by Kyrsten Turner | Feb 24, 2013 | News Slider
‘Honoring life by abolishing the death penalty’ was the motto students championed Saturday morning when discussing capital punishment. “One of the challenging things about justice is it has multiple parts,” said Lipscomb history professor Dr. Richard Goode. The 7th Annual Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty student conference was hosted yesterday by Lipscomb’s department of History, Politics and Philosophy. A TADP board member since 2011, Dr. Goode first joined the group in 1999. “The first thing I did when I got involved is I started visiting a guy on death row,” Goode said. “I visited him for 10 years. He eventually died from cancer.” Goode became involved after a former student told him about the group. Goode said he had been talking about issues of retribution, justice and reconciliation, but it wasn’t until his student told him about TADP that he decided to act on his feelings. “It stopped being an issue and became a very human concern,” Goode said. “It’s important to understand the policy and the practice, and the system and structures, because they are important. But, they’re important because they hit real people.” Students from across the state gathered for the conference in Ward Hall. Universities and colleges such as Belmont, Vanderbilt, Middle Tennessee State, Bell, Martin Methodist, Volunteer State and Lipscomb were all in attendance. The conference began with a short opener from Stacy Rector, who has been the executive director of TADP since 2006. Rector also serves on the national board of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty. Recognizing her audience did not have a unified opinion, Rector asked students to be...
by Brianna Langley | Feb 24, 2013 | News Slider
Caffeine addiction runs rampant in colleges and universities. College students, as well as the general population, tend to consume absurd amounts all throughout the day. Is this much caffeine dangerous? Can it really affect health in a negative way? According to Nancy Hunt, director of Lipscomb’s dietetics program, it...
by Logan Butts | Feb 23, 2013 | News Slider, Opinion
With his new film Snitch, director Ric Roman Waugh takes a well-worn film plot (family man goes out of his way to do whatever he can for his distressed family member) and adds something that is rarely seen in these types of movies: a little heart. On most occasions in this sub-genre of film, the violence outnumbers the heart tenfold, which I have no problem with. Sometimes, it’s great to walk into a film like Taken knowing exactly what you are going to get — nonstop action and little else. However, when a movie attempts to break the boundaries of its genre and turn the usual tropes upside down, I will applaud it. Now, don’t get me wrong. Snitch was not some sort of game-changing film for the “father-vigilante” genre that has been going strong since the seventies. I don’t even know if I would recommend the film due to its clichéd dialogue and unexciting action sequences, but it did try something different. I have to give credit where credit is due. After his son (newcomer Rafi Gavron) is arrested for distributing drugs and sentenced to ten years in prison, John Matthews (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) is forced to strike a deal that involves him going undercover to infiltrate a drug cartel. Johnson finally seems to be accepting the tough guy persona that was thrust upon him when he broke into acting, as this is one of many recent outings in the action genre after a string of family-friendly movies. What brings Snitch an unusually present heart for its genre is the cast. It is a slow building movie with dialogue...
by Cory Woodroof | Feb 23, 2013 | News Slider
As a part of the 2013 Southeast Journalism Conference, the ‘Best of the South’ competition garners judged content in 31 different categories from around 30 schools across the southeast. On Friday night, Lumination Network was honored with four different awards, including third place in the Best Radio Station category. SEJC is a yearly conference that both educates student journalists and honors them for their accomplishments with their campus news outlets and through on-site competitions. This year’s event was held at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. The night’s big win came with a third-place honor for LU Radio. LU Radio also claimed an award for graduate Liz Komoromi, who won second place for Best Radio News Feature Reporter. Komoromi and junior Michael Fox worked together on a program that tied for third place in the Best Audio News Program category. Lumination Network’s editor-in-chief Cory Woodroof won third place in the Best Arts & Entertainment Writer category....
by Cory Woodroof | Feb 22, 2013 | News Slider
SGA announced Thursday that pop group Walk Off The Earth will be headlining this semester’s spring concert. The concert will take place March 12 in Collins Alumni Auditorium. The show will be closed to the public, with Lipscomb students gaining free access through their ID cards. An exact start time is not set, but it will be an evening show, according to SGA. SGA is currently considering the option of having a student act serve as the show’s opener. Walk Off the Earth became famous for their cover performances posted on YouTube. The group’s rendition of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” currently has 146,315,524 views after being uploaded just over a year ago. Katie Underwood, SGA’s Student Life Committee Chair, helped arrange for the YouTube sensations to appear on campus. “SGA couldn’t be more excited to host Walk Off The Earth for this year’s spring concert,” Underwood said. “In past years, we have always had a more acoustic show with a singer/songwriter. “When I was told I was the one leading up the search for this year’s show, I knew I wanted something different. SGA came up with a list of over 40 options, and slowly, but surely, we started to narrow down that list.” Underwood hopes the band’s inclusion will be a fresh face in the long line of spring concert headliners (which, in year’s past, has featured Mat Kearney and The Civil Wars). “Walk Off The Earth is going to very different from anything Lipscomb has seen in the past. The band became famous through their outstanding covers on YouTube. When deciding on a band,...
by Anne Paquin | Feb 22, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s seventh installment of Lumination News, Savanna Schubert and Nick Glende are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Nicolette Carney brings you up to speed with sports, Jessica Burke fills you in on the week’s top world news headlines, Brianna Langley gives the scoop on all things entertainment and Kage Sanderson delivers your weather forecast. This week’s newscast features a look at a dual-enrollment student who doubles as an amateur storm chaser, important information on the dangers of caffeine addiction, a few interviews with student from Egypt, some insight into this month’s celebration of Black history month, a few spring fashion tips, a look at the Star Wars Night that was held at a recent Bisons basketball game, highlights of the baseball and soccer teams and information about this week’s “Now That You Ask” event, as well as our weekly Nashville Spotlight and Tweets of the Week. Be sure to stay tuned for future newscasts published every Friday here on...
