by Parker Bell | Mar 31, 2018 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider, Opinion
Stephen Spielberg is back again, just three months after the release of The Post. This time around, he’s having a lot more fun in the directing chair with Ready Player One. Ready Player One takes place in the near future of 2045 where most people are captivated with a virtual reality world called the “Oasis” that was created by a Bill Gates-type character named James Halliday (Mark Rylance). The story follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a very stereotypical teen who finds his escape in the video game world of the Oasis. He enters into a competition, engineered by Halliday, that sets him on a mission to find three keys that unlock the door to ownership and control of the Oasis. After earning the first key in an adrenaline-fueled race at the wheel of the DeLorean, Wade, also known by his in-game name Parzival, joins forces with his best friend Aech (Lena Waithe) and the famous Art3mis (Olivia Cooke) on his quest for the keys. Together, they travel back into the recorded memories of Halliday to search for clues, while fighting off the forces of the evil corporation IOI (Innovative Online Industries), helmed by CEO Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn). Ready Player One is co-written by Ernest Cline, the author of the novel. And it’s easy to tell. In trying to stay loyal to the source material, Cline has crammed as much of the book as he can into the film. This makes for an exposition-heavy first fifteen minutes of the film that is filled to the brim with information about the world in an already lengthy two hour and 20...
by Anna Rogers | Mar 30, 2018 | News Slider
Lipscomb hosted an unique chapel service Friday in order for campus to assemble in observation of Good Friday. The Chapel office informed students and faculty at the beginning of Holy Week that Friday’s 11 a.m. classes would be cancelled for the service, and students in attendance would receive two chapel credits. The service began with a short video of various peers detailing what reconciliation through Christ meant to them, personally. Then, campus minister Cyrus Eaton took the podium, explaining the magnitude of the pre-Easter holiday. “[Good Friday] reminds us that reconciliation is the act of restoring what was broken or lost, and that only God can bring peace and justice in the midst of chaos and corruption,” Eaton said. The overall message was one of forgiveness and restoration through the Gospel, with a heavy emphasis on Jesus’ death. Eaton went on to explain that in order to give or receive forgiveness, sacrifice is crucial. While there is good news of resurrection on Easter, Eaton noted the solemnity of Good Friday. “Good Friday asks us to take a hard look into darkness,” Eaton said. Following Eaton’s message, three Lipscomb students read the story of Jesus’ betrayal and death from the Gospel of Luke. In response, the Gathering sang, “O Sacred Head,” a hymn originally written in the Middle Ages about the sacrifice God made in sending Jesus to Earth to die to reconcile humanity after sin. Dr. Ken Durham took to the stage, and his message focused specifically on God’s power over death. “Death makes a pretty convincing case,” he said. “It has a pretty impressive finality about it.” Durham...
by Olivia Banks | Mar 29, 2018 | News Slider
Lipscomb students were given the opportunity to come together and go out all over Nashville and serve others Wednesday afternoon. Classes were cancelled from noon – 4 p.m. to allow students the opportunity to go out into the community to give back. Around 1,200 students, faculty, and staff members participated in Service Day. Sam Smith organized the annual event. Service Day started with the students gathering in Allen Arena to eat lunch and meet with their service teams. After taking a group picture, the teams departed to go to their service locations. Students were able to choose to go to one of multiple locations offered, such as Healing Hands, ThriftSmart, Room in the Inn, Save the Cumberland and more. Freshman Savannah Royston volunteered at “Soles4Souls,” sorting hundreds of shoes by rubber-banding them and separating by size. The shoes that Lipscomb students sorted will be sent to people to provide disaster relief in Alabama. “The whole experience was really meaningful because I knew what I was doing would help someone,” Royston said. “A lot of times I want to help, and I don’t know how to, so this gave me purpose while serving.” Other students from Lipscomb traveled to “The Branch” to volunteer. The Branch is an organization that gives food to people in the community and also provides English tutors. The students’ jobs yesterday afternoon varied from cleaning classrooms, organizing storage areas and building greenhouses. Freshman Sam Gerard was on the team who built a greenhouse. “It was a lot of fun because I enjoy building things, and I had a great group to work with,” Gerard said. The College...
by Spencer Boehme | Mar 28, 2018 | News Slider, Sports
Lipscomb took down the eighth-best college baseball team in the country Tuesday night. In a neutral-site game played at the minor-league First Tennessee Park, the Bisons (11-13) used a three-run triple and impeccable bullpen pitching to take down the No. 8 Vanderbilt Commodores (17-9) by a final score of 5-1. “Any win at any time is so vital,” Lipscomb’s coach Jeff Forehand said. “But everybody knows the caliber of team that we were playing. And when you play one of the best teams in the country and you come out on top, it does give your team a boost.” The three-run hit in the fifth, courtesy of junior first-baseman Cade Sorrells, propelled Lipscomb headfirst towards victory, but there were other small details that helped Lipscomb keep momentum in their favor as well. In the third inning, junior left-fielder Tevin Symonette jumped and bounced off of the fence while he caught a fly ball to help keep the game tied at zero. “I think it helped us set the tempo of how the game was going to go,” Forehand said of the catch. Starting junior pitcher Kyle Kemp put in an odd performance for Lipscomb in four innings. On one end, he allowed no hits, struck out three, and allowed one run on a sacrifice fly. On the flipside, he posted seven walks, dragging innings out much longer than they needed to go. “To say I’m concerned about it, no, because it didn’t hurt us,” Forehand said. He also called Kemp “a strikeout guy.” The Commodores took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth on a sacrifice fly from...
by LeBron Hill | Mar 27, 2018 | News Slider
Video games and violence have been a topic of discussion since 1994, when “Mortal Kombat” became the first video game to receive a parental guidance rating for its gory graphics and crude violence. First-person shooters are now under the microscope. Listen to this radio story below....
by Anna Rogers | Mar 27, 2018 | News Slider
Tuesday’s “The Gathering” featured Lee Camp sharing the story of reconciliation between Andrew Collins and Jameel McGee. Camp interviewed the two men about how they met. Collins, a former police officer in Benton Harbor, Michigan, saw McGee walking down the street one day. Since his day was coming to a close, and he had put no one behind bars, he wrongfully arrested McGee, claiming he saw the law-abiding citizen with drugs and the intent to sell. McGee faced four years in prison after being charged with possession of one ounce of crack cocaine. “I felt like I was guilty until innocent,” McGee said. “Everyone thought I was guilty right off the bat…even my family thought I was guilty.” While McGee was still locked up, Collins was found out and charged with falsifying reports and lying under oath. This earned him a year in jail. “It was almost immediately after I was caught that I started getting the old me back,” Collins said. “When I was in jail, I felt God was calling me back to Benton Harbor to seek reconciliation . . . Everyone thought I was crazy and needed to flee.” To everyone’s bewilderment, Collins returned to the city in which his crimes took place. There, he began working through a faith-based employment agency. As luck, or Providence, would have it, it was the same agency McGee used. Instead of doing what most people would do and hurting, ignoring or harassing Collins, McGee chose to forgive him. “The situation was hurting me further,” McGee said. “I was hurting people in prison because I was hurt, and that was...
