Covenant in Chattanooga

THE BAGPIPE FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 14049 SCENIC HIGHWAY, LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, GA 30750 VOLUME 62.12 Highland Games The Road To Houston Son Lux Concert “And Again” SIP Show Marriage and the Church You get to throw things like Lol. I suck at this game on the Music video for “Change is Ev- You can take a square, but no We can’t all find a Slovene-American stones and hammers and small messenger app. erything” is still wrecking us. hanging picture frames. jewlery designer and former model children and logs. named Melania. But Trump can. Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 LOOKING BREAK ON IMPACT: STUDENTS TRAVEL AHEAD: THE WORLD A FEW COVENANT IN STATES AWAY CHATTANOOGA by Molly Hulsey At first glance, Clarkston, by McKenzie Barham Ga. looks like any idyl- lic southern suburb: brick Somewhere in the future, ranch homes, strip malls, Covenant College hopes steepled churches lining a to establish a small, sat- railroad track. However, ellite campus downtown after scratching the surface, for students interested in stark differences become the greater Chattanooga much more obvious. Several homes have community. tude of coffee houses and “A neighborhood representatives of each Recently, Dr. Lance been renovated into elabo- restaurants downtown can once filled with a diverse of those voices.” rate temples and mosques. Wescher, chair of the De- be a great escape from the group of people becomes The idea is to set partment of Economics & Shops advertise goods from piles of homework. full of people that all look up Covenant students as Nepal, Somalia, and Bur- Community Development, Students on the the same,” said Wescher. a catalyst for community invited me to accompany ma—to name just a few. field trip nodded in agree- There are many ways to conversations: to address Churches hold services in himself and his US Ur- ment as their peers voiced combat this and we passed the needs of the commu- Urdu, Arabic, and Dzongha. ban Poverty class down various frustrations about by one small apartment nity and to think about Dubbed by Times Magazine to Chattanooga for a field not always being able to complex that had worked the vision of a future as “the most diverse square trip to Main Street. connect to the Chattanoo- out a solution to keep the Chattanooga. mile in America,” Clarkston He and another ga community in the way neighborhood diverse. Students would has ushered thousands of Chattanooga native (who that they would like. A couple bought live in a facility owned by refugees into American cit- preferred not to be men- Dr. Wescher has the whole complex and the Maclellan Founda- izenship since the 1980s. tioned) walked us through an idea on how to ad- promised the renters sta- tion, with apartments for Clarkston and the the history of that particu- dress this. ble rates that wouldn’t in- the students on the top White Swan Yakama Indi- lar street: once known for Six years ago, the crease with the valuable floor and tenants from the an reservation, Wash. were drugs and prostitution, idea started in a conversa- property around them. community on the bottom. ground zero for the 20 stu- Main Street has blos- tion with Robby Holt, head “I often think about There would be space for dents on this spring’s Break somed into a string of fa- pastor of Northshore Fel- the verse that says to love 12-16 students who would on Impact (BOI) trips. The vorite restaurants, baker- lowship, at breakfast on your neighbors, and it’s spend a summer and a se- trips often fulfill Covenant’s ies and art galleries. Main Street. Wescher and not a problem of me walk- mester living there, simi- Intercultural requirement “Fifteen to twenty Holt were discussing the ing down the street and lar to studying abroad. It but also guide some stu- years ago, nobody went dents into long-term mis- problem of gentrification, crossing to the other side, would even count as an in- sion trips and internships. ‘downtown,’” said our a term in urban planning. it’s that I don’t walk down tercultural credit. tour guide. “Now I hear Christiana Fitzpat- When businesses the streets,” said Wescher. “We want it to be rick, Director of Global Ed- students wishing they or wealthier residents “Chattanooga is long enough that actual could spend more time ucation, says that the BOI move into low-income Unum, it is the TVA, it relationships can be estab- trips were created to educate downtown and it blows neighborhoods, there is a is East Lake, it is Look- lished in the community,” my mind.” students how can “be good trend of increasing prop- out Mountain, St. Elmo explained Dr. Wescher. neighbors now and wherev- It seems to be a erty value, which increas- and all 1,500 people who I spoke with Brad er the Lord may take them.” common desire among es the rent payments of were evicted from the Voyles, Dean of Students, Fitzpatrick joined Covenant students, since the locals, forcing them Superior Creek Lodge— concerning the ideas and Mission To the World’s most students occasion- to move out of the area. and we need all of those planning that has already (MTW) Opal Hardgrove to ally feel “trapped” on the This has been happening voices to create a vision begun to take place. He is supervise students on the mountain. The multi- on East Main. of community. We want CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LUCAS ART WORKSHOP DEDICATION by Anna Smith early days. Halvorson also presented a gift to donor The Lucas Art Workshop David Lucas, who gave a was dedicated on Thurs- few remarks. day, March 17 in a ceremo- Kellogg spoke ny that honored the Lucas about the past of the Art family and looked to the Department and shared past, present, and future his memories of the ear- of the Art Department. ly years. He said that The dedication years ago he became was held outside the new aware of the assump- building. Attendees in- tion that “art is first and cluded Board of Trustees foremost about the art- members, faculty, and art ist, which was at odds students. The Lucas Art with Christian belief.” loss of the old Art Barn, hill with curiosity” to see bors too. We can praise the Workshop is named after He was eager to she had realized that the what they are doing. Creator but we also lament David and Linda Lucas, come work at Covenant Art Department was the Morton reflectedbrokenness too.” Morton who donated money to where “faith wasn’t just body of artists and teach- on the Art Department’s said that the Art Depart- build it. a theory, but more like a ers themselves. future. He quoted Steven ment’s future is connected President Derek love affair.” Kellogg also Although they Henry Madoff’s idea that to their creative commit- Halvorson welcomed and said that he wishes the art lacked a physical space, “teaching art is teaching ments, which are tied to introduced the speakers, students to “be reminded “we already were a place.” life” but said, “life can only the work of Jesus Christ. including Alumna Bekah of their special calling to Meyer said that although be found in the life and Linda Lucas was Meyer ’15, Professor of Art put Christ foremost in the “the Art Department’s work of Jesus Christ.”He unable to attend the cer- Jeff Morton, and Professor world of Art.” geographic location has said, “we need to listen to emony, but David Lucas Ed Kellogg, who Halvor- Meyer reflected on never been an attraction,” our art to nurture relation- and two of their adult chil- son said “was” the Art De- the present. She said that she hopes that “others will ships with our brothers dren were present. partment in the program’s while she mourned the make their way down the and sisters and our neigh- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEWS 02 Mounting short- According to Fitz- “There are a lot of students into a whole succo- BREAK ON IMPACT term mission critique patrick, the trip survived the beautiful things about the tash of cultures— if not on CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 from The Chalmers Cen- program cuts primarily due culture, just like the way a more varied scale than Ya- Clarkston trip, while For- ter, a local community to continued relationships they celebrate and how kama. At the trip’s origins eign Language Professor, development research in- with nonprofits on the res- thankful they are for their five years ago, refugee reset- Dr. Sandy Shaw, and Man- stitute, and growing costs ervation. The Yakama trip food, for creation,” says tlement issues were becom- ager of Alumni Engage- led Covenant to reorient also helps recruit students Mayo. She greatly admires ing increasingly relevant to ment, Amy Smith, headed their BOI program. for summer internship op- the tribe’s collectivist values the world stage. Now that the Yakama trip. “We’ve been think- portunities. Since the trip’s and how their religious be- Clarkston is a prime desti- The customary RUF- ing a lot more carefully establishment, at least one liefs filter through every as- nation for newcomers from led London experience was about long-term impact and Covenant intern returns to pect of Yakama life. Syria, the trip is even more cancelled after only 4 stu- working with groups that White Swan each year. On the other hand, pertinent for students inter- dents applied. Fitzpatrick are already set and involved Sophomore Ear- she was troubled by the cus- ested in NGO or interna- attributes the drop in appli- in the community.

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