bagpipeonline.com Vol. 58 No. 1 Bthe AGPIPE September 1, 2011 Keepin’ It Spicy ANNIE HUNTINGTON Chartwells changes it up, but favorites remain the same by Lindsay Burkholder been revamped in response to a dents is to be more interactive,” said said. “These are trends found design and production: when [email protected] recent study in food trends from the Cameron Mitchell, the director of among similar campuses and age fired, they produce 79 percent National Restaurant Association, dining services. “Student comments groups, and we try to work those less carbon emissions than the Students, hungry from the rigors but thanks to a quick response from play a part in these decisions.” into our menus.” usual process, and the company of moving back into the dorms and the Chartwells kitchen staff, the The wraps are back and the Other noticeable improvements has a 100 percent recycling policy, unpacking, rushed down to the spicy little snacks are back. rest of the new Blink menu is include the new bread oven. “We reusing any broken pieces from its Blink to refuel, only to discover “After receiving about four here to stay; it’s all part of a want to fill the Great Hall with the customers to fashion new plates. that the legendary buffalo chicken dozen comment cards from stu- “refresh” program that took place smell of fresh baked bread,” Mitch- “We’ve been running that wrap had been removed from the dents, we decided to just put it while students were away for the ell said. The fresh bread is accompa- [menu] for a long time now,” Loch- Blink’s offerings. back!” said Ross Lochstampfor, the summer months. nied by a deli slicer which will slice stampfor said, “and it’s been losing “I couldn’t believe they took assistant production manager for “The market research shows that meat on demand. some of its pizzaz.” the buffalo chicken wrap off the Covenant dining. students get most excited about Also, the old green plates were But the process of choosing foods menu,” Kaley Hart, a sophomore, Chartwells wants to serve food that kind of short-order food, like retired this summer and replaced isn’t set in stone. Chartwells is gauging said. “That’s what everybody ate!” that students love. “Part of our burgers, chicken sandwiches, and with new china plates. students’ response to the new menu. The entire old Blink menu has customer service plan with our stu- chicken tenders,” Lochstampfor These plates are unique in their Student Summer Staycation by Rebekah Taft special events department employs “It was a Carter doorknob that said facilities employee Damarise to campers. [email protected] almost 50 students to help work she could not get to turn,” she said. Turnbull, a junior at Covenant. “I got to know the inside of a in facilities, at the conference desk, “She didn’t know that doorknobs Students worked full-time, B.E.S.T. closet better than my When most students think of and in the gym. never turn [in Carter]. You open working an average of 40 hours dorm room,” said Wynn Bennett, a summer break, they picture going Senior Cara Reed, who manned your door with your key.” a week between May and Au- sophomore, who spent her summer home to their families or perhaps the conference desk for her summer Whether assigned to facilities gust. Jobs included discounted living in the student apartments interning at New City Fellow- job at Covenant, answered phone services, the conference desk, or meal plans and free housing in and working as part of the facilities ship in downtown Chattanooga. calls and talked to campers and staff any other job, Covenant students the student apartments, though services work crew. Few imagine themselves living who had questions about the cam- who worked on campus for the some students decided to live off- Her work began with a month and working on campus like some pus. Although her job was some- summer seemed to especially enjoy campus. of deep cleaning dorm rooms in Covenant students did this past times mundane, she admits that the opportunity to bond with other Other departments such as order to make them presentable summer. there were a few funny moments. student workers. admissions, grounds, and Chart- for summer campers. Under the But due to the large number of Reed remembers a time when a “It started feeling like we were wells hired students to help with camps that Covenant hosts in sum- camp leader came up to the front all a big family, and it was sad jobs like recruiting new students, continued on page 3 mer months, the conference and desk with a doorknob in hand. when summer came to an end,” mowing lawns, and serving meals 2 News Remembering Wilmer Mills by Peter Upton are two sides of the same Koinonia. [email protected] As someone who has just begun to live in the sense of eternity, both in Andrew Wilmer Mills died at 2:48 PM on Lytle’s sense and in a sense of a Christian July 25. The poet, father, husband, afterlife, I can’t resist pointing out how craftsman, painter, teacher, and this illustrates what it means to say former Nick Barker Writer in that Jesus was “Word made flesh.” We Residence at Covenant passed away hear that expression so much and often after a short battle with liver cancer. don’t think about what it really means. Mills was set to teach two classes at Jesus never wrote anything; He spoke Covenant this fall. everything. He was sent here to talk to Mills’ words and poetry in his us. Every word he spoke came out of a last blog post are a tribute to his living, breathing body with lungs and fierce, childlike wonder and love. throat and tongue. That’s the most basic Marvel at the fulfillment and peace meaning of words being made flesh. of Christ that Mr. Wil truly lived In the hospital while I was having through a sincere and God-focused blood drawn, tests run, and chemo life. dripped into me, Kathryn often read the Psalms aloud to me in French, the “Now that I have been back from language of her heart. She has done this the hospital and have had time to from time to time during our marriage reflect on the past few weeks, I want to as well, and it has often struck me as share with you all a little of what I’ve to me the things you have written. This also part of the expansive clarity I now and measurable. Kairos Time is more a happy peculiarity of ancient Hebrew been thinking and feeling. I’m getting had a powerful effect on me, both your feel, and I want to try to make sense of open-ended and expansive such that one that it sounds most beautiful in modern stronger every day, and my last blood words and the fact of her reading them why that is. can experience an “eternity” in a brief French. But I’ve been wrong about this. test showed that my hemoglobin went out loud, giving them flesh in the air. Since being ill, I have not been able instant. It is not a cold finality at all. The beauty and power of the Psalms up two points, so I don’t need a blood It placed you in real time with me in to shave, and it has surprised me how While we mainly live in Chronos Time, comes both from the truth behind the transfusion. My bilirubin count went the same room. I think that if I had much my beard has turned gray without it is possible to experience Kairos as a words and from having them read aloud down two points, which is also great. read your messages silently to myself it my knowing it. This, combined with my place in which to abide and to breathe in any language. We have been very blessed by women in wouldn’t have had the same impact. It sallow eyes and hollow cheeks, leaves me deeply without respect to calendars and This dynamic relates to the strength our church and other friends who have literally helped me breathe better and looking like a photograph of a Civil War deadlines. Too often we live only for you have given me with your words, brought us meals. This has really helped more deeply. After getting home, I’d find Soldier’s ghost. It’s also striking how this the clock and fail to notice how, in the and reveals the power of God that has Kathryn as she has plenty to handle myself standing on the back porch taking makes me resemble old pictures of my absence of incremental time, we would sustained me my whole life. Psalm 139 right now other than cooking. Thank deep breaths, intoxicated by air and light own ancestors. Strangely, this is a com- be more able to see the pattern in the is one of my favorite psalms, and I’d you all. and hope. Despite my bleak prognosis, forting realization, as if being face-to-face rug, how the stained glass windows of love for you to ask someone to read it to I continue to be amazed at the I now see everything in front of me as with mortality shows me more clearly our lives make sense as wholes and not you out loud. It will likely move you in expressions of encouragement and a space of infinite possibility, within who I am.