by Jamin Craig | Feb 6, 2015 | News Slider
The Department of Music celebrated the golden age of radio with a special concert called “Your Hit Parade 1936″ Thursday night in Shamblin Theater. The Great American Songbook concert series is devoted to showcasing classic American tunes from specific eras. For this concert, the music department put together a recreation of a popular radio show from the 1930s that played the weekly top 15 songs. This show was the precursor to today’s American Top 40 music charts. Patricia Roberts, a music department adjunct professor, created this Great American Songbook show. “I always try to come up with a new way to present it each year that’s kind of exciting and different,” Roberts said. “I got the idea to do the ‘Your Hit Parade,’ which was an old-time radio show, and I just started looking at all different kinds of music, and I began to see that I really loved the music from 1936, so then I picked out enough music to do a whole program with it.” A small jazz trio — composed of pianist Jeff Burnham, bassist Ike Harris and drummer Chris Nelson — provided the music for the evening. Music students came up to the front microphone to serenade the audience with the classic songs. Blake Farmer, news director and reporter for WPLN Nashville Public Radio, served as the evening’s MC. Farmer noted that as a radio personality, getting to host a 1930’s radio show was a huge joy. “When you’re in radio, this is sort of the era that everyone looks back to,” Farmer said. “This was literally when people crowded around the radio to listen...
by Erin Turner | Feb 5, 2015 | News Slider
When one of McKenzie King’s family friends was diagnosed with breast cancer, she knew she wanted to make an impact on the cancer community for the rest of her life. “It just seems like the longer you live, the longer you know people that have either had it [cancer] directly or know someone who has had cancer,” said King, whose passion for the fight fuels her participation in Relay for Life. King, a senior molecular biology major from Omaha, Nebraska, was first impacted by cancer during her sophomore year in high school. King watched Sydney Vanderspuy, a close family friend, fight cancer. She also saw the effects of cancer first-hand with her pastor and a close friend in the Army. King’s interest in the cancer community didn’t stop when she came to Lipscomb. During her sophomore year at Lipscomb she volunteered at the Hope Lodge, a home-like environment cancer patients and their caregivers can stay at during treatment. During her time as a volunteer, she was able to connect with cancer patients by giving tours of Nashville and providing transportation to treatment. It was also during her sophomore year that she became a part of the Relay for Life committee. As King has grown closer to the committee over the years, she is especially looking forward to staying up and having fun this year. “Looking back, I think that the most enjoyable part for me is staying up a little bit later, because as you go on throughout the night we never stop doing anything.” At this year’s event, there will be Zumba, yoga, lip sync, ping-pong, zorb ball soccer and inflatables...
by Colleen Casner | Feb 5, 2015 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s office of Disability Services provides accommodations for students with various physical, psychological, developmental and learning disabilities. Located in the Academic Success Center in the basement of Beaman Library, the office assesses students’ needs individually to provide students with an accommodation plan to help them succeed in the classroom. Accommodations can include but are not limited to testing accommodations, note-takers for the classroom, audiobooks and accessible classroom tables and chairs. The office also provides temporary accommodations for students recovering from surgery. The number of students served by Disability Services makes up seven percent of Lipscomb’s undergraduate student body. Although this number continues to grow, director Kaitlin Shetler feels that greater awareness of Disability Services on campus would encourage more students to get the help they need. “Everybody learns differently, and sometimes we need help making sure we are completely successful,” Shetler said. “We represent seven percent, but I know a lot more students could probably utilize these services.” Shetler, who has worked with Lipscomb Disability Services since 2013, enjoys interacting with and learning from the students she serves. “You get to meet a lot of students with a lot of diversity, a lot of different challenges that people have overcome. It’s really inspiring for me to work with these students.” To request accommodation from Disability Services, students should make appointments with Shetler and provide documentation of their needs. Photo courtesy of Lipscomb...
by Gemikal Prude | Feb 3, 2015 | News Slider
When Paulette Cathey first visited Lipscomb, she saw more diversity than she had ever seen. Cathey, Coordinator of African American Student Services, realized that something different was happening at Lipscomb. Months later, a position at Lipscomb had opened up for the job that she has now. After receiving the job and working closely with students, her desire to create more unity strengthened. “I strongly believe that we as people tend to get so caught up in the differences of the world,” Cathey said. “Skin or eye color, and even our culture. But God being the perfect artist that He is, was only showing the world’s true beauty through variation. Instead of separation, he’s showing us all that we are much better within unity.” Last November, when Cathey took part in coordinating KIT’s annual StompFest, she saw her idea of unity take place behind the scenes and on stage. “Lipscomb was doing it differently,” Cathey said. “There were so many cultures coming together, to step and cheer for one another. I was in awe, because I was a witness to a spirit of unity.” For Cathey, StompFest was the first true illustration of unity on campus. For Black History month, Cathey does not want the student body to focus on just one race, but all of them instead. “The more diversity we bring, the more beauty we acquire here, and the more we learn. Just the thought of that is exciting and something that I strive...
by Stephanie Schiraldi | Feb 3, 2015 | News Slider
Relay for Life is hitting especially close to home this year for junior Kristen Lammons. Lammons, an elementary education major from St. Augustine, Florida, is finally got the chance to introduce her biggest supporters in Phi Nu to her fun-loving, warrior of a dad. Lammons’ father was diagnosed with stage 4 mantle cell lymphoma her freshman year. After recently celebrating a year cancer-free, Mr. Lammons will be joining her at this year’s event as Phi Nu’s cancer survivor. “I think he was really honored that we thought about him and reached out to him [to be our survivor],” Lammons said. “It’s so important to me to invite him into it that I think it’s important to him.” “My dad is definitely a man’s man, we call him a businessman redneck,” Lammons said. “He’s just a great provider and that’s something I’ve always admired of him.” Lammons said that even through her father’s rigorous chemotherapy schedule, he still remained supportive of their family and stayed true to his character. “Watching him throughout all of that, even though he wasn’t feeling good and his personality was different, he still encouraged us and loved on us regardless,” Lammons said. Despite a transitioning family during the journey, which included Lammons studying abroad and her sister getting married and moving across the country, Lammons said they still managed to grow closer as a family. “It definitely brought our family close together and made us more real about being intentional with each other and spending time together,” Lammons said. “It was really awesome to watch my mom serve him. It made their marriage way stronger.”...
by Carly Bergthold | Feb 3, 2015 | News Slider
Country music playing and an array of instruments across the stage set the tone for A Writer’s Night Monday in Shamblin Theater. The concert was organized by Lipscomb’s chapter of CMA EDU, a nationwide program thats gives college students a foot in the door to the world of country music. Lipscomb’s CMA EDU president Miranda Davidson created the concert to benefit cancer research through Lipscomb’s Relay for Life event. “We got the idea of coming up with a songwriter’s night so we could raise money for Relay For Life,” Davidson said. “We have a really great lineup, so I’m excited.” Audience members sat at round tables and sipped fresh coffee, creating an intimate atmosphere. Ashley Scire and Hayden Hines kicked the night off with some original tunes and a few covers. Scire performed her original songs “The Memory is Still With Me,” “Cracks,” “Goodbye is Cheap” and “Tough Guy.” Hines covered Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” and Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise.” “I love doing these kinds of shows,” Scire said. “I just like to support such a good cause. I think music can speak to everybody, and I love using it for the good.” Next up were Byron Hatcher, Abbi Scott and Phillip White. Hatcher began with his song called “Nashville.” Later he played “50 Years,” a song he wrote for his grandmother after his grandfather passed away. Scott performed four original songs. Two of them, “Make Mine Count” and “Screwed Up Life,” will be on her upcoming album. White, who accompanied Scott, is a professional songwriter who has written for acts like Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire and George Strait. He gave...
