1955 2015 THEWednesday, February 11, 2015 - Vol. 61.16 14049 Scenic Highway,BAGPIPE Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 www.bagpipeonline.com Payday Loans Locally Grown in Chatt This is Not a Drill Food BY GARRETT SISSON BY LINDSAY PACE On Feb. 3, the Chattanooga City 2015 has just begun and local, Council voted 5-4 to put a morato- farm-fresh food scenes in Chat- rium on new permits for alternative tanooga have increased now more financing businesses, including than ever. Covenant College payday loan stores. On Feb. 10, the students have become dramati- council will vote on a permanent cally more involved after Eden ordinance to ban such companies Thistle, a local farm, began a 2015 from setting up within 500 feet Buyer’s Club. The $40 membership of residential areas, as well as a subscription includes a monthly quarter mile from other stores in retrieval of seasonal meats such the industry. as pork, chicken, eggs, tenderloin, The ordinance was proposed on and ham. Jan. 12 by Carol Berz and Rus- Environmental science majors sell Gilbert in order to decrease Rachel Kelley and Lauren Seip city crime by spreading out the both enjoy volunteering at the concentration of title pawn and Debris from the scene of the Andreas fire, photo by Abby Whisler farm, exploring a godly approach to BY ZACH JONES cash advance organizations. farming. According to edenthistle. “We know that predatory lending When Sarah Cretal decided to available for comment on the fire’s is out, he said, protocol requires com, these approaches entail leads to a decrease in capital hang out with friends in Andreas cause. Matt Owens pulled the fire the firemen to go into every room purchasing pasture-raised meats, investment, hurts neighborhoods lobby last Thursday night, she alarm at 9:50, and the West Brow to make sure there are no fires and eating fewer processed foods, and and has even been linked to didn’t think that she would leave Fire Department arrived by about no smoke. eating less meat. Siep said, “They increases in crime,” says Mayor the building 30 minutes later 10:00 p.m. Students in the build- have a buyer's club where you can Berke, according to the Chat- because of a fire and then be “Almost as soon as I saw the fire, ing at the time of the fire were subscribe and get a membership. tanooga Times Free Press. forced to find a new room for the Sarah Withers comes sprinting past evacuated to the chapel and You'll get eggs, chicken breasts, “It just seems like a good step weekend. But that’s what happened and starts banging on Chris Stern’s then released after everyone was chicken thighs, whole chickens, that we can legally take at the local when a golf cart parked outside of door,” Cretal says. “Then Chris, accounted for. “The evacuation and whole pigs." level to prevent the concentrations Andreas caught fire. Matt, and Micah went at it with fire went like clockwork. Everyone After the city's leading farmer's from increasing.” Last Thursday, Feb. 5, at extinguishers.” exited just the way they were market advocacy group, Gaining All that is usually required to approximately 9:45 p.m., a Chris Stern, Resident Director asked to,” said Stern. “It was a Ground, was depleted of grant take out a payday loan is a form Covenant College Safety & of Andreas, said Sunday that the great collaborative effort from the money in 2013, Chattanooga of identification and proof of Security golf cart parked outside of fire department arrived on site in building.” farmers, supporters, and Covenant employment, which is appealing Andreas lobby caught fire. Micah exactly 9 minutes and that the fire Only minor damage to students have banded together to to customers who don’t have credit Turner was on shuttle duty when was completely extinguished five the building was done, including continue health-conscious prac- at a local bank. Often, the loan is the fire occurred, but has not been minutes afterwards. After the fire blackened brick siding and five tices by buying from local farmers CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 NEWS 1-3 Grammy Apology to Third Wheeling Edith Stein ARTS 4-5 Performance Sufjan Stevens Isn't So Bad Review OPINIONS 6-7 SPORTS 8 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 NEWS 2 2 THETHE BAGPIPE BAGPIPE VOLUMEVolume 61.16 60.24 Gig Tank BY ELIOT KAUFMANN Chattanooga’s high-speed internet been there since the beginning. While Gig Tank 2014 concen- compile information about common executive director Mike Bradshaw, is doing far more than simply facili- Since 2010, they have launched a trated on 3-D printing startups, sicknesses, such as the flu, and “Startups are now better positioned tating painless Netflix viewings. number of companies, including the 2015 rendition marks a return predict when and where another than ever to begin developing The city has become a breeding Chattanooga hotspots like Velo to what they originally set out to outbreak will occur. The vision is high-bandwidth business models.” ground for startup businesses that Coffee and The CrashPad. do—high-speed innovation. This that one day, people will be able to Gig Tank 2015 is currently are looking to take advantage of In 2012, CO.LAB commenced year, entrepreneurs will develop open an application on their phone accepting applications. The internet speeds that are fifty times an annual program titled Gig Tank. applications that are specifically and check if the area they are application window will close the country average. Lasting fourteen weeks, Gig Tank’s designed to operate at one gigabit about to enter is germ-infested. on March 31st. The program will Since 2012, more than thirty focus is to help startups utilize per second speed. This kind of innovation is stretch from May 4th to August tech startups have sprung up in Chattanooga’s one gigabit per CO.LAB and Gig Tank are precisely what CO.LAB envisioned 15th, concluding with Demo Day Chattanooga. Much of this can be second internet, the fastest speed responsible for putting companies when they started Gig Tank in where business plans will be credited to the metro-wide fiber in the United States. Entrepreneurs like Corpora on the map, which 2012. However, back then they presented to potential partners and infrastructure and the priority on develop a business plan over the uses real-time Twitter updates weren’t sure how widespread ultra investors. getting cheap broadband to the fourteen weeks, working with and other public data to track high-speed internet would be. masses. experts along the way. The program the trends of illnesses. Started Now that gigabit communities are CO.LAB, a company that helps culminates with presentations to by Adam Sadilek, Corpora uses a reality, Gig Tank is refocused on startups get on their feet, has potential investors. high-speed internet to quickly accelerating startups. According to Andreas Fire CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE broken windows. Caston of The Fritz. “The Internet But if students thought that the was out, so I hadn’t even seen the craziness caused by the fire would email yet. My suitemate comes into end when the flames died out, they my room and told me I had to be were wrong. Since the night of the out by 11:30 p.m. It was jarring.” fire, life for Andreas residents has Students have been asked not only gotten more crazy. to park in the Andreas parking lot. Dean of Students Brad Voyles Furthermore, the Internet in the told Andreas students in an email building is still disconnected at on Friday afternoon that the school the time of this writing. But Caston has hired Nivek, a remediation ser- said that she finds redemption in vice, to clean the building. School all the chaos: administration estimates that it will “It makes me feel compassion take approximately a week for the for the homeless. Or those perse- building to be thoroughly cleaned. cuted for their faith, living on the In that same email, Voyles run and leaving everything behind. announced that all 111 students That would be horrible—and this is housed in the building would be only three days.” asked to move out hall by hall for Covenant administration hired three days each while cleaning took professional cleaners to wash any place. Fourth floor halls—The Fritz clothes, bed sheets, and rugs that By Friday morning, the golfcart was completely destroyed, photo by Abby Whisler and Imani—were expected to leave students needed cleaned. The place to stay. Chris Stern sent an to return to their rooms until Nivek timeline to bring the building back only hours after the email was sent residence staff distributed trash email to students expressing clearly finished cleaning the hall. to full function is more ambiguous in order to allow cleaning to begin bags, and by Friday night laundry- that “We have several open rooms All halls were originally than originally thought, because immediately. Ithaca and Bloodfield filled bags lined the halls to be across campus and enough open expected to be able to return to of “Nivek’s hard work to do this were also asked to leave earlier taken away. beds so that no one will have to their rooms by Wednesday, and thoroughly.” than planned when cleaning moved Andreas residence staff were sleep on the floor.” cleaning was slotted to take no ahead of schedule Sunday night. very intentional in their efforts to Once cleaning began on each more than a week. Since that time, “It was crazy,” said Ann Ferris make sure that each student had a hall, students were not permitted however, Stern has said that the Faculty Quote of the Week “I’m more of a marathon runner than a stripper.” - Professor Robinson in Sociology of Emotions VolumeNEWS 60.243 THETHE BAGPIPE BAGPIPE VOLUME 61.16NEWS 3 The Verdict Locally Grown Food CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE Yes to finding your and businesses, which are easily to know their farmer personally.