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我们是苏格兰人。
苏格兰场挤满了校友、工作人员和教职员工。 的 food vendors encompass the parking lot while spirits are high. A faint sound of bagpipes is growing as the student body makes the trek across campus to cheer on the soccer team. 的 sun goes down and the dispute between schools takes place on the pitch. 的se concrete steps and the air that we breathe is on fire as 威尼斯人平台 cries, "We are the Scots! 我们是从山上来的！” 繁荣! Rocketing through the sky–the ball meets its target in the back of the net. 这是最后一击。 Our opposition walks back to their bus with their head held low. We are the Scots, and we are proud to come from Lookout Mountain.
This fanfare may lead a curious onlooker to ask: What's with the bagpipes, the kilts, and the Scots? 为什么人们在参加体育比赛时要把自己涂成蓝色和白色？ 毕业典礼上的巨型金属蓟是怎么回事？ 这一切意味着什么？
长老会遗产
Covenant is the College of the Presbyterian Church in America, and the Presbyterian Church originated in Scotland. While it has broken into different denominations since its time in the United States of America, 威尼斯人平台 has been the college of the PCA for almost 43 years.
Our heritage comes from the Scottish Presbyterian church, so we take great pride in our Scottish themes such as the bagpipes and drums and the thistle. We also use Scottish terms to refer to places or things on campus. Covenant students were first called "the Covenanters," the term for those who first supported the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the 17th century. 的 first time "the Scots" was used to refer to Covenant students was in the January 8, 1964, issue of the Bagpipe in reference to the men's basketball team. 它后来被用于1964年的格子呢。 For the first few years it was used in the context of Covenant sports teams; however, in the present day all students, staff, faculty, and alumni are known as Scots.
风笛、苏格兰短裙和蓟草！
威尼斯人平台 has their own pipe and drum line that performs during several events, including 回家coming weekend, Commencement, and Convocation. All members of the pipe and drum line wear special uniforms and kilts patterned with 威尼斯人平台's signature blue tartan. 威尼斯人平台's blue and white striped pattern, called a tartan, has been registered in Scotland as our institution's very own pattern.
Our logo, Covenant's shield, has the tartan stripes in the background and a thistle that sits in the top left corner. 的re are many stories as to how the thistle became Scotland's national flower, but the primary story is that Nordic invaders came to Scotland and in their attempt to sneak into a Scottish military camp, one of them stepped on a thistle and yelped, causing the Scottish camp to wake up and defend themselves. 蓟代表保护和勇敢。 In fact, our alumni award, presented at 回家coming each year, is called the Iron Thistle.
Tuck Shoppe， 的 Blink和Highland Cow
Our Tuck Shoppe, a small store with Covenant merchandise, toiletries, and faculty authored books, is located on your right as you enter Carter lobby from the main entrance. 而Blink，威尼斯人平台校园咖啡馆，就在拐角处。 的 term "Blink" refers to times of rest when the Scottish "Covenanters," early Protestants, were persecuted by King Charles II. 的 king would allow short pauses in the ongoing dispute so that those fighting could return home to rest and see their families; these periods were called "blinks."
除了闪现，高地牛弗格斯是圣约人的最爱。 You can find him whenever there is a larger event hosted on campus, on 回家coming and during preview weekends called sneakPEAKs. Although the highland cow is not our mascot, we do love having him on campus for students, alumni, and visitors to pet and take pictures with.
我们学院的骄傲
的re isn't much more for me to say except that students, myself included, love how our institution originated, the history behind our religious heritage, and the mission of what we are trying to accomplish in and through a Christ-centered education on this mountain. “你来自哪里并不重要。 If you're at Covenant, you're a Scot," says Madeleine Freace '26. "的re's such a sense of belonging and pride in a community that is ready and willing to support its history, athletics, and arts. We're walking together through college and, ultimately, life, as Christians—and as Scots."