by Charissa Ricker | Feb 2, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Spring Awakening is the latest show to fit the pattern of Second Stage Student Theatre’s past productions as it brings light to uncomfortable topics that are often not openly discussed. Spring Awakening is a controversial rock musical that delves into topics such as sexuality in adolescents, suicide, religion and more. The play opened last night at Community Bible Church and will have two more performances — February 2 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Second Stage Student Theatre is a group from the Nashville area that creates an avenue for theater students to perform, mainly coming from Lipscomb and Belmont. This student-led company’s mission is being “…dedicated to empowering young theatre artists and crafting the next generation of socially and culturally challenging works of theatre by creating avenues to explore theatrical production, direction and design.” The company is an outlet for several Lipscomb students to perform, including junior Olivia Zemer, who was in the ensemble of Spring Awakening. “It’s such an important story,” Zemer said. “I’m an education major, so I think about all the kids that I’ll be working with in the future and how they are going through all these same things that the students in the show are, but nobody is talking to them, and that is still happening today.” Lipscomb senior Liz Schenck went to the Friday night performance and said she felt the show was relevant to today’s society. “I thought is was absolutely phenomenal,” Schenck said. “This is the kind of story that isn’t told often enough, especially in the kind of culture we’re living in, deeply entrenched in the Bible Belt.” Not only was the...
by Adrienne Luu | Feb 2, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
The match took four and a half hours to finish, but the Lipscomb men’s tennis team left with a 4-3 victory over Furman University on Friday night. The Bisons (2-2) started the night off against the Paladins with a lead by winning the doubles point. On the third line, Lipscomb’s Francesco Tacconi and George Wong played Furman’s Ivan Mitric and James Roelfose and lost the match 6-1. Bisons pair Jorge Ortegon and Pedro Uribe then won their set 6-3 against Drew Singerman and Clarke Wilson, leaving it up to Lipscomb’s duo in line one to get the doubles point. As Lipscomb’s Victor Chaw and Pablo Caffarena fought out their battle with Jake Munns and Jake Bhangdia, the two teams stood watch while waiting to see who would clinch the point. After a long battle, Chaw and Caffarena managed to win the set 6-4 and got Lipscomb’s first point of the night, putting them in the lead. “I think the doubles was more of an example of being greedy rather than us playing well,” Lipscomb coach Geoff Hernandez said. “It wasn’t our best, but we performed mentally, and that’s the thing we talked about all week. Even though it wasn’t our best, they still pulled out the win.” The win from the doubles point gave the Bisons more energy and motivation to transfer their heat to singles play and try to win the night’s match with just three more points. In the No. 2 spot, Caffarena was the first to finish the job, bringing the Bisons up 2-0. Playing against the Paladins’ Clarke Wilson, Caffarena won both of his sets...
by Tyler Harvey | Feb 1, 2019 | News Slider
A new $250 million campaign and 200,000 student-pledged service hours were just a couple of the big announcements in chapel this morning. Chapel was a little different today; students were greeted by free T-shirts that said Lipscomb Leads and live instrumental music performed by student band Daves Highway and friends. The money from this new campaign will go towards academic programs, campus development and student scholarships. The donors have already given $186 million of the $250 million goal of the campaign. “We’re going to make it,” Lipscomb President Randy Lowry said. Lipscomb said in a statement that the Lipscomb Leads campaign will focus on three main priorities: “A best in class academic program, a transformative student experience and a model for sustainable impact.” President Lowry described the goals of the program by emphasizing the program’s goal to enrich student scholarships, academic programs and campus development. “We want every single classroom to be the opportunity and environment for 21st century learning,” Lowry said. “…Scholarships are important to students who have no other opportunity of getting an education. These scholarships will open up their world and give opportunities that they never imagined.” Along with student scholarships and academic programs, Lipscomb Leads will also go towards renovating the campus. “About $50 million of this campaign will go towards the next phase of campaign development,” Lowry said. The renovations announced include Allen Arena, Elam Hall and the McFarland Science Center. The campaign will take approximately three years to finish. “I look forward to getting together in three years to celebrate the campaign’s completion,” Lowry said. Additionally, the Lipscomb graduate school of business will be getting a new...
by Kathryn Farris | Jan 31, 2019 | News Slider
Lipscomb announced earlier this week the appointment of Dr. Al Sturgeon, a former Dean of Students and Dean of Graduate Programs at Pepperdine University, as the new Vice President of Student Life. Sturgeon’s appointment follows the departure of Scott McDowell. McDowell served as Lipscomb’s Vice President of Student Life from 2014 until last summer, when he took the same position at Abilene Christian University. President Lowry spoke about the “rigorous search” for a new Vice President in a letter to Lipscomb faculty. “We did not rely on just those applying for the position but sought to contact all in the field who might be a strong fit for the position at Lipscomb,” Lowry said. In a letter to students, President Lowry spoke about what made Sturgeon stand out from the other candidates. “Dr. Sturgeon has a passion for Christian education and for impacting the lives of young people and views the role of the Student Life office as integral to the learning process,” Lowry said. Sturgeon currently serves as the preaching minister for University Church of Christ in Malibu, California, but he will be relocating to Nashville in March. In a personal blog post, Sturgeon discussed his upcoming career transition. “I am humbled and honored to serve in this important role and join the Lipscomb community, but it will be difficult to say goodbye to the Pepperdine community that has been our family for the past eleven years,” he said. “But for my sweet wife and I, it is very clear that we have been called to another stage of this pilgrimage called life. I can say that a decision ‘has never been...
by Maria Morales | Jan 30, 2019 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s Student Government Association recently welcomed its new members for the semester. Six students became new senators of the committees that form SGA. Students that were chosen are now part of the four main areas that SGA focuses on, including communications, spiritual, academic and social. Even though SGA does not choose news member each semester, new positions are occasionally offered due to other members leaving due to graduation or study abroad trips. Student body president Sierra Sparks said some students were already showing their interest in joining SGA last semester. “The first week of school I had people coming up to me saying ‘hey if you have vacancies for the spring semester I would love to be considered,'” she said. “We got a handful of those [this semester], which that never really happens.” After sending a campus-wide email, SGA received forty applicants for the six open positions. They eventually narrowed their search and settled on six new members, including one freshman and five sophomores. Get to know the newcomers below: Freshman Madelyn Ford, Youth Ministry major The reason why Ford wanted to join SGA is its “sense of community.” Ford sees this opportunity to get to know more people at Lipscomb that she wouldn’t get to know otherwise. After applying for SGA without a freshman vacancy, Ford had worked with the Spiritual committee to plan the women’s retreat. She experienced the opportunity to foster more spiritual development among the student body, which was what she described as something she was called to do. After changing her major to Youth Ministry, she didn’t know she was passionate about that, and SGA gave provided that...
