by Savanna Schubert | Feb 28, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
The Student-Athletic Advisory Committee is a group of athletes nominated by their teammates to represent the individual sports at Lipscomb. Each team is allowed to have two players per team. These athletes plan, run and work with different organizations to work on raising money for these specific charities. The group’s meetings are held once every two weeks at the Hall of Fame room in Allen Arena. At these meetings, members discuss issues going on with their teams and events that are happening or that should happen within the athletic department. The mission of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (NCAA SAAC) is to “enhance the total student-athlete experience by promoting opportunity, protecting student-athlete’s well-being and fostering a positive student-athlete...
by Kyrsten Turner | Feb 24, 2013 | News Slider
‘Honoring life by abolishing the death penalty’ was the motto students championed Saturday morning when discussing capital punishment. “One of the challenging things about justice is it has multiple parts,” said Lipscomb history professor Dr. Richard Goode. The 7th Annual Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty student conference was hosted yesterday by Lipscomb’s department of History, Politics and Philosophy. A TADP board member since 2011, Dr. Goode first joined the group in 1999. “The first thing I did when I got involved is I started visiting a guy on death row,” Goode said. “I visited him for 10 years. He eventually died from cancer.” Goode became involved after a former student told him about the group. Goode said he had been talking about issues of retribution, justice and reconciliation, but it wasn’t until his student told him about TADP that he decided to act on his feelings. “It stopped being an issue and became a very human concern,” Goode said. “It’s important to understand the policy and the practice, and the system and structures, because they are important. But, they’re important because they hit real people.” Students from across the state gathered for the conference in Ward Hall. Universities and colleges such as Belmont, Vanderbilt, Middle Tennessee State, Bell, Martin Methodist, Volunteer State and Lipscomb were all in attendance. The conference began with a short opener from Stacy Rector, who has been the executive director of TADP since 2006. Rector also serves on the national board of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty. Recognizing her audience did not have a unified opinion, Rector asked students to be...
by Brianna Langley | Feb 24, 2013 | News Slider
Caffeine addiction runs rampant in colleges and universities. College students, as well as the general population, tend to consume absurd amounts all throughout the day. Is this much caffeine dangerous? Can it really affect health in a negative way? According to Nancy Hunt, director of Lipscomb’s dietetics program, it...
by Cory Woodroof | Feb 22, 2013 | News Slider
SGA announced Thursday that pop group Walk Off The Earth will be headlining this semester’s spring concert. The concert will take place March 12 in Collins Alumni Auditorium. The show will be closed to the public, with Lipscomb students gaining free access through their ID cards. An exact start time is not set, but it will be an evening show, according to SGA. SGA is currently considering the option of having a student act serve as the show’s opener. Walk Off the Earth became famous for their cover performances posted on YouTube. The group’s rendition of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” currently has 146,315,524 views after being uploaded just over a year ago. Katie Underwood, SGA’s Student Life Committee Chair, helped arrange for the YouTube sensations to appear on campus. “SGA couldn’t be more excited to host Walk Off The Earth for this year’s spring concert,” Underwood said. “In past years, we have always had a more acoustic show with a singer/songwriter. “When I was told I was the one leading up the search for this year’s show, I knew I wanted something different. SGA came up with a list of over 40 options, and slowly, but surely, we started to narrow down that list.” Underwood hopes the band’s inclusion will be a fresh face in the long line of spring concert headliners (which, in year’s past, has featured Mat Kearney and The Civil Wars). “Walk Off The Earth is going to very different from anything Lipscomb has seen in the past. The band became famous through their outstanding covers on YouTube. When deciding on a band,...
by Anne Paquin | Feb 22, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s seventh installment of Lumination News, Savanna Schubert and Nick Glende are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Nicolette Carney brings you up to speed with sports, Jessica Burke fills you in on the week’s top world news headlines, Brianna Langley gives the scoop on all things entertainment and Kage Sanderson delivers your weather forecast. This week’s newscast features a look at a dual-enrollment student who doubles as an amateur storm chaser, important information on the dangers of caffeine addiction, a few interviews with student from Egypt, some insight into this month’s celebration of Black history month, a few spring fashion tips, a look at the Star Wars Night that was held at a recent Bisons basketball game, highlights of the baseball and soccer teams and information about this week’s “Now That You Ask” event, as well as our weekly Nashville Spotlight and Tweets of the Week. Be sure to stay tuned for future newscasts published every Friday here on...
