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Sanderson Hall’s lobby renovations have been unpopular among Covenant students. More than one student said the white walls and lack of natural light make it feel like a hospital.
This year, Covenant College welcomes its largest incoming freshman class ever, comprising approximately 350 new students. This is incredibly exciting as Covenant furthers its mission to make Christ preeminent in all things. However, as the student body increases, some problems are beginning to arise.
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Letter-writing is a lovely art that is being lost in today’s culture and world. Society often enjoys quick communication through a screen, but it is a good thing to have the willingness to slow the pace, lean into creativity, and send messages on paper.
On the back steps we sat
and ate our pears in the warm wind.
The world was as quiet as
the lawnmower next door and the droning bugs.
Talking, so much talking, and for what? At what point does action get involved? We were given the tools to help this world and yet we stand around with hands behind our backs. Yelling at one another as the enemy draws near. The Word is our weapon against the forces of darkness.
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In recent years, the meteoric rise in potency and capability undergone by Large Language Model artificial intelligence has had a dramatic impact on academics. We may ask Gemini or ChatGPT to write us a summary of Don Quixote, quiz us on the Krebs Cycle, or (in a less savory act) simply request that it complete our Spanish homework. It will probably do a reasonably passable job at any of these.
Despite its utility in terms of schoolwork, there is a reason I will never utilize AI for academic purposes. Namely, I have always seen AI as a sort of “Blind Idiot God.”
We have to address the elephant in the room. It’s the one thing everyone on campus can’t shut up about—the thing that has set father against son, sister against brother.
Electric scooters.
In February, the 59th Super Bowl took place between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, making waves among Americans in the home and all over social media. One moment that went particularly viral was when Taylor Swift, attending in support of Travis Kelce, was shown on the jumbotron only to be booed by the surrounding crowd.
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On a crisp and calm Saturday morning at the Nature Valley Center just down the mountain, Covenant’s Mens and Womens Cross Country teams both opened their seasons on Aug. 30. While being voted preseason poll #1 by the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS), the team was making sure to “not take other teams for granted,” according to Jacob Howington ’28.
Friday, Aug. 15 saw athletes from Covenant’s five fall sports, mens and womens soccer, mens and womens cross country, and womens volleyball return to Lookout Mountain, Georgia, to begin a new athletic season. All five of these teams knew full well that postseason success was within reach, both in and beyond the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS).
On the heels of ESPN writer Bill Connolly’s new book entitled “Forward Progress” detailing the College Football’s significant changes in the past several years, there has never been a time of so much chaos and instability in the sport. And yet, the revenue from athletic programs has never been higher, the ratings on TV are reaching record heights, and conferences are only getting bigger.
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Last fall, the college constructed new pickleball courts—a gift from the Class of 2023—and gained a new pickleball club, with over 100 sign-ups at Cov-Con.
But, students eager to restore pickleball to their daily rhythms were rudely surprised when they returned to campus late last month. Over the summer, the year-old pickleball courts were demolished.