under some conditions... no women or gender studies, I get to see the grades every semester, and she needs to find and be involved with a Christian Youth group. I would prefer the Newman Center but could live with another group.
I was going to play with you a little and suggest the Lutheran youth group at KSU, but then I looked it up and it's ELCA, so nix that idea. There's a good-looking LCMS church near the campus, though, cf. here, if you want to send her to experience the One True Faith :)
Hillsdale has lots of scholarships. It cost me about the same to send my daughters there as it would have to attend our state’s flagship public university.
I visited K-State when I was looking for PhD programs. Their PhD program was very interesting, but everyone seemed to be trying really hard to talk over my head. It was intimidating for a guy with no graduate training. Later I made contact with a professor to discuss my research interest. He wrote that I should not go there because, “as a gay man, I have no respect for a religion that made me feel so guilty that I contemplated suicide.” He said I should “go to a religious college.”
I’m now working on a PhD at KU. My professors are pretty much all leftists, but they seem kind of respectful to other views. Since being here I noticed an opportunity that hasn’t been tapped: the libertarian streak that many American liberals have. There’s nothing like that in Leftist politicians: Obama, Holder, Reid, the Media, Pelosi, et al. are not interested in your liberty. Many professors, on the other hand, see the need for more ‘complexity’ and ‘spontaneity’ in policy. These are overtly libertarian ideas. We can live with libertarians.
Why am I writing all this? I guess because I’m trying to say that Lawrence really isn’t that bad, and a well reasoned conservative who knows her arguments and the left’s, and is spiritually/ philosophically grounded should do fine.
However, I did take part in an Overpass Demonstration on illegal immigration last summer. I got to see some ugly intolerance from the left. We even got the campus police called on us.