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October 21, 2010
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Conservatives comfortable in spite of minority status
To say that conservative students at Swarthmore do not feel isolated from the rest of the predominantly liberal student body may seem contradictory. But for conservative David Hill ’13, life at Swarthmore is not so bad.
“I really like this place. … I’ve had actually a lot of really good engagements with people,” he said. “But sometimes when I get bored, I put on a conservative t-shirt … and go debating.”
In fact, though conservatives at Swarthmore are considered part of a minorit…
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