Bryan College's Crisis

1955 2014 Thursday, April 17, 2014 - Volume 60.24 14049 Scenic Highway, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, 30750 www.bagpipeonline.com Neo-Nazis Bryan coming to College’s Chattanooga crisis by Kendi Anderson Swastikas will be descending by Stephen McKerihan upon Chattanooga. They will be tattooed on bodies, drawn Bryan College, a longstanding on signs, and representing a rival of Covenant College, is message of white supremacy. currently under heavy scrutiny by Officially, the group is protest- both its internal community and ing illegal immigration, though outsiders for a recent controversy many in Chattanooga fear revolving around a revision to its the group’s history of violent statement of belief. counter-protests may com- Bryan’s statement of belief, Christina Schuman mand center stage. which faculty are required to On March 26, the Hamilton sign in order to remain employed Nurse Barb to retire from Covenant County Commission granted at the college, has been revised an assembly permit to the to include the fact that Adam by Rebekah Taft as a candy striper and a nurse’s at the school, the nurse’s office National Socialist Movement, and Eve were historical people. aid before getting her RN at consisted of one room and a national neo-Nazi group. President Stephen Livesay caused After over 30 years of serving St. Luke’s Hospital of Nursing. contained only a hospital bed, The group arrives in Chat- an uproar across campus when the Covenant student body, Her first job after graduation dresser, bedside table, and tanooga on April 25 and he announced to the faculty that Nurse Barb Michal, director of was working in intensive care, vintage yellow refrigerator. plans to have a meeting of the statement of belief would be Priesthill Health and Counseling where she discovered a love for Nurse Barb found that she “internal business” outside changed two months before the Center, has decided to retire at bedside nursing. loved being a school nurse for of the city and then gather in semester ends. the end of this year. In 1973, Nurse Barb, her hus- some of the same reasons she front of the Hamilton County “We have a very pressing “I just want to thank Cov- band, and her two young sons loved working in intensive care. Courthouse for a rally the problem with enrollment and a enant for being a wonderful moved to Lookout Mountain for “You get the same one-on- next day. serious financial deficit for next place to work,” said Nurse Barb. her husband to attend Covenant one contact that you do in Commissioner Fred Skillern year. If the clarification makes “I’ve always said this is the as a Biblical Studies major and bedside nursing. And I love the said that he does not like the the retention of students difficult, best job I could have. I love the for Nurse Barb to fill the position people aspect,” she said. group coming, but they are our enrollment will drop even students and am going to miss of school nurse. This love for people has spilled meeting all the legal standards more, putting us in an ever them a great deal.” “The Lord waited until we had over into other areas of Nurse and cannot be prevented. tighter financial bind,” Professor Nurse Barb had wanted to be two kids and no money to bring Barb’s time at Covenant. She The National Socialist of Education Steve DeGeorge a nurse for as long as she can us to Covenant and we just recollects the days she spent Movement defines themselves told The Bryan Triangle. remember. As a child in Law- stayed,” she said. training under Collyn Schmidt as a “white civil rights group.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 rence, KS, she gained experience When Nurse Barb first arrived CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEWS 1-3 The Grand Bruce Sorrow in Why I wore Budapest Springsteen’s hiding a tuxedo ARTS 4-5 Hotel High Hopes to Spring Formal OPINIONS 6-7 SPORTS 8 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 NEWS 2 THE BAGPIPE Volume 60.24 No more practical service for juniors by Emmett Gienapp practical service work from Mark 10:45 Project, formerly hosted a Ministry Fair in Carter McKeon has worked closely freshmen and sophomores known as the Amateur Project, Lobby on Mon., April 14, which with many Covenant students This fall, rising juniors at Cov- began as a larger conversation which is a service day carried out gave recruiters the chance to to respond to natural disasters enant who are concerned about among several staff members by Christian Mind groups during speak with students about like the earthquake in Haiti their workload will be catching in the Student Development orientation week at Covenant. opportunities off campus. and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. a lucky break as they will no office about the program and “Part of developing a well- One recruiter, Emily Barrow, He is now hoping to build a longer be required to participate how it could be made better. rounded Christian education is who is a Covenant alumna and strong relationship between the in Practical Service. The proposed program changes learning to serve, doing work, the current site-based Mentor- college and R3I. According to an email from that resulted from that discus- expecting nothing in return, and ing Director for Big Brothers McKeon said, “We love Cov- Dean of Students Brad Voyles to sion were accepted by the glorifying God through that,” Big Sisters, revisited Covenant enant students. Often they are the student body, the change is board of trustees during their Valkenburg said. to encourage students who struggling to bring together their largely the result of an increasing meetings in March. Though it has been several are thinking about mentoring learning with the real world, but number of work study students. In addition to exempting years since students participated children one hour a week this seems to push them to work With more students being juniors from the program, the in the Amateur Project, the through her organization. hard and be willing volunteers.” paid to maintain operations on Student Development office service project was revitalized for “It works perfectly for By changing the name of the campus daily, there is less need will be changing the name of orientation week in Fall 2013. Covenant’s practical service program to the Mark 10:45 Pro- for practical service workers. the “Practical Service Program” Every Christian Mind group was program,” Barrow said. “It’s gram, the Student Development “Last semester, I think Facilities to the “Mark 10:45 Program” assigned to serve the Chat- about building relationships, and office wants to best encourage alone had three times the total in an attempt to better reflect tanooga community in specific that can be a great service.” and showcase the willing number of student workers the “intended purpose of the ways by working for a day at Brian McKeon, another volunteerism that McKeon spoke they could assign to meaningful program as described in the organizations like the Food Bank recruiter representing R3 Interna- of. Mark 10:45 says, “For even work,” said Student Develop- Covenant College Purpose and Hope for the Inner City. tional and New City Fellowship, the Son of Man came not to be ment Office Coordinator Becky Statement as service that is In order to allow students to was at Covenant to recruit served but to serve, and to give Valkenburg. Christ-like,” said Dean Voyles. effectively serve the community students for disaster response his life as a ransom for many.” The decision to only require Part of that program is the in their own way, Covenant work and local ministry projects. Neo-Nazis in CHA Father of our age.” leader Jeff Schoep. trying to provoke riots. I hope they leave town as CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE They are working to usurp Regardless of numbers or Mayor Andy Berke is work- quickly as humanly possible." the country’s two-party system political clout, the group has ing with police officials to Berke also told the Times They compare themselves to and replace it with a white-run done more than gotten under create a safety plan and is also Free Press that he is not sure leaders like Rosa Parks and nation. Currently, the group the skin of the residents in the concerned with protecting the if Chattanooga should have Martin Luther King Jr. has no one elected to office cities they visit. Accounts of city’s image. a “counter event,” and if The thesis of the National and only has between 100- arrests, violence, and building Berke, who is Jewish, told that should be supported by Socialist Movement make 1,000 members, according burning are in the group’s the Times Free Press, "I can't the government or a private claims that seem to be to the Southern Poverty Law history within the last decade. stand having them in our city." organization. contradictory to the message Center’s unofficial figures. "They are essentially "I don't believe that it of peace and justice for which This is the nation’s most provokers," said Mark Potok, is productive or helpful to these civil rights leaders prominent neo-Nazi group, the director of the Southern anyone, in the least. They fought. The National Socialist and they chose to meet in Poverty Law Center to the have a constitutional right to Movement desires a colony Tennessee because it has the Times Free Press. assemble,” Berke said. “We of all whites and calls Adolf largest number of support- They create incidents by will make sure it occurs in a Hitler “the beloved Holy ers, according to the group shouting racial epithets and peaceful manner.

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