[photos] Date Auction

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized

Hosted by Kate Keith and Zach Brantley, Phi Sigma’s Date Auction raised awareness and money Nov. 3 to benefit the Touch A Life Foundation. Sixteen groups including social clubs, SGA and the girls soccer team were auctioned off, each group being auctioned off for anywhere from $100 to $250. Each group presented their own theme to appeal to potential bidders. The date auction was all in good fun where 100% of money raised went to Touch A Life Foundation. Please upgrade your...

Old rivalry to be renewed after 10-year break

by | Nov 4, 2010 | News Slider, Sports

For the first time in 10 years, Lipscomb will be taking on former rival Trevecca Nazarene in an exhibition game Thursday night at Allen Arena. With so much time having passed since the last time these two teams matched up, some people say this installment might not match up to the storied games of yesteryear.  Former star player and current athletic director Philip Hutchinson thinks differently. “A lot of people who go to school in Nashville stay in Nashville,” said Hutchinson. “There [are] a lot of loyalties to both schools. A lot of Lipscomb and Trevecca fans in Nashville were around whenever the rivalry was at its peak; this game should be a lot of fun.” Mark McGee, Lipscomb instructor and sports information director, who covered the games for Lipscomb when the rivalry was at its peak and Hutchinson both described the battles as “intense.” “It was every bit of the Belmont rivalry we have today and then some,” said Hutchinson. “A lot of the players grew up playing against each other, so bragging rights were always at stake each time we faced them.” “The fans were not ugly,” said McGee. “But it would get so loud that you couldn’t hear yourself think. The Lipscomb-Trevecca rivalry was edgier and grittier back then in some ways than Belmont games get today.” Andy Lane, who broadcast the Lipscomb basketball games during the 1980s, proclaims the meeting between these two schools was  “The Game.” “Back when the games were played in McQuiddy, each time Trevecca would come to our place it would get packed,” Lane said. “It was a hot, loud, crowded atmosphere. The games would be...

Lipscomb students take on challenge, send student home for the holidays[w/ video]

by | Nov 4, 2010 | News Slider

Students at Lipscomb are recognized for the numerous hours of service they complete each year. But it’s pretty astonishing what some students completed in just an few hours. Freshmen Nathan Owens and Zac Riedford, along with the help of countless friends, surprised a fellow student with something that not only brought tears to his eyes, but to almost every eye at last night’s Wednesday Night We Eat. Take a minute to think about living and going to school more than 7,000 miles away from home. That is what freshman history major Caesar Tang has to deal with everyday. He’s from Hong Kong, and he moved here his sophomore year of high school. Tang has only been home to China a few times since moving to Texas three years ago. With that in mind, Owens and Riedford began to wonder if it would be possible to send Caesar home for Christmas. “It started with about five of us sitting in a room,” said Owens, a biology major. “And we just started thinking it would be really cool to send Caesar home.” During a Tuesday night devotional, started by a group of freshman in 2008, the idea was born. “After devo one night we voiced the idea aloud once Caesar had left,” Owens said. “Our RA, Mark Wilkins, told us that it was a good idea and that we should run with it.” After thinking about it for a few days, Owens, Riedford and few others got together and talked about the options that they had. “Finally about a week later I decided that we needed to do something right then,”...

Cause Week raises money for student documentary

by | Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

Pi Kappa Sigma is raising money this week to help two Lipscomb students produce a social justice documentary. The club’s efforts are part of Cause Week, which will help fund the documentary being produced by Ryan Malone and Allison Woods, both multimedia production majors. The film tells the story of a social justice crisis in the Ulpan Valley of Guatemala. “I’m doing this documentary about the lives of the Q’eqchi’ people, especially relating to the struggle for their land,” Malone said. “The land that they live on is a big part of their culture. It’s what they live off every day.” At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, Malone will be in Shamblin Theater with Caroline Cook, co-chair of Cause Week, to explain more about the situation and the documentary. Students who attend can receive one chapel credit and will have an opportunity to ask questions about the documentary and to pray for the people of the Ulpan Valley. “Because of the documentary, we are telling the story of the Q’eqchi people that they can’t tell themselves,” said Cook, a junior law, justice and society major from Decatur, Ala. Woods, a senior, explained that the problems in Guatemala can be traced back nearly two centuries. In the 1800s, the Guatemalan government took the land from the people of the Ulpan Valley. Following the distribution of the land to various countries, the local government passed an anti-vagrancy law that required anyone living on the land to work for the landowner. However, according to Woods, the workers only receive around $2 per day. “They are basically in a situation of legalized slavery,” Woods said....