by Cory Woodroof | Sep 28, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
It’s not every day you get to talk to a guy who has acted alongside such major Hollywood talents as Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Chris Pratt. It’s also not every day that this person is a former Lipscomb baseball player. Moneyball actor Casey Bond came back to the place where he spent his senior year of college this week to talk about his role as Chad Bradford in the book-turned-movie blockbuster. Casey Bond, former Lipscomb center fielder, recently acted in the new film Moneyball (based on the book by Michael Lewis). In the film, Bond’s character is a relief pitcher who played for the Oakland A’s during the 2002 season where the film gets its focus. Bond said he always had dreams of being a baseball player. Ever since childhood, baseball has been his passion. He played college ball at Birmingham-Southern in Alabama for three years until the school dropped the division one program. Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand arrived at the same time as Bond and offered him a position on the Lipscomb team as a captain and a center fielder. “I figured this was a great place to go for my senior year.” Bond remembers. In 2007, Bond was drafted into the major leagues with the San Francisco Giants. During the off-seasons, Bond would return to Nashville to take acting classes with The Actor’s School in Cool Springs and finish up school. After his time in the Major Leagues, Bond decided to venture into the world of Hollywood acting. “I loved movies, and I just decided it was something I wanted to do,” he...
by Hunter Patterson | Sep 26, 2011 | News Slider
This week, anchors Caitlin Selle and Kelly Dean look to fill you in on everything Lipscomb. Also, we have a new Nashville spotlight this week. Peep the video below for all the details! Please upgrade your...
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 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...
by Hunter Patterson | Sep 9, 2011 | News Slider
On the morning the Twin Towers fell 10 years ago, our futures became a little less certain, a little more stifled. The anxiety of those first weeks – when it felt like we were living on the brink – has eased, or at least, become so routine that we don’t recognize it for what it is anymore. After all, you can only mourn the loss of life-as-we-know-it for so long before deciding to embrace what is and finding a way to move forward. To understand this is to understand – at least in part – the story of the way students and teachers have adapted to change. The change that was and still is life after 9/11. I know that I don’t speak for myself when I say that the attack felt personal. It was in our faces, in our homes, on our TVs. And most importantly, inside of our own country – on our soil. That was the case for two of Lipscomb’s own – David Hughes, former Special Forces and now Director of the Yellow Ribbon program; and Jon Corley, a student that is a part of the program, set to graduate in May. The attacks on the country hit them so hard – like it did many others – that it was one of the defining reasons they joined the fight against America’s enemies. Jon was 16 when the attacks happened. He says his experience was very different from what most of us went through when the first plane hit the tower. Jon was home alone that day. He was in bed, sick, and was woken...
