by Hunter Patterson | Sep 23, 2011 | News Slider
For this week’s Question of the Week, we asked students what their favorite TV shows were. The answers were pretty interesting, but sadly, no one picked American Ninja Warrior. Please upgrade your...
by Danielle Boyd | Sep 21, 2011 | News Slider
SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) is an international non-profit organization on college and university campuses, where students do community based projects on relevant economic, social and environmental factors. “They go in and empower people based on those factors to improve their standard of living and quality of life through the positive power of business,” said Duncan Gross, a junior accounting major from Memphis, Tenn., and executive director of Lipscomb SIFE. The organiztion, established on campus Jan. 15, 2010, made its debut as one of the fastest growing student-led organizations on campus. When it first began, SIFE enlisted students to join the efforts for service within the Nashville community. “We sought to really work with the non-profits in Nashville to help them with the process and improvement of the projects they do within the community,” said Gross. Originally taking on 16 projects at a time, SIFE has narrowed down their mark this year to only three, giving students the opportunity to engage and serve at a more feasible work schedule. Within the past year, SIFE members have collaborated with many non-profit organizations such as Greenhouse Ministries in Murfreesboro, Tenn. “One of our biggest projects is Kilowatt Ours,” said Gross. “I plan to reenergize America.” For that project, SIFE members and organization leaders complete a series of workshops to help low-income families save energy and decrease their electric bills by at least $80. “This will help them save money, which they can reallocate to other aspects of life,” said Gross. As SIFE continues to grow, its service has reached beyond state lines and into the international level. In addition to serving the community, SIFE has also developed a pen pal project with David Lipscomb Middle School as well as...
by Leah Raich | Sep 21, 2011 | News Slider
The missions program is not directed specifically toward the few who wish to commit long-term to that type of work. Instead it’s designed to equip every student with the knowledge of God’s Word and purpose, along with self-awareness that will lead them to identy the plan God has for their lives, according to Paul Stevens. “It’s not geared toward a small number of students, such as those studying Bible and wanting to move across the world to become long-term missionaries,” said Stevens, the missions coordinator for special projects and events. Eventually, he said, every Lipscomb student will participate in a mission trip during their studies at the university. He says one of the main goals of the department is to teach students that, regardless of their vocation or major at Lipscomb, whatever they do can become their personal mission field. “God is everywhere and is working throughout the entire world, and so we have the ability for missional living wherever we are,” he said. He said one of his goals is to expose students to the opportunities available in Nashville and Tennessee. Stevens said he anticipates growth this year in the amount of trips Lipscomb offers. He has helped coordinate new all-male and all-female trips, which allow for different types of ministry work that are difficult to accomplish with mixed-gender groups. He has also been working with several of the athletic teams to create outreach trips specific to their sports. Stevens said he is excited for the upcoming opportunities for the program, which will open the door to more trips in the future for LU students and...
by Cooper Torrez | Sep 21, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
The start of the college football season has been full of surprises and disappointments. Both Tennessee and Vanderbilt started Saturday 2-0 and only one team ended the day 3-0. However, it was the team most would not have suspected. Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss by the final of 30-7 on Saturday. The Commodores scored 21 points in the second quarter in route to a rare, but easy, win at Vanderbilt Stadium. Quarterback Larry Smith started the scoring with a 19 yard touchdown run and then a minute later defensive back Trey Wilson put the Commodores up 14-0 after a 52 yard interception return for a touchdown. At the end of the third quarter, Vandy running back Zac Stacy put the game out of reach with a 77 yard touchdown run. The big win was strongly attributed to Vandy’s five takeaways. “By nature we are an aggressive defense. We do quite a bit of blitzing and movement and things like that,” Vandy defensive coordinator told the Tennessean on Saturday. “I thought our guys did a good job creating havoc up front and doing things like that so, that’s important to us to be disruptive.” The Commodores take their 3 game winning streak on the road next week as they look to go 4-0. They face the 12th ranked South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday in Columbia. The other SEC team in Tennessee did not fare so well on Saturday. The Vols took on Florida in “The Swamp.” The game didn’t start well for Volunteer fans as star wideout Justin Hunter left the game after the first series with an ACL tear and is...
by Cory Woodroof | Sep 20, 2011 | News Slider
I really don’t think there is anything Brad Pitt can’t do. While some uneducated film-goers may write him off as one of Hollywood’s hollow “pretty boys”, most film lovers recognize that Pitt is one of the best actors in cinema right now. In Moneyball (based off the novel Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game), Pitt takes the reigns and delivers a fantastic performance as Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland A’s. Billy Beane’s life revolves around baseball. He, in his glory days, was a star baseball player who was taken into the major leagues right out of high school. Beane’s journey in the major leagues drives his desire for success. Now the manager for a mediocre organization, he loses three major players and looks ahead to the future. His world is turned upside down when he meets Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). Brand, a scout for a rival organization, has a method of baseball that will change the method of scouting (and baseball) forever. Beane is quick to take Brand away from his old job and offer him a position with the A’s. The duo work together to craft a great team on the A’s meager budget and prove their naysayers wrong. The film follows the A’s 2002 season, as well as gives a striking character study of Beane. This is not just a movie about baseball. This is an engrossing look into the life of a man who is willing to do everything he can to be successful, even if it means approaching a radical method of carrying out business. The film itself depends on Pitt’s...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Sep 20, 2011 | News Slider
When Belmont chose the theme “Liberating Voices” for its 10th annual humanities symposium, there was really only one choice for the keynote speaker — a woman whose voice was set free after being held captive for years. On Monday night at the Curb Event Center, Maya Angelou took the stage. Before a sold-out crowd, Angelou spent the evening telling stories, laughing and reciting poetry. She played up her love for country music to the Nashville audience, beginning with lyrics to an old Kitty Wells country song — “When it looked like the sun wasn’t going to shine any more, God put a rainbow in the clouds.” And Angelou knows about the days of clouds. As a child, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. She fell silent for six years, instead choosing to read poetry and listen to it in her head. She recalled seeing a famous actor give a reading of “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe — “Eep,” as she called him — and being sorely disappointed by his delivery. “That’s not how it sounds! I know how it goes,” she said, surprising the audience by rapping the first few stanzas. But even that wasn’t enough to give Angelou her voice back. It took some convincing from one of her personal “rainbows” to nudge her back into the light. “You will never love poetry until you speak it,” Angelou’s mentor told her just before she turned 13. And the little girl who would grow up to be the voice of a generation spoke again for the first time. “Be a rainbow,” Angelou urged the audience. “Don’t just live in one and be...
