Waffles at the Andersons
So last night, Sunday night, I headed over to the Anderson’s house for waffles. Every Sunday evening starting around 7:00 p.m., Wallace Anderson, the Vice President of Admissions at Covenant College, hosts a waffle dinner at his house for any students who can make it. Covenant doesn’t provide Sunday night dinner in the Great Hall - just to give the staff a break. So since the beginning of last semester, I have been making it over to Mr. Anderson’s house for waffles. At the start of fall semester, there were only about 10 people that went every week. Recently, there has been a good 30 or 40 Covenant students going over to his house every Sunday night for a free waffle dinner…
Last night was good… it’s always the highlight of my Sunday to go spend a chilled out evening at an actually home. Oftentimes, we’ll be sitting in the downstairs living room talking about the big issues of life in front of the fire place. Good times.
Published on 29 Jan 2007 at 7:55 pm.
7 Comments.
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i love waffles at the andersons…
Olivia on 29 Jan 2007 at 10:20 pm.
Is he “the vice president”? I thought he was one of four, or has the structure changed?
Anna on 30 Jan 2007 at 3:18 am.
i think it’s called Waffles at Wally’s. It just sounds better :)
Ben Hubbard on 30 Jan 2007 at 10:57 am.
hey Anna, I could be wrong.. I thought he was the vice president, but it could be that he is one of four. I know he is the Vice President of Admissions…I’m not an expert on the structure, so I could be wrong.
Philip Codington on 30 Jan 2007 at 4:21 pm.
Philip,
The reason why there are no dinners on Sunday evenings is because it would have pushed the price of food up and since the administration wants to keep prices down they decided to scrap dinner on Sunday evenings asking the halls to fend for themselves. It is a quick way to save some money. You say that it is to give the workers a break. That might well be, but it is not the main reason and you should not confuse that. Furthermore you might want to look into when and how that decision was made and whether or not any student knew about that change being made. As far as I know, and I wrote an article about it, the decision was made without proper consultation of the student body and students and perhaps what is more important students parents where not informed in a timely manner.
Lauri on 1 Feb 2007 at 8:07 am.
Lauri, perhaps I should have been more clear in what I wrote…especially in saying that not having Sunday dinners was solely to give the staff a break. I did know that the main reason Covenant decided not to have Sunday dinners was to save money and to keep the price of the meal plan down for students. I’m not arguing with you there. Nor was I trying to make it look like that wasn’t a reason… It just simply didn’t come to mind when I was writing about it. I was writing more about Waffles at the Andersons than I was about how Covenant shut down Sunday night dinners.
Philip Codington on 1 Feb 2007 at 8:48 am.
Phil,
Lauri is correct about the cancellation of Sunday night dinners. Covenant had Sunday night dinners for years without feeling like it was a violation of the Sabbath (nor should they have felt that way, as works of necessity are permitted on the Sabbath even by the Westminster Confession’s standards).
The change was made abruptly and without the approval of the student body. While it did have some beneficial effects, such as increased fellowship among students, it also marked the end of a long trend of declining food quality on Sundays in general.
I know this blog is not a “marketing tool,” as you are giving your honest impressions of the school. However, as a freshman, your impressions are naturally more positively biased than those of us who experienced changes like the one you mentioned at the beginning of this post.
Evan Donovan on 7 Feb 2007 at 12:01 am.