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Originally Posted by Cole436
...My ex is a Trinity grad (and now a lawyer), and the stories she would tell me about that campus were blood boiling...
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I am not sure what years your ex attended TWU, but as someone who has been a faculty member off-and-on for the better part of the past twenty years—and who has worked at a handful of other state universities in Europe—the campus life is not altogether much different.
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Their covenant bond is horrendous, discriminatory and dehumanizing. There's a reason the student population is primarily white, evangelical Americans. The politics and culture of a campus which encourages discrimination is no place for a law school...
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Well this is patently false—at least insofar as the student body compares to most other Canadian universities. There has actually been a sharp increase in the number of Chinese, and Korean students in my time at TWU, and there is a burgeoning group of Muslim students every year.
I also fail to see what is "horrendous" about a voluntary commitment of students and faculty members to abstain from certain practices. For the vast majority of mostly Christian students the community standards agreement is already an echo of basic Christian principles about sexuality and marriage.
FYI, as a current faculty member I am not at all bothered by the SCC decision. The last thing this country needs is yet another law school—especially one that specialises in "Evangelical" values.