by Becca Risley | Feb 6, 2016 | News Slider
Participants joined together from Friday evening until early Saturday morning to fight cancer at Lipscomb’s fourth annual Relay for Life event held in Allen Arena. The event was broken up into three sections of fundraising and entertainment. Students could enjoy live music, dancing, and spike ball on the front stage, enter a basketball or volleyball tournament in McQuiddy Gym, or visit the several fundraising tables and game stations held on the back stage of the arena. All money donated throughout the night benefits the American Cancer Society and the Hope Lodge located at Vanderbilt. Nashville is home to 19 of the 900 research programs in the nation. “This Hope Lodge is the only one in Tennessee.,” said junior Angela Sullivan, co-chair for Lipscomb’s Relay for Life event. “If you’re in Memphis or Knoxville and you need cancer treatment at Vanderbilt, you and your family can stay for free, get free food and free travel to treatments.” Participating in Relay events is something Sullivan has done for as long as she can remember. Her grandmother was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 60, before Sullivan was born, and later passed away from an aggressive breast cancer after being in remission for 14 years. “That has been my passion for Relay ever since,” Sullivan said. “She loved going to the Relay events. She always rocked the survivor lap and was a huge proponent for the American Cancer Society.” During her grandmother’s stint with cancer, Sullivan said the American Cancer Society worked closely with her family, providing whatever they needed, checking in on them, giving her grandmother free wigs and doing anything...
by Leslie Newman | Feb 5, 2016 | News Slider
Another year of record enrollment at Lipscomb has put a crunch on social clubs and prospective pledges. Associate Dean of Student Life Sam Parnell, who oversees Greek life at Lipscomb, said he is hoping for new social clubs to start so that those who desire to participate in them don’t get left by the wayside. “Even with the growth of Gamma Lambda and Alpha Zeta, we are still at a deficit [in the number of clubs] for the amount of girls wanting to pledge,” Parnell said. According to Parnell, to handle the number of students who want to pledge a social club, each club would have to take 23 new pledges. The average pledge class ranges from three to 12 students. There are eight female social clubs, two of which were added in the last year. Women’s club Alpha Zeta was created in January of 2015. “It really saddened me to see really great girls being turned away, because there wasn’t enough manpower to accommodate the ever-growing rate of perspective new members,” said Ashley Arledge, club president. “Alpha Zeta exists to be a home for girls who love God and want to grow in a community on campus.” Parnell said he encourages students to start social clubs, because the university is growing so quickly, and so many students wish to become involved. “If there are people interested in starting a club, they can come to me, and I can tell them exactly what I am looking for in a new club.” Arledge said the process for starting a new club was stressful but exciting: “There’s a lot to do when...
by Colleen Casner | Feb 5, 2016 | News Slider
Lipscomb students had the opportunity Thursday afternoon to sit-in on a discussion with Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize winning, presidential biographer. Students took the time to ask Goodwin questions about politics, both current and past, and about her writing career. “I felt like so many times in our lives as students, especially young people, we see people at the height of their success when everything is going for them,” senior and graduate student Mary Kathryn Charlton said. “We never really see them when they’re our age. Sometimes we can get really discouraged with what’s going on in our own lives, and we have to be patient like she said.” Goodwin won two Pulitzer Prizes for biographies of American presidents and is considered an expert on the presidency. She has been a guest on TV shows such as Meet the Press, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and has given a TED talk. She has a passion for history and chooses her book subjects in part because of her curiosity about certain time periods. She has also seen a fair share of American history. She was present at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech and vocally opposed the Vietnam War. Dr. Goodwin was one of only five women in her doctoral program at Harvard and witnessed blatant sexism from professors. She was one of a small number of female fellows in President Lyndon Johnson’s administration. After Johnson’s term ended, Goodwin assisted the former president with his memoirs. Her relationship and experiences with Johnson inspired her first of many...
by Becca Risley | Feb 4, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
It all started with an idea – a dream to give students a place to further their musical education and talent, while growing as an artist and a person as well. Now, years later, Lipscomb students can do just that. With the newly renovated Music Row styled house sitting on the corner of Caldwell Lane and Granny White Pike, music students have a place to write, practice, perform, study and otherwise advance their skillset. “This is a place that creative people show up every day to do meaningful work in the business,” artist-in-residence Charlie Peacock said. Peacock began his career in the music industry back in the ‘70s between the ages of 14 and 15 and has since produced hundreds of albums. Among several other credits, Peacock co-wrote the popular Christian hit “Dare You to Move” alongside Switchfoot, worked on the soundtrack for the Oscar-winning production Twelve Years a Slave, produced two albums for The Civil Wars’ and continues to work in the industry today. “It’s all I’ve ever done and all I’ve ever known,” Peacock said. “A whole trajectory of things involving the music business, all of this experience was sort of brought together with my natural inclination to teach. “For 25 years, I’ve been speaking on university campuses all across America but being brought in for one day. I love students. I love to teach. It was just the right moment for this to happen. I’m just grateful that the dean and the administration thought it was the right time, too.” In addition to Peacock, contemporary music students are under the direction of several other music faculty...
by Lyndi Locke | Feb 3, 2016 | News Slider
For years, the Lipscomb community has partnered with the Made In The Streets organization in Nairobi, Kenya to enrich the lives of impoverished Kenyan natives. This past July, senior Journalism and New Media major Leslie Newman traveled to Nairobi to capture the essence of the organization by shooting a documentary for Lipscomb Missions called Karibu Kenya: A Journey Through The Streets. Made in the Streets is an organization that works with street children in Nairobi. The organization offers the opportunity for young people to learn a trade such as sewing or cosmetology and get a free education. It is run primarily by Kenyans. As for the trip, Newman said that traveling to Kenya for the first time wasn’t the only thing that was nerve-racking. “I was more terrified of failing to film the documentary than I was traveling far away,” she said. “I also had to have patience during the midst of putting it together.” Karibu Kenya, which means “Welcome to Kenya,” explained the roles Lipscomb students have when visiting Made In The Streets and how the street kids have been impacted by the organization. Not only are Lipscomb students able to bond with the natives, but they teach classes based on their major. For example, accounting majors can teach business-related classes while nursing majors teach hygiene-related classes. After the documentary, Made In The Streets President David Wilson explained how seeing an impoverished community has impacted his life. “It opened up my eyes to the rest of the world,” he said. “There are thousands of people we can’t take in because of capacity. (In the future), we hope to grow another campus just for skills...
by Todd Lamberth | Feb 2, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) will bring the Nashville Tennis Classic to Allen Arena this Saturday, where a special tennis court will be placed on the basketball floor. John Isner and Sam Querrey will kick off the event at 3 p.m. with a singles match. Isner is currently ranked No. 12 in the world while Querrey has reached No. 17 during his career. Following that match, Isner and Querrey will team up to face the Bryan brothers for a doubles match. Mike and Bob Bryan are the most decorated doubles team in the world with a record sixteen Grand Slam titles. The event comes to Nashville as United States tennis prepares for the Summer Olympics in Rio and the Davis Cup, the top team tournament for men’s international tennis. “USTA Tennessee is thrilled to support the Nashville Tennis Classic and honored to host members of the U.S. Davis Cup Team in our city,” said Tracy Davies, Executive Director of USTA Tennessee. “Nashville is a vibrant tennis community and bringing role models of this caliber to Tennessee will have a tremendous impact on the future growth of our sport.” With the U.S. tennis players coming into Nashville, Lipscomb men’s tennis will be leaving the city. The Bisons travel to play Georgia State and Alabama over the weekend. While they won’t be on campus, head coach Mario Hernandez said he is excited to have the event at Lipscomb. Hernandez said he hopes the event will help grow the sport and its popularity in the area and the school. “Having the best doubles team ever and the top American pro tennis players on...
