Deborah Lambert, While the perception of conservative students is that they are constantly being shouted down and/or silenced on their left-leaning campuses, that is apparently not always the case, according to Inside Higher Education. Researchers Amy Binder, an associate professor of sociology at the U. of California, San Diego, and Kate Wood, a graduate student there, did some in-depth research by interviewing conservative students at two top schools identified only as “Eastern Elite” and Western Public.” While both schools are regarded as left-leaning by conservatives, the students at “Eastern Elite” viewed their “extreme minority” status as an opportunity to defend...