It has become part of the conventional wisdom that a decidedly left-wing slant influences what students are taught at elite colleges and universities in America, chiefly at Ivy League institutions. This perception has been common at least since the congressional investigations in the late 1940s into Communist Party activities in the United States, and surely since the publication of William F. Buckley's "God and Man at Yale" in 1951. This article concludes that although students who attend elite institutions need not fear indoctrination by liberal faculty, they can look forward to opportunities to maintain or to form equal-status relationships with those with wealth and power in America. (Contains 2 notes.)