Same Pipes, New Management Floods by STEPHANIE TAYLOR by LINDSAY PACE Recent Statistics Detailing the for Founders, Jan

1955 2015 THEWednesday, January 21, 2015 - Vol. 61.13 14049 Scenic Highway,BAGPIPE Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 www.bagpipeonline.com Racial Tensions Founders Coming to a Boil Same Pipes, New Management Floods BY STEPHANIE TAYLOR BY LINDSAY PACE Recent statistics detailing the For Founders, Jan. 13 was more racial disparities in Chattanooga than the first day of second schools have revealed what one semester. Gracewell, a hall on the researcher has called “educational third floor of the Rayburn wing, apartheid.” Ken Chilton, an associ- experienced a fair amount of chaos ate professor at Chattanooga State when a seemingly harmless toilet University, delivered his analysis rapidly flooded an entire restroom, of statistics from the U.S. Bureau part of the hallway, and also the of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census adjacent restroom at approximately Bureau, and the Pew Research 7:55 p.m. The frigid water poured Center in an address titled “State against the floor vigorously, rising of Black Chattanooga” as part of several inches above the ground for a week of activities organized in nearly thirty minutes. Thick towels honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were rolled quickly, precisely According to Chilton, the statewide pressed between the two restrooms average of college-ready students as a barricade until the water was is 19 percent; at majority white stopped. schools the average is higher, with BY GARRETT SISSON Founders' Resident Director, 20 percent at East Hamilton High This semester, the Bagpipe is natural extension of the printed to print is intended to increase Kevin McAlvey, stated, "We turned and 41 percent at Signal Mountain welcoming additions to its staff edition of the paper. Simakoff readership among faculty, off- the water off today, but for some High. Zero percent of students and publication. With Liz Simakoff describes the platform as “stream- campus students, and alumni, as reason when we turned it back on, at Brainerd High and Howard as its new Editor-in-Chief, through lined—attractive, but simple.” well as create a more tangible and that toilet kept running.” McAlvey School—both majority black more focused attention to its Megan is a Junior History major accessible record of the writers’ then added, “In an attempt to fix schools—were deemed college presence online, and by reaching who has studied graphic design work with the paper. Alongside the running, it got worse." ready, as reported by the Times out to new writers, the Bagpipe in high school and at Covenant. this is increased accountability And indeed it did. "Gracewellians" Free Press. is finding better ways to keep the She is filling a new position as the to a high standard of quality. The first noticed the surge when the Chilton also noted significant paper relevant to the student body. Bagpipe’s Web Designer, which project represents one of Simak- sound of flowing water exceeded gaps in income and wealth between One of the most noticeable includes responsibilities previously off’s major goals for the paper this music, laughter, or studying. Junior whites and blacks, as well as additions to the Bagpipe is its held by the Layout Editor. Megan semester: “that our writers would Amy Dewaal immediately knew the comparatively higher rates new website, which is hosted by is also in charge of the Bagpipe’s grow in confidence and relevancy something was out of place. "I was of imprisonment and poverty of Squarespace and designed by social media advertising, such in the ways their writing serves the sitting at my computer and came blacks in Chattanooga. Chilton Megan Walter. Walter worked as its Instagram, Facebook, and Covenant community.” to investigate. Then I notified concludes that “Inequality is the with Layout Editor Gabby Powell Twitter accounts. Liz Simakoff is a Senior the hall." While some of Amy's new normal.” to make the website feel like a Publishing online in addition Economics major who has roommates joked that she was CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEWS 1-3 American Peaky Blinders New Mercies ARTS 4-5 Idol Review for a HeForShe Revamped New Year OPINIONS 6-7 SPORTS 8 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 NEWS 2 2 THETHE BAGPIPE BAGPIPE VOLUMEVolume 61.13 60.24 Tree House Project BY CARRIE WOODWARD The Treehouse Project is bringing Building Challenge-certified luxury treehouse experience complete to life every Swiss Family Robinson treehouses, which according to the with a customized name plate on dream at the base of Lookout video will be “a place that not only the door and company logo on a Mountain. Enoch Elwell, cofounder lets your imagination run free, but trailhead signpost. of The Company Lab, and Andrew gives back to the old growth forest The Treehouse Project will Alms, who has a background in it’s a part of, so that generation be built at the foot of Lookout land and organizational develop- after generation can savor some- Mountain, and boasts of its close ment, are part of the team heading thing special.” proximity to both the natural up the project designed to be The Treehouse Project has begun beauty of Eastern Tennessee an imaginative and eco-friendly pursuing their idea by harness- and Chattanooga as a cultural “glamping” (glamorous camping) ing the power of crowdfunding center, highlighting the duality experience. through the popular online venue of “glamping:”a vacation that The Treehouse Project’s Kickstarter, a site dedicated to can include both shopping and Kickstarter page features a video helping creators pitch ideas to the kayaking, campfires and indoor of children bounding through the public, which is then responsible plumbing. Treehouses are just leaves of a backyard. The appeal to for committing the money used one part of the glamping trend that pine, beech, poplar, ash, cedars, responsible building, requires that an adult’s sense of nostalgia forces to complete the project. As of includes yurts, huts, and really sycamore, and black walnut trees, the treehouses contribute positively a wistful look back at childhood Tuesday, Jan. 13, 232 backers had fancy tents. While the founders among others, and Elwell and Alms to the environment, generating days of laughter, adventure, and pledged $34,045 dollars, just over of The Treehouse Project were fully intend to preserve the natural more energy than they consume treehouses with the words, “Back the original $33,333 goal. Back- inspired by other sites—like Tree- beauty of the forest. The luxury and built to last. then, life was like a treehouse—a ers had pledged towards reward house Point in Fall City, Wa., which treehouses will be complete with If construction goes according place to create new worlds and be incentives such as “cyber hugs and features eight luxury treehouses bathrooms, air conditioning, and to schedule, the first treehouse anyone you wanted to be, an open high fives” at the lowest reward and yoga classes—Elwell and Alms electricity. They will be constructed should be finished by the begin- space for daydreams to become level, while higher donations say that The Treehouse Project will in conjunction with Green|Spaces, ning of March, but the Treehouse reality. The Treehouse Project is result in“Sleep in a Tree” stickers, be different, largely because of its a Chattanooga initiative that Project is already accepting early about returning grownups to that an “Adventure Fanny Pack” full innovative design and Chattanooga helps builders complete projects reservations via a Google document place of possibility.” The video of granola and other camping location. in an environmentally conscious until the full website launches next asks, “How much adventure can essentials, or for those who donate The site of The Treehouse way. week. To learn more about The fit into a vacation?” Their answer at the highest level of $1,850 or Project is in Flintstone, Ga., in one The certification by the Living Treehouse Project, Green|Space, or is in this project—the creation of more, a “Corporate Treehouse of Georgia’s only two remaining old Building Challenge, a framework the Living Building Challenge, visit the world’s first sustainable Living Package” including a four-night growth forests and is full of oak, for environmentally conscious and sleepinatree.co. CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE experience as a writer for the enthusiastic…, who consistently writers, the Bagpipe is hosting a the student body. expectations if you know what they Bagpipe and served as Copy Editor did their work and did it well last Spring Writer’s Conference, slated Simakoff admits that her plans are,” says Simakoff. last semester. Stephanie Taylor has semester… we can do a little more for Jan. 24 from 11:00 a.m. to for the new year are “ambitious,” “When I played basketball,” Sima- been hired as the new Copy Editor now.” 12:30 p.m. The seminar will feature but to her, the job is a matter of koff says, comparing the transition of the Bagpipe, to fill in Simakoff’s Simakoff sees a direct connec- a crash course in journalism, as stewardship. She explains that this to a halftime, “we would always do previous position. tion between the paper’s relevancy well as the Bagpipe’s mission year’s staff follows in the footsteps better in our second half.” One of Simakoff’s first actions and its diversity of student voices. statement and a revamped weekly of Bagpipe editors and writers as Editor-in-Chief was to ask the Overseen by a faculty advisor, but production schedule. It will include from years past. With the hiring Interested writers may submit articles to the staff themselves what they would not managed by Covenant admin- handouts for writing in a newspaper of Spring staff while retaining Bagpipe by emailing the Section editors, like to see changed, in order to istration, the Bagpipe has always context and breakout groups led by most of the staff from the Fall, listed on Page 3.

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