[irishjuggler]

I don't think most people change that much.
The most left-wing person I encountered in college was a history graduate student. She was the teaching assistant in a European history course I was taking. According to her, all the evil in the world was the fault of the European, Christian males. I used to argue with her all the time and she hated me.
I haven't seen her in 12 years, but I "Googled" her name a few months ago. Now she's a professor at a well-known university. And guess what? She's every bit as left-wing as she was when I knew her. Her web site mentions hate crimes, feminism, stopping the war in Afghanistan, etc.

[JENINMO]

Usually people who never leave academia remain liberal. They don't know what the outside world is like, so why change, why not indoctrinate? They are usually afraid of the real world, anyway. There are exceptions (my brother, the Clinton-hating, Bush-loving Conservative) but he is a professor of plasma physics, the sciences are sometimes different.

[who knows what evil?]

I haven't seen her in 12 years, but I "Googled" her name a few months ago. Now she's a professor at a well-known university. And guess what? She's every bit as left-wing as she was when I knew her. Her web site mentions hate crimes, feminism, stopping the war in Afghanistan, etc.

Isn't that just precious? Now she is poisoning the intellectual well at OUR expense.