by Whitney Smith | Apr 11, 2017 | News Slider
SGA elections will take place in the student center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11 for officers and senators. The election for senators-at-large will be Thursday, April 13. Brandon Cunningham, Brent Horswell, Vince Law, Matthew Jafari, Rebecca Robertson and Mitchell Wood are running for the five open senior senator seats. The choices for the five junior senator seats are Cole Buttrey, Brooklyn Chalfant, Ralston Drake, Hannah Fox, Leslie Shakira Garcia, Emilee Goss, Hope Harmon, Ben Hemby, Hope Mironas, Mason Price, Myron Sailors, Kenan Sakic, Jobane Stockard, Matt Welborn, Jordan Whitfield, Hanyi Yin and Kegan York. Breckin Horton, Annie Moore and Jack Webber are the candidates for the three sophomore seats. The candidate for treasurer, Tyler Dove, and secretary, Sierra Sparks, are both running unopposed. Presidential Candidates: Gabby Cannone Why are you running for president? “I spent a lot of time praying about it this semester, and the Lord placed it on my heart that this is something I needed to do. As I’ve stepped into campaigning and the conversation revolving around SGA president specifically, I’m coming to see more of why the Lord was pushing me in that way. “More specifically, I’m running for SGA president because I have a huge heart for the Lipscomb student body, and I love seeing things being united and restored and people coming together for the same reason. I think one of the coolest opportunities I had this past year as the SGA Spiritual Life Committee Chair was being able to plan events on campus to see students from all different diverse backgrounds come together on campus when...
by Whitney Smith | Mar 27, 2017 | News Slider
For the fifth year in a row, Lipscomb students held the Relay for Life Fundraiser in Allen Arena from Friday night to Saturday morning, raising nearly $26,000 for the American Cancer Society. The all-night event drew social clubs, service groups and other campus organizations together for Zumba, lip-synch battles and a chance to remember those affected by cancer, and statistically, there are plenty to remember. “My grandmother had breast cancer when I was a baby and she was about 60,” said Lipscomb senior and Relay for Life chair Angela Sullivan. “When she was about 73 it came back in her leg. It’s been just over 11 years since she passed away. “Relay is kind of the way I can find reason in that. It’s the place to put all the hatred I have for this disease and feel like I’m doing something useful for that.” According to a study by the American Cancer Society, the number of those affected by cancer will grow in 2017, with over an estimated 1 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the United States alone. Approximately 39.6 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetimes. The funds raised by this year’s Relay will be used to combat those statistics through cancer research and patient programs, which Sullivan says can be life-changing. This is why she participates in the Relay. “When you see the kind of effect it can have on a person when they’re going through such a crappy time, it’s almost like a nonstarter. It was never a question. They’ve been an organization...
by Whitney Smith | Mar 19, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
Lipscomb (20-7) softball took on Austin Peay State University (8-13) on Saturday for a speedy doubleheader at Draper Diamond at Smith Stadium. The Bisons took the first game with a score of 3-1 and later won the second in the series 8-0 by the mercy rule. Both games each only lasted roughly an hour and a half. “That is one of the quickest doubleheaders we have ever played,” Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman said. The first game began strong for the women in purple with pitcher Mandy Jordan getting the ball rolling with eight strikeouts in a row. The sophomore ended game one with a 1.12 ERA. “I thought Mandy threw a really great game,” Ryman said. “Austin Peay really struggled to figure her out early.” Pitcher McCarley Thomas picked up where Jordan left off, allowing only three hits in the second game and earning five strikeouts. The Governors earned their only run from center fielder Kacy Acree in the second inning. The teams will face off for one more game on Sunday before the Lady Bisons begin ASUN Conference play on March 25 against USC Upstate. Photo courtesy of Lipscomb...
by Whitney Smith | Mar 17, 2017 | News Slider
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — President Donald Trump discussed fulfilling his campaign promises at a rally in Nashville Municipal Auditorium on Wednesday, March 15. Trump gave supporters an update of his first 53 days in office surrounding the issues on which he campaigned. Among those was the state of the new “watered-down version” of the administration’s travel ban. The executive order was blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii just hours before the order was set to go into effect. “This new order was tailored to the dictates of the Ninth Circuit’s — in my opinion, flawed ruling,” Trump said. “This is, in the opinion of many, unprecedented judicial overreach.” The President also listed his other priorities in office: tax reduction, stricter trade regulations for businesses leaving the United States, protection of the second amendment, an increase in defense spending, respect for the American flag and putting “America first” in all administrative decisions. The Trump campaign, not the White House, organized the event. After only 53 days in office, this is Trump’s second campaign rally for the 2020 election. He officially filed the papers to run for a second term on inauguration day. Like his previous rallies, Trump’s speech referenced former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. After an eruption of “lock her up” chants faded into a dull roar, Trump reminded supporters of why he carried Tennessee in 92 of 95 counties. “We believe — especially the people in Tennessee, I know you so well — in peace through strength,” Trump said. Despite the many Tennessee supporters Trump mentioned, hundreds of protesters also gathered outside of the venue with homemade signs,...
by Whitney Smith | Feb 12, 2017 | News Slider
In a chapel meant to foster cultural communication, racial reconciliation and acceptance, Freedom Rider Dr. Rip Patton spoke to students about his fight for desegregation through nonviolence. “Nonviolence is a way of violence,” Patton said to the group of students gathered. “It’s a way of fighting — fighting with love.” During his sit-down in Multicultural Awareness Skills and Knowledge (MASK) chapel with Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Norma Burgess, Patton began the conversation before the first question was asked by drawing a contrast between what Lipscomb students see every day on their walls with what he saw as a college student in segregated Nashville. “I’m sure we’ve all heard the prayer, but when I first walked in through those doors, I saw this up here,” Patton said, gesturing to the words of Mark 10:45 embossed into the top of the stained-glass window in Ezell chapel. “‘I did not come to be served, but to serve and give my life as a ransom for many.’ Think about that,” the Freedom Rider said. “Put yourself in that place. That’s what happened here in Nashville in 1960 through 1964. It took us about four years to desegregate everything in Nashville. Everything you could think of was segregated.” Freedom Riders are those who boarded the buses heading to the most notably segregated cities in the South to challenge Jim Crow laws by using peaceful means in 1961. The rides were a tactic established and organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) aimed at desegregating public transportation in the South after the Supreme Court ruled segregation in interstate buses...
