by Hunter Patterson | Nov 2, 2010 | News Slider, Opinion
On a night during which many voters expressed disapproval for the Obama administration and the Democrats, Tennessee became one of many states from around the country to elect a Republican governor. And voters in the Volunteer State didn’t have to wait long to find out all the pre-election prognostications were correct: By 7:28 p.m. the Associated Press declared Bill Haslam the winner. Republican Haslam, mayor of Knoxville, and Democrat Mike McWherter, a Jackson businessman and the son of former Gov. Ned McWherter, sought to succeed outgoing Gov. Phil Bredesen. With nearly half of the precincts having reported, Haslam controlled about 70 percent of the vote. During his victory speech Haslam — who had spent a part of the evening chairing the Knoxville City Council, one of his mayoral duties — expressed excitement about the tasks at hand. “I am looking forward to working with Gov. Bredesen–we are starting as early as (Wednesday),” Haslam said. “It is my duty to make certain that Tennessee continues to move forward. While it’s time to celebrate the victory, we must not forget that we face some major social issues.” It also appears that Tennessee has approved a constitutional guarantee to hunt and fish. Much like what other Southern states have done — South Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas — Tennessee will now have the right to hunt and fish implanted into the state’s constitution. While it does not change the law, it prevents from hunting and fishing from being outlawed without changing the constitution. Several participants from COMMA volunteered at the News Channel 4 studios Tuesday night. The COMMA students (members of the Communication Majors and Minors Association) answered phone calls from all around the state to...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Oct 29, 2010 | News Slider
After exhausting all other avenues and waiting for a year and two months for recycling to hit Lipscomb, students decided on another route. Rumor had it that students were organizing a protest aimed at raising awareness to the need for recycling on Lipscomb’s campus. In response to that, Scott McDowell, vice president for student development and dean of campus life, and Jackson Sprayberry, SGA president, worked together to expedite the implementation of a recycling program in residence halls. This program has been a topic of discussion between campus life and SGA over the past year. But the fact that students were organizing a protest showed their passion about recycling and a commitment to making a recycling initiative successful on campus. Watch below for more. Click here for another story on Lipscomb’s new recycling program. Please upgrade your...
by Hunter Patterson | Oct 28, 2010 | News Slider
On Thursday, Nov. 4th, Lipscomb University’s Career Development Center will host the 2010 Job and Internship Expo. The exposition will provide students an opportunity to network with employers representing a large selection of organizations. Opportunities from summer internships to full-time positions will be available. Interested students should sign up to attend either the 1:30 or 2:30 expo in Ezell 301. To sign up, log in at Lipscomb.experience.com, click on “Job Fair” under the calendar section on the left side of the homepage, and select and sign up for the time slot that fits your schedule best. Please upgrade your...
by Amanda McDowell | Oct 28, 2010 | News Slider
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 20, Lipscomb students walked away with much more than a chapel credit. After watching “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story” in Shamblin Theater, Cyntoia’s powerful life story came to light. The documentary on her life, made over a six-year period, tells of Cyntoia’s past. At 16 years old, Cyntoia Brown, a young woman with a troubled past, was forced to face the reality that the rest of her life would almost certainly be spent behind bars. Now, she is an inmate at the Tennessee Prison for Women and a participant in Lipscomb’s LIFE program. The program, which began in 2007, is dedicated to educating inmates to change their lives for the better. Brown was 16 when she killed Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old Nashvillian who picked her up while she was streetwalking at a Sonic Restaurant. Cyntoia had run away from home and was forced to work as a prostitute for a violent drug dealer. As a result, she encountered Allen on the night of Aug. 6, 2004. After riding with Allen back to his home, Brown began to fear for her safety. Allen had begun talking about guns and his time spent as an army sharp shooter, frightening comments that ultimately led Cyntoia to shoot Allen in the head. Her murder conviction at age 18 led her to the prison cell she now calls home. Cyntoia still claims that she shot Allen in fearful self-defense, after he allegedly reached for a gun. Her fate was then determined, despite family testimony from both her biological and adoptive mothers of a troubled and abusive childhood. Jurors still convicted...
by Hunter Moss | Oct 25, 2010 | News Slider
Public relations students and advisers met newsman Bob Schieffer while visiting the set of CBS Face the Nation in Washington, D.C. The four students and two advisers were attending the PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America) national conference when they had the chance to visit the newsroom Oct. 17. Linda Peek Schacht, Lipscomb professor and Washington insider, provided them the opportunity to meet her friend Bob Schieffer. The PRSSA officers were greeted warmly by producers and then received a studio tour. Hunter Moss, as Lipscomb University PRSSA chapter president, presented Schieffer with an autographed Hatch show print from last spring’s Music from the Mountain concert, the Lipscomb event that honored musical legend Mother Maybelle Carter. One of Schieffer’s hobbies is playing the guitar and listening to folk music, and Mother Maybelle, the late matriarch of the Carter Family, revolutionized the way a guitar is played. “I’m thankful for [Schacht’s] friendship and this Hatch print from Lipscomb University, ” Schieffer said. “These artists are my musical heroes.” Hatch prints, are done the old-fashioned way, an artform still kept alive in their lower Broadway printshop, which is affiliated with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. As the program began in the studio, the students sat in the control room. The show’s guests included former head of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Republican strategist Liz Cheney — daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney — and Bill Galston, former adviser to President Clinton. Students experienced a heated debate between the outspoken duo of Dean and Cheney, who argued over campaign contributions. After the show, Schieffer invited...
