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Longtime librarian of Covenant, Mr. Gary Huisman, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 28 of this year in his home in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He was a father, a mentor and a cherished part of his community.
When you hear the description “Gen Z,” you probably associate it with the stereotypical teenager: sedentary, soft, transfixed by technology and absolutely oblivious to the world that surrounds them.
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When Issue 3 of the Bagpipe was published, one of the most striking and eye-grabbing articles in the Opinions selection was Adi Smith’s “Sabbath, Worship and the Blink.” Smith argues that keeping the Blink open on Sundays ignores the call for Christians to keep a day of sabbath and prevents those who work at the Blink from resting on Sundays.
Great Hall dinners, late night Blink runs, chapel Doxologies—you've heard about these Covenant quintessentials since your high school tour. I hope you've experienced them for yourself. But I think Covenant's awesomeness lies in not only the postcard-worthy memories but also the whole-life-impacting experiences of residential college. Some that come to mind:
Covenant is an amazing community—we can live comfortably, worship freely, and be blessed to complain about class registrations instead of missile strikes. Living on a mountain as beautiful and safe as ours is a great blessing but can sometimes lead us to become a bit of a bubble, blocking out the rest of the world.
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“Let’s be honest: money in college football does not feel real anymore.” Matt Brown of the Extra Points newsletter and formerly of CBS Sports was the first to say this, noting how the amount of money paid to coaches being bought out (fired, or paid to not coach) has almost exceeded $200 million … Let that sink in.
Choke has become a very common part of our vocabulary. We often refer to the phenomenon of having the greatest opportunity in the world, only to fail at the final hurdle in sports, academics and even in events that occur during the course of our day-to-day lives. Baseball, golf and tennis players know well the phenomenon of the yips, a sudden and unexplainable loss of athletic ability.
As a student on Covenant College’s womens tennis team, I see Coach Hirte almost every day at the tennis courts at 4 p.m. for practice in the fall and spring—but what’s the rest of Coach Hirte’s job like outside of coaching both Covenant's womens and mens tennis teams? What kind of work goes on behind the scenes of Covenant Athletics that we college athletes never see? This week, I swung by Coach Hirte’s office to ask him some questions about his work off the court …
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From November 6 to November 8, Covenant welcomed 200 prospective students to stay overnight on campus for sneakPEAK weekend. While this event is not new to students, Covenant struggled to find enough people to host the large sneakPEAK crowd.