by Allison Woods | Jun 8, 2010 | News Slider
Freshmen, get ready for the best first days of Lipscomb ever! Welcome to Advance 2010! Here is a copy of the schedule. We’re going to have plenty of coverage to get you ready and keep you in the loop. Check back for updates. ADVANCE 1: June 17-18, 2010 Student Schedule Thursday, June 17 8 – 9 a.m. Music Theory Placement Test & Auditions for A Cappella & University Singers – The test is in room 142 of the McMeen Music Center; for auditions meet in the lobby of the Music Center. 8 – 9 a.m. Students check in at the residence halls (women in Elam Hall; men in High Rise) 8:15 a.m. Coffee and Pastries – Bennett Campus Center Lobby 8:30 a.m. Advance Registration and Campus Tours – depart from Campus Center Lobby 9:30 a.m. Welcome to Lipscomb – Dr. Randy Lowry, President, Lipscomb University 9:40 a.m. Getting to Know You and Lunch with the Quest Team 12:00 p.m. Campus Life – Dr. Scott McDowell, Vice President for Student Development 12:50 p.m. Myers-Briggs Test – Dave Morgan, Director of Testing 1:50 p.m. College Meetings (meet with your area of interest): College of Arts & Sciences – Dr. Norma Burgess, Dean College of Bible & Ministry – Dr. Terry Briley, Dean College of Business – Mr. Turney Stevens, Dean College of Education – Dr. Candice McQueen, Dean College of Engineering – Dr. Fred Gilliam, Dean College of Pharmacy – Dr. Roger Davis, Dean Undecided Students – may choose a College Meeting listed above or meet in MS 219 with Mr. Rob Mossack, Director of...
by Bracey Wilson | Jun 7, 2010 | News Slider
Dr. Briley teaches Old Testament and Hebrew studies. Dr. Terry Briley, likely one of the few Lipscomb professors to ever attend Bonnaroo, first went six years ago to chaperone his younger son. But he’s returned three times since. He says the common perception of the festival and its attendees isn’t entirely accurate. Once you get to Bonnaroo’s 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., you see that “people there are more diverse than you might think.” The crowd does not consist of young people exclusively. Briley says he enjoyed the atmosphere, describing it as “a flashback to the ’60s,” when he was just a boy. He stresses that there is no need for anyone to be afraid while there. Certainly there are people participating in activities of which Lipscomb does not condone, but there is no need to worry about someone hurting anyone else. “One time I was taking pictures of a group of people who were dancing around in funny costumes at a concert,” Briley says. “ One of the guys noticed that I was taking pictures and came over to ask why. Although I told him I was just taking them for my own use, he asked me to delete the one with him in it because he was supposed to be ‘out sick’ from work while he was at Bonnaroo.” Going camping on a farm in Tennessee at the beginning of the summer is not the most comfortable thing in the world. The main complaints are the heat, the dust, and the inability to bathe in anything but sulfur water. Campers must pass through two checkpoints and wait in...
by Tim Ghianni | Jun 4, 2010 | News Slider
Little Jimmy Dickens will escort Lipscomb University into the history books at 7 p.m. Saturday when he takes the stage and officially makes Allen Arena one of the homes of the Grand Ole Opry. The short-in-stature, rhinestone-and-smiles showman, who had a country song on the charts in every decade from the 1940s through the 1970s, is host of the Dollar General segment, the first half-hour of the legendary country variety and radio show. Allen Arena is stepping in to serve as host of the Opry both this Saturday and on June 15, as the world’s longest continuously running radio show lives out something of a gypsy existence in the wake of the May 1-May 2 floods. Those floods, which ravaged much of Nashville, severely damaged the Grand Ole Opry House as well as adjacent Opryland Hotel and Opry Mills mall. The Opry House will be repaired and is scheduled to reopen in the autumn, and the show can return to its home. But for now the Opry wanders around Nashville and demonstrates that the music – not the structure — is the heart of the iconic broadcast. While waiting for the repairs to be completed at the Grand Ole Opry House, the broadcast is setting up shop in such sites as Two Rivers Baptist Church, War Memorial Auditorium, the Ryman Auditorium (which regularly houses the show during the winter months), TPAC’s Jackson Hall and the Allen Arena. “The Grand Ole Opry is looking forward to presenting ‘The Show That Made Country Music Famous’ at Allen Arena,” said Pete Fisher, Grand Ole Opry vice president and general manager. ”We are...
by Allison Woods | May 30, 2010 | News Slider
Beauty in the Academy: Faith, Scholarship and The Arts will be the central theme Thursday-through-Saturday when experts gather at Lipscomb for the 30st annual Christian Scholars’ Conference. The conference boasts a diverse group of plenary speakers, all scholars in their own right, weighing in on subject areas of art, literature, theater and music. Conference attendees also will have opportunities to share their thoughts in paper-and-panel sessions. The conference’s goal annually is to create and nurture an intellectual and Christian community that brings individuals and institutions together to stimulate networks of scholarly dialogue and collaboration. The conference was created by Dr. Thomas H. Olbricht of Pepperdine University and has been hosted by Church of Christ schools across the country. But now, the CSC calls Lipscomb University home most of the time. The conference attracts Christian scholars, from a wide variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences, who wish to develop their own academic research. Professor David Fleer, advisory board chairman of the conference, coordinates the event for Lipscomb. “It’s as deep as scholarship as exists,” he said. Plenary Addresses–The Beauty The conference is structured around four plenary addresses, each featuring a scholar of focus in a later panel session. The Lipscomb Art Department supported the first speaker to lead the Colloquium for the Fine Arts. James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has written many books of art criticism, with a focus on the history and theory of images in art. His address, titled “Ongoing Issues between Religious Art and the Art World,” will open the conference in Alumni Auditorium at 9:30 a.m. Second in...
by Brittney Kerbo | May 25, 2010 | News Slider
Our fourteen hour flight to Beijing landed four days ago. Life since then has been everything we never could have imagined… DAY ONE – Wednesday, May 19 Our company visits began with CITIC (China International Trust and Investment Company). CITIC is a state-owned entity with 418 branches in China, Hong Kong, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with total assets valued in excess of $70 billion US. We had a panel presentation and discussion from several Vice-Presidents, CEOs, and Chairmen within the company and its subsidiaries. Lehman Brown, an international accounting firm with over 300 partners in 100 countries, was actually just a few floors up the elevator in the same building. They hosted us for lunch at the Capital Club, an exclusive “member’s only” establishment on the 50th floor. With a wall half-filled with windows, the view of the city was phenomenal. When we finally stopped taking pictures, Russell Brown, a managing partner of the firm, delivered a presentation concerning the positives and negatives of operating in China and their ability to sustain the current growth numbers. We spent the rest of our night sampling a very interesting selection of dumplings at a local restaurant and enjoying an acrobatic troupe performance. DAY TWO – Thursday, May 20 Our itinerary for Thursday was shifted a bit to accommodate one of the company’s we planned to visit. Consequently, we had an entire day of sightseeing! The morning was filled with pictures in the center of Tiananmen Square and a few hours of meandering about the Forbidden City. Our tour guide Yalin, or “Amanda,” narrated our walk via headsets and...
by Cooper McCullough | May 24, 2010 | News Slider
No day is normal in New York City. How could that even be possible in a city where every street corner buzzes with a multiplicity of languages? When one hour you’re serving food to a homeless family at church and the next you’re observing a Picasso at the Guggenheim? When you’re sitting in the room with heroin addicts & heroin-addicts-turned-pastors? New York is a startling juxtaposition of the best and the worst in America, with its fair share of pleasure… and pain. Monday was our first day to work in PS 179 in the Bronx. As the members of our mission trip left to find their classrooms in the public elementary school for the week, our contact pulled me aside. She apologized, but said that she had decided to pair me with one of the roughest classes in the school. I was to help a second-grade classroom, room 405, with its population of kids with learning challenges and a penchant for violence. While the day started out pleasantly enough, it began to disintegrate after lunchtime. All the physical violence, financial instability, and emotional insecurity in these kids’ lives began to make itself evident. But these problems compared with the apparent attitudes of the teachers. While some really tough things happened in class today, I will sum up the whole day by describing gym at the end of the day. As soon as our ragged class had made it down to the gym, the regular teachers quickly ran upstairs, leaving the class to the substitute gym teacher and me. We began gym by racing from one side to the other, but the sub sat down after a...
