Just don't walk on the grass.
Posted on 09/17/2009 3:01:58 PM PDT by garaceg
I am looking for a list of conservatives colleges in Texas, specially states universities around the San Antonio area, any recommendations?
My daughter will be ready for college in about 3 yrs, and I am doing my research and planning to start visiting them.
I also would like to know what colleges are the ones we should avoid at all costs.
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doh!
It wasn’t allowed when I was there - but then again all the fun was always off campus anyway.
I can still remember 3 for 1’s at the Brazos Landing.... but I digress.
If you really want to get a feel for the place, go to one of their home football games. Get there early and watch the Corps march in. You'll understand why.
Whatever school your daughter attends, urge her to be a critical thinker and question everything. The liberal bias is tangible. She will still have to play their game most of the time in order to graduate.
Just don't walk on the grass.
LOL!
I have a daughter who went to Baylor Law School (she has since transferred to the University of Alabama chasing a boyfriend, not because she did not love Baylor). She went to UNC for her undergraduate work. In relative terms, Baylor is quite conservative when compared with UNC. Alabama is just as conservative. I suspect that the faculty at Baylor is much more liberal than the general Texas population, but pretty conservative when compared with most college faculty.
It seems that there is probably more political diversity among departments at individual schools than between the schools themselves. For instance, I went to Wake Forest Law School in the late 1970s. At the time, that law school faculty was infamous for its libertarian views. That experience affected my views a great deal and I am mostly libertarian today. Most engineering and business school departments have more than their share of conservative/libertarian faculty members. Most political science departments are bereft of conservatives or libertarians.
I would not worry too much about the political bent of the school, particularly as an undergraduate. Send your kids to a school with a challenging program that insists that they take core courses that actually mean something or tell your kids in no uncertain terms that you will fund a broad liberal arts education that requires thought or that they can find the money to fund themselves.
Two choices that are not in Texas, but are worthwhile are the U. S. Military Academy and the U. S. Naval Academy. Kids get a good education and the Academies build character.
Two other schools are particularly interesting. One is St. John’s with campuses in Annapolis, MD and somewhere in either New Mexico or Arizona. The other is The University of the South (a/k/a Sewanee) in Sewanee, Tennessee.
St. John’s has a unique view of education that is worth while. Students are required to take two years of Latin and two years of Greek. They read original works and not text books about them. For instance, they use Newton’s Principia (sp?) instead of a calculus text book.
Sewanee offers a fine liberal arts education in what is certainly the prettiest place I have ever seen. More impressive is that no one needs to lock up their bicycles and most folks do not lock their doors. If your kids have any athletic ability they can probably play on some Sewanee varsity team. Sewanee has a huge number of Rhodes Scholars on a per capitia basis. The student body is quite conservative. It is an Episcopal school, but it turns out some pretty conservative Episcopal priests.
Having said all of that, my kids all applied to Sewanee and all got in, but one went to Wake Forest, one went to UNC and one went to North Carolina State for their undergraduate work. Sewanee was the strong second choice for all three of them. None was interested enouth in the St. John’s program to apply, although one spent a weekend at the school.
All three of my kids are conservative with libertarian tones. One could probably be better described as libertarian with conservative tones.
“What about TCU in Fort Worth? The C is supposed to stand for Christian but who knows today.”
TCU has a dorm for homosexual couples. How Christian is that? They care more about diversity and tolerance—OF SIN.
They should take the Christian part off the front door of the school. false advsertising. Weird because Fort Worth is supposedly more conservative.
Forbes very recently ranked West Point as the #1 school in the country and I think the Naval Academy was right behind it. I think it was for best undergrad colleges.
I’m glad to hear it!
garaceg, I will send a FReepmail later. TAD is right. Our daughter had visited several other colleges, but changed her mind the day she and her high school friend visited TAMU. They both went there and even roomed together for the first two years.
We also have several neighbors who sent their kids there after one visit. The traditions there are like nothing you will see anywhere else. A&M grads will recognize each other instantly if they are wearing their very distinctive class ring (which most wear daily).
As the next reply says: Just don't walk on the grass.
The home game right after 9-11. We were in the stands at Kyle Field that day wearing red t-shirts. Our son was a brand new fish in the Corps.
I’d bet not many other colleges had that much red, white and blue the first game after 9/11.
It’s not time, but the number of empties on the floor of the pickup.
“It’s not time, but the number of empties on the floor of the pickup.”
My cousin use to say “it was a three oil can drive...” I love America...nowhere else can you find such a funky place with so many different kinds of people..and they all use to live in freedom...I’ll miss her when she’s gone...shame on our asses if we let it happen.
Ah, yes, the red-white-blue out against OSU (I think) in 2001. BTW, that whole event was organized by the student body, and on short notice too.
Whoop! Says it all, does it not?
“yes. but don’t call me shirley”
hahaha...hard to type in deadpan isn’t it?
hard to type while laughing, yes
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