by Erin Turner | Feb 20, 2015 | News Slider
All classes for 2 p.m. and after have been canceled for Friday, Feb. 20 due to anticipated inclement weather. Friday night classes have been canceled as well. Campus offices and Beaman Library will also close at 2 p.m. The wintry mix that is lingering on campus occurred Monday morning. Students enjoyed the first snow day by sledding and catching up on homework as freezing rain continued falling throughout the day. The Campus Service Operations team worked on clearing ice and snow from Bison Square and major sidewalks on Tuesday. A layer of light snow fell on campus Wednesday morning, covering what was left of the ice. The team worked throughout Wednesday, spreading salt and clearing walkways so that students could make their return to class on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Students returned to a full day of classes on Thursday. A wintry mix is in the forecast for Friday evening, beginning around 5 p.m. Students should look for communication from faculty members for additional information on possible class assignments. Lipscomb will resume with a normal class schedule on Saturday, but campus may experience heavy rain, as TV meteorologists are calling for a 100 percent chance of rain. The Class Schedule Disruption Policy will be in effect...
by Erin Turner | Feb 19, 2015 | News Slider
As Nashville’s winter weather has hit its ultimate lows, the homeless community has been struck with even more adversity — but that’s nothing Green Street Church of Christ and Open Table Nashville can’t help diminish. “It’s really heart-wrenching to see the amount of suffering that there is in our own city — in our own backyard — when we’re so warm,” said Lindsey Krinks, Director of Street Chaplaincy and Education of Open Table Nashville. Wednesday night the temperature plummeted into the negatives, but organizations like Open Table and Green Street alleviated a lot of the suffering. But even with all of Nashville’s warm shelters, Krinks said the city has already seen six exposure-related deaths in the homeless community this winter. “In the last couple of days I’ve tended for four people with frost-bitten feet and we’re finding so many people out still,” she said. Krinks said the need is overwhelming, but as a non-profit, interfaith community, Open Table is working hard to put a dent in Nashville’s homeless community. “We help people navigate the very complex social services and housing systems,” Krinks said. “Instead of people coming in to us — like the mission [Nashville Rescue Mission] and Room In the Inn [where] people from the streets come in and receive services – we go out to where people are and we take that [services] to them.” Krinks and the Open Table team are on the lookout, especially with more snow and low temperatures on the way for Friday. “We do outreach canvasing at night, so when it gets this cold we go out on the streets and we’re driving around, and we go...
by Erin Turner | Feb 18, 2015 | News Slider
Nashville’s wintry weather — that has disrupted classes and made it tough for many students and faculty to make it to campus — may continue into the weekend. Students returned to class Wednesday, Feb. 18, after two days of canceled classes, but a mixture of snow and ice is lingering on campus. And it’s not going to melt away on its own, with local TV meteorologists predicting temperatures to plummet into the negatives Wednesday night. Nashville hasn’t seen this much snow and ice since the largest snowfall of the century, when 7 inches of snow fell on Music City in January of 2003. Sure, some say this is the “sunny South,” but the Nashville area has had a few winter storms of epic proportions. The wintry mix the area received during this week reminded many Nashvillians of the brutal ice storm of February 1994, when electric transformers lighted the sky like lightning as they exploded. Tree limbs covered in heavy ice ripped down power lines. That ice storm left many Middle Tennessee residents without power and heat for more than two weeks. During that storm, many parts of Tennessee experienced more than 5 inches of rainfall, much of it frozen. “I remember we played Belmont the night that it started to snow,” said Kim Chaudoin, Assistant Vice President of University Communication and Marketing. “I lived in Murfreesboro at the time and commuted to Lipscomb for work. I tried to get home and had to leave my car along Tyne Boulevard. I walked back to my office and slept on my office floor that night.” And there have been other instances...
by Erin Turner | Feb 17, 2015 | News Slider
All evening classes have been canceled for Wednesday, Feb. 18. University offices will close at 4 p.m. Lipscomb Dining Services will be operating on its regular schedule. Classes resumed at 10 a.m., following the Class Schedule Disruption Policy. The wintry mix that is lingering on campus occurred Monday morning. Students enjoyed the first snow day by sledding and catching up on homework as freezing rain continued falling throughout the day. The Campus Service Operations team worked on clearing ice and snow from Bison Square and major sidewalks on Tuesday. A layer of light snow fell on campus Wednesday morning, covering what was left of the ice. The team worked throughout Wednesday, spreading salt and clearing walkways so that students could make their return to class on Wednesday morning. Photos taken at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Photo gallery by Erin...
by Erin Turner | Feb 17, 2015 | News Slider
The sun shined down on the snow and ice-covered campus during Tuesday, Feb. 17. — Lipscomb’s second snow day of the season. Campus turned into what looks to be a winter wonderland over night, with temperatures below 20 degrees. The Campus Service Operations team worked on clearing ice and snow from Bison Square and major sidewalks throughout the day. Most of the ice and snow has either melted or been shoveled off into the grass. Some parking lots and sidewalks on campus remain icy in areas. TV meteorologists are predicting a 70 percent chance of snow Wednesday at 5 a.m. Photo galleries by Erin...
