by Erika Thornsberry | Sep 17, 2014 | News Slider, Sports
The Student Activity Center challenged the students to see if they have what it takes to compete in the NFL Combine. Competitors ranged from freshmen to graduate students, all students were welcomed to join in on the fun. “I think it went really well. I was very happy with the turnout,” Steffani Davis, a Facilities and Marketing graduate assistant for the SAC, said. “I think we really had some awesome athletes. Some students didn’t play football in high school, then others were standout athletes on their high school football team. We loved having everyone that participated.” The NFL Combine gives hopeful NFL players a chance to show off their God-given talents such as strength and speed. Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens threw 74 yards in a quarterback challenge during the combine. Jay Cutler threw a football 60 yards from his knees. The top Lipscomb participate threw 48 yards. “We tested the contestants in your basic kick, pass, punt, and your basic speed and agility drills the NFL players have to go through in the combine,” Davis said. “Everything we did is pretty much the exact events they do in the NFL Combine besides, we just tried to monitor it more to fit the college students.” After tallying all the points from the different events, freshman Daniel Vaughn won the competition. Vaughn went home with two tickets to a Titans game for his efforts. There was not a single person who got first place in every event. “Everyone was actually pretty even. Some people really excelled in the speed and agility, and then evened out with the throwing,” Davis said....
by Erin Turner | Sep 15, 2014 | News Slider
Phil Williams is no liar. He is an award-winning investigative reporter who always seeks to tell the truth. “You never can tell who’s telling the truth and who’s telling you a lie unless you’re willing to do the hard work of testing it,” Williams said to a group of communication students at Lipscomb’s first Media Masters event of the school year. To illustrate the mindset of an investigative reporter, Williams called on a volunteer from the audience to close their eyes and do the trust test with him. “All of your life you’ve been told ‘learn to trust people.’ “Well, the mindset of an investigative reporter is ‘trust no one.'” Williams discovered early on that a journalist should always be a truth seeker, constantly seeking not just an answer, but a truthful answer. “With a lot of people that you will interview as a journalist, telling the truth is not exactly what they have in mind. They want to put their spin on the truth rather than just coming out and acknowledging it.” “We live in a world where truth isn’t always the best defense because sometimes a lie is much more powerful.” When working on investigative work, Williams suggests to first determine the truth if possible. If the truth cannot be supported with proper evidence, Williams explains that it is always best to give both sides of the story. “I think you have to deliberately put your biases and suspicions aside to tell the truth as much as you can. “I have great faith in the public to decide for themselves to decide if someone’s telling the truth or...
by Madeline Smith | Sep 15, 2014 | News Slider, Sports
Details of underage drinking, fighting, racism and sex at a party on the Lipscomb campus in a former Vanderbilt basketball player’s upcoming “tell-all” book are not being overlooked by Lipscomb officials. “I don’t believe that this party happened, but I want to be real as a university,” said Sam Smith, associate dean of Campus Life. The claims are in former Vanderbilt University point guard Kyle Fuller’s book “Below the Rim.” An excerpt of the book was released recently in the Vanderbilt Hustler. The Tennessean has reported that the book, scheduled to be released next summer, is 40 percent completed. In the book’s first chapter, called “Dixieland,” the basketball player writes about this alleged party, and his account includes claims that the apartment hosting the party had alcohol, racist posters and “down” girls. Smith said he doesn’t believe the tale. Still, he said, “If this happened we need to take serious looks of what is going on. So we’re asking questions, but it’s still a very, very tough pill to swallow that this is really a possibility of something that happened on our campus.” The details in Fuller’s account are what makes the story unbelivable, according to members of the Lipscomb community. When it first was released, the chapter “Dixieland” claimed the party took place in Fanning Hall, despite Fanning being an all-girls dorm with very strict rules about visitors of the opposite sex. The story was later changed to say that the party took place in apartment-style housing, which was inferred to be The Village. “The problem with The Village is that there’s only one dorm a fight could...
by Logan Butts | Sep 15, 2014 | News Slider
As Lipscomb is in the midst of campus-wide renovations, McFarland Science Center is undergoing one of the biggest overhauls. A new gas line is being installed on Thursday behind McFarland, which is causing the Belmont Boulevard entrance to be closed most of the day Thursday. Lumination’s Erin Turner has a photo gallery of the construction. Created with Admarket’s...
by Brianne Welch | Sep 13, 2014 | News Slider, Sports
The Lady Bison Volleyball team fought hard throughout the Lipscomb Invitational, but came up short in the end. In the last match of the tournament, the Lady Bisons faced the Utes of Utah. The Pac-12 team beat Georgia Tech in three sets and ETSU in three, but Lipscomb took the Utes to four sets. The team lost the first two sets right out of the gate. The first set 25-18 and the second 25-17, but going into the locker room head coach Brandon Rosenthal had a talk with his team to get them prepared for set three. “There was a talk with the team. There’s an expectation that they’ve set, and it’s their responsibility to go after it,” Rosenthal said. Following the first two sets, the Lady Bisons came out on fire to win the third set 25-15 becoming the first team in the tournament to take Utah to four sets. Despite their efforts, the Lady Bisons came up three points short in the final set losing 25-22; however, Rosenthal was pleased with the effort from his team. “The talk after the match was just, hey I like what I saw,” Rosenthal said. “There is no chewing out or what not, well there was a little chewing out between two and three, but after the match, I mean, they gave me everything they had there in two and three, and that’s all you can ask for, and I’m really pleased with that.” At the end of the match, the Lady Bisons had more kills than the Utes, but were out-blocked. Brittnay Estes led the team with 13 kills in...
by Janice Ng | Sep 12, 2014 | News Slider
Aaron Schmelzer and Madeline Smith lead this week’s Lumination News from behind the anchor’s desk, bringing you the latest news from campus. Vanderbilt student Kyle Fuller is writing a book titled “Below the Rim,” and Lipscomb students are mentioned, but not in the most positive way. Madeline Smith gives us more insight on the matter. Reporter Brianne Welch also gives us highlights from the Tokens show, with talented Dove Award nominee Ellie Holcomb. We also give you a look at the second annual powderpuff football game, with Phi Sigma taking home the first place honor yet again. Erika Thornsberry updates us on Lipscomb sports and the SEC scores, Cory Woodroof gives highlights on Pres. Obama’s address to the nation in Politics, and Mignonne Bryant keeps us hooked on all things entertainment. LUmination Newscast 9-11-2014-H.264 for Apple TV from lumination Network on Vimeo. Do you have story ideas? An event you want us to cover? Email our News Director at...
