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Conservatism in the Classroom
By Caroline Francis | November 19, 2009Edward Zhang / The Dartmouth Staff It's pretty hard to deny that Dartmouth has a stereotype of being the "conservative" member of the Ivy League the Fox News to Brown's MSNBC, some have said. But how does this stereotype play out where it is perhaps most important: in Dartmouth's classrooms? Several professors said that the view of the College as a conservative school is simply outdated, and noted that on the whole, the College's faculty is overwhelmingly liberal. "A lot of our reputations of schools are based on 20 years lag time," government professor John Carey said.
