by KJ Lauck | Oct 8, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons (10-5, 3-1) volleyball team defeated the Stetson Hatters (4-15, 1-3) in four sets on Friday night in Allen Arena. Lipscomb came out swinging, serving and scoring early and dominated the first set, blitzing the Hatters to take the first set 25-14. The first set saw the Lady Bisons accumulate more kills (15) than the Hatters had points (14). In the second set, Lipscomb came out and set the tone early, taking an early 10-1 lead. Lipscomb received some of that help from the bench. “Some of our bench got some valuable experience today,” head coach Brandon Rosenthal said. The second set ended with Lipscomb pulling away from the Hatters 25-13 for another double-digit set win. “I thought we came out and did a really nice job executing in the first two sets,” Rosenthal said. Sophomore Lauren Anderson, who is third on the team in kills, (131) lead the Lady Bisons with six kills in the first two sets. Two Lady Bisons, senior Katie Bradley and junior Brittany Thomas, finished the second set with 1.000 hit percentages. However, the Bisons began the third set flat, and the Hatters would take their first lead of the match in the third set 10-9 and increase it to a 13-10 lead. “We didn’t necessarily come out with as much urgency,” Rosenthal said. “It was one of those situations where she (Thomas) wasn’t necessarily playing her best and being asked to lead.” Stetson would not allow Lipscomb’s early dominance to keep them down, increasing their lead to 17-12. “Any leadership role — when you’re not at your best you kind of...
by Katie Bianchini | Oct 8, 2016 | News Slider
On Friday night, the Lipscomb Student Activities Board transformed Bison Square into a dance floor, complete with twinkle lights and a DJ, for the annual Swing in the Square event. While most students who attended did not have extensive dance backgrounds, several couples danced like they had jumped straight out of the ’40s. Freshmen Audrey Inmon and Johnathan Sottek whirled around the floor, completing flips and twists in beat with the big-band music. “Swing is definitely a different type of dance than we do today,” Sottek said. “It’s more respectful…it’s one you have to think about more because you have to count rather than just move around.” Inmon said she danced in musicals as she grew up in Memphis; Sottek said he practiced his moves at Centennial Park swing dancing events last summer. Both agreed that an event like Swing in the Square gives students a valuable opportunity to learn how to dance. “A lot of dance today is more just chaos, but with this you have to work with the person across from you and can’t just yank [your partner] around,” he said. “It takes a lot more communication.” The swing era lasted from around 1935 to 1946 in the United States. Artists like Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday played popular jazz and big band music that encouraged the sugar-pushing, lindy-hopping dance style. “It’s kind of a cool look back in history,” Sottek said. “You don’t really think about that while you’re doing it, but it was the dance of an era, so to go back and visit that can be really cool.” Inmon said...
by Erin Franklin | Oct 7, 2016 | News Slider, Newscast
This week, Lindsey Nance and Todd Lamberth are behind the anchor desk, giving us a look at Lipscomb and Nashville news. Myckelle Williams updates us on the flu shot clinics that Lipscomb’s College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences is offering on campus this month. Patrick Carpenter tells us all about FCA’s latest combined fellowship with Lipscomb, Vanderbilt and Belmont, and Todd Lamberth gives us a look at the recently released film My Many Sons, which tells Lipscomb basketball coach Don Meyer’s story. Whitney Smith gives us the story on “Now That You Ask,” an on-campus event in which Mayor Megan Barry spoke. During parent weekend, students and parents gathered in Collins Alumni Auditorium to see Tau Phi’s annual Cowboy Show. Brooke Dorris has the story. Brooke Dorris has the weather and updates us on Hurricane Matthew. Anna Rogers delivers the latest buzz in entertainment, and Whitney Smith tells us what’s happening in the world of sports. Got any story ideas or events you would like us to cover? Contact our News Director at Eebutterfield@mail.lipscomb.edu....
by Charissa Ricker | Oct 6, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Every Thursday night at 10 p.m. Lipscomb students have the opportunity to gather in the on-campus Starbucks for Coffeehouse, an SGA sponsored night of free, live music. “Coffeehaus serves to entertain and bring people together as a Lipscomb community,” sophomore and Coffeehaus host Nordista Freeze said. “It’s the only thing on campus that happens in Starbucks. SGA handed it over to me last year because I was super inquiring about how I could become a part of this, because I know most of the bands on campus and music is my passion.” Coffeehaus aims to showcase student talent in a laid back environment. While occasionally dominated by contemporary music majors, Freeze said the line-up welcomes students from any major. “It’s actually very intentionally not exclusive to contemporary music majors,” he said. “We are trying to allow students who don’t have much experience or don’t have other outlets to share their music. “For students who want this to be their profession, this is the first step to get the ball rolling. When they’re on stage it’s their thing; covers, originals, they get to run it themselves.” Coffeehaus provides an opportunity for aspiring musicians to get a taste of what it’s like performing live. Not only does the audience enjoy listening to their classmates, the artists feed off of the audience to provide the best performance possible. Freeze said he wants Coffeehaus to become a vibrant part of campus life. Although currently booked through the end of this semester, Freeze said he is already searching for talent to sign up for the spring. “College is so much more than academics; it’s about shaping your...
by Micah Dempsey | Oct 6, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb men’s soccer team (5-5-1) lost 2-0 to the Memphis Tigers (6-4-1) Wednesday night at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex after a series of three away games last week. “We are still confident, we played well as a team; there are just little things we have to work on and we are going to stay positive moving forward,” senior midfielder Daniel Vieira said. Throughout the first half, the Bisons sent many long passes up the left side of the field and played several quick, two-touch passes down the ride side; however, despite outshooting Memphis 4-3 in the half, Lipscomb couldn’t find the back of the net. In the 39th minute, a ricocheted ball fell to the feet of a Tiger forward in the box and he scored to the left side of the goal givingMemphis a 1-0 lead going into halftime. “We had a good first half despite the silly goal at the end,” Vieira said. “We wanted to keep moving the ball side to side and we wanted to watch out for the same stuff that hurt us on that goal.” The Tigers, a team that entered the match with the 25th best shutout percentage in the nation at 0.50, stayed true to their defense throughout the game as they utilized speed to continually clear the ball away from Lipscomb attacks. As strong back lines for both teams dominated the second half, the Bisons began to turn up the offensive pressure as time winded down. In the 87th minute, a cross went all the way through the box, narrowly missed by several attackers. Again in 88th minute, junior forward Kyle Smith had the...
by Brooke Dorris | Oct 6, 2016 | News Slider
Lipscomb University has been impacting lives for more than a century. Students and faculty celebrated Lipscomb’s 125th year on October 4 during a special Founders Day Gathering service. From its beginnings with nine students and three faculty members, the university has now grown to nearly 4,600 students and over 200 faculty members. Opening the Gathering service, President Randy Lowry took the stage to pose the question: “Are we doing what he [David Lipscomb] would have had in mind?” “We gather here to celebrate his dream . . . and his sense of great purpose in this city,” Lowry said. Lowry went on to compare David Lipscomb to Walt Disney, in the sense that without David Lipscomb’s imagination, we, as students, would not be here. President Lowry continued by speaking on what he thought David Lipscomb would think of the campus today. He said he [David Lipscomb] would probably not have ever dreamed that Lipscomb would have campuses all around the world — or Colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, etc. “Could he have imagined that music would become such an important part of Nashville and Lipscomb?” Lowry questioned. Lowry concluded his message with a simple statement to all students: “You are the fulfillment of his imagination and his dreams.” After President Lowry spoke during chapel, a special video was show to give students a glimpse of how Lipscomb came to be and to get a taste of what David Lipscomb was like. In the video, Dr. Howard Miller and Dr. Robert Hooper, both history professors at Lipscomb, sat down to discuss the different aspects of David Lipscomb’s life. In the video,...
