Friends of Lipscomb, The Civil Wars to appear on Tonight Show

by | Jan 11, 2011 | News Slider

Remember that talented duo that performed in Shamblin a couple months back, sponsored by our SGA? Well, that same duo will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this Thursday night along with Cameron Diaz and Eric Stonestreet. The Civil Wars, featuring Joy Williams and John Paul White, will be playing the title track from their forthcoming album “Barton Hollow.” Their album is set to drop on the first of next month. The Tonight Show booking comes after the duo played in Europe for the first time, and playing a string of sold out shows up and down the West Coast. The album release concert will be held at The Belcourt Theater here in Nashville on February 2nd. For your sake, we hope you ordered tickets early because it, too, is already sold out. Lumination, with the help of SGA, was able to sit down with Joy and John Paul when they played their show here. To see part of the interview, check out the video below. Please upgrade your browser Want to see the interview in full? Click here. To see them preform Barton Hollow at the SGA sponsored show, click...

Opinion: Looking at a digital nation’s pluses and minuses

by | Jan 2, 2011 | News Slider

As we are becoming a digital nation, there is much speculation over whether this will help or harm us. “Frontline” examined this topic on television, and it is something that ought to make us all think. Over the past few decades there has been a tremendous rise in digital involvement. Americans are constantly connected in some way. Whenever we can’t find an answer, we whip out our smart phones and google the answer. In fact, “google” is now an official word of our vocabulary. It can be used either in upper or lower case, as in “google” or “Google.” The Webster’s dictionary defines google by saying it is “a verb meaning: using the Google search engine to obtain information on the world wide web.” How did anyone ever function without such readily available materials the Internet provides? The downfall to having everything here and now is that we always expect it that way. People are becoming more impatient. Their attention spans are short lived. Children are relying on online games and media to hold their attention as opposed to playing outside or reading a book. Inside the classroom students expect learning to be game-oriented as opposed to a more traditional lecture style. Studies have shown that our quality of learning has decreased. College students are finding it harder and harder to succeed in a literature classes. When surfing the web, the brain is utilizing several parts and functioning at a fast rate. Therefore, when someone is constantly surfing the web they aren’t exercising their brain as they would when focusing on a single topic or reading a book. So as college students are assigned reading in...

[video] One on one with Lindsay Latimer

by | Dec 21, 2010 | News Slider

She’s a transfer from Belmont who is passionate about her faith and music. We got a chance to sit down one on one with Lindsey Latimer, a student here pursuing a career in the music industry. Watch below for the exclusive interview and a short performance by Lindsay Latimer. Please upgrade your browser Latimer’s music is available for download on iTunes. Go show her some...