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Our campus is a little sadly homogenius (mostly white upper middle class Christian). Mostly reasonably liberal.

UMW has it all. From the bleeding-heart liberals to the hard-core conservatives. I feel that anyone can find like-minded groups of individuals at UMW. The student body is extremely diverse but somewhat clique like. UMW has under 10{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} black and latino students so the school is not very racially diverse.

Students at UMW are very politcally active and aware. Young Democrats and College Republicans are the two major campus clubs that are politically active. There is also an Anarchist Club. The student body is not very racially diverse. Most are white, upper-middle class. Some well-known groups on campus are the Fencers (seen as weird), the Drama majors (also seen as weird and annoying), all the different groups of athletes, the Frat (fake, unrecognized by the university, and consists mostly of gross guys trying to get with freshman girls...or any girl for that matter), the Overachievers (who are over-involved, some are disliked, some are loved), and the rest of us. While these groups do exist, students mix and intermingle.

That is one great thing about UMW, no student feels out of place. Our school has a very high count of Homo sexuality and most if not all people here on campus are ok with that, or they just get used to it. Most UMW students are from Northern Virginia with a lot of money.

There are a lot of racial issues are UMW. For the most part, the minorities stick together. The University has allowed this to happen by setting up minority only programs. I think this is bad for the student body. Sometimes I feel out of place at UMW, because I do not have as high of a socio-economic status as most students on campus. I have learned to overcome this and I have realized there are many students like me. The students, especially the athletes at UMW often find themselves seperating from the rest of the student body. Students are very politically aware since we are so close to Washington, D.C. The conservative and liberal people seem to balance out, but there are often heated political debates on campus.

The LGBT group, PRISM, is REALLY cliquey and not really worth going to if you're just trying to meet people. The topics of discussion are interesting, though. Most of the club meetings are interesting, you just have to GO. Everyone is pretty informal most of the time.

The student body of Mary Washington is not diverse in the least bit. The advent of the new university president, though, should bring a new era of diversity to the Mary Washington community, as this is one of the new president's crowning achievements at her prior position.

most mary wash students are from virginia but there are also large populations from new jersey and massachusetts. most of the student body is white and that seems to be seen as major problem by the administration. in my opinion, there is way too much focus on race as far as the administration goes, making it more of an issue than it is. i don't know if this makes sense but i feel like they are almost reversely racist, providing tons of opportunities and events geared blatantly toward minorities while not providing the same opportunities for white students. there is a large gay/lesbian population on campus and the administration is also understanding and supportive of them but does not throw nearly as much money or put nearly as much effort into pleasing them as they do minorities. the atmosphere on campus in general is pretty laid back. not many people dress up for class and when the weather is nice, a lot of people spend time outside and the campus really comes alive.

There are two groups of people on campus. The ones who primarily go out on the weekends who take early morning classes, then the weird people who dont start class until the middle of the afternoon.

The college is very open minded about life style choices. Predominatley Republican.