by Erica Aburto | Nov 22, 2011 | News Slider, Opinion
People will wake up before dawn Friday to get a head start on Christmas shopping, and Lipscomb students are no exception. Heck, some have even been camping outside the Best Buy and other “big box” stores for days before Thanksgiving. Ahhh the hallmarks of the holiday season: leaves falling off trees, the ubiquitous smell of pumpkin pie and apple cider, get-togethers and awkward small-talk with distant relatives, and the plethora of food that calls for elastic waistbands.The holiday season is also that time of the year where rules are bent. This isn’t more true than during Black Friday, when millions of people get an early start on their holiday shopping by waiting in lines, for hours at a time, in order to get discounts that more sane people likely will be able to get later. It’s common to see people fight for the same item, cut in line, kick, shove and elbow each other in order to get their items. Fortunately, here are some tips from Lipscomb students in order to avoid disaster and make sure your shopping is as pleasant and safe as possible. 1.) “Get there earlier than they open… make sure to eat and stay hydrated, and be careful of all the other shoppers that may knock you down or steal your items,” said Haleigh Seifert, a junior nursing major. 2.) “From personal experience I think people really need to price check different places. Last year me and my uncle went to three different places looking for the same TV. At the last stop (Costco) we found it for $30 cheaper,” said Josh Asres, a sophomore...
by Emily Snell | Nov 18, 2011 | News Slider
The seventh annual Lighting of the Green will begin Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 4 p.m. with an outdoor concert hosted by Amy Grant starting at 5:30 p.m. The event will begin with the Merry Marketplace in Allen Arena Mall, which features holiday vendors who donate a portion of profits to Lipscomb scholarships. Stephanie Davis, a junior from Farmer City, Ill., said she loves the annual holiday event. “I think it’s an awesome experience,” said Davis, a physical education and health major. “It just really brings the students together and the community together to celebrate the Christmas cheer. We have some awesome singers and special people. It’s just a special time. I love it.” As usual, free photos with Santa will be available in the campus center. This year’s concert will feature Amy Grant, Point of Grace, Melinda Doolittle, Jenny Gill, Sterling Glittens, Gene Miller, Lipscomb student choruses, Lipscomb University brass quintet and opera singer Amanda McCaslin accompanied by Jim Dausch. Isaac Reser, a theology major, had positive comments about the annual tradition. “I always enjoy Lighting of the Green. It is certainly one of those times where it makes it really pleasant to walk up and down toward Ezell,” said Reser, who is from Atlanta, Ga. “And I really like that they use environmental friendly lights out there that use less energy. That’s a change that they’ve made that really reflects student opinion in the past couple of years. I think that’s really cool that that’s somewhere they’ve been willing to change what they’re doing. “I would ask how we can make it more environmentally friendly because it still uses...
by Kathryn Claire Watts | Nov 18, 2011 | News Slider
On Nov. 14, Lipscomb’s College of Arts and Sciences and College of Business hosted the first ever Professional Women’s Event entitled “How to Project a Professional Image.” The event, held in Shamblin Theater, offered female students the chance to network with Lipscomb alumna and other business leaders around the community. Mila Grigg, the owner of Moda Image Consulting located in Green Hills, gave a keynote address. After Grigg’s presentation, female students modeled some of the latest fashions in professional wear from Dillards department store. Grigg spoke to the audience about the importance of a woman’s appearance in her professional life and even more importantly about the first impression she makes on a future employer. “In the world of instant destruction and instant reward, it’s about being the best you can be to the potential employer,” said Grigg. “We are first seen, not heard, so as silly as it may sound, what you look like is crucial. The key to finding what fits you best is finding your personal brand and take the responsibility to emanate what’s on the inside.” Grigg also talked about personal success and how when people dress well, they feel good, and when they feel good, they produce good things. By dressing to a level of success, it is possible to inspire others. The main focus of the night was to encourage students to dress the part when interviewing for internships or jobs for the first time. “Your clothes say, ‘What you see, is what you get,’” Grigg said. “If you can look the part, the interviewers will say, ‘She’s probably capable of what she looks like.’”...
by Hunter Patterson | Nov 18, 2011 | News Slider
The Internet is changing…sort of. Earlier this year one of the biggest blogging sites, Tumblr, starting adding the infinite sign to the beginning of its URLs because it had ran out of numbers. Now, the Internet is adding domains with the suffix “.xxx” specifically for pornographic sites. The change has sparked universities across the nation to buy up their respective domains, protecting their names from being tarnished. The URLs are coming cheap now, too. Both Vanderbilt and the University of Tennessee and Knoxville bought their addresses for less than $200 each. Vanderbilt registered “vanderbilt.xxx” and four other domain names: “commodores.xxx,” “vandy.xxx,” “vanderbiltuniversity.xxx” and “vanderbiltcommodores.xxx.” Not Lipscomb, though. Other schools and big businesses are buying up the domains quickly, sparking the launch of the .xxx top-level domain. The domains will become available to public within the next month. Per usual, though, those with trademarks got the first chance to purchase the URLs and safeguard them. Lipscomb has decided not to purchase the domains, no matter the price, because the “.xxx domain is intended for material that is counter to any university’s mission,” said Kim Chaudoin, director of university communication and marketing at LU. Chaudoin said there are two schools of thought among institutions of higher education. “One is that an institution would reserve the domain to protect its trademark and brand identity,” she said. The other is that the domain is not intended for the university and does not represent what the university was founded upon. Vanderbilt would be in the first school of thought. Maggie Huckaba, the university’s diretor of trademark licensing, told The Tennessean Vanderbilt wanted to trademark...
by Hunter Patterson | Nov 18, 2011 | News Slider, Opinion, Sports
This week, Madeline and Wade bring you the news from Lipscomb. They tell you all about Anteaters Ball, Stomp Fest and more. Caitlin Selle has all the gossip from the entertainment world, Sydney will let you know how much you need to bundle up over Thanksgiving break and Kelly fills you in with everything going on in the sports world. Please upgrade your...
