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

Sharia Law Confronts Covenant:America Closest to Implementation of Sharia Law

By Zach McElrath & Will Sunderland

When Americans think of Islam post-9/11, it is far too easy to think solely of radical extremists who wish to destroy the United States along with anything else Western. In an effort to counter this way of thinking, Islamic scholar Salem Salem al-Hasi was invited to Covenant to lecture [...]

The Covenant I Never Knew: Former Handbook Excerpts Reveal Some Crazy Rules

Covenant College has come a long way since 1955.

When the next generation of Covenant students look back at what Covenant is like today, I’m sure that many of the things we do will make them laugh. I hope that some future   maven of antiquity takes the time to dig through old residence hall manuals and [...]

$4,000,000: Covenant receives single largest gift ever from the estate of Lowell Andreas

Lowell Andreas died this past April. His estate gave Covenant a gift of $4 million.

After just receiving an unexpected $1 million foundation grant from an anonymous donor, Covenant College has received another huge financial gift—$4 million, from the estate of Lowell Andreas.

This is the single largest financial gift Covenant has ever received at [...]

A SIP to remember

It’s that time of year. All seniors seem to talk about right now are papers, papers, papers. 14-pagers, 20-pagers, MLA, Chicago, Turabian. And every time you invite a senior to accompany you on a spontaneous adventure, they dutifully play their most potent card: “I’ve got to work on my SIP.”

So, with the rest of us [...]

Glascock Elected Mayor of Lookout Mountain

After losing to current mayor Tommy Gifford by only 4 votes in 2005, Bill Glascock handily unseated the incumbent in last Tuesday’s Lookout Mountain mayoral election.

Mr. Glascock, a former city councilman, received 361 votes (57.5 percent) to Mr. Gifford’s 267 (42.5 percent).

“I congratulate Bill on his victory and I will do what I [...]