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1955 2013 Thursday, September 19, 2013 - Volume 60.02 14049 Scenic Highway, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, 30750 www.bagpipeonline.com Ordinary Changes in people with enrollment extraordinary by Ellen Davis hope This year, Covenant has welcomed 325 new faces to its by Bethany Daniels campus. The incoming class has 299 freshmen and 26 transfers With the theme, “ordinary - one of the largest incoming people with extraordinary classes in Covenant history. hope,” the Neal Conference on Though Student Development True Spirituality is in full swing at and Admissions have had to Covenant, and the community squeeze a few extra students has welcomed guest speaker Dr. into the dormitories as a result Jim Belcher and musical guests of this class size, they are Drew and Ellie Holcomb. After encouraged that the efforts of beginning with a student-led Christina Schuman the Covenant body have helped chapel, the week will close with the school’s enrollment increase. a new prayer and worship event “Frankly, I think our attention called “Kneel.” Chapel Department revamped to a quality campus visit, the “The theme, ‘ordinary people engagement of faculty, the great with extraordinary hope,’ was by Garrison Dale classes. The idea behind the early will be discussed. I never want recruiting work of Kyle Taylor chosen by the speaker Dr. Jim start was to pack more songs worship to feel rushed.” and the coaches, efforts by Belcher. He chose this because In his first weeks of service, and more preaching into the 35 Students are welcomed into current students to care for visi- he will be speaking about very Chaplain Grant Lowe has minute period, giving speakers chapel with responsive-readings, tors, and the admission office’s influential, yet ordinary people reorganized the flow of chapel, time to develop their messages. recitations and prayers from The relentless focus on intentional, who were moved greatly by the allowing more time for cooper- But this year, Lowe asks speak- Apostle’s Creed, The Heidelberg relational recruiting all play a hope they had in Christ,” said ate singing and a call to worship ers to use 20 minutes instead Catechism, The Canons of Dort part,” said Chief Enrollment student committee chair, Grace to produce a more engaging, of 25 or 30, leaving time for a and The Valley of Vision. Officer Matthew Bryant. “We Cowart. cohesive time of worship. cooperate call to worship at the “These are prayers, confessions have a great staff in our office, Taking place near the begin- “Chapel is not church. It is not beginning of chapel, additional and affirmations that have long but it takes the whole campus.” ning of the academic year, the supposed to replace church, but time for singing and a time of histories in the Christian tradition, This year’s incoming class is event is intended as a time it is still a time of worship,” said response and reflection at the end. and they are attached to our unique in that it has the most of encouragement for the Lowe. “A clear call to worship in “The idea is to have cohesive history, whether we know it or ethnic diversity and the most community. Former Covenant chapel delineates the beginning movement throughout the not,” said Lowe. “I think there children of Covenant alumni. student Chuck Neal was greatly of a time of cooperate worship.” worship service,” said Lowe. “We is something beautiful about There are 8 students from impacted by a series of chapel In years past, singing would want to sing thoughtfully chosen standing on the shoulders of the foreign countries, including talks given by Francis Schaeffer. begin a few minutes before 11 worship songs that connect to history that we all share. There is Brazil, Nigeria, and Indonesia. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 a.m as students trickled in from the passage of scripture that CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 NEWS 1-3 Harriet Setting Watching Bombs or Tubman paradox to The Great Band-aids? ARTS 4-5 Housing music Gatsby with Complex’s Christian OPINIONS 6-7 future is up eyes for debate SPORTS 8 PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 7 NEWS 2 THE BAGPIPE Volume 60.02 Harriet Tubman Housing Complex’s future is up for debate by Kendi Anderson for $1 million. people relocate, as that person Berke wants to demolish the or family may not have a plan The windows of the two-story site and open it up for sale to B,” he said. brick apartments in East Chat- manufacturing plants, as there HOPE VI is a program out of tanooga are boarded up and are many that he says are inter- the Department of Housing and the streets of the former Harriet ested in buying land and open- Urban Development (HUD) that Tubman housing complex rest ing operations in Chattanooga. works to transform deteriorated empty. They are waiting. He says that the property’s complexes like Harriet Tubman Last year the Chattanooga proximity to the railroad tracks into improved living environ- Housing Authority (CHA) evicted and downtown make it an ideal ments for low-income families. over 300 residents that called space for industry. Since its establishment in 1992, the complex home. Since the Berke wants to expand HUD has worked in over 166 cit- eviction this former public hous- industry in the area and generate ies demolishing and redeveloping ing complex has been vacant new jobs to combat the 20 to public housing with the goal of and many in the neighborhood 30% unemployment rate that creating sustainable communities along with people across the city is reported by Chattanooga with a decreased concentration are waiting to find out what will City Council Chairman Yusuf of very low-income families happen with these 35 acres. Hakeem, to exist in this neigh- through government grants and Harriet Tubman, also known to borhood. other donations. locals as Boone Heights, stands Many in the neighborhood A study published by the across from Hope for the Inner question if these jobs will be Urban Institute about HOPE VI’s City on Roanoke Ave. in a lower- available to them, as a majority revitalization work found that in income section of Chattanooga. do not have a college or high some cases this transformation The public housing develop- school diplomas, or this type of strategy has been successful in Utc.edu ment came into existence at the job experience. housing residents and improv- tail end of President Roosevelt’s Anita Pickett, former secretary ing neighborhoods, but that New Deal and has been plagued of the Harriet Tubman residential there is also strong evidence to with racial and socioeconomic council, told the TFP that there support that original residents tensions since its establishment. are plenty of available manufac- of many of these complexes Even before the forced turing spaces in the city and that have not always benefitted from evacuation many residents who many of the people displaced the redevelopment. could move out of the complex from this complex have no place It is widely accepted that new did due to the violence in the to sleep at night. industries and jobs for unskilled area and the dilapidation of the She and many of her neighbors laborers is needed in Chat- units. Those who were left had worry that bulldozing this space tanooga. It is what the former no other housing options and a and using it for industrial purposes Chattanooga Gang Assessment large percentage of those evicted instead of renovating it and asked for, it is what the Chamber were single mothers who are reopening it as low-income hous- of Commerce says Chattanooga still homeless and looking for ing may not be in the best interest needs, it is what many people alternative and stable housing. of those that live in the area. who live in East Chattanooga In a City Council meeting on Joe Randall, a senior at say they want, but the debate Aug. 6, Mayor Andy Berke was Covenant College and former on whether sacrificing public given the go ahead to start intern at Hope for the Inner City, housing in order to bring this in negotiating the purchase of is strongly against the idea of is still being debated in City Hall the housing complex, which industrializing the complex. and under flickering street lights he formerly proposed to buy “I am opposed to making on Roanoke Ave. Timesfreepress.com Faculty Quote of the Week “Oh my. All that kissing” - Dr. Chiareli, on learning that half the freshman class is sick with a cold Volume 60.02 THE BAGPIPE NEWS 3 BUILD campaign worked together to develop a nect with the joy they were the world and make their own CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE vision for the week. experiencing as they played,” prayer requests known. The Verdict “I think the importance of said senior Juliet Cangelosi. “One of the sections is The content was later written prayer has been highlighted Belcher, associate professor about our callings and praying into Schaeffer’s book True in my life since I joined the of practical theology at Knox about how God will use us in Spirituality. Neal’s family made Neal Conference Committee. Theological Seminary, is in the the future. We know we have the Neal Conference on True So many things are out of midst of his series focusing on extraordinary hope in mourning, Spirituality possible years later, our hands, so as a committee the stories of fellow believers for our churches and what the hoping future students would we spend quite a bit of time who experienced the hope gospel means for us in each of also benefit from speakers praying and it is a blessing to of the gospel during difficult those different parts of life,” yes..