The first comic in this entry by Rev. Chapin makes clear to me something that I have missed, considering how I didn’t go to college here in the United States. I was not politically active in college save for some socialist-leaning discussions that I had with a few friends during rides home. I was, back then, politically indifferent beyond whining about Evil Capitalist Multinational Corporations.

When you have more than eight hours in a school day, for most days of the week, politics is usually the last thing that comes to mind.

However, reading blogs like those of Eugene Volokh and Friends, of Glenn Reynolds, and a few more, they sometimes mention the lack of ideological diversity in American universities. I have read article after article chronicling the plights of collegiate conservatives, whether they are students, or educators.

I’m left wondering about a few things.

First, and of course I am excluding those in Poli Sci and other Liberal Arts majors, don’t most of these students have better things to do with their time? Second, why and how did our universities become breeding grounds for groupthink? I have a pretty good idea about the attitudes that may or may not be a factor in this, considering how I have been called many things for my being a Filipino who supports the Republican party. Third, I am left wondering whether I will also experience the same should I go back and go for another Bachelor’s degree in something.

I will not, however, try and waste money by paying for a Poli Sci education considering how I am not interested in pursuing a career in politics. I’m an armchair pundit, dear friends. So the question — and I need to throw this at some of my collegiate readers, preferably those who are not taking a Poli Sci major — basically boils down to just how political our universities are, despite the irrelevance of politics in your studies.