by Cavin Jacobson | Feb 19, 2019 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
A power outage is affecting multiple buildings across campus today. The power has been out since at least 6:24 a.m. when the first alert email was sent out to students. The Lipscomb University Campus Service Operations team is still currently working to resolve the issue. Classes held in Beaman Library, Burton Health Sciences Center, Collins Auditorium, Swang Center, Ezell Center and the Student Activities Center are canceled until noon. The Gathering has been canceled and will not meet today. Update — At around 12:53 p.m., Lipscomb sent a campus-wide email stating that “afternoon classes will resume as scheduled with the 1:20 p.m. class sessions.” With the exception of Allen Arena, Dugan Field, the Student Activities Center (SAC) and McQuiddy, most of the buildings have power now. SAC classes “will follow the Class Schedule Disruption Policy.” Update at 11 a.m. — A campus service operations member said a 13,800 volt splice went out. It was approximately 15 years old, so possibly due to its age, it died and consequently took out the rest of the line. “It’s an old splice,” he said. “Probably a 13,800 volt one that went out. We’ll get the power up soon.” Additionally, an email was sent out to the Lipscomb campus announcing that power was expected to come back on in the early afternoon. A splice allows multiple wires to carry a current, and since this one died, the power went out. They are currently rewiring so that they can remove the old splice and put in a new one. The affected academic buildings are Beaman Library, Collins Auditorium, Ezell Center, Swang Center and Burton...
by Cavin Jacobson | Oct 29, 2018 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
Two-thirds of the 32 graduate students in Lipscomb’s new Fast Track MBA program were found to have cheated on an online, take-home final exam. “I found out from one of my colleagues who apparently heard from a student in the class,” said Dr. Joe Ivey, the professor of Applied Value Creation, the course in question, which ended in September. “Against the directions of the teacher and against the directions on the test, they decided to get together, and do the test,” said George Brammeier, a student in the class, who did not receive any help on the test. Twenty-one of 32 students in the brand-new program were found to be cheating on the exam. Lipscomb’s Academic Integrity Board oversees issues of cheating and plagiarism. The board does not step in unless it is a student’s second offense. For a student’s first offense, the consequences are at the discretion of the professor of the course. Ivey said he will meet individually with each student and decide what actions will be taken. Dr. Rick Holaway is in his first year as Lipscomb’s director of graduate programs, and said he was “disappointed” with the students. “In the College of Business, one of our values is credibility, which ties in honesty and integrity and all those sorts of things,” Holaway said. “So it’s really a good teachable moment.” Students were instructed to take the final exam online, through Canvas, from home. It consisted of two parts, with a majority of students doing poorly on the first section, Brammeier said. The second part, which the class took a week later, consisted of writing problems...
by Cavin Jacobson | Sep 25, 2018 | News Slider
Hurricane Florence brought historic flooding to the Carolina coast last week, causing permanent damage to the region. Only 500 miles separates Nashville from the epicenter of where the storm hit in North Carolina, and many students from North Carolina here at Lipscomb have worried about whether or not their families were OK, or whether they would have a home to return to. “I was and have been really concerned about Florence, for my family along the coast and about the impact it would have on my two home states,” said Allie Glenn, whose immediate family lives in Charleston but has extended family in coastal North Carolina. “My family stocked up on a lot of essentials from stores, basically preparing in case they lost power or if Charleston were to flood,” Glenn said. “Classes were canceled for the whole week for my cousins in college.” Hurricane Florence is expected to do upwards of 22 billion dollars worth of property damage when the flooding finally subsides, but Florence will never truly be over, as it is expected to reshape the Carolinas drastically, as well as major disaster protocol for the rest of the United States. “I have lots of family in Samson County, North Carolina . . . and they are still out of power and will probably be for weeks,” student Aubrea Holland said. “They had lots of flooding and a lot of water damage. There was a mandatory evacuation order; however they have farms and animals and were forced to stay to take care of them. My uncle is also a first responder, so he and his family stayed...
by Cavin Jacobson | Aug 14, 2018 | News Slider, Opinion
Ah, summer school. The movies portray it as some kind of dungeon that sucks up your summer while all your friends who did good in school enjoy the pool. Summer school does have a negative connotation to it. Some people view summer school as a place where degenerates go after partying too much and flunking their fall and spring classes. When college students hear that the classes are typically three weeks to eight weeks long yet still jam a whole semester into them, they think only sadists would do that to themselves. Summer school, however, is not only easier than traditional school, it’s faster, and it keeps you in the rhythm of school. At Lipscomb, there are four summer semesters: Maymester, Junemester and Julymester, and also a full summer semester that stretches throughout June and July. This summer, I took two classes in Maymester that lasted only three weeks, four classes in the full summer semester that only took eight weeks and another final class in Julymester that went along with the final three weeks of my full summer classes. I took 19 credit hours in the span of 12 weeks, as opposed to a 16-week traditional semester. I still get a three-week break before classes start up again in the Fall, which is the same amount of time as Christmas break, and all the time away I need. The pacing of summer classes is fantastic. Too many times in too many classes I have spent what feels like an eternity on one chapter or one concept that I got down in the first few days. Meeting twice a...
by Cavin Jacobson | Aug 6, 2018 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s art students have been moved out of the James D. Hughes Center to make way for the new physician’s assistant program. The visual arts department is moving to Ward Hall for the upcoming semester. The change-up has been a part of a series of recent large-scale renovation efforts by President Lowry, including the building of the new Shinn Event Center this year and a new business building next year. The move has displaced the long-time Ward Hall occupants of the psychology department, who have been moved to the second floor of Ezell. The renovation was immediately started on Ward Hall in preparation for the department of visual arts to move in. Students of both majors are concerned as to where their classes are going to be held, as psychology classes are still listed to take place in Ward Hall classrooms that no longer exist. “I don’t have that much faith that they will have Ward completed and ready for us in the fall,” Lipscomb art major Carrie Hull said. Some of the art department will be moving to the new Shinn Center, namely animation and graphic design. Animation and graphic design had only one room in the Hughes Center. Currently, there is no information as to where animation and graphic design will be meeting as the department awaits the completion of the Shinn Center. “When I first heard about it, I thought, ‘That’s kind of upsetting that we’re not getting a part of the new building,’ but they are renovating the new building for us.” Hull said. The Lipscomb website has not been updated to reflect the art...
