Covenant College News
Few things of note from the College on the Hill:
They've begun construction of the new academic building between the Chapel and Probasco. Rumor has it there's going to be some kind of bridge or walkway either between the Chapel and the new building or the new building and the Overlook, with some kind of arch that lines up with front arch of Carter Hall.
They're also removing the Carter Circle and putting a new circle in front of Probasco. Carter Circle will become the Carter Green, or something like that.
The Volleyball Court is moving to where the dumpsters are behind Founders.
The College has also contracted with a company called Stamats in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to run/design the new Capital Campaign and all the College's Admissions materials.
I'm pretty emotional about this decision. The creative and design quality of Stamats is, in my opinion, far below what Covenant College deserves. Stamat's design is derivative, formulaic, middlebrow, pedestrian. It is wholly uncreative and reflects nothing of the soul of the institutions they purport to represent.
It's likely due to my personality and job in the design world that I'm being too harsh with Stamats and consequently the College. It is also likely true that the College is going to continue to do well even if their Admissions and promotional materials are status quo (at best).
But there's part of me that desperately wants to believe that there is something unique about Covenant, and that subsequently that "thing" should somehow come out in the way the College presents itself in its design and promotional materials. It's why I stayed at Covenant and it's why I think so many alumni have this deep seated affection for the place.
I'm sure Stamats has a great "system" for how to promote the College (schedules, deadlines, methodologies, etc.), but a good system is vastly different from good design. Design is what expresses and speaks to the soul of thing.
I suppose the single most telling thing about Stamats in this regard is this. A tagline repository for your College. I wonder which one will Covenant chose?
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Covenant College | By Josiah Roe | 02:38 PM
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I don't think they'll choose any of them. It says on the website that the repository was created "as a service to our clients and friends who have tags and want to lay claim to them, are looking for tags and want to see if one they are interested in is already chosen, or are simply fascinated by our fascination with taglines."
The key purpose to me seems to be:
-have a tag and lay claim to it
-looking to see if your tag is already taken
-just curious about other tags
Where do you see this as a tag line chooser? What makes you think "In all things Christ preeminent" is on the way out?
Posted by: Scott at August 17, 2006 03:56 PM
I was being sarcastic Scott.
Posted by: JosiahQ at August 17, 2006 05:30 PM
I'm hoping for "Too Sexy for My Scots," personally.
Posted by: mesh at August 17, 2006 05:57 PM
Oh, sorry I missed that transition. I guess that my mind was too conditioned. ;)
Posted by: Scott at August 17, 2006 06:30 PM
*rolls eyes* Oh boy. Here we go again.
Also, I officially "ditto" Mesh.
Posted by: Natalie at August 18, 2006 03:04 AM
perhaps if "too sexy for my scots" doesn't win the day we could consider something like "thistle be the year".
Posted by: young_christopher at August 18, 2006 05:14 PM
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