- last of 2011/2012
- fladuckdays
- vanckirby
- 1/28
- ended the season with my buddy jed today. he was the fourth to harvest his first duck out of my boat this season. we finished the day with five ringers each. now the depression sets in that we have 8...
- Year of the Dragon
- News from the Soundaras
- Nae and Clara
- 1/27
- So, Gabe and Mya are studying ancient China at their tutorial; very conveniently at the same time as the celebration of the Chinese New Year. They had to take paper bag vests to school on Monday for the dance of...
- craigslist follies #3 – the miffed seller
- belz
- belz
- 1/27
- Context: I would like to watch a movie with my kids tonight or tomorrow night & have no good way to watch it. I think, perhaps I’ll go to Best Buy. Then I think, maybe someone’s selling something close to...
- Transfer Orientation
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- On January 7, nine new students, representing seven different states, joined the Covenant College family. Half of them are transfers from other colleges and the other half just started their college career.
They were welcomed to Covenant by resident assistants, admissions...
- Art & Life
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- Not every senior has the opportunity to showcase the culmination of what they’ve learned as an undergrad, but 11 of Covenant’s graduating art majors will do just that with their Senior Art Exhibition.
Their work, starting this past Monday and going...
- Go Gaga for Gluten-Free
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- Coming soon to a Great Hall deli near you: gluten-free bread! A new specialty oven has been added to Chartwells’ bread machines to meet the growing demand for gluten-free breads, which means freshly baked bread for those with gluten allergies...
- The BUILD Campaign – An Accurate Article
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- After inaccurately writing about the BUILD Campaign in its last issue, the Bagpipe staff worked to create a truthful article about our school’s advancement office. We are sorry for the inaccuracies and hope to do better in the future.
The BUILD...
- Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- Filmmaker Guy Ritchie has never really been a famous director. Old fame is mostly attached to his making of the cult classic Snatch. But recently his name has gained more recognition in the film world. Starting in 2009, he began...
- Favorite Children’s Author: Lemony Snicket
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- I am fairly sure that no fictional family impacted me more than the Baudelaire orphans of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate. Their doomed endeavours to solve the increasingly twisted mystery of their parents’ death kept me on the edge of...
- The Weeknd
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- March, 2011: The Weeknd, a soft-spoken R&B singer with no real clout, timidly released a free nine-song, online-only album to be kicked around by a couple music blogs. His album House of Balloons ebbed oddly with a Stevie Wonder-like elegance...
- Favorite Children’s Author: Shel Silverstein
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- Runny Babbit is a bood gook, a bery vood gook. Oh, excuse me, I love this book so much it just comes out! The contagious silliness embodied in Shel Silverstein’s book is unmatched by any other in my opinion.
There are...
- Favorite Children’s Author: Robert McCloskey
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/27
- Robert McCloskey’s children books are not my favorites because they have specific moral points or a heart-wrenching meaning. However, they do wrench my heart. His books herald back to the simpler life of the 1950s – one that feels oddly...
- our fall, in brief
- hunts and lulu
- sbh
- 1/27
- Just a few notes about our fall and what we were up to:Since Lucy's hippo obsession had been continuing in a fierce kind of way, we took a special little tour of the hippos at the zoo. Little did...
- January Miscellany
- Being Bilingual
- The Lewins
- 1/27
- So January went where? Still looking for it. And still trying to remember what we did with it. Oh yes, we did do a few things. I think it was mostly gearing up for the great project-...
- sunrise to sunset
- fladuckdays
- vanckirby
- 1/25
- we went out yesterday to shoot some more ringers. since it is the end of the season we decided to make an all day event out of it. we literally hunted from sunrise to sunset. it took awhile but we...
- Setting Trends in Global Health
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- It can be hard to discern global trends in health when stuck on top of Lookout Mountain. But thanks to visiting professor Debbie Dortzbach, a handful of community development and biology majors are able to learn about world health on...
- Housing Hurdles
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- With the push for enrollment to increase to 1250 next year, Student Development is considering how to meet the projected housing needs of next year’s new students. They could overload suites in Maclellan/Rymer, open halls, or create living/learning opportunities off-campus.
“We’re...
- Recognizing the Obvious
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- Dear Bagpipe,
Thanks for Lindsay Burkholder’s piece about new professors Cale Horne and Linnea Minich. But what? No Deborah Kirby? So, she’s chopped liver? How could you not notice this red-haired bundle of chutzpah now directing and teaching for the theatre...
- Strategic Advances
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- In the upper level of the Probasco Alumni/Visitor Center, inside the Office of Advancement, there is a room designed specifically for connecting and supporting Covenant graduates and current students.
When people hear the phrase, “Alumni Office,” they think donations, advancement money...
- Laura Marling
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- Laura Marling’s latest album, A Creature I Don’t Know, is an honest reflection on the creature closest to her — herself. The album is young British nu-folk artist Laura Marling’s most polished album to date. At the ripe old age...
- Mikal Cronin
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- My iPod is happy yet again! A lot of the new tunes I’ve found are coming straight out of Southern California (see: Girls’ new album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost and the Wavves’ EP, Life Sux). Joining the ranks is the...
- St. Vincent
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- There is no direct connection, no lyrical reference, no intentional design. Yet, all I can think about when I listen to St. Vincent’s newest album, Strange Mercies, is Alice’s strange descent into the weirdness of Wonderland — a world where...
- Design Is
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- Have you ever wondered what design actually is? So has the faculty of the Department of Art. With the help of a few friends, they have devised a way to teach the true meaning of design to Covenant students.
Between August...
- Firearms Fears
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- For the past month, the campus has been abuzz with talk of the handgun boldly strapped to a security guard Jim Haenhleim’s hip. For many students, the idea of armed security guards was a source of anxiety and discomfort, especially...
- Homosexuality
- Bagpipe Online
- Adrienne Belz
- 1/24
- What comes to your mind when you hear the word “homosexual”? Probably all of you have a very strong emotional response, whether it’s positive or negative. It is a confusing and sensitive subject for many people, but it’s also one...
- < No Subject >
- fingerpost
- Damien
- 1/24
- click here to learn moreHappy Lunar New Yearfellow dragon lovers! Only $5.40 for a sheet of 12 down at the P.O. ...
- 5 boys and a lady
- fladuckdays
- vanckirby
- 1/23
- johnny and i went out on another ringer shoot today. we ended the day with 5 drakes and a hen. not as many ducks in the area we have been hunting but think we found a new hole that...
- < No Subject >
- fingerpost
- Damien
- 1/23
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.-Don Marquis...
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