January 26, 2007

Freshmen Increasingly Talk Politics, Worry About Money, Survey Finds

By SARA LIPKA

College freshmen are discussing politics more than they have in 40 years, and fewer describe their views as middle-of-the-road. A record proportion — 23.9 percent — call themselves conservative, and not since 1975 have there been as many liberals, at 28.4 percent.

Those findings come from the annual national survey of freshmen conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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