Amy Johnson 27’ used to order the cheese quesadilla all the time at The Blink … but not anymore.
The quesadilla’s price rose from $2.75 to $5 over the summer, and many students don’t get it.
“I’m a lot less likely to go to the Blink now,” said Johnson, a junior from the student apartments. She said she’d prefer to make quesadillas herself.
Finding Balance in Chaos: A Guide to Mid-Semester Burnout
Surviving midterms—two words that shouldn’t go together but yet somehow always do. As the mid-semester wraps up, students are met with an inevitable fate—midterm burnout. We all experience burnout one way or another.
Read moreThe Failure of a Showgirl?
“Aretha Franklin, when asked her opinions on Taylor Swift, said, ‘Great gowns, beautiful gowns,’” said Mackenzie Protos ’27, “And I think that's how I feel about this album.”
On Friday, October 3, Swift released her twelfth studio album titled “The Life of a Showgirl.” I sat down with a few Swifties on campus to get their opinions on the new record-breaking album.
Read moreOh Deer…
Early Monday morning at 1:19 a.m., two masked men entered the second floor of Carter, offloaded a black garbage bag on Ekklesia, and beat a hasty retreat. Ryan Wood ’28, a resident of Second Central and an eyewitness at the scene, was the first to approach the bag.
Read moreThe Least of These: God’s Work Through Those Less Fortunate
Jack Rusten ’26 and I are riding down the road, dying with laughter listening to our friend Wes talk about his “secret football club in Dublin” in a fake Irish accent so thick I wouldn’t be surprised if he used to be a theater kid. We pull into the parking lot, Wes still waxing poetically, me still cracking up, and hop out of the car into the blazing Tulsa sun.
Read moreThe Burning Question of Burning Corpses
Long ago at Covenant Chapel, one Reverend Rayburn gave a talk so controversial that those present then still remember it today. This talk was not on any matter relating to contentious politics, nor was it one espousing anything terribly new. Rather, the subject that got so many Covenant students heated in the ’90s was cremation; more specifically, why Christians should not be cremated.
Read moreSabbath, Worship and the Blink
At Covenant, we are always taught the importance of the Sabbath, and yet, frequently on Sunday nights, the Blink is filled with countless students putting in their orders and thoughtlessly yelling over the noise of people and speakers. While this is not inherently a problem, it should make us ask some serious questions. We might not be the ones working when we go to the Blink on Sundays, but we are causing some of our fellow students to have to work…
Read moreRecord Resurgence: The Rise of Physical Media at Covenant
In an increasingly advanced society that places emphasis on the use of technology and media, why is there a sudden popular desire for the usage of physical media again? Haven’t Americans worked so hard to stem away from physical media just for us to resort back to it? And what is so special about physical media that digital media doesn’t have? These are all questions that deserve an answer.
Read moreA Christian’s Mind In Media
God created humans with many characteristics, one being storytelling, prominent in our culture today in the form of movies and TV shows. Every day people retire on their couches for an evening of adventure, romance or mystery. But Hollywood is also notorious for its immorality and often produces content involving depictions of ungodly actions such as drunkenness, bloody murder and sex scenes.
Read moreCovenant Theater: To Be or Not to Be?
In the spring of 2025, Dr. David Tahere, professor of music and theater at Covenant College, announced he would be leaving his position to pursue other professional opportunities.
Read moreAI: The Blind Idiot God
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.”
Covenant’s Two-Wheeled Terrors
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.
Read moreThe Case of NFL Fans vs. the State
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.
Read moreA Cautious Defense of Horror
Horror fascinates me. I have a theory as to why: I was an extremely fearful child. I remember losing sleep after watching my dad play the zombies map on “Call of Duty: World at War.” The same thing happened with the skeletons in “Pirates of the Caribbean.” It got so bad that I was scared of the letter “Z” branded on the spine of a copy of “World War Z” in my aunt’s room.
Read moreRomance over Personality: The Fall of YA Fantasy
The pendulum of extreme feminism is swinging to the opposite side in young adult fantasy, taking female main characters back in time to where they are only viewed for their bodies, contaminating our young generation of readers.
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