by Haleigh Ker | Apr 10, 2012 | News Slider
Lumination Radio is Lipscomb University’s very own student-run radio station and it’s on the air now! The core of our format is Contemporary Christian and Gospel music. We also provide live play-by-play coverage of selected Bison sports events. Our goal is to consistently add more shows and more variety. Lumination Radio is continuously adding new music, but what will help make the station great is more student involvement. Have an idea for a show? Pick up a program proposal form outside our studio in Ezell 166. Want to host some of our music hours by learning to voice track? We want to meet you! Your input and participation are important to us. What would you like to hear? Email us at luradioprogramming@gmail.com with your opinions and suggestions. We’re on Twitter and Facebook! Follow us @LuminationRadio and see our posts at Facebook.com/LuminationRadio. Have a smart phone? Download the Mixlr app from either the Apple App Store or Google Play and find our station to listen to us anytime, anywhere. Or use your laptop to listen on most any browser at...
by Clay Smith | Apr 6, 2012 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s Department of Business presented its Entrepreneurial Pitch contest this week for students to present their business ideas to local entrepreneurs. Dr. Joe Ivey reported a great turnout at the preliminary Monday night competition, as well as a good showing at the Wednesday night finals. “The students have some extremely good ideas this year,” said Ivey. “We’re going to give these students some opportunities to win prizes, and we hope they’ll use these prizes to fund their ideas.” Students presented ideas ranging from a housing development powered by alternative energy to a website called dormads.com, which functions like an on-campus Craigslist. Bethany Hertrick won the non-profit category with her “international doll” idea, and Nate Underwood won the for-profit category with his food truck park. Each finalist received a cash prize, with both of the first place winners receiving $1,000 to put toward their business endeavors. “Basically, a food truck park will help solve the problem of connecting the customer to the truck,” Underwood said. “I want to do that through an actual location that food trucks can buy into with a membership fee.” Underwood said he also wants to have a web service that will allow the customer to preorder food and walk past the line to the front of the truck to pick up their order. Eight different entrepreneurs and businessmen from around Nashville judged the contests. Jerry Cover, a Lipscomb alumnus and dot com entrepreneur, spoke highly of the participants. “I was really impressed with not only the quality of the products that were presented, but also the quality of the presentations,” Cover said. “I think there’s a...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 6, 2012 | News Slider, Sports
This week on Lumination News, Kelly Dean and Clay Smith are behind the desk and filling you in on the latest news from Pizza and Politics all the way to April Fools Day. Also in this week’s newscast, Jameson has your weather, Madeline has the latest entertainment gossip and Tyler Lallathin has the latest from the sports...
by Cory Woodroof | Apr 5, 2012 | News Slider
Lipscomb welcomed James P. Pinkerton to campus Tuesday night as a part of the Don R. Elliot Distinguished Presidential Lecture series. Pinkerton, a domestic policy and campaign worker for both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, currently serves as the co-chair for the RATE Coalition (Reducing America’s Tax Equitably), an organization dedicated to the decrease of the corporate income tax rate. Pinkerton also serves as a regular contributor to Fox News, best known for his work on the Fox “News Watch” program. He also contributes to Fox News’ website. More recently, Pinkerton served as the senior adviser on the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign. After an introduction by Linda Peek Schacht, executive director of Lipscomb’s Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership, Pinkerton lectured on the importance of governmental involvement in the research for cures of diseases affecting our nation. Pinkerton based his talk on a magazine article featuring actor Michael J. Fox’s charitable organization, which focuses on the cure for Parkinson’s disease. In the article, Fox questioned why the government does not feature a department that specifically goes after curing diseases. Pinkerton agrees with the Fox’s questioning. “He’s sort of right,” Pinkerton said. Pinkerton offered insight into the current trends of FDA and government practices regarding research funding for the cure of major diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other malevolent sicknesses. Pinkerton believes the future of medicine and the search for cures in our nation rests on the funds and attention received. Above all, Pinkerton believes the American people desire a system of government that will pursue curing diseases and ailments that affect people on...
by Sydney Poe | Apr 5, 2012 | News Slider
Residents of Fanning Hall had a surprise Thursday evening when the fire alarm went off, leaving them to evacuate the dorm into the pouring rain. As of now no fire has been reported, and the cause seems to go back to the hot water heater. Students say that they knew it wasn’t a drill due to the rain, and that Head Resident Laurie Sain seemed a little confused as they evacuated. Because of the rain, students took cover in Burton or the student center before they were told they were allowed to return to the dorm. After about 20 minutes, they were told the dorm was clear and they could return, only to be turned away at the door because the fire alarms had gone off again. “I didn’t want to go sit in the basement of Burton,” said junior Amber Leach, “so instead I decided to go to Starbucks and wait it out in the student center.” At this point students were told that it would be a while until the problem was resolved and decided to wait in the student center or other areas of campus. Residents were allowed to return to the dorm after it was cleared just before 8 p.m....
by Kelly Dean | Apr 4, 2012 | News Slider
As a musician, playing in New York is a mindboggling dream many strive for. However, three young Lipscomb students fulfilled this dream when the Avalon Trio was named third best in the nation as a chamber ensemble on Mar. 24 in New York City. After the Avalon Trio’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Trio No. 2 in C minor and Paul Schoenfield’s “Café Music”, the group placed third at the Music Teacher National Association’s chamber competition at the 2012 national conference in New York City. “What speaks more than our ability as musicians, I think, is the ability that us three have together to just play music,” said cellist Kenneth Coca. “I don’t think we could have done it with another group or with other musicians.” The three-year-old trio consists of Joel Campbell on violin, Coca on cello and Julian Calvin on piano. The group is coached by Jerome Reed, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Piano at Lipscomb University. Not only did the group walk away with the accomplishment of becoming one of the top three ensembles in the nation, but the process of getting there for the Avalon Trio continues to leave the group astonished and grateful. And the term ‘getting there’ is meant in a literal sense. Rodes Hart, benefactor for the Patricia and Rodes Hart Endowed Chair for Piano, sponsored the group’s trip to New York. The Avalon Trio never expected to travel to the big and beautiful NYC in high style, but Dr. Hart made sure to do just that by providing a private jet just for the trio to fly to New York City in....
