by Hunter Patterson | Mar 14, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
It’s that time of the year again, March Madness. This time around, Lumination Network is giving you the chance to benefit from all the madness. All we ask you to do is send your Final Four picks to editor@luminationnetwork.com. After you have narrowed it down to four teams, pick your final two and a final score. The deadline for entry is March 23. The bracket can be viewed below. To get a larger view, simply open the image in a new window. Your entry should look something like this: Your name and classification: Ohio Sate, Duke, Kansas, Pitt Ohio State 74 – 67 Kansas What’s the prize if you win? Well, it’s a $25 iTunes gift card, of course! Not bad for filling out the final part of a bracket. Good luck, and remember to get your entries in to editor@luminationnetwork.com by March...
by Amy Estepp | Mar 14, 2011 | News Slider
They’ve gone to a village in Guatemala, an orphanage in Mexico, New York City and points between and beyond. As usual, many Lipscomb students, with faculty support, are spending their spring break helping people in different parts of the world and also growing. Every year students, faculty, staff and alumni join together to partner with Lipscomb’s mission initiatives. Lipcomb offers a variety of trips both international and domestic. Hundreds of Lipscomb affiliates are involved and hundreds of lives changed. This year, the mission efforts began even before spring break officially got under way. The first trip departed at dawn March 10, leaving from Nashville International airport en route to Guatemala. Jordan Lewis, a junior nursing major said that she wasn’t nervous, but just excited to take part in the medical mission trip located in the Ulpan Valley of Guatemala. The Chattanooga native is a rookie to medical missions, but she is not letting her inexperience get in the way. “I expect to help with medicines and playing with the kids, and helping with the doctors,” said Lewis. “Overall, I am most excited about seeing a different culture and being somewhere completely rural.” This is the 10th consecutive year for Lipscomb admissions recruiter, Josh Link, to serve the City of Children. The City of Children is an orphanage located in Ensenada, Mexico. After spending every spring break of his college years in Ensenada, Link is now the trip leader. But what keeps Link returning to the City of Children? “I am most excited about seeing the kid that I have a relationship with,” said Link. “There is a kid that...
by Leah Raich | Mar 11, 2011 | News Slider
Makeisha Seagraves says Lipscomb students have made a major difference in her life during her 10 years behind bars at the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPW). “The Lipscomb community has shown what true Christian love means,” Seagraves said. “They embraced me with open arms, never with a judging eye.” Seagraves is talking about what she has gained by studying alongside Lipscomb students who attend classes at the prison as a part of LIFE, Lipscomb Initiative for Education. The program gives students a chance to delve into both academics and service learning. Lipscomb history professor Richard Goode started this program with hopes that every student who attends Lipscomb would have the chance to take at least one class at the TPW at some point in his or her collegiate career. This spring semester, two classes are being offered: Society and the Law, as well as Disciplines of Christian Living. “This program and all involved have given me the strength to know that I am good enough to have a future,” says Tabitha, another inmate who believes her life was changed by LIFE. Ricki Adkins, a rising senior at Lipscomb University, spoke highly of the program. “As a student at Lipscomb, I am always looking for ways to better impact the surrounding community of Nashville,” Adkins said. “Prior to taking a class at the TPW this semester, I had no idea the place existed. Being a social work major, I have studied cases in which the U.S. criminal justice system often dehumanizes the incarcerated. “This experience has been life-changing, and I am so grateful to go to a school that provides...
by Ashlan Williams | Mar 11, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
With their first weekend of conference play tucked away under their belts, the Bisons and Lady Bisons tennis teams are preparing to face the Atlantic Sun’s top competitor, East Tennessee State University on at 1 p.m. Saturday in Johnson City. After picking up wins on both the men’s and women’s side in their opening weekend of A-Sun play, head coach Andrew Harris said the teams are working to improve for ETSU this coming weekend. “Both teams are looking forward to another conference weekend,” Harris said. “After the matches against Mercer and Kennesaw State this past weekend, the teams recognize things we need to continue to work on as well as building on things we did well. Both ETSU’s men’s and women’s teams ranked first in the A-Sun preseason poll and pose a tough challenge for the Bisons and Lady Bisons this weekend. And with Spring Break just around the corner, Johnson City will be the teams’ first stop out of a series of three road matches. Harris said ETSU will bring strong competition to begin their road play. “ETSU has restructured their coaching staff similar to ours this past summer with Yaser Zaatini now overseeing both teams,” Harris said. “Their women’s program last year lost to UNF in the A-Sun finals, and their men’s program has annually been one of the more consistent teams in the country the past five years. This will be our first of three road matches over the next week, so we know we will have our work cut out for us come Saturday.” The women, coming off a successful weekend, picked up their first...
by Lauren Edwards | Mar 10, 2011 | News Slider
Stereotypically, college students use spring break as an excuse to travel south for sand, swimming and sun.But this year, due to the economy and other concerns, Lipscomb students are looking at different options to fill that one-week break before buckling down for the home stretch toward finals. “I was going to go to Florida with some friends,” explains Alli Arms, a senior psychology major from Murfreesboro, Tenn. “But the economy has impacted my family greatly the last three years. A couple hundred bucks for spring break wasn’t an option.” Arms is hardly alone. However, she is making the best of it by using the break to teach a high school psychology class, which she sees as a great chance for experience for her future. Another student whose more adventurous plans were curtailed by the economy and gas prices, Lindsay Lamparyk, a freshman fashion merchandising major, is headed home. Back among her friends and family in Cleveland, Ohio, she’ll enjoy their company and take part in the big St. Patty’s Day festivities downtown. The rapidly increasing gas prices have not made traveling of any easier either. According to the Energy Information Administration’s website, gasoline prices are due to increase 13.4 percent from last year. “I found an upperclassman that is going to drive me to Columbus, and a friend will pick me up from there,” Lamparyk said. Even those who were able to fly to their destinations still see the effect the increased fuel and ticket prices has on their friends. “My friends cannot go on spring break,” said Joey Chiapetta, a freshman exercise science major from New Berlin, Wis....
