by Erin Turner | Jan 22, 2016 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
As heavy snow continues to move in to the Nashville area, classes are canceled for Saturday, Jan. 23. Food services are available for students on campus, according to Kim Chaudoin, assistant vice president of Communication and Marketing. In a 3 p.m. update, Chaudoin said the Bison Café will be open for dinner until 7 p.m., and Starbucks will be open until 9 p.m.. “We especially appreciate the employees who have volunteered to work double shifts in order ensure our students have plenty of hot meals today,” Chaudoin wrote. Heavy snow began falling in the area Friday morning and predictions show that it will not stop falling until 10 p.m.. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Middle Tennessee. This warning remains in effect from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday. In an email to students, Chaudoin said students are encouraged to be cautious and stay warm. “Campus services will be working throughout the day to clear sidewalks and building entrances,” Chaudoin wrote. “It is also suggested with the amount of ice that may accumulate over the next few hours that you remember to keep your essential electronic devices plugged in to keep a charge.” Beaman Library is closed Friday and will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The men’s basketball game against Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday has been moved to 4...
by Erin Turner | Nov 14, 2015 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
Story by Erin Turner, Becca Risley and Stephanie Schiraldi Updated at 11:59 p.m. Several of Lipscomb’s Global Learning students are currently in France, near where over 150 people have been reported dead after a series of apparent coordinated attacks across Paris. Eight attackers involved are dead. Lipscomb’s Global Learning students are safe and accounted for, according to Lipscomb University’s Facebook. But the students may be stuck there as President Francois Hollande has closed that nation’s borders as a response to the terrorist attacks. Police evacuated roughly 100 hostages held captive in the Bataclan concert venue Friday evening, the site of one of the attacks. Two men dressed in all black entered the concert hall. Upon entering, the men started firing what appeared to be AK-47s. French reporter Julien Pearce said the shootings occurred execution-style. During a soccer game at the Stade de France, a dismembered body was found at the scene, according to a Western intelligence source. This attack was reported as a suicide bombing. Additionally, attacks occurred at restaurants Le Petit Cambodge and La Belle Equipe, Avenue de la Republique and Rue de la Fontaine au Roi. “This is an attack not just on Paris, not just on the people in France, but an attack on all humanity and the universal values we share,” President Barack Obama said at the White House during a live press conference Friday evening. A few Lipscomb students in the London Global Learning program are currently spending the weekend right outside Paris, France. Lipscomb Assistant Vice President of Communication and Marketing Kim Chaudoin said the students are staying in a facility away from where Friday’s attacks took place....
