While perhaps well-meaning, he is not entirely sane, and his descriptions of the intellectual/political milieu at Wesleyan are to be taken with a grain of salt. In short, he is wrong.

And LRH, perhaps in the future you should consider a self-imposed moratorium on name-dropping the late elected offical from whom you claim to be descended. It comes off as self-aggrandizing and extraordinarily pretentious.

Anyone who has seen PCU understands that this same sort of shit has been going on for decades, yet most people are able to give up their differences when a good party is involved.

To any prospective students, particularly M., there is plenty of thoughtful, restrained, contemplative political debate on campus, it's just not as obvious if all you read is the Argus. And no, this isn't just a problem with "the left." Yes, there is a lot of angry, shouted, radical political and social discourse that to an outsider might be alienating, especially if you're someone that doesn't attempt to look beyond the vehicle of conveyance to explore the message, opinions, and feelings behind the shouting. Yes, Wesleyan is overall left-leaning. But if you can't handle either of that, go to a different school. If you can't handle angry people shouting about politics, both on the left AND the right, you might want to consider a college with no student newspaper or student political groups. The vast majority of students have thoughtful and heartfelt political discussions in their everyday lives and find their niche at Wesleyan.

Also, conservatives are not the oppressed minority that they often claim to be. Typically in the past they just have not taken advantage of the methods of information dissemination that the left uses which leaves them less visible.

Mytheos Holt may grandstand but don't believe his self-victimization. He's one of many over the years that have taken up the same mantle. Once he graduates and his writings continue to haunt him whenever future Google searches by potential employers lay bare his self-aggrandized posturing, someone else will fill in the self-absorbed void he leaves. To all of those who think that Conservatives ARE actually an oppressed minority, ask yourself why the hell did they come to a school with a left-leaning reputation like Wes? Why do they continue to stay there if things are SO bad? Why not transfer to a MUCH cheaper state institution where they won't have to live with the ugly stain of having a degree from that hated ultra-radical free-love hippie paradise of a school.

Oh, and LRH, everyone knows the frats on campus are not exactly known for fostering centrist or thoughtful political discussion, hence your not "fitting in." I don't think you're a de-facto rapist, but everyone knows that the frats don't have the most stellar of reputations and tend to breed a sort of siege mentality. Maybe that's your problem in not finding this elusive middle ground. Why would you become a Conservative simply because of the lack of middle ground or anger at the loud and rowdy left? Why compromise those "liberal" views you supposedly held at the oh-so-politically and socially mature age of 18?

LRH's comment was well-taken a few years ago. The middle ground is thriving now - you will find it very easy to find other moderates on this campus. In fact, I would venture a guess that a large percentage of the campus are centrists or center-leftists.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I really like the way the Argus is online. Some other university publications' websites are way too complicated.

My years at Wesleyan were the worst of my life. I did not fit in with the liberal extremists. I also did not fit in with my fraternity brothers. There was no middle ground. You either were a liberal hippy or a de-facto rapist.

I commend Mytheos for working to inject some balance into the discourse at Wesleyan. Conservatives need an intelligent voice.