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BY JACK ROYLSTON BY CARRIE WOODWARD Nearly a year after former RUF Interested in language, culture, campus minister Ron Brown teaching, or all three? Students announced that he would be mov- interested in teaching English ing to Panama City Beach, Fla. will now have the opportunity to pastor a PCA church, the RUF to obtain a TESOL minor at has chosen Covenant. and called Rev. Scott Wells of Teaching English to Speak- Hixson, Tenn. to be the RUF ers of Other Languages, or campus minister at Covenant. He “TESOL,” is the study of will begin his tenure as the RUF methods and techniques of campus minister at Covenant this teaching English as a second upcoming fall semester. language. The minor will feature According to the RUF website, classes taught by Dr. Nola Rev. Wells grew up in Virginia Stephens, Assistant Professor Beach, Va. and is a graduate of of Linguistics, and Dr. Brianne James Madison University and Stambaugh, Assistant Professor Reformed Theological Seminary Jonathan Ingram talks with Garrett Sisson regarding Carter Renovations, Photo credit: Abby Whisler of Foreign Languages. in Orlando, Fla. During his time The TESOL minor will have at James Madison, Wells met BY GARRETT SISSON six class requirements, four his current wife, Jennifer, and Next year, Residence Life will staff and Dean of Students, Brad direction of the residence hall of them being Introduction they were married in 1996. The be drastically restructuring its Voyles. learning communities.” Some of to Linguistics, taught by Dr. Wells family has lived in the staff positions to provide better Though the new Community the CC’s responsibilities will be Stephens; Methods in TESOL Chattanooga area since 2005 with campus-wide care. The three cur- Coordinators will have very serving as an advisor for at least and Second Language Acquisi- their two children, Karisa and rent Assistant Resident Director different responsibilities from one student club or organization, tion, taught by Dr. Stambaugh;a Harrison. positions will be eliminated, and the current ARDs, Ingraham students on academic TESOL practicum; and two Wells has been involved in three new Residence Life posi- hopes that they will not take away probation, and implementing linguistics or intercultural elec- ministry since his college days. tions will be added—two Com- support from the RDs. Instead, a new system of organizing tive courses. The minor’s courses As an undergraduate student, he munity Coordinators, as well as an they should be able to provide emergency rides for students, are designed to be a blend of and Jennifer were both involved Area Coordinator for Transitional for students’ relational needs in a similar to an RD-on-duty number. traditional classroom activities in campus ministry. For a time, Housing. The new positions were more structured way. According Ingraham hopes that CCs can and hands-on experience, mixing Wells served as an assistant created by Jonathan Ingraham, to their official job description, reach out to students who slip reading, research, and class time pastor in the PCA in Tennessee, Assistant Dean of Students and Community Coordinators will through the cracks of current RD with practical action in order to and most recently served on staff head of Residence Life, with “focus on advocating for the and ARD discipleship relations, best prepare students for future with Harvest USA, a ministry that input from current Residence Life organization, supervision, and which is common during the first teaching opportunities. Classes

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STUDENT SENATE IS PLEASED TO Parking Panel BY ANDREW FULTZ ANNOUNCE: On Tuesday, March 31st at between the administration and Jimmy Myers will serve as the to increase communication 7:30p.m. Student Senate will be the Student Body on this issue. panelists who will answer parking and hopefully minimize hosting a panel in Brock 120/122 The committee has already questions and address misconcep- these parking frustrations. to address Covenant’s current begun its work by gathering tions. They hope to discuss topics The committee includes campus parking situation. Parking data from students, Safety and such as ticketing, the appeals pro- Travis Hutchinson, tickets have been issued, Bagpipe Security, and the administration to cess, and potential future plans Elizabeth Coats, Katie articles have been written, and attempt to locate the biggest park- for parking. In an email introduc- Tingle, Katrina Jammer, the frustrations have accumulated ing difficulties and miscommu- ing these plans, Hutchinson Austin Cantrell, and Louis over this seemingly never-ending nications. Now, a date has been encouraged the student body in Metcalfe. Any questions or controversy. In an attempt to set, and a parking panel will take an email introducing these plans concerns can be directed resolve this situation, Senate place next week that will address to “partner with [the committee] to Travis Hutchinson has assembled a committee to these miscommunications. The as we work WITH (not against) (travis.m.hutchinson@ increase communication between committee hopes the panel will Safety and Security in thinking covenant.edu) or one of the of Safety and Security provide an opportunity to clarify through these issues.” Both the parking committee represen- SPEECHES and the Student Body. With the intentions, explain regulations, administration and the students tatives. TONIGHT work of this committee, led by and continue to strengthen the have experienced lots of frustra- Travis Hutchinson, Senate hopes bridge between the students and tion over the parking situation, Mills 270-280 to create a helpful, reliable the administration. but we can already see how the 8:00 - 9:00 resource for greater clarity Brad Voyles, Kevin Patty and committee has and will continue

Residence Life CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE year at college. Rather than serv- creating each event. the current live-in staff positions, year, though the eventual plan partnering with Geneva College ing one building, the Community Additionally, Community Ingraham sees the transitional is to move them to Founders and to offer the new Community Coordinators would be concerned Coordinators will oversee next period as “a perfect time” to Carter, as those are the residence Coordinator positions to graduate with shaping the larger “ethos” year’s restructured Discipleship reimagine how Student Develop- halls with the most students. students interested in fields such of campus, which is the feeling of Coordinator program. In the ment cares for the community as Ingraham says that the redis- as counseling, ministry, or serving connectedness and identity that past, Discipleship Coordinators a whole. According to Ingraham, tribution of labor is not just about in higher education. The position a person associates with a given have been hired by the Chapel Student Development wanted to emotional care, but about stew- job descriptions are in the final place or community. Office, and have met weekly with “use staff in the best way possible ardship—including stewarding stages of approval, after which Community Coordinators their ARD’s. Next year, however, to meet the most needs of the the campus’s conversations and they will be posted online. will be in charge of designing Discipleship Coordinators will most students.” relationships. campus-wide discussions, be hired by the Community Next year, students living in He compares including forums and educational Coordinators, who will meet transitional housing will live the focus of conversations that would bring regularly with them to provide with their Area Coordinator, who each position various populations of Covenant training opportunities overseen will be responsible for checking to lines in a net together, such as this semester’s by Chaplain Lowe and the Chapel students in and out and maintain- going in differ- Panel Discussion on Sexual Office. Ingraham proposes that ing a strong community. Because ent directions. Identity. These would be events this will create a more consistent the Area Coordinator will not “Instead of for students who may all be DC position across campus. be caring for as many students all the lines interested in having a similar The restructuring was first as a regular RD, they will work going the conversation, but would not meet prompted by the upcoming together with the Community same way, a otherwise. As “point persons,” the renovations in Carter Hall, which Coordinator on some of their net works a lot Community Coordinators would will displace around 40 students responsibilities as well. better when the meet regularly to collect feedback next year to the guest cottages and Because of the renovations, the lines cross,” from all of Covenant’s major other college-owned properties on Community Coordinators will live says Ingraham. Covenant's guest cottages where Carter residence will be departments, and then design the Scenic Hwy. Rather than expand in Founders and Maclellan next Covenant is housed next year. Photo from covenant.edu. logistics of Faculty Quote of the Week "Go work for Homeland Security to make up stories that fool terrorists. You guys who work for the Bagpipe have a future." -Professor Corbett, Global Trends VolumeNEWS 60.24 3 THETHE BAGPIPE BAGPIPE VOLUME 61.21NEWS 3 The Verdict TESOL Minor CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE like Introduction to Linguistics India, Guatemala, and Spain. English can lead to relationships function in day-to-day life, in a Yes, to springtime. will give students the tools to Now, she says, “The TESOL with people from a variety of work or social setting. Conversely, think about and interact with minor is an exciting development cultural backgrounds and aid in speakers of English as a foreign different languages as well at Covenant because it will gaining of intercultural skills. The language often learn English Yes, to birds. as with the people who speak provide students with a way of TESOL International Associa- for use in a different cultural them. meeting a linguistic need of many tion, which exists to “advance context, like when travelling Dr. Brianne Stambaugh, around the world.” Language professional expertise in English or doing international business who will be teaching several allows for communication, and language teaching and learning in a foreign, English-speaking THE BAGPIPE of the TESOL minor classes, teaching English allows people for speakers of other languages country. double-majored in Spanish and from different cultural back- worldwide,” promotes quality Students interested in pursuing Teaching English as a Second grounds to build relationships. English teaching and works to a TESOL minor or TESOL in Language at Union University, The TESOL minor will be espe- bring together teachers, research- general can talk to Dr. Stambaugh before continuing to graduate cially helpful for people majoring ers, and students and includes or Dr. Stephens, who are willing work in Spanish and applied or interested in community helpful information about TESOL and happy to answer questions linguistics. Back in the fall, development, education, English, as a global pursuit. The main about TESOL, and encourage 1955 2015 her Bagpipe faculty profile foreign languages, or missions, difference between TESOL and students to get involved. revealed her love for language but it may also be appealing to TEFL, teaching English as a and interacting with cultural anyone interested in working foreign language, comes down backgrounds. Stambaugh’s abroad or with immigrants to the to use and location. Often times, educational background and United States. speakers of English as a second love of language allowed her English is a widely spoken language live in an English- Liz Simakoff to work as an English tutor for language, and therefore a speaking country and require the Editor in Chief people from countries including powerful tool. Learning to teach use of the language in order to Gabby Powell Layout Editor New RUF Minister CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE Adrienne Siegenthaler reaches out to those struggling interact with the people and and excited.” small group, and one-on-one with sexual sin and brokenness. world around them.” Students, faculty, and staff meetings that prepare students Managing Editor When asked what excites him Covenant has been blessed alike are eager to welcome Rev. for a life of faith in Christ that most about doing ministry work, with the leadership of RUF Wells and his family into the is eager to proclaim the great Stephanie Taylor Copy Wells replied, “I am energized intern Barr Overcast this year, Covenant community beginning things of the gospel to the world. by the parts of pastoral ministry who has graciously and compe- in the fall. RUF would also like RUF at Covenant meets on Hannah McCoy News that connect the gospel of Jesus tently filled the interim campus to extend a warm thank-you Tuesday mornings at 11:00 a.m. Christ to the particular areas of minister role for RUF this entire to Barr Overcast and his wife, in the Caudle Room in Mac/ Jamison Shimmel Arts hurt, struggle, and brokenness school year. Becca, for their faithful service Rymer. that people experience in the sin “I’m really excited to see how to RUF this year. Jonathan Moore Opinions and fallenness of this life and the Lord uses Scott at Covenant,” RUF is the this world.” Overcast said. “He has a great official campus Nate Frierson Sports Wells has demonstrated a heart for discipleship. I’ve had ministry of the clear passion for loving students, just two conversations with him Presbyterian Church Megan Walter Web preaching God’s word, and and he’s already spoken into my in America which engaging in Christian fellowship, life in amazing ways.” seeks to “reach Abby Whisler Photo particularly on the college Sophomore student and RUF students for Christ Trent Kelly Distribution campus. “I am encouraged by enthusiast Faith Mydlowski and equip them to and supportive of the mission agreed with Overcast, and was serve.” These two Garrett Sisson Staff Writer and vision of Covenant College,” especially thrilled about Wells’ components are the he said. “I'm looking forward to family: “I am excited to have a driving force behind Carrie Woodward Staff Writer the ways RUF can be a partner younger minister come who has the ministry of and serve students. a family that wants to serve the RUF, combining the Faculty Advisor “I believe the college's students alongside him. The evangelistic mission Cliff Foreman mission fits with RUF's vision family is sacrificially moving of the church with For inquiries or comments, contact for helping students meet Jesus, homes to physically be more Christ’s call to [email protected] grow in relationship with Jesus, present on the mountain and make disciples of This is a Covenant College student publication and know how their identity of [when he spoke in RUF last the nations. This The views expressed herein do not necessarily Students preparing for worship at an RUF meeting on reflect those of the College or the student body. belonging to and being loved week] he mentioned multiple vision is carried out campus. by Jesus shapes the way they times that his wife is supportive through large group,

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SIX WORD Senior SIP Series BY MOLLY HULSEY STORY Senior English major Zach plans to discuss, Persepolis chose the project track because Plating is an aficionado of the and Fun Home, narrate the It is not often one stumbles of her experience with graphic graphic novel, and particularly struggle of adolescent, female upon the opportunity be the design and the fact that, “I can’t appreciates the medium’s ability protagonists to stake out their alternative covergirl for a write thirty pages without crying.” to relay difficult themes through identity and stabilize themselves magazine. By exploring the By researching the readership both visual and literary art. For in chaotic environments at home power that visual graphics hold statistics of typical teen Kelly's his SIP, the English major is and in the streets. Persepolis in media sales, IDS major Aften publications including, “Teen analyzing how personal growth depicts the conflicting forces Whitmore is recreating popular Vogue, Cosmo, and Seventeen,” and identity are portrayed in author Marjane Satrapi faced as teen magazines with cover-photos Whitmore says she will acquire “a a girl “autographies,” or autobiographi- a teenager during the Iranian and color schemes that clash with better understanding of why a girl cal graphic novels. revolution with clashing, current media standards. of a certain group, race, or age “The ability of the author to black-and-white images of burkas “I want to look not only at might purchase something like name! appear in the autography as and punk rock sweatshirts. Fun why the models themselves this.” She will then experiment both narrator and character, Home recounts author Alison are attractive to a particular with visual factors such as and to depict emotion through Bechdel’s reconciliation with audience,” she says, “but why the “lettering, colors, fonts, and Failing both words and images results her homosexual tendencies and graphic design in and of itself is placement” on mock-magazine in greater complexity than in a her abusive, bisexual father. appealing.” covers that are visually similar traditional autobiography,” states Plating explains that these During her time at Covenant, to popular publications but Doctrine. Plating. autographies are not merely Whitmore has studied in the “slightly off from the covers I’d He says, “Reading a good diverting reads, but “tell stories fields of Art, History, and be viewing.” Control visuals will graphic novel elicits a response of the struggle to find an artistic Sociology, and has decided help Whitmore pinpoint why of awe and curiosity.” Initially, practice sufficient for both telling to integrate her experience in the variable is less appealing to - Evan Ziegenfus Plating wanted to pinpoint exactly and drawing complex stories of Art and Sociology for her SIP. typical readers of the magazine what qualities are essential to marginalization, tramatic loss, and Whitmore says, “I am looking than the usual design. For one convey these emotions to the remembering.” specifically at graphic design of the variables, she will model reader, but as English majors are Plating is currently debating and adolescence…and plan on for her covers “as a contrast Submit your own six-word story encouraged to research topics if he wants to add well-known integrating the sociological aspect to the models you see on teen to Jamison Shimmel and check underrepresented by literary graphic novel American-born by studying the demographic of magazines.” out bagpipeonline.com for more stories! critics, Plating carved out a niche Chinese by Gene Luen Yang to his the audiences.” “I’m really excited about how via the autography and crisis reading list as the novel focuses IDS majors must first select this project turns out,” Whitmore comic genre instead. on establishing one’s identity either a research or project track says, jokingly adding, “Maybe The graphic novels Plating within their heritage and race. for their SIP. Whitmore says she this can be my big break!”

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt BY ELIOT KAUFMANN There’s a new girl in town—that prove difficult, not least of all comedy Bridesmaids. Kemper continuity’s sake, it only makes Rock, Ann Perkins on Parks and girl being former cult because of her hot pink pants plays Kimmy with relentless sense that the characters would Recreation, Michael on Arrested member Kimmy Schmidt and and bright yellow cardigan. She enthusiasm, creating a character be equally as outrageous. For Development. These characters that town being, well, New York finds a job, only to get fired the personality that is built to last. example, at one point Jacqueline not only serve as foils for the more City. The latest in Netflix’s new next day for showing up late. She Her innocence comes across as Voorhees, a rich woman who ridiculous characters, they also line of in-house TV shows, The naively sets her bright purple authentic where it could have hires Kimmy to nanny her child, give the audience a point where Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, backpack, containing the only easily fallen flat. She is complete comments that her husband, who it can enter into the show and get created by Tina Fey and Robert money she has, on the floor at a in her embrace of the character, is in Japan, “could get a mistress more enjoyment out of it. Carlock, follows the story of a girl nightclub, only to have it stolen wearing her light-up sneakers in a vending machine over there.” What it lacks in relatability, who has just been discovered in (could’ve told you that, Kimmy. with all the confidence and There is, however, one The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt an underground bunker where That place was a den of iniquity). swagger they deserve. character model that Fey does not makes up for with polished, she has spent the last 17 years of But after a few days, and a few As she did with the late 30 include that ultimately hurts the smart writing and plenty of jokes her life, thinking the world had more major mistakes, Kimmy Rock, Fey packs the episodes show — the normal guy. If you that require attentiveness and ended. Rather than returning to does get the general hang of 21st full of clever jokes and cultural look at all the most successful thinking. Each episode is riddled her life in Indiana, Kimmy wants century, caucasian, middle-class, references. She takes old sitcoms of the last twenty-five with punchy one-liners that keep a fresh start and takes her middle- unrefined, big city life. stereotypes — the gay, black years, they involve a bunch of the viewer on their toes. The school-educated self to New York Kimmy is played by the roommate; the smoker landlord; weird and ridiculous characters show draws more chuckles than City where she hopes to stay out infectiously cheerful Ellie the rich, oblivious Manhattanite revolving around someone belly laughs, but in the end, The of the public eye and simply “be Kemper, known for her roles — and makes them fresh by relatively normal: Jerry Seinfeld Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt normal.” as Erin Hannon on The making them zanier. The premise on Seinfeld, Jim and Pam on accomplishes what it sets out to Kimmy’s attempts to blend in Office and Becca in the 2011 of the show is outrageous and, for The Office, Liz Lemon on 30 do — amuse. VolumeARTS 60.245 THETHE BAGPIPE BAGPIPE VOLUME 61.21ARTS 5

Open Letter to Bekah BY LIZ SIMAKOFF works themselves. We’re having Looking at the small Dear Bekah, a very different conversation piles of broken string I’m today, and I was grateful at reminded of the broken- By now it is quite clear that the the overwhelming support you ness I experience in my damage done to your sculpture received from the news clip we mother’s arms now. We live was not as malicious as we released Thursday night. Faculty, in a disconnect as we wait originally suspected. I still feel staff, and students were grieved, to be fully restored. While compelled, however, to speak and they worked together to I don’t want to give power directly to you about what understand what this meant for to the people who destroy happened last Wednesday night. you and your work. art for personal gain, their Your piece has joined a sad club However, I know that not every- actions remind us of the of defaced art, bruised by anger, one was so moved, and there are inescapable pain we feel ignorance, and the inflated ego of some who still look at your piece in this life. As I stand in a viewer. Unfortunately this kind with confusion, not yet under- the stairwell now, I am of vandalism has a long history, standing what your installation reminded of the destruc- both at Covenant and throughout means for those of us who saw it tion it took to restore our art history. Many artists have had in its fullness, not totally getting people, of a body broken so their works altered; some, like why our hearts were broken to see that we would experience Leonardo DaVinci’s Mona Lisa, the piles of broken string lying in ultimate comfort and new were attacked for nationalist the stairwell. life. reasons, while others, like Andres By Touch transformed the I am sorry that this was Serrano’s Piss Christ, were stairwell from a pass-through to done to you, Bekah. I am damaged by iconoclasts, who a place of contemplation. As we humbled by your work saw themselves as defenders of descend the stairway, we watch still and am excited to see religious integrity. At Covenant, the tight, grid-like formation where you go from here the Art Department underwent of string spiral into a tangled as an artist. I pray you one of its darkest couple of mass. The movement and lines continue to create work months in 1996 when a drawing of the soft string complement that helps us come to terms by Ed Knippers, Christ Answers the rationality of the clean, with the world as we find Our Doubts, was slashed by an triangle-shaped stairwell. You it, bringing beauty into anti-abortion activist from the invited viewers to run their mundane stairwells. community. At the tail end of fingers through it. Like children the culture wars, the vandalism playing with their mother’s hair, All my love, forced Covenant and the PCA viewers tenderly caress the twists Liz presbytery into a conversation and knots. The piece truly evokes on the place of religious art on a maternal embrace, its tall body our campus. Professor Kellogg hovering over us, offering comfort defended Knippers’ work in and solace. a Bagpipe letter to the editor, Someone took that experi- telling students that the issue was ence, though, and they warped not with the art on display, but the meaning. Taking a ball of rather pointed to “the larger prob- string and twisting it around the lem of the pervasive ignorance in banister, they cut off access to the church of matters relating to the stairs and transformed the art and Western cultural history.” stairwell again, this time into I am not going to dive into the a site of danger. I struggle to complex biblical debate Covenant imagine the barred nature of entertained then, but I do see those lines, a barrier created parallels between that conversa- between the balusters, turning the tion and the one we are having work from an invitation into an now. It seems to me that, in 1996, obstacle. In order to restore the the student body, professors, and work’s relationship to its space administration dealt with the and to maintain the safety of our Miles Weichbrodt interacting with Bekah Meyer's sculpture "By Touch" the offense on a primarily intellectual community, it had to be cut. Thus, night of the opening level, privileging theory and artist the string that had been a single Photo credit: Dr. Elisa Weichbrodt responsibility above extended, strand, a seamless garment, was thoughtful engagement with the severed.

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Favorite Covenant Humanity Classes BY CALVIN CUMMINGS Modern Literary Criticism if I hadn’t had a professor like satisfaction of pulling at a loose She’s been my advisor for 5 Dr. Tate. He led us through the thread on a sweater. You know Continental Philosophy semesters so I’m a little biased, Preliminary thought: you could material with sensitivity—to our you’re going to lose something but, whatever, who isn’t? Anyway, read the best work by the best intellects, emotions, and spiritual that keeps you warm, but you I feel like I’m reiterating the same this course is great because you authors at the best times, be well-being. And we needed that continue to pull because you have things about each professor and basically get to have all the fun of taught the best techniques in the because, and I say this with some the power to do so. course, which might be because writing and are given none of the best way with the best supplies, trepidation, the ideas discussed in the courses I have dealt with massage that sometimes comes but if the professor doesn’t 1) this course are dangerous. I don’t Art & Criticism study much of the same material. from a bunch of creatives getting know how to articulate that what believe they have power over the Continental, taught by the truly together and “editing” each you’re doing is valuable or 2) Christian faith, more specifically Pretty much everything I said quirky Dr. Davis is the backbone other’s work. Professor Huffines actually believe that what you’re the incarnation and death of Jesus about Modern Literary Criticism for Modern Lit. Crit. and Art went to Penn State and knows doing is valuable then you’re Christ, but I do believe these could be said for this course. & Crit. and does not deal with how to run a workshop. If you probably going to spend a semes- ideas have influence. Suffice it to Dr. Weichbrodt was (is) pretty practice or creative work other were planning on just working ter just barely stimulated enough say, now—after several semesters’ fantastic. Contrary to what John than philosophy. Though many on your craft in a vacuum, then to not fall asleep. That being said, distance from this course with Piper says, having a woman teach of the theoretical positions take you probably shouldn’t take I only chose courses taught by continued interaction with similar me and bring me through intel- interdisciplinary approaches, this course. I mean, Covenant professors who understood this, material in later courses—when I lectually and emotionally difficult you’re going to be reading people undergrad isn’t an MFA so things did thus, etc. Therefore there’s have a friend who is legitimately material wasn’t distracting. It who are pretty much all brain. are still pretty tame, but Professor no better course to begin with under fire by his or her intellect, was irreplaceable. And it wasn’t But, again, though the material Huffines doesn’t hold back and than Dr. Tate’s Modern Literary emotions, or spirit over issues of irreplaceable because she is a is tough, and Dr. Davis leads his you and all your colleagues are, Criticism. systemic injustice at large, the woman, though she is and that’s a students through each article with thankfully, way more vicious than To borrow a metaphor incomplete nature of language, rather unavoidable fact (the same a significant amount of care and you expect. So, not for the faint from Dr. Weichbrodt, this course failures of and/or atrocities way it’s an unavoidable fact that poise. of heart. But that’s what a writer gave me a toolbox and taught me committed by the Church, I don’t Dr. Tate is a man), but because needs. No one is going to be kind how to use everything inside it. point s/he to Michel Foucault, she is who she is, herself, which Creative Writing Non-Fiction to the Christian writer in the 21st And then the tools inside hap- Jacques Derrida, or Julia happens to be an intellectual pow- century American literary sphere. pened to be everything I needed Kristeva. What’s that going to erhouse as well as a kind person. I don’t have much to say about If you can’t handle a workshop to build all the things I wanted help? In my experience, honestly, These two qualities are ones I this course other than 1) it’s the like this you probably won’t to build. Having a predilection deconstruction of institution or interact with daily in Covenant’s most fun I had in a two-hour make it or at least you won’t write towards conversations about ideology feels good to do not faculty members regardless of course while at Covenant and anything worth-while. You’ll just “the new politics of difference” necessarily because it’s right height, weight, sex, gender, class, 2) it was one of the most chal- be writing to yourself. I was already set up to enjoy (though it absolutely is some- race, whatever other thing you lenging courses I’ve ever taken the course. However, as I said times, i.e. Jim Crow, New Jim want to qualify their identity at Covenant. Also, everything before, my interest wouldn’t have Crow, etc.) but because sometimes with. Take the course. Learn from I’ve said about every professor furthered my understanding or it feels nice to be smart enough to someone who knows way more before, guess what—it can be assuaged my existential anxieties undo something. It’s pride. It’s the about something than you do. said for Professor Huffines, too.

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On Singleness BY MARY HOLLIDGE Every year the marriage confer- find our identity in him, whether relationship was that between from Dr. Doriani, was what that him in any direction, and when ence rolls around and many of us we are single, dating, engaged, or man and God. God walked in looked like day to day. As a single he closes that door, we pursue can become contrary and bitter. married. the garden with Adam, and had person, my high and challenging him in a new direction, and in Maybe it’s just me, but I know We have been taught and influ- fellowship with him. I’m not calling is daily managing my this way we allow him to guide that the marriage conference is enced not only by the Church’s talking about middle school youth own heart, and remaining in him, us through the path he has not everyone’s favorite time of attitude, whether explicit or not, group fellowship, I mean intimate, actively, thoughtfully living for his carefully laid out for us. Finding the year, especially considering but also by the world that mar- intentional, passionate fellowship. glory. The Lord knows that that is our identity in Christ means to how close to it is to Valentine’s riage and family are the height God knew Adam perfectly and plenty of responsibility. actively remind ourselves of what Day. How many reminders of of human existence. To die never God loved Adam perfectly, before We will be working at this for Christ did for us and find peace in my singleness can I get in one having been married, having sex, and after the fall. If we are his, the rest of our lives, and should that magnificence. We allow his month? Not only this, but, along having children, is to not truly he feels the same about us. God provide another human actions to lead and dictate ours; with it, all those true but vague live life to its fullest potential. In What does it mean to receive being to strive with us intimately we allow his perfection to shine reminders to trust the Lord, wait response to all of this pressure his love, wait on him and find and closely, so be it for his glory. through our sin. Our father in on him, and find your identity in and bitterness at our own single- our identity in Christ? These If not or until that day, we can heaven loves us perfectly and has Christ. Yes and amen, but what ness we often lie to the world and things are daily tasks that require take every opportunity to create called us to a beautiful purpose, does that even mean? ourselves and say, “I don’t want to active participation. Everyday meaningful, beautiful relation- each through different stories, Despite all this I really did get married anyway.” seeking His face and working ships, exemplifying the powerful, with different challenges to grow think Dr. Doriani did a very good Here is the truth. We all long for His glory, honoring Him with life-giving gift of the gospel to our different gifts. job teaching us what the different for companionship in some way, our thoughts, words and deeds. anyone and everyone we encoun- Let us as believers focus on our roles in marriage should look like. and fear dying alone more than These things don’t change if you ter. Our lives should not be spent Lord and his work, trusting and The thing I appreciated most was much else, and if we don’t now meet “the one,” start dating or waiting, but living. allowing him to provide what we that he said all of us are called to we will as we get older. We were get married. The only thing that Waiting on the Lord is never need when we need it, in view of wait on the Lord, trust in him and created for relationship. The first changes, from what I learned passive. We are to run toward his love for us.

Virunga BY JOSEPH RICKETTS “All that could happen to me... I park has faced a great deal of in order to drill for oil within Emmanuel de Merode, and the view and enter into conservation. will accept it. I am not special.” violence and opposition. In 2007, Virunga’s boundary. The means Congolese rangers standing with Perhaps conservation is con- This is the heart of Rodrigue five gorillas from a single family by which SOCO has attempted to him shines brightly. A stunningly cerned with bigger things than we Mugaruka, warden for the Rwindi were shot and killed by members carry out this job are extremely beautiful and powerful film, tend to think. So, I encourage you Sector of Virunga National Park. of the illegal charcoal trade. controversial and they have only Virunga and has won international to attend the Campus Stewardship And this same heart beats in the Their intentions were simple: added to the conflict. SOCO has awards (best feature documentary Committee's showing of Virunga rest of the Congolese rangers destroy the park by destroying even gone so far as to use M23 in at both the Guanajuato Inter- in Mills 160 at 6:00 pm Monday, selflessly serving beside him in the primary reason to protect its its ventures against the national national Film Festival and Abu March 30. Then, live in light of Virunga. They are truly faithful resources. Since then, four more park, convincing the rebels that Dhabi Film Festival) and was what you see. and humble people, courageously gorillas have been killed. they will benefit greatly if the even nominated for an Oscar and facing death that they might Poaching and the bushmeat park is developed a BAFTA. preserve life. trade are always a threat to the In the struggle that has resulted Creation has a voice and I think Virunga National Park lies on park’s creatures as well. In the from all of these threats to the if you listen closely you can hear the Eastern edge of the Demo- midst of this, the DRC has faced park, 130 rangers have lost their it. Virunga National Park and all cratic Republic of the Congo internal turmoil and civil war. lives protecting the park and its of its individual creatures and (DRC) and is Africa’s first and Much of the fighting between animals. organisms are calling out loudly. oldest national park. Established the DRC’s national army and the Last year, Grain Media As Christ’s Church, it would be in 1925, it is the most biologically Congolese rebel military group produced a documentary describ- wrong for us to ignore this cry. We diverse protected area in the known as M23 has taken place ing the current situation within belong in the mess, bringing the entire continent. But what makes around and within Virunga. In the the park. The film, named after healing, redemption, and hope of Virunga special? The park is heat of battle, both people and the park, focuses on exposing the Gospel to all of the creation. part of an area in Africa that is animals have died. the tangled mess of hidden There is something beautiful home to the last mountain gorillas And yet, the DRC’s internal deceit, violence, racism, greed, and good happening in Virunga on earth. Of the approximately issues are only the beginning and corruption that threatens to National Park in the face of a 800 mountain gorillas left in the of Virunga’s troubles. A British strangle Virunga National Park. very great evil. I think it would Photo Credit: https://virunga.org/ world, around 200 live within the oil company by the name of In the midst of all the broken- be helpful for the Church to see it jungles of Virunga. SOCO has recently sought to ness, however, the courage and and to consider the implications Throughout its history, the undermine the park’s authority steadfastness of the park director, it might have for the ways we

If you have something you wish to read about or would like to write an article for Opinions, please contact Opinions editor Lynae Rockwell [email protected]. SPORTS 8 8 THETHE BAGPIPE BAGPIPE VOLUMEVolume 61.21 60.24 Making Sense of the Madness Scots Sports BY NATE FRIERSON This past weekend we experi- Bowl each year is less than four University of Alabama Birming- would be considered unrealistic Schedule enced what I like to refer to as billion. Every year we are treated ham shocked Big 12 conference if it were fiction, RJ Hunter hit an “the best two days of the year.” to amazing plays, unbelievable champion Iowa State and the rest impossibly deep, game-winning No, with all due respect to CAB, I upsets, and memorable storylines. of the country with a thrilling one three as time expired while his Friday, March 27 am not referencing Spring Formal At some point this year as I was point victory. While still riding father and coach fell out of his and the surrounding hoopla. I’m filling out my brackets I began to high on this wave of enthusiasm, chair and onto to the floor in a Baseball of course talking about the first wonder how it was even possible basketball fans quickly switched burst of excitement and emotion. at N.C. Wesleyan 1:00 PM round of the NCAA basketball for this year’s tournament to over to a matchup between the You couldn’t script these sorts of Rocky Mount, N.C. tournament (okay, technically it’s live up to all of the hype and heavily favored Baylor Bears and endings and yet they happen, year the second round, but everybody expectations. It is as if close the Panthers of Georgia State. The after year. Incredible. Softball knows it’s really the first round). games and exciting finishes are stakes of the game were raised Georgia State and UAB both vs. Methodist 2:00 PM There is something special about some kind of drug and we have dramatically as fans realized the went on to lose their third round Lookout Mountain, Ga. the first Thursday and Friday of to keep looking for another high backstory behind this particular games on Saturday, but those the tournament every year. It’s that is more extreme than the game. This was only Georgia moments of glory on Thursday Men’s Tennis a time when the normal rules last. As the tournament gains State’s third time ever appearing will always be remembered by vs. Methodist 3:30 PM governing college basketball are more and more attention each in the NCAA tournament. Georgia basketball fans. For those two Lookout Mountain, Ga. magically suspended for two days year, there eventually has to be State leading scorer Ryan Harrow programs, the 2014-2015 season and quite literally anything can a tipping point where the reality was out with a hamstring injury. will be honored and celebrated Women’s Tennis happen. Aptly named, March of the tournament can’t possibly Former Louisville player Kevin for years to come. Illustrating the vs. Methodist 3:30 PM Madness is the most electrifying fulfill everything that people are Ware who suffered a major leg remarkable nature of these events Lookout Mountain, Ga. American sporting event. The expecting from it, right? injury in the NCAA tournament is the fact that only 1.9 percent unique combination of the win or Well, there’s no need to worry. several years ago had recovered of the eleven million brackets Baseball go home format, the wide variety Never underestimate the Mad- and was making his return to filled out on ESPN.com predicted at N.C. Wesleyan 4:00 PM of styles of play, the huge field of ness. This year did not disappoint the tournament, albeit now as wins by both Georgia State and Rocky Mount, N.C. teams involved, and the overall in the slightest. The first three an underdog with the Panthers. UAB. I will watch the tournament unpredictability of the outcomes games alone entertained viewers The coach of Georgia State, Ron through till its conclusion, but I Softball makes the college basketball with dramatic finishes! Coming Hunter, tore his Achilles celebrat- will always enjoy those first two vs. Methodist 4:00 PM tournament the most entertaining off a strong season and an AAC ing his team’s conference cham- days the most. The best two days Lookout Mountain, Ga. sporting event of the year. It was conference tournament title, pionship victory and had to coach of the year are behind us, but estimated by the American Gam- third-seeded Notre Dame was the the game from a rolling chair. All don’t worry because next year ing Association that over seventy favorite against fourteen-seeded of this culminated in one of the they will only be better. March is Saturday, March 28 million tournament brackets were Northeastern University; however, most incredible comebacks in a beautiful thing. filled out this year and that there the Fighting Irish barely man- recent memory as Hunter’s son JV Softball was over nine billion dollars aged to hang on and eke out a R.J. almost singlehandedly led at Fisk University TBA gambled on tournament games. four point win. Within minutes, the Panthers back from down ten Nashville, Tenn. To put that in perspective, the viewers had turned their atten- points with just a few minutes amount of money bet on the Super tion to the next game where the remaining. With an ending that Men’s Tennis University of Alabama Birmingham celebrates after upsetting Iowa State, Photo Credit: www.abcnews.com vs. N.C. Wesleyan 11:00 AM Lookout Mountain, Ga.

Women’s Tennis vs. N.C. Wesleyan 11:00 AM Lookout Mountain, Ga.

Baseball at N.C. Wesleyan11:00 AM Rocky Mount, N.C.

Softball vs. N.C. Wesleyan1:00 PM Lookout Mountain, Ga.

Softball vs. N.C. Wesleyan 3:00 PM Lookout Mountain, Ga.

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