How Liberal is SCU?

turtlerock
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:42:46 +0000

Most of the students who attend SCU are also from the Bay Area, and therefore tune to a degree of liberalism. In general the student body and administration are tolerant of a lot of lifestyles and there is an LBGT club on campus.

Drinking and casual drug use is tolerated as long as it is JUST off campus, like across the street or a few blocks away. This is mainly because they cannot really enforce it and would need to call local authorities to come over. Local authorities visiting the houses across the street from campus every night for a lot of the same reasons is not a good selling point for possible students, so they refrain. The “party” dorm is Swig and can often be associated with loud music, drinking, etc.

However, with all this said, I have heard stories of certain faculty (Professors and TAs) being difficult with people of different points of view than theirs. Doesn’t happen too often because not a whole lot of profs are actually Jesuit, but it does happen unfortunately.