The best instructors at the dental school also held part-time faculty
practices.


I think that's true in any field. Certainly in engineering & medicine. And
yet, somehow about 99% of the engineering profs I currently know are
pretty strongly anti-Bush/Cheney. Does that make them "sheltered
liberals"?


NOYB wrote:
That is more a matter of demographics than anything else. The engineering
profs that I knew were almost all Republican conservatives. Of course, my
school (Purdue) was in the reddest of towns in the reddest of states.


Engineers in general tend to be pretty conservative. But that doesn't
make them flaming right-wing dumbasses.

DSK