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by Hunter Patterson | Mar 8, 2012 | News Slider
Around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, the High Rise dormitory on Lipscomb’s campus was evacuated after a pipe had burst on the first floor. As of 7:47 a.m., High Rise has reopened to residents. All classes at the university are cancelled until this evening. The 5:00 p.m. block of classes will take place as scheduled. President Dr. Randolph Lowry says he was informed of the situation around 3:30 this morning. “I am so pleased how our campus has responded to it,” Lowry said. “This is a very complex campus. Students have been great. Very sorry to mess up their night, but we will have free Starbucks in the campus center for all High Rise residents.” “The key administrators were here quickly,” he said, “and we believe we have covered the contingencies and will be back to normal shortly.” From Lipscomb’s main website: Update 6:25 a.m. At 1:45 a.m. this morning a water pipe near High Rise Dormitory ruptured and has affected water service to parts of campus and will continue to do so at points during the day as we work to resolve the issue. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. For the safety and comfort of our students we are making the following accommodations: University classes are cancelled until 5 p.m. Evening classes will take place as scheduled. High Rise residents will be able to retrieve necessary belongings on an escorted and as-needed basis. Faculty/Staff offices are open. Employees are to report to work as usual. Please note: When the total water system comes back on, fire alarms will be activated. To guarantee safety, please observe fire safety...
by Cory Woodroof | Mar 8, 2012 | News Slider
To honor those who both attend Lipscomb and have served our country in the past ten years, Charlie Daniels returned to Lipscomb Tuesday night to headline the third annual concert benefitting the campus’ Yellow Ribbon program. Founded in 2009, the Yellow Ribbon program helps post 9/11 GI Bill veterans to obtain an education for little-to-no charge on their behalf at Lipscomb University. The current program currently offers more than 150 veterans the chance to attend the university. Daniels expressed enthusiasm in getting another opportunity work with the program. “I can’t think of a bigger honor or a more necessary thing to do than to try to take care of people who have literally gone out and stood between us and the enemy,” Daniels said. “I think that a lot of our servicemen and women have changed their dreams in midstream. Maybe they had something planned to do when they came back from the service that injuries may have precluded them to do, and this program helps prepare them for the rest of their lives. So, I don’t think we can ever do enough for our service people.” The musician has a long history of holding servicemen and women in a very high regard.Daniels said that “you cannot beat the people in our military.” Daniels was very excited to play in front of a large crowd in Allen Arena Tuesday night and was not hesitant in saying so. “It’s like when I hit stage, a crowd is a crowd and a show is a show, and I’m there to give everything all I’ve got,” Daniels said. Daniels also offered...
by Cory Woodroof | Mar 7, 2012 | News Slider
This past Friday, Lipscomb students were given a rare treat. Mat Kearney, best known for hit songs “Nothing Left to Lose”, “Undeniable” and more recently, “Ships in the Night” and “Hey Mama”, headlined the free SGA-sponsored spring concert alongside Kiernan McMullan in Alumni Auditorium. Kearney, a resident of Nashville, offered insight into his past, his music, his faith and his love of everything Lipscomb. A native of Eugene, Ore., Kearney’s found his musical influence from A Tribe Called Quest, Bob Dylan and Weezer. Growing up, any sort of hip-hop music caught Kearney’s attention. In college, Kearney started to write his own music. “I would steal my roommate’s guitar and go sit on the front porch, and I was so bad at covering other people’s music that I would just start writing my own songs.” Everything changed when Kearney helped a friend move to Nashville. As a junior soccer player at the University of California State, Chico, Kearney agreed to help a friend drive to Tennessee. “We drove across country in the summer in our un-air-conditioned Chevy S-10 and got to Nashville. And by the end of the summer, I was hanging out at Fido; that was it,” Kearney said. “I was like ‘I’m not going back. I’m not going home’.” Kearney, who had just started to record music here in town, saw that Nashville was the place to be. “I just called home and said ‘I’m moving to Nashville’.” Kearney, a Christian, wants his faith to play a major part his music. “I think my faith is a huge part of what I do,” Kearney said. “Being a Christian,...
by Emily Snell | Mar 5, 2012 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s faculty hopes to bring new perspectives to their classrooms this spring as the university recognizes the opening of Faculty Club 1891 and its discussion series Carpe Discentes. The club is located in the upper level of the student center and is designed to allow faculty to engage in meaningful discussions that will improve their teaching in the classroom and help them implement new methods with their students in the community. Dr. Jim Thomas, assistant to the president and a committee member for Faculty Club 1891, said he thinks the new facility and discussions will benefit the university, the students and the city. “We move from simply an intellectual challenge to an implementation in society that makes society better than it was previously,” he said. Thomas said the committee, which is comprised of six other professors, hopes the facility and the discussion series will challenge faculty to think “not only in academic terms but in implementation terms.” Then, he said, students learn how to apply concepts and how to assess community impact. This implementation benefits the whole city, he said. “We think it’s win, win, win, all the way around.” Thomas said he finds “tremendous enrichment” to education when professors and students take things out of the classroom, into the community and then bring it back to the academic setting for evaluation. Thomas said the committee chose the title Carpe Discentes, which means “seize the learning,” because the name “matches the tone and the level” they want Faculty Club 1891 to have. “I really hope that we can begin to create an atmosphere so that there is an interdisciplinary...
by Michael Fox | Mar 3, 2012 | News Slider, Sports
Brent High’s focus in the athletics department has shifted from sports information to spiritual formation. This was a welcomed change for the associate athletic director for spiritual formation because of his previous experience in youth ministry and working in non-profit organizations. After assuming the new responsibilities in October, High began taking steps to make sure team captains go through leadership training. The athletes also learn about a new chaplain program, mission trips, service opportunities, coach retreats and the school’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter. This past Christmas break High teamed up with Lipscomb’s mission director TJ McCloud to collaborate on a mission trip to Honduras for nine days. It was the first effort to mix multiple Lipscomb teams together to go on a mission trip. Ten men went on the trip, including McCloud and High as well as eight athletes who represented four different sports. The group worked together with Mission Lazarus to help in construction of a school and went to a village in Honduras and helped start building adobe brick houses. “The trip really had a huge impact on me,” said soccer player Kyle Erickson, one of two athletes who decided to be baptized while on the trip. “It made me realize how much God has really blessed me. Going from Honduras, seeing what those people have … how they were living with the small houses we built, to coming back to school and seeing everything that I have made me realize how much God has really blessed me.” “We knew going in we were going to help a lot of people, but at the same time...
