Congratulations to Andrew Criado for authoring the finest column The Daily Collegian has published in my almost seven years at Penn State ("Liberals' hold over college campuses is diminishing," Dec. 4). As an undergraduate in political science, I sat through four years of almost daily diatribes against conservatives, Christians and more recently, President Bush. This onslaught from our faculty mouthpieces of the extreme left, with the Collegian's gleeful backing, has made me well aware of the outcast feeling that Criado so eloquently describes. But the light is finally penetrating this veil of liberal domination, and the poll showing the president's high approval rating among students is just one illustration of this change.

I believe professor Michael Berkman's comment about not knowing what students "really mean" by the poll reflects the problem with liberal professors; they don't respect the opinions of students, but rather try to ram their slanted worldview down our throats. In the past, this may have worked, but conservative students are less intimidated with each passing day to speak their beliefs at Penn State, and at universities across the country. Our student body is increasingly educated and able to decide their beliefs for themselves.