by Hannah Pipher | Nov 1, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
Many college students consider themselves lucky to simply graduate in four years with their sanity intact, let alone receive an award for the first time in school history. First-year graduate student Ellen Lundy was awarded ASUN Player of the Year Wednesday. Lundy has also been recognized as a scholar athlete and a member of the All-Conference First Team in addition to being ASUN Player of the Year. Other notable mentions for ASUN Women’s Soccer awards this season include seniors Jade Abarca and Niamh Rawlins on the All-Conference First Team, sophomore Olivia Doak and junior Justis Bailey on the All-Conference Second Team and Coach Kevin O’Brien as ASUN Coach of the Year. Lundy mentioned that she was really shocked to learn the news because she views the team as doing more work than she does and because she thought that there were more deserving girls in the conference. While Lundy was surprised by the news of the award, O’Brien was not shocked to learn that ASUN unanimously selected her as the recipient. “She scored some pivotal goals for us this year, and a lot of those have come in conference, so the impression she has left on the other head coaches is that she is a gamer, and she is really important to our success,” O’Brien said. Receiving an award of this honor typically comes with pressure to uphold the image that has been placed on the individual. However, Lundy has chosen not to feel the pressure, but instead embrace her original goals for the season. “I didn’t start this season thinking, ‘My goal is to win ASUN Player of the Year.’ I started the season...
by Hannah Pipher | Oct 14, 2017 | News Slider
Friday the thirteenth: a day of superstitions, unlucky events, human fear and a concept that Hollywood adores for horror movie plot lines. Whether myth or fact, Friday the thirteenth means something different to each individual, and for those who believe in the superstitions surrounding the day, this Friday the thirteenth on Lipscomb’s campus will be one to stray away from. At approximately 11:00 PM this evening, the campus will go black, a chill will be in the air as temperatures drop to low sixties and every creak and whisper in the wind will be heard from Bison Hall to High Rise. To parents, this may appear as the campus’s way of promoting Halloween spirit. However, that is not the case this time around, and it is actually a lot more serious. Lipscomb has an urgent need to replace a failing transformer that helps bring power to the campus. “We regret any inconvenience this may cause, and we do not schedule outages like this unless there is an absolute urgent need,” said Mr. Jeff Wilson, Director of Service Operations in an email to students last week. In the same email from Wilson, it stated that the goal is to have the power back up and running by 10:00 AM tomorrow morning. Though, the email also stated that they cannot guarantee this time or the exact length of the outage. During the outage there will be no heating, air conditioning, lights, phone charging capabilities, or hot water. In addition, locations on campus such as Beaman Library, Au Bon Pain, Starbucks and Bison Café will open later than normal, depending on when power returns. In an email that was sent out this...
by Hannah Pipher | Oct 4, 2017 | News Slider
On October 1 at 10:08 p.m. pacific time, Stephen Paddock opened gunfire from his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Approximately 22,000 people were gathered across a fifteen acre concrete lot for the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival at the time this all began. Jason Aldean, the last headliner of the concert was on stage when the bullets came raining from the sky. As of this morning, 59 lives were taken and 527 individuals were injured, making this the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. This falls behind the Orlando Night Club shooting in June 2016 where forty-nine lives were claimed. In the days following the shooting, many questions have been posed regarding increased security levels for both big outdoor events and smaller ones. Kathy Hargis, Associate Vice President of Risk Management and Compliance at Lipscomb, said that she expects there to be changes made to security efforts. “My professional guess is that [we] will probably see some heightened awareness and probably some changes that occur,” Hargis said. “[It] could be the hotel industry; it could be outdoor concerts; it could be several things.” Hargis added that for the Dove Awards taking place on campus on October 17, the Risk Management office and Campus Security has been looking at exit options and security available in the case of an emergency. According to Time Magazine, guards were on site for the festival and precautions were taken to help eliminate unsafe articles from the premises. No stuffed animals, drones, selfie sticks or weapons like box cutters, knives or bats were allowed inside of the...
by Hannah Pipher | Sep 29, 2017 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Last Friday evening, The Miracle Worker debuted in Lipscomb’s Shamblin Theatre to kick off opening weekend for the play as well as the theatre department’s first show of the season. The story follows Anne Sullivan, a young woman who takes on a teaching job in the Keller household. Within the household is their six year old daughter, Helen Keller. After battling an illness in her early years, Keller is left blind, deaf and mute. During the performance, audience members can spot senior Sarah Johnson as Helen Keller and junior Brooklyn Chalfant as Anne Sullivan. Other notable mentions include sophomore Logan Dozier as Captain Keller, senior Haley Sue Pearson as Kate Keller and sophomore Johnathan Killebrew as James Keller. Through an emotionally engaging performance, Lipscomb’s Theatre Department tackles the importance of radical love, patience and true determination in the face of adversity. “Love is one of the big themes,” Chalfont said. “Anne has to learn to love again, she loved her brother and then it broke her heart because he died. At the end of the play when she says, ‘I love Helen forever and ever’ she is choosing to love again.” Keller is trapped in her own soundless world, unable to convey her thoughts effectively, causing her to become violent at times. Her family, who easily takes pity on her circumstances, places her in this “box” and never makes the effort to free her mind and spirit. “The physicality was hard to find a place that married what I assume it is like to be deaf and blind, but also pull back from mocking any sort of physical handicap,”...
by Hannah Pipher | Sep 13, 2017 | News Slider
Texas natives on campus are still reeling from the damage done in their hometowns by Hurricane Harvey, but there are now dozens of Florida and international students from the Caribbean feeling the anxiety and stress these peers initially felt a little over two weeks ago. Hurricane Irma began brewing on August 27 as a Tropical Storm. However, just nine days later, Irma had grown to be a category five and the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm to be recorded, with winds reaching anywhere up to 185 miles per hour. In the following days, Irma continued picking up strength as it invaded Barbuda, Antigua, Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barts, the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, the Southern Islands of the Bahamas and Cuba. Irma also caused heavy flooding in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. “I felt helpless with my family being so far away,” said freshman Kati Fernan, a Nassau, Bahama, native. “Even though I had to study and do my homework, my mind was constantly on my family. Being with them would have been a comfort to me, even if I would have been in danger myself.” Although most would be paralyzed with fear and anxiety, Fernan mentioned that she believed that the Bahamas was and is still covered by God. “My family is doing great,” Fernan said. “The hurricane ended up shifting west of Nassau so they only experienced rain and winds.” After devastating the smaller islands in the Caribbean, Irma made a sharp turn north and headed for Florida. It made its first connection with U.S. soil on September 10 when it...
