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Excellent! Great company here on FR. What is he studying?

There are some pockets there, but over all it is a great place. Not too much 'in your face' type nonsense there. I was probably 'off the wall' by MTU standards when I was there, have since grown up!! ;-)

Which church does he go to? I went briefly to one on College Ave, our pastor was somewhat hippy-esque, but don't remember too much leftism from him.

As a graduate of Texas A&M University, I can attest that the student body has a strongly conservative bent. Of course, at a state school of its size (45,000 students), there is going to be the typical liberal lunacy. However, the presence of numerous conservatives on its faculty makes a difference, and having a president, Robert Gates, who served during George Bush's administration helps maintain that Right focus.

My son is a chemistry major. He finished finals Wednesday, but is staying another week to get some work done in the lab; he's an assistant on a research project, which has been a great learning opportunity for him. We drive up to pick him up next week. I can't wait. If it weren't for the scarcity of jobs, we'd be living up there too. My husband's mother is from the area.

The church is on College Ave, as are several other churches I've noticed (it cracks me up to see a church, a couple of fraternity houses, then another church as one drives down the street). I'm sure this congregation has fallen victim to the overall leftwing politics of the ELCA powers-that-be. When my son tried this place out, it was in the weeks leading up to the 2004 election, when anti-George Bush fever was rampant. It is a very tiny congregation, made up of a small number of current & retired faculty. I attended there twice and only saw a handful of students either time.