by Erin Turner | Jan 24, 2015 | News Slider, Sports
Ernie Banks, known as “Mr. Cub,” died Friday night at 83. The Baseball Hall of Famer spent his 19-year MLB career with the Chicago Cubs, hitting 512 home runs. The legendary baseball player shared some of his wisdom with Lipscomb during the sixth annual Don Meyer Evening of Excellence. Here is former Lumination Editor-in-Chief Cory Woodroof’s story about Banks’ message last April. Baseball great Ernie Banks advocates learning, friendship at Don Meyer Evening of Excellence Just because someone is king of his craft doesn’t mean he’ll ever stop learning, and for one of sports’ most respected and successful individuals, learning is something that never ceases. At the sixth annual Don Meyer Evening of Excellence, Baseball Hall of Famer and legendary Chicago Cub Ernie Banks taught all in attendance at Allen Arena the values of the learning process. “I’m just a learning person,” Banks said. As a part of the event, attendees got the chance to learn a little bit about Banks’ past, hear about his interactions with some of baseball’s great players and take to heart some of the wisdom he shared in a conversation with Jonathan Seamon. Banks, 83, is one of baseball’s most admired individuals. An icon in Wrigley Field on Chicago’s north side, the man beloved as “Mr. Cub” has amassed a large number of honors. Not only is he a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His Cubs’ jersey number was retired and there’s a statue in his honor at Wrigley Field. He’s also a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom – an award given him by President Barack Obama, another well-known Chicagoan, in 2013. Banks shared ballfields...
by Janice Ng | Jan 23, 2015 | News Slider
Mignonne Bryant and Katie Bianchini led this week’s Lumination News from the news desk, delivering Nashville community and Lipscomb headlines. Construction on the 17-story Green Hills 4000 Hillsboro building has come to a halt. See how local businesses and Lipscomb students are responding to the Southern Land project. The Connection at Lipscomb is a full-service post office in the basement of the Bennett Campus Center. Recently, shipments to The Connection have peaked, piling the shelves high with online shopping and book orders. Reporter Leslie Newman takes us behind the scenes of this busy mailing system. Sarah McGee has highlights from President Obama’s State of the Union address, Madeline Montgomery has the weather, Erin King delivers Hollywood drama and Brianne Welch has NFL and hockey updates. Do you have story ideas? An event you want us to cover? Email our News Director at...
by Madeline Smith | Jan 21, 2015 | News Slider
Campus may have appeared eerily quiet on Wednesday night, but that’s because most the student body was inside Alumni Auditorium cheering on pledges at Bid Night. This semester’s Bid Night began differently than most — a Greek-wide devotional was held to kick off the evening. The devotional included a short prayer time before bids were given out to new members. “Pledge week is such a hard, stressful time,” said Lauren King, a member of Pi Delta. “I’m glad we could start it off thinking about what really matters at the end of the day.” The noise of pledges chanting and clubs cheering consumed the auditorium as new social club members were introduced. Every club had a different way of introducing itself and its new members to Greek life. Female clubs Delta Sigma and Pi Delta’s pledges sang songs, while Kappa Chi’s girls did their best strut. Male social club Delta Tau caused a ruckus with their insane skits, while Theta Psi awed with a miniature stomp routine. “Everyone always does the same boring things, so DT likes to add a little fun into the night with our skits,” said Tate Dalrymple, a member of Delta Tau. Now that the introduction is over, the eleven-day pledge week begins. “Pledging really is about growing close as a club,” said Carli Stump, president of Delta Sigma. “It all seems silly but all has a purpose in the end.” Greek life is expected to attend Lipscomb basketball games on Thursday and Saturday with their new pledges. The game on Saturday will feature a new event called Alumni Fair, where alumni will be invited back to check out their respective club’s table....
by Erin Turner | Jan 21, 2015 | News Slider
In the next few weeks, students can expect to see some major changes at the future location of Au Bon Pain, such as a new door leading to an outdoor patio. This healthy sandwich and pastries shop that will be making its new home in the SAC missed its target opening in late fall 2014, but it is now scheduled to open in early March. Greg Mercer, superintendent for Solomon Builders Inc., explained that the plans have changed over time, creating a lengthy waiting period for construction. “At first it was going to be a fitness studio and a restaurant, they came back and changed their minds and decided they wanted a restaurant only,” Mercer said. “So then it has to go back through the examiner, back through the codes, back from the start, then back to the architect, back to us to price, then back to architects to revise, and back to us to start building. So that’s been part of the delays is that right there — the changes that have been made and the revisions that have been made in the project.” The space that was once an auxiliary training room has been missed by gym-goers during the last few months. “The gym is like already small and now there’s like six of us working out in the hallway,” sophomore Ashley Haley said. “It’s kind of annoying because I pay to go here, so I would like to see my money going to something that I feel like people would use more,” sophomore Morgan Goodlow said. Matthew Abplanalp, director of campus recreation, explained that with construction it...
by Erin Turner | Jan 20, 2015 | News Slider
He does it all — everything from serving in church ministries to playing latin percussion music in his spare time. And his diversity doesn’t stop there. Anthony Carter, Chief Diversity Officer at Johnson & Johnson, spoke to students about the importance of diversity in the workplace at Media Masters Tuesday evening in Ezell. To get where he is today, Carter took a slight detour on his journey into the field of communications. “It took me three hours in a laboratory to prick my finger to do a blood test and I knew right away that this [pre-med] is not really for me,” Carter said. During college, one of his professors invited him to do a radio talk show, giving him the chance to bring current topics to students on campus. Soon, this broadcast endeavor led him to writing for one of his school’s newspapers. “I started to fall in love with this thing called communications because I ultimately thought that it was the true way to express who I am.” His love of communications took him down another path, incorporating both diversity and inclusion. “Diversity is who we are and inclusion is how we work together,” Carter said. “Communications is the understanding of all of that.” In 2002, Carter joined Johnson & Johnson as Director of Corporate Communications, and in 2005 he was promoted to Vice President of Corporate Communications. A day in the life of Carter involves sifting through hundreds of emails and doing exactly what he loves — creating an atmosphere of transparency with those he works with. “My passion in that work [communications] makes me really comfortable in...
by Carly Bergthold | Jan 20, 2015 | News Slider
Business leaders from the Nashville area met Tuesday morning at Lipscomb for a discussion on workplace diversity in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Lipscomb University Department of Communication and Journalism hosted the event in Ezell Center partnering with the Council on Workforce Innovation and National Organization for Workforce Diversity. Guest speaker Anthony Carter, Chief Diversity Officer at Johnson & Johnson, shared his ideas about diversity over breakfast. Carter discussed his belief that corporations should concentrate more on social leadership and global well-being. “Diversity is who we are,” Carter said. “And inclusion is how we work together. The beauty of that is how we pull all of that together to make sure that we are of best interest to our customers.” Carter views diversity as a social justice imperative, and pointed to Martin Luther King Jr. as a hero worthy of emulation. “His work,” Carter said about King Jr., “in fact his life, illustrates so accurately diversity and social justice. Think about it, Dr. King dismantled the barriers of segregation and transformed a nation.” Breakfast attendees came from all over Nashville to learn how to better support diversity in their own businesses, corporations and organizations. “Diversity really means everything, Lori Adukeh, executive director of 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee said. “It gives people the opportunity to be different, and yet be the same, to collaborate, to be partners.” Attendees also discussed the increased productivity diversity brings. “Diversity, and workforce diversity specifically, really speaks to equality and opportunity,” said Jacky Akbari, director of employee services at the Nashville Career Advancement Center. “We’ve found that when there is a diverse...
