Uni of York extremely right-wing?

for me, it only becomes an argument after I win the debate and the other person gets shaken up and personal

yeah it's ok. But then I have my somewhat like-minded friendship group and I set up an unabashedly biased student newspaper. It's definitely important to have a balance in your life when it comes to those around you so I get your concern

Haha. I see.

I am a small part of my college's newspaper (creative stuff like poetry and such) which I take part in every now and then. I tend to do editing more often though.

Mind if I ask you what course did you apply for?

At no point did I say that the political consensus is my main (or 'base' criteria. It's just one of those little checks that I would like to tick before I make my final choice.

If you are going to a certain uni based on politics then you need to grow up a bit first.

How old are you? You don't even look like you're of uni age yet!

I think you're immature for thinking it's immature. At the end of the day it would be stupid to pick somewhere where she feels she doesn't fit in or resonate with a large majority of students it'll just make her miserable...

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I got to know some people who were extremely right-wing and we couldn't really talk without having a clash of views on almost every topic. I have nothing against people holding different views/values. All I am trying to say is that I will find it difficult to be surrounded by people who are holding these values to the EXTREME level.

It's certainly not immature to not like the idea of spending time around people with different politics.

UoY is significantly more right-wing than many universities in the country. It is largely distant from the NUS and I would describe it as completely isolationist and uninterested in the national conversation at this point. Being involved in the NUS myself has given me a lot of insight into the stark difference between this university and many others, not only in the political views of the student body but also in the general sense of apathy that I have not noticed anywhere near as strongly in the majority of other universities I've encountered.

Labour may be the biggest political society on campus (marginally larger than York Tories as of this year), but it's only centre-left and most of the members are not the biggest fans of Corbyn. I would say that York is, generally, very much grounded in the political centre.

It's not just 'politics', though. I and my friends have received a massive amount of harassment at York - including death threats, campus press publishing information from our facebook pages and innumerable misogynistic and transphobic personal attacks. I am also aware of racism on campus, though as a white person I have obviously never personally experienced it, so cannot comment on it. I would speak more about the situation, but I'm tired and find the entire topic distressing.

The only reason I am able to continue studying at this university is because I have a large support network, and there are a lot of people very engaged with liberation issues in the Women's, LGBTQ, Disabled Students' and BME Networks. Shout-outs to Palestinian Solidarity Society, Socialist Society and Feminist Society, too.

oh that's cool. I love poetry do you like Kate Tempest? she's my favourite poet atm

I applied for SPS (social and political sciences) with philosophy and I'll probably accept the place how about you?

In my opinion it shouldn't be a 'check' at all - unless it's literally a BNP stronghold there's no reason for it to affect you.

But you know what - I kinda respect you for this in a weird way, it's good you're not willing to 'settle' for your uni choice.

I go there, the university is far from right wing. Ignore the above poster, she's clearly the type who enjoys making a mountain out of a mole hill considering the societies she is a part of.


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I've met people from both ends of the political spectrum from Stalinist to Anarcho-capitalist at the University . You'll find plenty of left wingers, centre-left wingers, centrists, liberals,libertarians and conservatives at this university so whoever you want to mix with , don't let anyone put you off going, it's a great institution. Only thing is that our university papers tend to blow things way out of proportion, and while they have published people's facebook profiles that was for raising awareness of abuse or for positive reasons such as campaigns people are working on. I know the editors personally and they are good journos, if hungry for stories.

I would imagine they resent it because, as a Russell Group, it'll be full of Surrey's finest, as I described, while many of them will be incapable of getting into a similar uni.

York is a solid uni for generalist, vaguely academic types who get about AAB at A-level and it is well recognised as such.

I hope that courses requiring grades of A*AA-AAA (PPE, Economics, Politics, English etc.) do not simply consist of students that are "vaguely academic types".

As for University politics: it's pretty much a rule worldwide that in general, universities are left-leaning institutions. I would imagine that York is no different in this regard. So don't stress about it OP.

Grade inflation since my day when we didn't even have A*s! Also I got AAAA and I wouldn't call myself anything more than vaguely academic...