Shorter has always been an old-fashioned Baptist school, with everything that implies - the news media is being a bit disingenuous here (I'm shocked! I tell you! Shocked!), because the agreement also bans adultery, fornication, drinking anywhere but in private, and a bunch of other stuff that old-fashioned Southern Baptists frown upon. If you want to live la vida loca, Shorter is just not where it's at.
They have always had a good music program. My paternal grandmother was Class of '12 in Opera Performance. Sang at the Met, then came home, got married (to another singer), and was a church soloist for years at St. Peter's (the Episcopalians bagged the name before the Catholics got to town). Dad's earliest memory is sitting between his parents in the choir.
Shorter had gotten so far away from its roots by the late 1990s that the Libs attempted a hostile takeover to completely sever its ties to the Georgia Baptist Convention. The Georgie Supreme Court agreed with conservatives and overturned the takeover. Untenured libs left at that time; the tenured ones stuck around. When I graduated from Shorter they had an open lesbian teaching marriage and family, and a theology department that denied fundamental truths of the Bible.
This dustup appears to be the last hurrah of the tenured libs who were not close enough to retirement to bail out when the court slapped them down.