I should check this out further. Pyro, I also attended a secular university for my Bachelor's degree. The campus Catholic community was very liberal (think cafeteria-like Church with felt banners, the tabernacle was in another room). I sort of fell away in college.
I can relate. My university's chapel was the same. My first semester, I went home most weekends (my parents' house was only a 20 minute drive away), so I didn't go there until my second semester. After going on a retreat with the campus group, I started going there. They had a functioning electric organ in the chapel, but they never used it. Instead, they had a guitarist and a student choir at the 6:30 pm Mass I went to. I had experienced guitar music in my youth at Mass, but not at my home parish. I never got completely used to it.
The chapel itself was built in the 1970s, so the space was used to maximize seating (using chairs that were a hideous 70s orange) out of necessity (6:30 Mass was packed most Sundays), and the tabernacle was in a separate small chapel. I became an Eucharistic minister and a lector, but after reading St. Thomas Aquinas' words of wisdom on why only consecrated men should handle the Body of Christ (here on FR), I decided to minimize my role as EEM.
We had a full-time priest, but the other campus minister, a woman in her thirties, had a very visible role at Mass, dressed in a robe. She wasn't terribly liberal, but I noticed she got sort of uncomfortable when I tried to hold pro-life activities on campus (though a Rock for Life concert was held in the basement). The priest himself was a very holy and humble man.
After being in Catholic schools for most of my academic career, spending 4 years at a secular university did have a drastic impact on my own practice of the faith. This had more to do with the fact that all of my close friends in college were liberal (only one was pro-life). But I discovered the Divine Mercy devotion in my final semester, when I was commuting from home, and my prayer life got a lot better.