by Bethany Rowland | Apr 21, 2017 | News Slider
Each member from every social club on campus gathered Thursday night in Collins Alumni Auditorium to celebrate the annual Greek Life awards. This year the awards were hosted by senior Conner Crocker. Throughout the evening, Crocker entertained the audience with his stories and jokes as they reminisced on the past year as part of Greek Life. He also introduced speakers such as Laurie Sain, Landon Parrish and Sam Parnell. Throughout the evening, each social club was recognized for their accomplishments during the school year. Special recognition was given to the president of each club as well. Speakers discussed highlights in intramurals, missions, service and philanthropy from the past year and touched on other aspects of club involvement as well. Then, at the end of the evening, one special men and women’s club received the coveted title of Club of the Year. This award is presented to the clubs that have best represented Greek Life throughout involvement in service, campus relations, club spirit and participation. Each club submits a Club of the Year video and the two winning clubs’ videos are shown at the event. This year, the Club of the Year award went to Theta Psi and Delta Omega. “This sisterhood is one that laughs, cries and celebrates together and I am so honored to have been able to show that through our video,” Delta Omega senior Brooke Dorris said. The president of Delta Omega, Olivia Sartain, and the vice president of Theta Psi, Reese Lusk, joined Sam Smith on the stage to receive the trophies. “It was an honor to accept the trophy on behalf of our guys,” Lusk said. “They’ve worked so hard to help...
by Erin Franklin | Apr 21, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
A rain delay in the second inning didn’t stop the Lipscomb Lady Bisons from run-ruling the Chattanooga Mocs 12-0 in five innings on Thursday night at Draper Diamond at Smith Stadium. Coming off a 4-1 win Tuesday night at Louisville, Lipscomb (33-13) pulled a massive nine-run second inning to go up 11-0 over the Mocs (12-32) early in the game. “I loved how we scored right off the bat,” head coach Kristin Ryman said. “Chloe [Yeager] gets a really clutch two RBI single right there in the first inning to get us on the board and jump-start us, and then in the second inning we just really took off. After that, we just relied on our defense.” Senior veteran pitcher McCarley Thomas pitched the entire game, only allowing two hits, while Chattanooga threw two freshmen — Celie Hudson and Alex Connell, who let up four hits a piece against the Lady Bisons. “I feel pretty good about it,” Thomas said. “I think I have the opportunity to be sharper and to get ahead more on my batters, and that’s going to help me out a lot. It’s a team sport, and my teammates had my back, so it was a good outing.” In the first inning, junior Caitlin Plocheck knocked a double to centerfield for the Lady Bisons’ first hit. Then with two outs and bases loaded, freshman Chloe Yeager came up to bat, drilling a single up the middle to bring in the first two runs of the game. After a quick rain delay, sophomore Destinee Brewer knocked a single and stole third before senior Kasey Gibson hit a...
by Jade Spilka | Apr 20, 2017 | News Slider
Lipscomb alumnus Trevor Gormley founded the “Millennial View” after a self-realization that companies have trouble managing and retaining millennial employees. Since the foundation of the Millennial View, the company has appeared in Ink Magazine, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated, and Gormley himself appeared on CNBC four times. “We help businesses manage, recruit, retain and market to the millennial demographic,” said Lipscomb student Michael Levashov, the Millennial View’s Director of Research. Levashov, a Financial Markets and Accounting double major at Lipscomb, currently conducts research and builds courses for the company. He first met Gormley through Alpha Kappa Psi, an international professional business fraternity on campus. Through the connection of Alpha Kappa Psi, Gormley also appointed Lipscomb student Hannah Kraebel as the Head of Strategic Execution. The Millennial View exists not only as a consulting firm, but its founders also seek to empower millennial students and employees to recognize their value. They said they want students to know they don’t have to have any kind of degree or certification to impact the world; they hope the impact of the Millennial View will encourage an independent mindset that will create a ripple effect for generations to come. “Our ability to learn and solve problems is a lot higher than any other generation,” Levashov said. “We were born and raised with the ability to access information. We can find ways to solve problems a lot faster than other...
by LeBron Hill | Apr 19, 2017 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider, Opinion
The Fast and Furious franchise gets another high-octane, action-packed addition with The Fate of the Furious. The movie is the eighth film in the saga and sticks to the same street racing and over-the-top stunts rubric that led to the franchise’s early success in 2001 with Fast and Furious. The cast is full of the same lovable characters such as Dominic Torreto (Vin Diesel) and Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). It also features some who are new to the film such as Charlize Theron (The Italian Job) and Jason Statham (The Transporter Trilogy). F. Gary Gray directs — the fifth director of the saga — and is a veteran in the action film genre, having directed movies such as Law Abiding Citizen and The Italian Job. The film begins with Dominic and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) on their honeymoon in Cuba. “Dom” soon has to put his racing skills to the test and raced in his cousin’s beat up 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline against a 1956 Ford Customline. The backbone of the franchise has always been larger-than-life stunts and tons of explosions. However, this movie features a more interesting storyline. Dom’s relationship with his family is intriguing, especially for those who are hardcore fans of the franchise. Moviegoers get a deeper look into Dom’s psyche, and what makes him who he is. Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson are both action juggernauts, allowing for an interesting conversation surrounding the question of who would win in a fight. Viewers have already started a Twitter war, using the hashtags, #teamVin and #teamDwayne. The franchise is the highest grossing movie franchise in Universal Studios history, and...
by Lorena Coleman | Apr 19, 2017 | News Slider
Retiring chemistry professor Villa Mitchell said she will miss many things about Lipscomb. But the commute will not be one of them. Mitchell has been living on her family farm in McMinnville, Tennessee, making a three-hour commute to Lipscomb for work every day. “McMinnville’s about 75 miles southeast of here.” Mitchell said. “It’s a small town, mostly rural farming, not much of anything there. If you want to retire it’s a good place for that.” Retiring there is what Mitchell plans to do. She will leave Lipscomb at the end of the semester after 40 years of teaching. During her time at Lipscomb, Mitchell taught many classes, ranging from general introduction chemistry classes to organic chemistry labs and biochemistry. From those classes, Mitchell has accumulated several memories. Among those memories, Mitchell said a more memorable one was an explosion in an organic chemistry lab. “When I was teaching organic labs, a lot of the guys in there would find something to explode.” Mitchell said. “It was always interesting to them. They would sometimes, without me knowing it, try different experiments. “I did have a couple of guys who blew something up, and I can’t even remember what the reaction was now, but they did it and we had stains on the ceiling from their endeavors.” While Mitchell might not miss moments like these, she said there are things she will miss. Mitchell said she has enjoyed seeing how her students have changed over the years and will miss interacting with them the most. “When I started teaching, my students would take notes writing down every word I said furiously, and if...
by Tanner Allen | Apr 18, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
The Lady Bisons won their second straight conference series this weekend against North Florida. Lipscomb won the first game of the double header 8-1, then lost the middle game 5-0, before winning the series finale 2-1 on Saturday. The first game of the series started out much slower than the score might indicate. After the top of the 4th inning the score was still 0-0. Then in the bottom of the 4th freshman infielder Chloe Yeager got the scoring started by hitting a two-run home run just over the left field wall. That wasn’t the only long ball hit in the inning as junior infielder Caitlin Plocheck knocked a three-run home run just a few batters later. “We were doing some decent things early in game one, but we hadn’t quite figured it out yet,” Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman said. “Chloe hits the home run that just jump-started everything. Our confidence really began flowing after that.” Unfortunately for the Lady Bisons they were unable to carry their success over to game two of the series as they were shutout by the Ospreys 5-0. North Florida jumped out and scored four runs in the first inning after just the first seven hitters. After the first inning senior pitcher McCarley Thomas settled down and allowed just one run over the next six innings, but, with no help from the offense, the damage was already done. “We have talked to everybody on the team about mentally being able to rebound,” coach Ryman said after the game. “We don’t have time to pout or sulk about how performances went in these games. We...
