by Colleen Casner | Feb 7, 2016 | Galleries
On Saturday night Lipscomb played host to the Greater Nashville Chinese Association’s new year celebration for the first time. The event featured a Chinese buffet in the Bison Café and a performance by local Chinese culture organizations in Collins Auditorium. Photos by Colleen Casner...
by Colleen Casner | Feb 7, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
The drumbeats thundered across Collins auditorium as the lion came onstage. He stomped, kicked and sniffed the air before his partner joined him. The two lions danced and bowed to the drums’ rhythmic pounding, finishing to an enthusiastic round of applause. The year of the monkey had begun. On Saturday night Lipscomb played host to the Greater Nashville Chinese Association’s new year celebration for the first time. The event featured a Chinese buffet in the Bison Café and a performance by local Chinese culture organizations in Collins Auditorium. In her opening remarks at the performance, GNCA president Li Weaver discussed a time when she feared that her daughter would not identify as both Chinese and American. After Weaver’s oldest daughter said she did not feel Chinese, the family moved to Beijing for four years. “We came back to the community a few years ago, and I realized the community has grown so much,” Weaver said. “We have so much to offer. We have two Chinese schools right here, and several Chinese culture clubs. And the community has grown so much. “So, at that time I decided, you know, maybe I don’t need to move my family all the way to China for my younger daughter to learn about Chinese culture, and she could do it right here.” The performance featured many local classical Chinese dance troupes of adults and children. Joyce Cheung-Flynn has been coming to the New Year celebration for six years. Cheung-Flynn’s favorite part of the celebration is watching the children’s dances, as her daughter danced in the show this year. “I like to see the little girls...
by Colleen Casner | Feb 5, 2016 | News Slider
Lipscomb students had the opportunity Thursday afternoon to sit-in on a discussion with Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize winning, presidential biographer. Students took the time to ask Goodwin questions about politics, both current and past, and about her writing career. “I felt like so many times in our lives as students, especially young people, we see people at the height of their success when everything is going for them,” senior and graduate student Mary Kathryn Charlton said. “We never really see them when they’re our age. Sometimes we can get really discouraged with what’s going on in our own lives, and we have to be patient like she said.” Goodwin won two Pulitzer Prizes for biographies of American presidents and is considered an expert on the presidency. She has been a guest on TV shows such as Meet the Press, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and has given a TED talk. She has a passion for history and chooses her book subjects in part because of her curiosity about certain time periods. She has also seen a fair share of American history. She was present at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech and vocally opposed the Vietnam War. Dr. Goodwin was one of only five women in her doctoral program at Harvard and witnessed blatant sexism from professors. She was one of a small number of female fellows in President Lyndon Johnson’s administration. After Johnson’s term ended, Goodwin assisted the former president with his memoirs. Her relationship and experiences with Johnson inspired her first of many...
by Colleen Casner | Feb 2, 2016 | News Slider
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak on campus Feb. 4 about the current presidential election. Dubbed “America’s historian-in-chief” by New York magazine, Goodwin has written several highly regarded biographies of American presidents such as Lincoln and the Roosevelts. Her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln was the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning 2012 film Lincoln. Goodwin received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history for her biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt titled No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. A former professor of government at Harvard, Goodwin appears frequently on television as a political commentator. Students may recognize Goodwin from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, among other shows. Goodwin’s newest book The Bully Pulpit, released in 2013, focuses on the relationship between Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. The book also won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2014. Steven Spielberg is currently working on adapting the book into another film. In addition to her writing career, Goodwin assisted President Lyndon Johnson in the last year of his presidency. After helping Johnson prepare his memoirs she wrote her first book, a biography titled Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. The event will be held in Stowe Hall at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4. Photo courtesy of LBJ...
by Colleen Casner | Mar 2, 2015 | News Slider
Months of hard work will soon pay off for students involved in Lipscomb’s 52nd annual Singarama, which opens this Thursday in Collins Alumni Auditorium. This year’s Singarama production is Ready, Set, Go! featuring groups led by student directors Anne Claire Smith, Carolanne Deaton and John Alex Foster. This year’s hosts and hostesses are Delaney Brown, David Austin Lowery, Michael Oruma, Caitlin Phelps, Tyler Russell and McKenna Smith. Aaron Sain is the host and hostesses director. “Go” is the story of a window washer who wants to enter the world of business. It features songs such as “Status Quo” from High School Musical, “Mirrors” by Justin Timberlake and “You Can Go Your Own Way.” Clubs participating in “Go” include Delta Omega, Delta Sigma, Kappa Chi, Sigma Omega Sigma and Tau Phi. Delta Sigma member Laney Overton has especially enjoyed bonding with students from other social clubs. “Being in a social club you sometimes are confined to your social club, and Singarama’s a really great opportunity to branch out and meet new people from other clubs,” Overton said. Students have been working on their shows since January, often practicing five days each week. Frequent practices do not bother Singarama first-timer Tiffany Best, though. “Whenever I’m stressed or busy or upset I can just take my mind off of it and sing my heart out,” Best said. Anna Grace Wolfe of Delta Sigma has also enjoyed the practices but is especially enthusiastic about taking the stage at Singarama for the first time. “I’m excited to be on stage and the moment where we first walk onto the stage,” Wolfe said. Overton, who participated last year, is looking forward...
