Republicans took over the County where OU is located about six years ago that had always been Dem. College Republicans are very active on OU and never hear anything from the Dems.
During the Presidential primary I worked with two really nice Republican students from OU and it was interesting to get their perspective on their professors.
Pres Boren who is a Dem also worked to help Bush #41 get Clarence Thomas on the SCOTUS. When we moved here in Jan 1997, (think I put 2007 on another post) Anita Hill was on the OU Law School faculty and some far left Women had donated money for an endowed chair. Boren refused to match the money and eventually transferred to the Tulsa campus, cut her classes as she received poor marks from the students for her classes, refused to speak to her at events, and finally he drove her out. Right after she resigned and was real snarky about it, he returned the money for the endowed chair.
Met one of the OU Law School faculty and he used to be the Treasurer to the County GOP.
We have been very fortunate not to have a bunch of liberal colleges. OSU is not liberal either. In the English Department, some of the grad students got irritated at what was being put on the bulletin board because it was biased liberal.
Think it was great that the kids saw both sides and could make up their mind without someone pushing their agenda. We have a large ROTC program as well. As someone told me, this is Oklahoma not the coasts.
You mean the affirmative action thing didn't work out? Glad to hear OU is an island of sanity in a leftist dominated industry... You are lucky!