With twenty-five thousand students to choose from, the University of Kansas offered a far greater range of views and lifestyles than the smaller colleges did. In principle, then, friendship networks at the large campus should be far more diverse. They weren’t. On the larger campus, students were able to seek out their ideological twins; on the smaller campuses people made friends with people very different from them.* Forced by circumstance to befriend people at least somewhat different from themselves, they did so.
