Freshmen Increasingly Discuss 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, according to an annual survey scheduled for release today. A record proportion -- 23.9 percent -- call themselves conservative, and not since 1975 has the proportion of liberals, now 28.4 percent, been...