My daughter is looking at W&L (she wouldn't be majoring in journalism though.)
I had heard (from some pretty good sources, including recent graduates) that W&L was a conservative school. What gives?
Pinging the resident FR W&L guy . . .
What's signigicant about W&L is that the STUDENTS are conservative and remain so, despite the strong efforsts of (some of) the faculty.
The phenom of "students more conservative than faculty" is not unique to W&L, but our students are generally more conservative and our faculty less UNIFORMLY liberal.
All things considered, its a great school, IMO.