by Tyler Lallathin | Dec 22, 2010 | News Slider
A big bowl of clam chowder. Watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. Piling into the family van and going on a trip. These are just some of the holiday traditions observed by students at Lipscomb University. “We would go on a family trip in place of getting a bunch of gifts,” says Eric Dickerson, a junior law, justice and society major from Huntsville, Ala. “When we put up all the Christmas decorations my family always watches A Charlie Brown Christmas,” says Juleen Stinson, a junior human resources major from Findlay, Ohio. Ah, but then there’s the soup. Or the clam chowder, rather, for Sarah Bailey, a junior marketing major from Philadelphia, Penn. “We all get together on Christmas Eve and eat clam chowder,” Bailey said. Some families, like junior nursing major from Cincinnati, Ohio Leanne Wright, simply enjoy going together to get the “perfect” tree. “We get a real tree, and then have Christmas Day at our house,” Wright said. AnnChristine Johnson, a junior psychology major from Nashville, also enjoys the tree selecting with her family. “We always pick out our tree and decorate it together,” Johnson said. “We always set up a mini-manger scene too.” Emily Nowers can’t think of Christmas without visions of a banjo playing in her head. No it’s not “Deliverance.” It’s the holiday spirit and a family tradition. “My family gathers around in my grandparents’ living room, and my uncles start playing their guitar and banjo,” said Nowers, a junior elementary education major from Nashville. “We all start singing along to Christmas carols, but we also sing some Johnny Cash songs and other favorites. It is a lot...
by Tyler Lallathin | Dec 2, 2010 | News Slider
“Lake Lipscomb,” as some informally call the planned water feature by the baseball field and tennis courts, had too much water for its own good. While developing the retention pond into a lake area, complete with fountain, builders discovered an underground spring. So a plan had to be developed to deal with this excess “live” water source before continuing the development. “Several design changes had to be made,” said Tom Wood, director of campus enhancement. He said that new equipment had to be ordered to handle the spring water so that the lake can be completed. Once the equipment arrives to deal with the unexpected water source, the contractors will be able to continue their construction of the lake. Wood explains that when it’s completed, plans call for the area to include “added landscaping and eventually a variety of seating areas and other potential enhancements for student and community enjoyment.” The cascading fountain planned for the lake will be 36 feet high. The lake will also provide irrigation for all of campus when it is finished, by pumping water from underground into the lake, and then on to irrigate campus. The lake also will serve as a learning opportunity for students to enrich themselves in knowledge of plant species and the biological aspects of the area. Campus enhancement is on track to have the lake finished in January 2011, weather permitting. “There is also some discussion about providing the lake with fish,” said Wood. Lipscomb will continue to grow and improve the look of its campus. The next plan to enhance campus is a fountain and baptistry in Bison...
by Tyler Lallathin | Oct 20, 2010 | Opinion
More than 500 million people have Facebook accounts, so it seems the new movie “The Social Network” would have a built-in audience. But even if you don’t do Facebook, you will probably still enjoy what I consider to be a great movie. The film focuses on the story behind the creation of facebook.com. I would not consider this a “based-on-a true-story” film as much as a “loosely-based-on-a-true-story-but-greatly-dramatized-for-Hollywood” film. The film tells the story of Mark Zuckerburg and his inspiration for the Facebook website. It follows the story from Zuckerburg, the site’s founder, sitting in his dorm room in college writing the code for the site, to moving its offices to California and growing it into the multi-billion dollar website it is today. The plot is not really about the website itself, but the confrontation between Zuckerburg and his colleagues. In the film, Zuckerburg is presenting his case in two separate lawsuits, and describes how the website came to be and how it grew. The film made an estimated $23 million on its opening weekend, despite much criticism about its factuality. While a Facebook account is not needed to appreciate the film, users would understand some jokes and references in the movie that others would not. Anybody can relate to the drama that the characters go through in this film. The film is 120 minutes long and is rated PG-13 for language, sexual content and drug and alcohol...
by Tyler Lallathin | Oct 11, 2010 | News Slider
Students have mixed opinions on whether to get the flu shot when Lipscomb opens its clinic Tuesday in the Bennett Campus Center The university is urging students and faculty to get the shot, by posting the following message on its website: “This year, the CDC is recommending that everyone 6 months and older get flu shots. Protection against the H1N1 virus will be included in this year’s seasonal vaccines.” The combination seasonal flu and swine flu in vaccination doesn’t bother Leanne Wright, a junior nursing major from Cincinnati, Ohio. “I’ll get a flu shot. I’ll get the piggy shot. Put it all in me,” Wright said. “Flu shots work, but not for all people.” Sarah Bailey, a junior marketing major from Philadelphia, Pa., said she agrees with the school’s stance on the shots. But not everyone is so eager. “I don’t feel that they are necessary,” said Joseph Cardiasmenos, a senior psychology major from Cincinnati, Ohio. “Since I’m young, my immune system can fight off [the flu] on its own.” Jamie Good, a junior exercise major from Cincinnati said she probably won’t get the shot. “I got one last year and I still got the flu,” Good said. Physicians have said that while the flu shot won’t prevent a person from getting ill, it will lessen the wallop of the ailment. Some students said that the shot actually can make a person ill. This, according to a statement posted on the web site of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, is the No. 1 misconception about the vaccinations: “The influenza viruses contained in a flu shot are inactivated (killed), which...
