Covenant has a serious problem. It’s not the food, it’s not the chapel music, or anything else of that sort. Covenant’s biggest problem is the cancerous nature of its dating culture. Since before I came here in 2020, I was told by so many upperclassmen not to date as a freshman. I’ve extended that advice to the freshmen on my hall, but I’ve gone a step further: I encourage them not to date at all at Covenant. It’s a mess, and you don’t have to go far to find people who agree with me. As someone who made the mistake of dating here, and someone who currently has friends and roommates who are dating here, I have had a lot of frankly very depressing conversations with people over their experiences with dating here at Covenant.
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In 2018, while the college was beginning work on its plan to make Covenant a great place for women to work and study, Covenant’s publication The View published a small statement by Joel Belz on the events of the summer’s General Assembly. “None of us enjoy losing a vote,” he writes, “especially on an issue we consider to involve an important principle. So I was still absorbing the assembly’s rejection of a proposal that would allow the election of women to the Board of Trustees of Covenant College. After less than an hour’s debate, the proposal had been defeated by a vote of 727-449-18.”
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