by Anne Paquin | Mar 1, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s seventh installment of Lumination News, Kelly Dean and Jeremy Keck are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Kage Sanderson brings you up to speed with sports, Nick Glende fills you in on the week’s top technology news headlines, Caitlin Selle gives the scoop on all things entertainment and Jessica Burke delivers your weather forecast. This week’s newscast features information about the resignation of campus safety’s Brad Wyatt, insight into at the current usage of ‘Dining Dollars’ on student meal plans, different tips on how to succeed on upcoming midterm exams, information about what is going on at the Student Activities Center, some news on this month’s SGA spring concert and our final look into last month’s celebration of Black history month. We also take a look at the Jazz and the University Wind Ensemble concerts held recently in Alumni Auditorium, some Bison basketball road highlights and the most recent Ultimate Frisbee tournament, as well as our weekly Nashville Spotlight, which highlights the best place in Nashville to find some good Southern biscuits. We also have the Tweets of the Week, and the anchors say goodbye to a staff member that will be missed. Be sure to stay tuned for future newscasts published every Friday here on...
by Cory Woodroof | Mar 1, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
With only two games remaining in the regular season, the Lipscomb men’s basketball team was looking to enter the Atlantic-Sun Tournament with two strong home wins. Thursday night, the Bisons accomplished part of that task. Lipscomb defeated the University of Jacksonville Dolphins (14-16) 77-73, which evens the teams out at 1-1 (with the Dolphins winning the first match-up of the season). After a strong start by Lipscomb (the Bisons were up 17-6 by 14:10), the Dolphins inched their way back at the game, gaining their first lead at 5:49. The Bisons entered into halftime with a slim 36-35 lead. In the second half, the two teams went back and forth for the lead, with the Bisons taking the final lead at 8:36. Lipscomb fought off a close margin towards the half’s close to walk away with the conference win. Sophomore Martin Smith led the Bisons in scoring with 24. Freshman Stephen Hurt followed with 20 points, and led the team in rebounds with nine. Junior Khion Sankey added 12 points and eight rebounds. Smith said he believes that the victory over the Dolphins will help come next week’s trip to Macon, Ga., to take part in the A-Sun tournament. “It’s a big win for us going into the conference tournament, “ Smith said. “This is a little confidence booster for us.” Smith said he hopes the team’s second-half play can be carried over to Saturday night’s final season game against North Florida. Tip off for that game is at 8:15 p.m. in Allen...
by Savanna Schubert | Feb 28, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
The Student-Athletic Advisory Committee is a group of athletes nominated by their teammates to represent the individual sports at Lipscomb. Each team is allowed to have two players per team. These athletes plan, run and work with different organizations to work on raising money for these specific charities. The group’s meetings are held once every two weeks at the Hall of Fame room in Allen Arena. At these meetings, members discuss issues going on with their teams and events that are happening or that should happen within the athletic department. The mission of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (NCAA SAAC) is to “enhance the total student-athlete experience by promoting opportunity, protecting student-athlete’s well-being and fostering a positive student-athlete...
by Brianne Welch | Feb 27, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
Law school, professional basketball — or more likely both — are the career choices facing senior basketball player Hannah Phillips. Phillips, enjoying her fourth year as a Lady Bison, continues to make her mark on the hardwood. She scored her 1,000th career point a couple of weeks ago — making her just the fifth player in Lady Bison history to reach that milestone — and she’s got weeks to add onto that total before hanging it up. Phillips downplays her own achievement to point to another Lady Bison who reached the 1,000-point mark: Beth Stark, who was also Phillips’ AAU coach. “She scored around 3,000-something points,” Phillips said. “Now, that’s an achievement.” Phillips said she’s thrilled with reaching such a milestone, but it was not a goal she had ever set for herself. “The ballplayer I am now, and what I was freshman year, are two different players,” she said. “I loved defense, and my dad always coached me that my defense would create offense.” Phillips began playing basketball when she was 5 in YMCA rec leagues. “My family still has the game film from when I was 5. It’s pretty hilarious,” she said. That 5-year-old continued to hone her skills for years until she was recruited by Lipscomb. Phillips was looking at Division II, Division III and Ivy League schools, but they did not offer full rides. “When a DI full ride scholarship was offered, I took it,” she said. “[The scholarship] turned out to be a blessing because my family has been at every game.” “I really flourished as a player in this environment,” Phillips said. During...
by Kelsey Reiman | Feb 25, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb women’s soccer team, with the encouragement and support of a new coaching staff, has planned its first spring break mission trip to El Salvador. The team will serve and share the Gospel with indigenous communities and knit a stronger bond between themselves. Assistant coach Chris Klotz has been in direct communication with the mission staff of Sports Outreach Institute, and they have set the trip to begin on March 15. Between now and then, Klotz will be leading team meetings and preparing the hearts and minds of players to accept and embrace the challenge. During a mission trip meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 20, Klotz asked the team to meditate on and pray about Biblical passage Romans 12, which tells Christians to become a living sacrifice for God, serving humbly with joy, faith and sincere love. “There is something very significant that happens to the culture of a team when they are focused on serving others,” Klotz said. “Through building relationships, experiencing a much different culture and realizing that God is bigger than the bubble we live in, it is my prayer that our team would become more unified in the purpose God has for us — to love Him and love others.” “I decided to go on the trip because I wanted to embrace this amazing opportunity God has provided – to travel to an area that isn’t as fortunate as we are here and to show His love to children that have been put in difficult living situations,” sophomore defenseman Brittany Rupple said. El Salvadoran native and freshman midfielder Cristina Giron said she hopes the values of her...
by Brianna Langley | Feb 25, 2013 | News Slider
Expansion, more locations and even a church plant loom in the future for The Well Coffeehouse, which, for eight months, has provided a place for people to enjoy good coffee. Originally founded by Lipscomb professor Rob Touchstone and Chris Soper, The Well — located at 2025 Richard Jones Road in Green Hills — is a nonprofit ministry designed to share love and nurture the feeling of community in Nashville. With outreach efforts ranging from The Wishing Well (a wall in the coffeehouse where people can pin notes expressing specific needs in hopes that someone will read it and be able to help) to an effort that helps fund fresh water wells in Africa, The Well Coffeehouse has provided opportunities for Lipscomb students to get involved with local ministries and nonprofit organizations. “All Lipscomb students can take advantage of partnering with all the nonprofits that we work with right now,” Soper said. “There are five or six different nonprofits we can get you involved with.” The Well has continued to grow through the help of Lipscomb students and the Nashville community. Change seems to quickly be approaching this ministry. “We do have a lot of plans for The Well for the future,” Soper said. “There are a lot of things that we are working on and working towards.” Soon, it may become a place to worship, too. “Yes, there are plans in place to do a church plant in The Well and grow the church through The Well,” Soper said. Besides just planting a church, expansion and even possible relocation have been hinted at by The Well’s leaders. “It is...
