by Lumination Staff | Sep 13, 2021 | Galleries, News Slider
The Lipscomb Community gathered early Monday morning to memorialize lives lost on September 11, 2001. Students, faculty and new President Candice McQueen placed flags 2,977 flags (one for each life lost in the 9/11 attack) throughout Bison Square. Gallery by Abigail Kopp and Jack Roper. Memorial flags on campus. Photo by Jack...
by Cory Woodroof | Sep 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: Today, we take a moment to pause and remember what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. Here are stories from five of our Lumination contributors, reflecting on where they were 12 years ago. Ariel Jones I was 10. I didn’t expect anything out of the ordinary to happen that day. I wasn’t even in the right classroom because I think my actual teacher was still in New Zealand. I remember attempting to figure out some sort of work that I was given to do when one of the elementary teachers came in and took my fill-in teacher aside. I didn’t really pay too much attention, since teachers sometimes floated in and out of classes, to whisper “secrets” as we in my class fondly labeled. The eighth-grade teacher then wheeled his TV into the classroom. He turned it on to some channel, shushed the class. Aand there it was. A tall building on fire and people running around screaming, covered in what looked to be dust to me. I didn’t know what I was seeing at first. I thought it was a movie and wondered why he would show us something like this. One of my classmates hollered out, asking what was on TV. My teacher said, “They bombed the Twin Towers…they bombed America…” Someone bombed America? At that moment, I wanted to go home. I wanted to snatch my little brother out of his third-grade class and demand for my dad to pick us up. Within the next hour, parents were picking up their kids. I don’t exactly remember how long it took my dad to get us, but it seemed like...
by Bridgette Begle | Sep 11, 2012 | News Slider
In remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001, the Lipscomb community hosted a special event to honor the victims and the heroes of the tragic terrorist attacks 11 years ago. Tuesday morning the Allen Bell Tower became a place of observance and remembrance. Lipscomb students and staff, as well as the surrounding community, gathered to recall the events of that day and pray for those affected and for the future of America. At the conclusion of the service, the bells tolled 11 times at 7:46 a.m., representing the time when the first plane flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center. “We are grateful for the changing fortunes of our lives. We know all comfort and consolation comes from you,” said Randy Bostic, who led the group in prayer before the bells chimed. “Let the heroes of this event be an example of courage, and let us apply it to our life with you.” Jim Humphrey, assistant dean of students and director of veteran services who retired from service last November after 22 years, organized the event. Humphrey said he wanted it to take place at a convenient time for those with 8 a.m. classes, which happened to line up with the original time of disaster. Humphrey led the group in reflecting on the events that forever marked Sept. 11, and then a moment of silence followed. The 16-minute ceremony was meant to be emotionally light but significant in its meaning, he said. “These aren’t just numbers, but real people who died,” Humphrey said, referring to the 3,000 people who lost their lives that day. “To me, it’s almost...
by Emily Snell | Sep 11, 2012 | Opinion
Most students at Lipscomb remember details about where they were, what they did and how they were affected on Sept. 11, 2001. Each of us has a unique perspective about what took place that day, but we all share in the way that it changed our nation forever. On this eleventh anniversary of 9/11, a handful of Lumination staff members share their experiences from that fateful day. Erica Aburto, senior studying journalism & new media; in Chicago on Sept. 11, 2001: The chilly gusts of wind were making a presence early in the year. It was a murky morning that day, almost as if foreshadowing something ominous was going to happen. I was in fifth grade at Nightingale Elementary on the southside of Chicago at the time. About thirty minutes after school had started, I remember one of the teachers from another hall coming into the classroom, sobbing, and whispering something into my homeroom teacher’s ear. My teacher, Ms. Hillman, gasped and put on her glasses to turn on the TV. She lowered the volume and told us that there had been some very bad men doing bad things. She said we wouldn’t be able to understand but that some bad guys flew a plane into a building, killing people. I remember one of my classmates breaking into tears and asking the teacher if we’d get hit too, since we also have big buildings. Ms. Hillman tried to put her at ease but said she hoped not. The rest of the day, we switched classes, but in every class we saw the same thing–the planes crashing into the towers....
by Hunter Patterson | Dec 20, 2011 | News Slider, Opinion, Sports
It’s that time of the year again. You know, the end of it. And with the end of the year comes lists! On the front pages of CNN, ABC News, Yahoo! and other news sites there will soon be “The Best of 2011” or “The Biggest from 2011.” At Lumination Network, we opted for the latter. 2011 was a year of surprises. When the year began, we were all shocked by what happened to Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. In March, Charlie Sheen ranted about “winning” and “Tiger Blood,” capturing the attention of the world…and ending his sitcom career prematurely. But 2011 was also a year of tragedy. On top of Senator Giffords being shot in her home state, one of the largest tsunamis in history hit Japan, which sent three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into meltdown, the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. In April, tornadoes ripped through the states just south of us.There were more than 170 twisters on one day, leading to a death toll of nearly 300. And 2011 was a year of love. In the biggest wedding of our lifetimes, William and Kate got hitched. Prince William, of course, tied the knot with his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, got married outside Westminster Abbey in London on April 29. Over 23 million Americans watched the wedding from their couches. Undoubtedly, though, the biggest story of the year was the death of Osama bin Laden. As most of you remember, bin Laden was killed during a firefight in Pakistan nearly a decade after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and set off patriotic celebrations...
