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

Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant

by Kaitlin Fender & Sam Belz

The Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant (GTEG), intended to help equalize the financial gap between attending a private and public college or university, will likely be eliminated next year. This grant was received by about 420 Covenant students last award year; that’s almost 45% of the undergraduate full-time student body. The [...]

Hope Is Contagious: An Interview with Jeffrey Johnson

Letters to God, On To Something

Letters to God, from the director of Facing the Giants and Fireproof, follows the story of an eight-year-old boy with cancer, Tyler Doherty (Tanner Maguire), who writes letters to God that are received by a postman, Brady McDaniels (Jeffrey Johnson). Jeffrey Johnson answered some questions about the movie, which he [...]

From Pancakes to Tents

Freshmen Stephen Bates, Paul Smallman and Robbie Brown perform at Project Boaz. Enoch Elwell ‘10 (top-left) accepts donations for tents. Starbucks Rock City (bottom-left) was in attendance to supply coffee.

by Kaitlin Fender & Sam Belz

In the past month, Covenant students have raised over $5,000 for Haiti relief efforts

Four days after the Haiti quake, [...]

From the Editor

Are you starting to wonder what’s going on? Does The Bagpipe look different this morning? Were you starting to worry that some students staged a coup at The Bagpipe?

Well, here’s the deal. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t involve an epic coup. But hey, we’re excited, if that counts for anything.) Right before everyone left for Christmas break, [...]

New Vocational Center among first fruits of Strategic Plan

The three-year strategic plan, adopted last spring, is already seeing checkmarks next to some of its items. One of these is the recent establishment of The Center for Vocation, which will replace Career Services.

Two years ahead of schedule, Anthony Tucker was hired this past summer to direct the center. Last Monday, Leda Goodman was hired [...]