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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, and it CAN NOT be understated: Entrenched liberalism is NOT coming out of U.C. Berkeley as much as it is coming out of Columbia, Yale, Harvard -- I lived at a dorm in Columbia for six months, I never saw ANYTHING like that in Berkeley -- COMPLETELY closed minds, totally elitists snobs. In Berkeley, I really never took much crap for being a conservative -- and I was vocal about it. ;-) What I'd get was, "Well, if conservatives were like you, we might listen to them," at which point I'd have to explain that conservatives WERE like me... ;-) They had been well programmed.

It also helped if you just walked out on classes where on the first day the Prof. is making political statements. If you can do that, you get a chance to, say, take Astronomy with Alex Filipenko, the leading authority on dark matter (anybody who watches NOVA knows him :p). Also, remember, McWhorter is at Berkeley...