by Logan Butts | Nov 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Fifty years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy – a trauma that sparked the first “wall-to-wall” television news coverage, so generations captivated by the young president and his family could view the events – the cruel reality still resonates with those who lived through it. Similar to how most people who are alive today know exactly where they were when the events of 9/11 occurred, anyone who lived during President Kennedy’s assassination knows exactly where they were when the news was broke to them early in the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963. “I was in Madison Street Elementary School in the first grade class,” said Mark McGee, Lipscomb Athletics media relations director and adjunct professor. “And our teacher, Mrs. Beachboard, came into the class and told us that the president had been killed.” “I remember exactly where I was,” said Alan Griggs, associate professor and chair of the department of communications and journalism. “I was in the seventh grade, and I was in a civics classroom. We were being taught by Mr. Basset, the civics teacher. All of the sudden, the door opens, and in comes the assistant principle with a very worried look on his face saying that the president had been shot. We were all just stunned.” For the next four days, Americans sat glued to their televisions watching all the events unfold. From the assassination of the President on Friday to Jack Ruby’s shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald on Sunday and Kennedy’s funeral on Monday, all of America saw the events unfold in their living room, right in front of their eyes. “It took over TV,” McGee said. “I...
by Ariel Jones | Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Brittany Barker is not your average student here at Lipscomb University. She has many talents and aspirations and has put those talents into good use during her time here. A graphic design major, Barker has used her graphing design skills outside of the classroom through her involvement with Lipscomb’s Theatre Department. Barker has been associated with productions like Hairspray, Les Misérables and other shows on campus. She is currently set to graduate this fall and seeks to embark on the next chapter of her life after college. Soon after graduation, Barker plans to get her master’s degree in graphic design and have a teaching internship as well. One thing to know about Barker is that she’s a devoted Disney World fan. As a matter of fact, one of her posts on Facebook reads, “NOTHING like Disney,” when she shared a link on her wall about a “fake Disney World” that she had seen online. Barker isn’t only a fan of the Disney franchise. She hopes to join the company, putting her major graphic design to work. “I see myself owning my own business and working at Disney, designing cool logos for them,” Barker said when asked to peek into her future five years from now. Friendships are important to Barker, but the most important relationship she worked on while at Lipscomb was her faith with Jesus Christ. She says her walk with Jesus hasn’t changed much since coming to Lipscomb, but something did change. “My walk with Jesus hasn’t much changed since first coming to Lipscomb University, but my faith has grown stronger since being here,” Barker said. “Lipscomb has helped me...
by Brianne Welch | Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Lipscomb president Randy Lowry sat down with Tom Ingram for the newest installment of the “Now That You Ask…” series Tuesday night, shedding light on his time as president of the university. President Lowry is the 17th president of the school. He has been the president for the past seven years, and in his tenure, student enrollment has increased by 82%. Before coming to Lipscomb, Lowry had only visited once before. “I had heard of it, but I really didn’t know much about it,” Lowry said. Since Lowry became the president at Lipscomb, there have been many changes to the way things are done. Lowry was asked how he has succeeded in making so many changes to the institution. “Well, enrollment had been down for several years, the budget had been adjusted for each of those years, and what I think we found was a community that was really hungry for a new future, a new level of engagement, a sense of success,” Lowry said. “So, a little bit of hunger gives you the opportunity as a leader to move things fairly quickly.” Lowry went on to talk about some of the changes he is the most proud of and what else there is to do at Lipscomb. “I’m proud of our engagement with the community. When I arrived it seemed to me we were a little comfortable in Green Hills and a little removed from whatever was going on in the life of the city,” Lowry said. “People encouraged me to engage, and the city has been so responsive to us.” Lowry said that while he believes that...
by Kage Sanderson | Oct 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Joe Sanderson is a junior Journalism & New Media major at Lipscomb University and is a part of the Lumination Network. While Sanderson likes all things broadcasting, he equally likes something else. Music. We talked with him about the band he tours with and what life on the road is like. Currently, Sanderson is on the road touring with country artist/writer Lance Carpenter. He has been playing with Carpenter for around six months now. “A majority of the guys in the band, we all came into the group at the same time,” Sanderson said. “We’ve had to swap a few band members around due to scheduling conflicts and such. But the guys that have been there from day one, they are awesome.” Even with a busy work and school schedule, Sanderson says he still practices consistently with the band, and travels on the road with them. “Whenever we pick up a new gig or set of shows, we usually just do it. We could have two to four shows in a week sometimes. We can usually make weekend trips up to 500-800 miles away from Nashville, Friday through Sunday and make it back in time for school on Monday.” Getting a head start on Friday mornings is no joke. “For the typical weekend gig we leave at around five or six in the morning on Friday and move on to our destination,” Sanderson said. “We try to take as few vehicles as we can. I usually ride with the bassist, Justin Trimble. We can fit our drum and bass gear in my vehicle, as well as a keyboard or anything else we need.” There is...
by Jesica Parsley | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Helping the environment and saving people money with a new type of crocheting is Accounts Payable Clerk Ginger Santiago’s passion. Santiago acquired her crafting skills from family tradition and began crocheting in high school. Her mother paints and her grandmother knits, so Santiago picked up on crocheting. Santiago found a new form of crafting, called plarning, from searching on the internet. She thought it would help her create things for her grandchildren. “I knew I was going to make the grandkids stuff often, but I didn’t want to spend all the money at one time,” Santiago said. “Plarning is a free way for me to make whatever I want.” Plarning involves cutting plastic grocery bags into strings similar to yarn and then crocheting them together. Santiago says she has received many bags from her coworkers. “I got everyone in the office to bring me their grocery bags, which is when I really started having fun,” she said. Santiago says she did not realize until she made several items that she was recycling in a fun way. “Plarning is a free hobby that helps the environment as well, and it can’t get much better than that,” Santiago said. Santiago’s plarning helps save the environment and helps her customers save money. Santiago’s mother sells her own paintings, as well as Santiago’s plarning items. “Since the plastic bags are free, the items sell for just a few dollars, which helps a lot in today’s world,” Santiago said. Purses, coasters, sandals, cup holders and hats are just a few of the items that can be made through plarning. Since different stores have different color bags,...
by Whitney Jarreld | Oct 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Most people keep original pictures for nostalgic reasons, but Joshua Dildine works with photographs and paints over them on a large scale. At Lipscomb’s John C. Hutcheson Gallery in the James D. Hughes Center, eight pieces of Dildine’s work are part of the visiting artists program. Dildine is an artist based out of Los Angeles. Dildine grew up in the California area, and the original influence of art in his life was his grandmother, a water color painter. “She would babysit me, and she would point into the sky and say ‘what colors do you see in the sky?’, and I would say ‘blue’, and she would say, ‘wrong’ and I would think she’s crazy,” Dildine said. The art background his grandmother inspired propelled Dildine to pursue his passion in art. “Having that constant influence throughout my whole life has been amazing, but now that I’m much older and in the contemporary art realms my influence has changed. I look at art and I’m inspired by everything,” Dildine said. The core of his artwork looks into how society views images. “I wanted to make it more personal, but also in some ways I wanted to investigate the power of image and photographs,” Dildine said. Dildine has three base steps to his work: construction, deconstruction and re-construction. “The construction part is the context that we give images. The meaning behind them. Deconstructive aspect is the act of painting over it and removing that context,” Dildine said. Dildine believes that removing the face of mother on a photograph, the power of it is lost. The third step, reconstruction, “is fusing painting with...
