by Carly Reams | Apr 16, 2019 | News Slider
This year’s SGA elections will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16 for executive office positions and class senators. The election for senators-at-large will be Thursday, April 18. Students will receive a link to their ballot via email tomorrow morning. The candidates for secretary are Mimi Vance and Hank Warren. Chloe Allen, candidate for treasurer, is running unopposed. Lumination’s Carly Reams spoke with each presidential and vice presidential candidate to hear their visions for Lipscomb in the future with SGA. Presidential Candidates: JACK WEBBER Why are you running for president? I would say there are two basic reasons. I feel like I have a heart for Lipscomb, and there is a reason and a why behind the things I do. When I came to Lipscomb, I was filling out transfer applications and you can just say, I didn’t want to be here. I had planned for a long time to go to Pepperdine. Due to financial circumstances, I ended up at Lipscomb. It’s not that Lipscomb is a bad school by any means, I had just grown up and toured these places and seen my friends go there. They were just my dream schools, but I stayed here because I freaking love not Lipscomb University and all the rules, but the people and the students and many of the teachers. That’s why I do what I do. It’s why I try and make these changes, and I run for SGA. I do this on my own time because I have a heart for Lipscomb. I have a drive for Lipscomb; I...
by Carly Reams | Mar 30, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
The 1950’s-themed Full Moon Festival was in full swing last night, as social clubs Delta Omega and Theta Psi raised over $3,400 for N.I.C.E. and to provide awareness for drug and alcohol abuse by promoting “good, clean fun.” And that’s just how the night began with Theta Psi member Luke Shoulders chanting, “Good, clean fun! Good, clean fun!” on stage. The lineup featured several different students performing songs from the 50’s era, and more modern songs with a similar sound. Between songs, Shoulders discussed combating drug and alcohol abuse. Some students like Alexa Williams, who performs professionally, come out every year to support the cause. “I think this is one of the bigger alcohol awareness events that are out there that the social clubs do,” Williams said. “I’m not in Delta Omega or Theta Psi, but I still love coming. I think it brings a lot more people than other events do.” Delta Omega philanthropy chair Katlyn Council said the clubs seek to provide this awareness by just showing students having a good time without the presence of drugs and alcohol. “We show this awareness because no one here is doing drugs or drinking,” Council said. “We are seeing in our society that you can’t have fun without those things, and living that firsthand is more impactful than me telling you.” Council added that the event raises money for a local organization called Nashville International Center for Empowerment (N.I.C.E.). “Our event is dual purpose,” Council said. “So first we have the drug and alcohol awareness and also N.I.C.E as far as the fundraising part.” N.I.C.E specifically works with refugees...
by Carly Reams | Mar 29, 2019 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s campus-wide Service Day on Wednesday gave students the opportunity to provide community service for up to 50 different organizations around Nashville. Over 3,000 hours of service were accumulated in just a day. Monroe Harding, a non-profit Nashville foster care service, was one of the service sites, which had approximately 20 Lipscomb students volunteer at it. One of the staff workers said the work those students accomplished would have taken him weeks. “I was surprised at how much work these students could do,” said Amy Bond, a foster-parent recruiter. “I gave them a task, and before I knew it, that task was completed. I was constantly finding other jobs we needed to get done.” Students at Monroe helped the non-profit with preparations to move out of their current location and into a new one. This included tasks from organizing paperwork to moving out furniture. Lipscomb Bible professor Earl Lavender was one of the leaders this year, and this wasn’t his first experience with Service Day. He said he has loved seeing the interactions of students and seeing how hard they work over the years. “Today was a great example,” Lavender said. “Everyone worked hard, and we did about three times as much as they expected. I wouldn’t have known about the mission they [Monroe Harding] were doing here if I had not come today and built the relationship we did.” As director of missional studies, Lavender said he is very interested in helping the community, noting he would love to see Lipscomb do a service day or even “service weekend” each semester. “And last year, I worked with Thrift...
by Carly Reams | Feb 2, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider, Student Spotlight
Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini both came from Lipscomb in recent years, and Lipscomb student Peytan Porter is making plans to follow in their footsteps. Porter started her singing career at the age of 12, but she said it wasn’t actually something she wanted to do at the time. She only wrote songs about how her mom was mean for giving her chores. “I didn’t take it seriously until at a church camp, and my mom was having to sing and act at the same time,” Porter recalled. “She was terrible. Then she was like, ‘Well then you do it,’ and I said ‘Noo!’ They ended up giving me a microphone behind the curtain. So I sang, behind the stage, and our music director came back and was like, ‘You’re a singer; you are doing this.’” Ever since then, Porter has been focusing on her songwriting, including her job as a full-time staff writer at Sea Gayle Music and doing a songwriting internship. She said she has always dreamed of becoming apart of the Nashville music scene, and even called it her “Disney World vacation” when she was able to visit at fourteen. “I would not be at Lipscomb if it was not in Nashville,” Porter said. “I chose to come here when I was young. My mom was like. ‘You can go on a cruise to Cozumel, or you can go to Nashville.’ My sister went on the cruise, and I came to Nashville.” Porter said she chose Lipscomb over Belmont’s music program because she liked how Lipscomb’s program felt like a small, Christian community. She is no longer...
by Carly Reams | Jan 19, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
Expect a tough schedule ahead for the Lipscomb baseball team — but with a much healthier roster to start the season. The 2019 season is just around the corner for the Bisons as they prepare for their first matchup against Valparaiso University on Feb. 15 in an opening home weekend series at Dugan Field. Head coach Jeff Forehand’s unit is coming off of a losing season but brings back a roster full of experienced players. Unfortunately, the Bisons dealt with a plague of injuries last year. “For last year’s season, it started on the mound,” pitching coach James Ogden said. “And then guys like Lee Solomon and even Jeffrey Crisan had to miss a significant amount of time; and then, those were staples of our team that had been around a long time.” This problem has been mostly corrected for the 2019 season, as Ogden says the team realizes getting everyone healthy is something they definitely need to correct. They have done so in some of their training and in therapy and rehabilitation. Almost everyone is ready to play minus a few sprains and tendonitis. And they need to be healthy. This season will be one of the highest RPI schedules when ranked against those prior, with more Power 5 opponents and teams that ranked in the RPI’s top 100. Lipscomb has a much tougher schedule, but Forehand explains that this is all by design. “The ASUN league is a very good league coming off of last year’s season, the seventh-best league in the country,” Forehand said. “So, every team in the league is playing those RPI games. That’s...
