by Hunter Patterson | Apr 22, 2011 | Opinion
Worrying about finals? While they’re fast approaching, a religious group from California doesn’t think you should lose sleep over the end-of-semester tests, because the world is ending in less than a month. What’s that? You thought the world was supposed to end in 2012 like the History Channel and Nostradamus claimed? Well, there is a new group of people telling us that we are all wrong. The group WeCanKnow based out of California claims that “He will close the door on salvation on May 21, 2011, when He returns to take his elect children to heaven.” Harold Camping, founder of Family Radio Inc., made the prediction, and fans of the radio station paid for billboards that can be seen around Nashville and other cities. Their goal is simple– with the message “He is coming again!” nonbelievers are to change their ways and follow. According to Camping’s prediction, the second coming will occur exactly 7000 years between Noah’s flood and the rapture. Camping claims Noah’s flood happened in 4990 B.C., on May 21 in the modern calendar. God supposedly gave Noah one week of warning before the flood. And, stretching the made-up calculations even further, Camping says that one day equals a thousand years for God. So this obviously means that 7,000 years needed to pass between the flood and the rapture. And so, through the magic of improvable dates, algorithms and calculations, Jesus will come again on May 21, 2011, according to Camping. “We hope that anyone would get a Bible out and try and prove that this is wrong,” Camping said. Before I do that, I’ll tell you this. Camping predicted...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 21, 2011 | News Slider
The SGA elections are over and you can finally stop receiving those Facebook group invites from all of the candidates. Lumination would like to congratulate all of the winners and wish them luck in all of their future endeavors as they lead the student body in the 2011-2012 school year. President: Daniel Wakefield Vice President: Amy Estepp Secretary: Kenneth Coca Treasurer: Leah Raich Current SGA President Jackson Sprayberry is confident that Daniel and the student government will make a smooth transition into the next academic year. “Daniel and I talked earlier this morning and I congratulated him on his accomplishment of serving as president next year,” Sprayberry said. “It’s been an honor to serve as SGA President and I am committed to continue working hard until graduation.” “This year as Vice-President, Daniel has had the opportunity to get to know administrators and become equipped to be an effective and successful President.” Sprayberry said that he has seen Wakefield’s commitment to SGA and to the university in preparing to transition to next year’s executive officers. “I trust him to make decisions that will continue to build community on campus and provide quality use of student funds,” Sprayberry said. “Get to know him if you can, he’s a good friend of mine and is ready to hear your ideas to make this place better. “I wish him, the other executives, and all other elected officers the best next year. We’ve worked hard this year and I believe Daniel will lead the SGA to another amazing year.” Lumination spoke with the President-elect and he had this to say to the students: “I...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 18, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
“What is a winner? Someone who wins everyone contest, but there is not anyone like that. A winner is someone that never lets a failure or a loss be his or her final destination.” Those were some of the encouraging and inspiring words spoken by Mike Krzyzewski at the Third Annual Don Meyer Evening of Excellence held on Saturday night. Better known as Coach K, Krzyzewski has won four NCAA Championships as the head basketball coach at Duke. Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001, Coach K boasts the most wins in NCAA Tournament history with 78. Saturday, though, he was not coaching the Blue Devils to victory in Cameron Indoor. He was instead being introduced by fellow Hall of Famer Don Meyer to speak in Allen Arena. University president Randy Lowry started off the evening welcoming the sold out crowd to Allen Arena. Lowry also highlighted the several accomplishments that Lipscomb’s athletic program had achieved over the calendar year. Following a short video, athletic director Philip Hutcheson took the stage and talked about the impact that Don Meyer left on him and the campus. On the stage next was former Lipscomb basketball coach Don Meyer. Coaching at Lipscomb from 1975-1999, Meyer led Lipscomb to victory 665 times. The Evening of Excellence is not only named after Meyer, but it embodies his character as well. Better known as Coach, he boiled the game of basketball down to the ‘little things.’ “Everyone makes notes, everyone says yes ma’am and no ma’am, and everyone picks up trash,” Meyer said. Unable to attend last year’s event because of scheduling conflicts,...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 8, 2011 | News Slider
OMG, did you guys hear about this? Some new words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary, my writing BFF, last week. Some of you may think this is NBD, but some people are saying otherwise. For instance, my BFF Jill may not agree. Without these “words” being added to the dictionary how will the next generation ever know about text-speak and other words added this year like doughnut hole and wassup? Try typing wassup into a Word document and you will still get a red line underneath it telling you that you are wrong. Now try OMG, NBD and BFF – you’re totally cool. BFF was actually added to last year’s edition of the Oxford Dictionary. Most of these new words are things that we type with thumbs, not things that we say with our tongues. A person usually does not run up to someone screaming, “OMG, I totally just saw Brad’s GF with another boy!” That is why these new words that stand for other words are causing a stir with the literary community. This isn’t the beginning either. To ‘google’ something is now a universally understood verb for several countries that are introducing Internet slang to their language. These new ‘words’ such as OMG and NBD are examples of text-speak, though. Linguists are worried, but only a little. Given the rise of iPhones and Android phones, only about 10% of words in text messages are abbreviated or shortened. That’s a lot less than you thought, isn’t it? Oxford has taken a stand to admitting these words. They’ve actually come out and said they are not words,...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
This month’s movies listings are in, and there are some new movies, some classics and a whole lot of Tom Cruise. THE FIGHTER DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 R THE TOURIST DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 YOGI BEAR DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG BURLESQUE DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 WAITING FOR SUPERMAN DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG FORREST GUMP DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 THE COVE DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 HANCOCK DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 ANGER MANAGEMENT (DOMESTIC) DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 FAST AND FURIOUS (2009) DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 A KNIGHT’S TALE DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011 PG13 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE DIG 4/6/2011 5/5/2011...
