Fans from other schools posting on the board

[DiamondM]

I didn't know that there was such a thing as a conservative faculty. I thought that being liberal was one of the main requirements of the job.

Yes, isn't interesting that some of the most educated people are "liberal," while most dumb[saving the filter the trouble] rednecks who haven't been farther than 20 miles from their trailer parks are "conservative."

[DiamondM]

SMU is a religious school?

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(There is a theology school, but I was always under the impression it is a religious studies school, not a seminary.) So, it isn't even a religious school in the sense that Notre Dame or even Creighton or Georgetown are catholic, or that Baylor is baptist. And I certainly never saw much religious happening on campus!

Actually, SMU has one of the most respected Methodist seminaries in the country. (Another is Duke.) And there are plenty of religious organizations' activities on campus going on all the time -- it's just that most SMU students have "better" things to do in college and rarely pay attention to those activities (not meant an insult, because that included me for most of my college life, although I did go a several trips organized by the chaplain's office).

[EastStang]

Yes, isn't interesting that some of the most educated people are "liberal," while most dumb[saving the filter the trouble] rednecks who haven't been farther than 20 miles from their trailer parks are "conservative."

Condoleeza Rice has a pretty good education. I wouldn't call her a dumb redneck from a trailer park. Or Newt Gingrich, or Phil Graham, or Thomas Sowell, or .... There are well educated conservatives in the world believe it or not. I would even hazzard a guess that some people with graduate degrees from SMU are conservative.

[couch 'em]

Yes, isn't interesting that some of the most educated people are "liberal," while most dumb[saving the filter the trouble] rednecks who haven't been farther than 20 miles from their trailer parks are "conservative."

Yes, isn't it interesting that some of the most successful people are "conservative," while most dumb[saving the filter the trouble] ghetto-trash who haven't earned a real paycheck to feed their crack-babies are "liberal."

I really wish we had a rank-voting system so more than 2 two parties would be viable.

[huskerpony]

Like you, I choose to ignore the chapel that is so prominently placed on campus and all of those seminary students.

Ha! I didn't choose to ignore the chapel--I got drunk on the back steps one Tuesday afternoon! (Most universities have a campus chapel, but I am apparently [deleted] for not knowing there was a seminary school.)

I always understood theology/religious studies to mean the study of religion in historical contexts--as in more of an anthropology or sociology department--but I obviously never took any of those classes, so if they were formal religion classes, I am mistaken.

I still take issue with SMU being referred to as a religious university. (Mainly because once you get outside of the south, when you say SMU, you get the whole Southern Mississippi? Southern Missouri? Southern Montana? thing, and then when you get to Southern Methodist, the next response is, "oh, you went to a bible college?") But it isn't owned or operated by the church, so I consider it even less of a religious institution than even the Jesuit schools (Georgetown/Johns Hopkins/Creighton) which aren't really religious schools either.