The Verdict

Yes…

to a sixteen page Bagpipe, and sixteen days until summer.

No…

to anything resembling term papers or exams.

Faculty Quote

“I’m not sure if mules can be male or female. But I’m not really familiar with mule genitalia.”

-Prof. Tim Morris, Contemporary Biology

“My parents told me not to do anything to a girl that I wouldn’t want done to my sister.  So that pretty much ended my dating career.”

- Prof. Toni Chiareli, Intro to Sociology

The New Yorker Writer David Grann Comes to Covenant

New York Times bestselling author and writer for the New Yorker David Grann.

Covenant students will have another chance to interact with a premier writer from The New Yorker magazine next month, when the college hosts David Grann on April 9. Grann, who also happens to be a current New York Times best-selling author, will [...]

Cash Beats Death From the Grave

Not too long before Johnny Cash died in 2003, he could still be found in his studio recording songs for the closing chapters of his American Recordings series. The final installment of those sessions (supposedly) was released last week, and is titled American VI: Ain’t No Grave. The 10-song album is mostly covers, and isn’t [...]

Catching Up with Third Lobby

Newsflash! Third Lobby came out with a new EP, and it might just be their best yet. Matt Brown says they have a new style, almost like they’ve “started over.”

This article is way overdue. Why? Because five months ago, after a three-year hiatus, the well established, Covenantbred, acoustic-folk-pop ensemble known as Third Lobby released [...]

Haiti Quake Kills 70K

In the wake of an earthquake which leveled much of its capital, Covenant students and professors urge support for what was already one of the world’s most impoverished nations.

A few days before she boarded a plane and returned to Covenant for her final semester, senior Alex Amicy visited the National Palace of Haiti in Port-au-Prince [...]

Book Review: Hendrik Hertzberg understands One Million

That's right, folks—Hendrik Hertzberg's new book has one million dots in it.

Few of us have ever taken the time to sit down and seriously ruminate over a word that has become a part of our daily lexicon—one million.

Okay, so that’s two words, but still, think for a second. Have you ever seen one million [...]