In addition to the mainstream news media, no other institution in America is taking the 2024 election harder than our universities. This is not to suggest that among the student bodies of our universities, there are those who favored Donald Trump. There are the College Republicans and a handful of other conservative groups. Occasionally, they get to get their views published in the respective campus newspapers. Suffice to say, their voices are pretty much drowned out in the din of the politically correct, liberal, anti-Israel noise that dominates most universities today.
As regular readers of this blog know, I cover a lot of campus stories around the nation, including checking to see how the campus newspapers are reporting these happenings. Thus, I have scoured many campus papers to gauge how they are reacting to Trump's victory. Today, I went through the Ivy League Schools. (I, like others, had incorrectly considered Colgate and Rutgers to be in the Ivy League. That is actually incorrect.) Time permitting, I may post additional articles like this featuring other universities based on geography.
To summarize, I chose one item from the news section or the opinion section of each campus paper to highlight. (I chose two from Harvard.) Predictably, the reaction to Trump's victory was uniformly negative. I scanned to see if there were any positive reactions to Trump's victory. I saw none, but the reader is free to double-check.
I should note that it is not my wish to personally denigrate the writers, reporters, or students interviewed in these papers. They are young people who may feel very differently about things ten years or so from now. On the other hand, I feel it is important to show the tone and bias of campus newspapers in general. In addition, a campus newspaper is an open public source. I don't begrudge the expression of any of these opinions. What I would like to see is a little more balance.
Linked below are the articles I selected.
Columbia
PrincetonHarvard (2)
University of Pennsylvania
Cornell
Cornell Sun (Viewer warning-racy language)
Yale
Brown
Dartmouth
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