by Cory Woodroof | Feb 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
While there is still plenty of 2014 left to go, there has been one point of conversation that has dominated social media and beyond this year. “Who/what would be on the Mount Rushmore of (fill in the blank of a group of people, places or things)?” We here at Lumination have begun to ponder this very question about of the men and women who lead our classrooms at Lipscomb University every day, and we need your help. Who would you place on the Mount Rushmore of Lipscomb professors? Over the next two weeks or so, we would love for you to chime in with your four picks. The four professors who receive the most votes will fill in the four faces! If you’d like, you can offer a short blurb on why you chose the four professors that you did to be included in the post of winners. For example: I choose Dr. W, Dr. X, Dr. Y and Dr. Z for the Mount Rushmore of Lipscomb professors. Dr. Z is a friendly, energetic teacher who always impresses with her brilliant lectures and in-class demonstrations. She always is eager to help any students with problems they may have, and she even has a box of cookies on her desk for students to enjoy throughout the day. She’s an excellent example of a professor that absolutely deserves to be on the Mount Rushmore of Lipscomb professors. (Three more would follow, and feel free to write as much as you would like). Submissions can be made in our comments section. The deadline for submissions will be on Friday, March 14, at...
by Travis Byrd | Feb 26, 2014 | News Slider
The clock is ticking, but it is still not too late to sign up for a spring break mission trip. Lipscomb will be sending out eighteen mission teams all over the globe this spring break. Missions coordinator Paul Stevens says there is still time for students to sign up and participate. “Students can still sign up,” Stevens said. “Our trips are not full. There is still time to get involved.” With spring break only about two weeks away, many students think they have missed their shot at going on a trip, but Stevens says that is not the case. “We have had students sign up two or three days before the trip in years past,” Stevens said. “Lipscomb wants as many students to go that can.” Many mission teams have been meeting over the last few months to prepare for their trip, but students who still want to go should not let their lack of preparation keep them from going. “We have had teams meeting for months now,” Stevens said. “This has allowed them to grow together as a team and find out how well they will be able to work together. If there is room and the student has the capability to go, then we want them to.” Students may be wondering, “How do I get started this process started? Where do I go to check to see if trips are open?” Stevens says he recommends that students check out the university’s spring break missions page for trip availability. “All the mission teams are listed there and if the trip says it is open, then there is space, but some will say close...
by Janice Ng | Feb 25, 2014 | News Slider
Lipscomb University’s Rush Hour Concerts are aptly named, as people can pop in for a one-hour concert to wait for traffic to clear up before heading home. Gary Wilson, director of vocal and choral activities, first came up with the idea that soon became a reality last spring. “The idea was born while looking for a creative way to handle our performance schedule toward the end of the year,” Wilson said. The department of music sponsors over 100 concerts every school year. These include individual students performing a solo recital as part of their degree requirements, groups of students performing as part of an ensemble such as A Cappella Singers or Wind Ensemble and faculty or guest artists presenting professional concerts. “At the end of the year, there are so many students needing to give recitals and ensembles wanting to perform that it’s difficult to get everything done,” Wilson said. “We do not schedule two concerts at the same time, so the Rush Hour Concerts were created to alleviate some of our scheduling issues.” The first Rush Hour Concert last spring featured the ChamberMen ensemble, Lipscomb’s male choral ensemble that began as a quintet in 2012 and has since expanded to include 11 singers. This month’s concert featured the AronBerkner Duo, with Jane Berkner and Stephen Aron. “Rush Hour Concerts have become a very popular part of our concert offerings,” Wilson said. “No one is in charge, but any music faculty member can schedule a performance at this time. Typically, these concerts are less than an hour, and have no intermission, so they’re over by 6 p.m.” Photo courtesy of...
by Logan Butts | Feb 24, 2014 | News Slider, Sports
When stepping foot on any college campus across the country, you are bound to run into someone who participates in intramurals. They are a genuinely fun way to stay active and in shape without having to hit the gym or exercise by yourself at home. They can also be a way for former high school athletes to satisfy their competitive drive, despite not playing any sports for their university. Lipscomb offers a multitude of intramural sports for any students interested in playing. However, one sport always brings in more participants, and brings out more of those participants’ competitive spirit. That sport is basketball. “Basketball is the most popular of all the sports we’ve done this year,” said Evan McGee, a graduate assistant for campus recreation. McGee is in charge of the intramurals on campus, and he says more students signed up for basketball this semester than any of the other sports that they offer. There are three leagues for intramural basketball: the men’s independent league, which features a competitive and a recreational division, the women’s independent league, which has just one division and the social club league, where the school’s social clubs can form a team and compete against each other. In all, there are an astounding 39 teams competing in intramural basketball at Lipscomb this year, including 22 teams in the men’s recreational league alone. The rise of participants in the recreational league over the past few years can be attributed to the sheer difficulty of the competitive league, where it is not uncommon to see athletes from Lipscomb’s other sports teams playing on each team. There are...
by Carter Sanderson | Feb 24, 2014 | News Slider
A benefit piano concert, titled Two Brothers for One Sister, is set to be held on Thursday in Ward Hall. The show will be put on by two brothers for their sister, who has been undergoing treatments for her health since last summer. Pianists and brothers Adam and Evan Booher are the two holding the concert. Adam is a senior at Lipscomb and has been playing the piano for 15 years now. He has hopes to pursue his master’s degree at Florida State University in music (preferably, in piano performance). Evan is a freshman at Lipscomb and says he has been playing the piano for about 12 to 13 years. He was the first place winner in the piano contest here at Lipscomb back in 2012 as a high school student and still enjoys playing today. However, the Booher brothers are using their talents for a much greater purpose this week. Their 15-year-old sister, Anna Booher, was diagnosed with Lyme disease in February of 2013. Over the summer, she began treatments, and she and her family spent four months at a Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Our family lived in the Ronald McDonald House in Minnesota, so that was a real big blessing,” Adam Booher said. He and his brother flew to Minnesota for the summer to be with the rest of their family. After four months of different treatment in Minnesota, the Booher family had to make another transition to Tampa Bay, Fla., where they now reside, working with a team of doctors there. The Booher family thinks the treatments are getting better each and every day, but it’s still...
