by Katie Bianchini | Nov 8, 2016 | News Slider
Lipscomb Department of Communication students welcomed award-winning television host Ashley Eicher for the final Media Masters event of the semester. Eicher now hosts The Ram Report on the Rolling Stone Country website, but said she weathered many ups and downs before she began her career. “I had to chase the dream that I felt like I was supposed to be doing,” Eicher told the audience. “From my perspective and my faith I just had to trust God and say, ‘OK, you’ve got this.’” She went through a 10-month unemployment period early in her career that changed her perspective on her vocation and taught her to lean on God. “I kept praying like, ‘Why am I a nanny right now,’ or, ‘When is this going to end,’ but I really needed that entire 10 months to change my attitude,” she said. “It knocked down my pride and gave me a reality check.” Junior Josie Burlison said Eicher’s message encouraged her as she pursues a career outside the journalism and media realm. “Going into something like interior design, you have to build up the clientele and there’s not always that steady income,” she said. “So I liked how she talked to us about that period of unemployment.” Eventually, in 2006 Eicher started her on-camera career as the host of ABC and the CMA’s first web series on the CMAs and CMA Music Festival. Since then, she has hosted with well-known personalities such as Luke Bryan, Jake Owen and Chuck Wicks. Eicher told the students that good television hosting comes from developing good conversational skills, being themselves and having more fun. “It...
by Whitney Smith | Oct 18, 2016 | News Slider
The political science department partnered with the Tennessee World Affairs Council to sponsor their third international career panel. The panel’s speakers featured ambassadors, a former United States Foreign Service Officer and representatives from the Peace Corps, the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program and Healing Hands International. Political science professor Dr. Susan Haynes said the panel selection process was strategically made to have a variety of experience and wisdom available for students. “We tried to get people in a broad range of careers from people who have had distinguished 50-year careers in the foreign service to people who graduated not too long ago,” Haynes said. “So people could talk about an entire lifespan with different countries under their belt, and some who had entered the career market more recently.” Among those in attendance was 2015 graduate Spencer Bailey. After graduating from Lipscomb with a degree in law, justice and society, Bailey now works for the US fund for UNICEF as a community engagement fellow. He said the event’s speakers event was full of advice and opportunities for students interested in international careers, and it was helpful for him, being someone new to the international job market. “I thought there was some incredible advice given on if you want to do international work then focusing on learning a foreign language and becoming an expert in that language, also in not trying to micromanage your career,” Bailey said. “Just in the short while since I’ve graduated just the different things that have popped up and the opportunities I never saw coming.” Michael McClellan of the US State Department presented some of the good advice...
by Charlie Bateman | Oct 21, 2015 | News Slider, Sports
The Bisons took a win over Evansville to bring their record to 5-8-1 in a nonconference game Tuesday night at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. Sophomore Ivan Alvarado scored the first goal of the match in the fourth minute with an assist from redshirt junior Kevin McMahon. Evansville added two goals in the first half. Senior Nate Opperman scored the first goal for the Purple Aces in the 12th minute. Evansville sophomore Desmond Dolphy scored the second goal in the 18th minute. Lipscomb rallied against Evansville by scoring three goals in the second half. “The focus in the second half was to keep attacking the flanks,” Lipscomb men’s soccer head coach Charles Morrow said. “We were able to spread them a little bit, which led to the goals being scored.” Redshirt freshman Logan Paynter started the comeback for Lipscomb with his fifth goal of the season in the 48th minute. Sophomore Joe Kerridge and senior Anthony Cedano picked up assists on the score. “Logan has done a great job for us this year,” Morrow said. “He really came out strong for us in the spring. We had a feeling this was going to be a good year and he and some other people have stepped up well this year.” Junior Daniel Vieira scored the Bisons’ next goal in the 68th minute with an assist from Alvarado. The last goal of the game came from junior Brandon Braumuller in the 84th minute. This goal was the first of the season for Braumuller. “It is a very good goal for Brandon,” Morrow said. “Brandon has been close several times this season, so it is good for him to finally get on the...
by Charlie Bateman | Oct 7, 2015 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb (4-6-1, 2-1 A-Sun) men’s soccer team held a 3-2 win over Jacksonville (2-8-1, 0-3 A-Sun) in an Atlantic Sun conference game Tuesday night at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. “We scored early which was good,” head coach Charles Morrow said. “I felt like we took our foot off the gas, but all credit goes to our guys for coming back in the second half.” This victory puts the Bisons’ conference record at 2-1. “Every game is huge, especially when you have three conference games in an eight day period,” Morrow said. “It is super important to get out of this tough stretch, winning two out of the three games.” The Bisons scored the first goal of the match in the 3rd minute by junior Kevin McMahon. The goal was unassisted. The Dolphins answered with two goals in the first half. The first goal occurred in the 25th minute and the second occurred in the 43rd minute. Lipscomb added two goals in the second half. In the 56th minute McMahon scored his second goal of the game to bring the match back to even. This was followed by a 25-yard shot scored by senior Matt Kerridge. “Kevin’s hard work paid off in the match,” Morrow said. “Kevin did a great job pressuring the ball, which is a thankless job, but led to a huge game for him.” Up next, the Bisons will take on Elon at 6 p.m. Saturday at...
by Becca Risley | Sep 23, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Up-and-coming country singer Abbi Scott said she dreams of sold-out arenas, personalized tours and selling millions of records. “I don’t want to be a small-time singer who just does it for fun,” Scott said. “I want to be Garth Brooks big. It’s not for the money, I just want to live out my passion and bring back the soul of country.” Scott first realized this was her dream around age 5, while standing in her living room during American Idol commercials and singing into a hairbrush for her parents to “judge” her. At age 8, Scott performed live in public for the first time at a county fair in her home state of Indiana. She won the contest that year and for the next six years. It wasn’t until Scott performed at the Colgate Country Showdown in 2009 that she met several people with singer/songwriter contacts in Nashville. At age 14, Scott and her family traveled to Music City for the first time. “After that, I traveled back and forth between Nashville and Indiana two weekends a month all through high school,” Scott said. “Sometimes the trip would be for writing and sometimes I would come for gigs.” Now a sophomore on campus at Lipscomb, Scott studies Public Relations and works with publicist Katherine Cook to perform as many times and at as many venues as possible. “I went to college because I thought it would be the wise decision while I’m waiting to get my break,” Scott said. “Performing is what I love to do. It’s my passion and it’s what I want to do for the rest of my...
