Why would a conservative desire to study at this institution, in this town?
Probably hoping to work for Paul Ryan.
Because it’s an Ivy League University and greatly enhances her potential to get into law school I would assume.
Why would a conservative desire to study at this institution, in this town?
If you grow up in fly-over country and haven’tgotten out much, you may not fathom just how liberal Ithaca is—I picked Cornell because it was located in a relatively small town, and thought that small towns would inherently be reasonably conservative. It took a week or two to realize that it was basically a displaced neighborhood of Boston and NYC and that people from those cities (and for that matter from the whole NE) were basically from another universe.
My experience was in pre-internet days., but I’m inclined to think that a greater access to information has just about been offset by a decline in the ability to anayze information.
It was a really fun place to display the Stars and Bars—ironically alongside the Oregon State Flag, which has as the state motto “the Union” emblazoned on it. I wonder if I could get away with that now.
And one could find some really bright professors at Cornell and learn a fair bit from them.
That said, if I had it to do over again, I’m sure I would opt to make a different set of “mistakes.”