The Dartmouth Beacon

September 2005 Issue

Making the Most of a Liberal Campus

Freshmen arriving on campus this Fall with the mistaken impression that Dartmouth is a conservative institution: be warned. Those expecting a balanced political environment where conservative ideas are received with as much respect as liberal ones: be warned. You will encounter roughly one Republican for every twelve faculty members you meet. In fact, a given student’s chances of admission to Dartmouth, slim as they are, are 2.4 times better than the odds that his first professor will be a Republican. With the exception of the economics department (home to a trio of right-leaning thinkers) students of liberal arts and public policy are taught by a faculty nearly devoid of conservative representatives, in a nation famously composed of two near-commensurate sides.

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June 2005 Issue

Jews and the GOP

American Jews have long been known as one of the Democratic Party’s most dependable constituencies. Drawn almost exclusively to the Democrats by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930’s, Jews have remained faithful that party ever since. In fact, no Republican candidate for president since Warren G. Harding (1920) has received over 40% of the Jewish vote.

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