BAGP THE IPE 1955 2013 C O E V E E G N A N T C O L L THEThursday, February 28, 2013 - Vol. 59.20 14049 Scenic Highway, LookoutBAGPIPE Mountain, Georgia, 30750 bagpipeonline.com Berke Stewardship fumbles by Lily Davis This past Monday, Covenant cel- ebrated the second annual Day Woodlawn of Stewardship. Day of Stewardship began last by Kendi Anderson spring as part of an effort to set aside time for Covenant students, The slogan “Renew Chattanooga” faculty, staff, and alumni to consider is posted on signs all around their role as stewards of God’s gifts Chattanooga with mayoral and look into ways that they can candidate Andy Berke’s name participate in good stewardship. For written above it. The candidate, Day of Stewardship, the alumni known for his vision of a cleaner office invites someone to speak in Chattanooga, was challenged on chapel and publishes a newsletter his family’s property ownership called “The Overlook,” which dis- of the Woodlawn Apartment Swallowfood.com cusses, “the ways alumni can support Complex this past week. the College’s mission by praying, The Woodlawn Apartments, representing, and giving,” says the located in East Chattanooga, sit Covenant website. in the middle of one of Chat- Alcohol Awareness Week This year’s speaker was alum Mi- tanooga’s largest hot spots for chael Pepper, who graduated from crime and gang activity, the 2012 by G. Dale & G. Humbles that students choose to set aside “Alcohol is a gift, but it’s a Covenant in 2009. Pepper majored gang assessment study shows. the use of alcohol during their gift that worth learning how to in Community Development while The apartments are known Spring break is coming. Many time here,” said Ingraham. “But it use well so that we can accept it at Covenant, and since graduating throughout Chattanooga for Covenant students will enjoy a is still beneficial to be thoughtful with thankfulness,” said senior has worked with Global Generosity drug deals and Crips gang activ- cold beer, a glass of wine, or maybe about what your relationship with English major Peter Bradshaw. Movement in Atlanta. ity, and according to the Ochs something a little stronger on their alcohol will look like on official “The misuse of alcohol is a sign of According to Tim Mahla, As- Center for Metropolitan Studies, week away from campus. But alco- school breaks and the rest of your ingratitude.” sistant Director of Young Alumni, 60 percent of residents in this hol, like many good things, can be life after Covenant.” Last week, Student Develop- Pepper was invited to speak this year area live below the poverty line. destructive if it is abused. Student Life’s stated goals for ment surveyed 100 students. Out because he “has run across a lot of Mayoral candidate Rob- To limit abuse within the Cove- Alcohol Awareness Week are to of those 100 students, 57 percent people from our generation who are ert Chester Heathington, Jr., nant community, Associate Dean of promote a Biblical view of alcohol of the respondents were female working through what it looks like brought the Berke family’s own- Students Jonathan Ingraham and and alcohol use, to educate the students and 43 percent were to be generous.” ership of this property to public Coordinator of Student Leadership campus on issues of alcohol use male students. Students living on “He has challenged me to think attention and challenged his Jessica Anderson are heading up and abuse, and to discuss Cov- campus filled out 76 percent of the differently about how I can be a opponent’s family to make more Alcohol Awareness Week. enant’s unique stance on alcohol accessible surveys. The remain- better steward of the time, talents, of an effort to prevent crime in “Covenant is unique in the sense use for its students. ing 24 percent were filled out by energy, and resources the Lord has Continued on page 2News Continued on page 2News Continued on page 3News Arts Opinions Sports Comic Relief Marijuana: More than Playing JV Review a weed & glorifying God News: 2 The Bagpipe Vol. 59.20 Woodlawn ric and praxis,” said Hannah “will support our police officers Covenant. “There are no political come back to Lookout Mountain Continued from front page Copeland, a junior at Covenant. and make sure they have the constituents in Woodlawn, most because Woodlawn is not our “While he may not own the tools to do their job.” people there do not vote, so why reality.” this area of town. apartments, his association with Juliet Cangelosi, a junior at should our politicians care? If Berke has said in television “I think you should have the them is too close to excuse non- Covenant believes that a good your job is to stay in power then campaign ads that he “wants to decency, or your family should action.” way to care about Chattanooga you don’t care about Woodlawn.” see people feel safe as they walk have the decency, to clean it up,” She questions why the public is to know what is happening in Mollenkof has spent a large down the street,” and Heathing- Heathington said in the press believes he will increase public the city. amount of time with kids from ton, along with many in Chat- conference on Feb. 21. safety as mayor more than he is “Integrity in politics is im- Woodlawn. tanooga, is challenging Berke’s Heathington questions wheth- doing now. portant in our community and “It is a bad environment for ability to accomplish this. er Berke has the credentials to Heathington said in the press we need to know what is going children as a lot of problems are Berke’s father and uncle reduce crime; he acknowledged conference that Berke has not on,” Cangelosi said. “We are getting pooled all together, as it own more than a dozen vacant that Berke had no personal been forthcoming on how crime connected to this city through is housing intended for single properties in run-down neigh- ownership of the apartments, but should be reduced in Chatta- our churches and our profes- moms and there are not many borhoods throughout the city, believes that he should still have nooga and that if he is elected he sors, through the four years we good father figures around,” he including a trash-strewn lot on some responsibility. will “clean this area up...and send spend here. Just because this is said. Glass Street. Guy Satterfield, also running the bill to who owns it.” a transient stage of life does not Mollenkof has been with kids Records show that Berke in this election, believes that “As one can see from examin- mean we can choose to not root in the Woodlawns when a man himself owns his home and a there is discrepancy between ing the property records, Andy ourselves and work to make our walked by and just his presence part of his family’s North Shore Berke’s promise to fight gang ac- Berke has no ownership in the communities better.” scared the kids. This man caused legal practice, though as mayor tivity and his family’s investment Woodlawn Apartment Complex, “It is interesting that the the kids to grab onto Mollen- his actions may directly affect in the Woodlawn Apartments. either through a partnership or only reason Woodlawn is at the kof ’s leg, asking him to protect the value of these various prop- He told the Times Free Press personally,” according to a cam- forefront now is because the them. erties. Specifically, his pledge that Berke’s talk of reducing paign statement. Berke family owns it. Other than “I do not think that is some- to improve Glass Street could gangs and crime contradicts this. Stacy Richardson, Berke’s this political attention people thing you can just walk away provide his family with hundreds “There seems to be a discon- campaign manager, told the do not care about this area,” said from,” he said. “It is too easy of thousands of dollars as their nect between Berke’s rheto- Times Free Press that Berke Andrew Mollenkof, a senior at to go and care a little and then property values increase. Alcohol Awareness tolerance.” binge drink one to two times a said RA of the student apartments a semester. Continued from front page Alcohol Awareness Week seeks semester; 2 percent binge drink Leah Klett. “My biggest concern “The statistics do not surprise to provide students with impor- three to five times a semester; and is that students stay safe and know me,” said Ingraham. “They provide students who live off campus. tant information about the alcohol 4 percent binge drink five or more their limits.” helpful information on the pulse When asked whether they had they may consume over break and times a semester. When asked how When asked how often they of the student body on the issue ever used alcohol, 70 percent of during the rest of their post-Cov- often they use a designated driver drink alcohol on campus during a of drinking. My hope is that these the polled students answered yes, enant lives. when going to a party, 44 percent semester, 94 percent of the polled statistics will be used to help frame but only 22 percent had done so in “It’s easy for people to want to of the polled students answered students answered never. Four per- the conversation about alcohol the past 30 days. Fifty-eight per- overcompensate for being on con- never; 13 percent answered some- cent of students drink on campus here at Covenant.” cent of the polled students drink tract while over a break by making times; 7 percent answered often; one to three times a semester, and A Wednesday evening dis- alcohol while on break.