by Madalyn Chaffin | Jan 2, 2011 | News Slider
My quest for the best sushi in the Nashville area actually was born after a visit to a small spot in the Kroger shopping center on Franklin Road in Brentwood. It was there that I became a sushi devotee instead of one who refused to indulge. Peter’s Sushi, among the various restaurants that greet you when you go beyond the Chick-Fil-A, serves high-quality sushi. For many years, I refused to eat sushi. I simply didn’t like it, until I let my guard down at Peter’s. I have been a customer ever since. Peter’s is open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. -2:30 p.m. and then reopens from 5-10 p.m. The restaurant feels tight when it is busy, but the size of the crowd never affects the quality of service. Don’t be surprised if you see a celebrity dining with you. Many celebrities favor Peter’s, and head shots and autographs of various actors, musicians and other famous people cover the walls as evidence of their being there. The last time I visited Peter’s, I saw country music group Little Big Town. Peter’s makes the most common rolls, and their specialty rolls offer a variety of seafood and sauces. The California roll contains only crab so it is a safe choice if you don’t want to be adventurous. The basic composition of avocado and crab meat has a very distinct, but mild taste. The price for basic rolls vary yet are reasonable. To accompany your sushi, the regular wasabi and soy sauce are good, but I typically use spicy mayo. Also, Peter’s serves the best eel sauce, and I recommend that you try a roll or two in that sauce. Considering...
by Anastasia Sloan | Jan 2, 2011 | News Slider
As we are becoming a digital nation, there is much speculation over whether this will help or harm us. “Frontline” examined this topic on television, and it is something that ought to make us all think. Over the past few decades there has been a tremendous rise in digital involvement. Americans are constantly connected in some way. Whenever we can’t find an answer, we whip out our smart phones and google the answer. In fact, “google” is now an official word of our vocabulary. It can be used either in upper or lower case, as in “google” or “Google.” The Webster’s dictionary defines google by saying it is “a verb meaning: using the Google search engine to obtain information on the world wide web.” How did anyone ever function without such readily available materials the Internet provides? The downfall to having everything here and now is that we always expect it that way. People are becoming more impatient. Their attention spans are short lived. Children are relying on online games and media to hold their attention as opposed to playing outside or reading a book. Inside the classroom students expect learning to be game-oriented as opposed to a more traditional lecture style. Studies have shown that our quality of learning has decreased. College students are finding it harder and harder to succeed in a literature classes. When surfing the web, the brain is utilizing several parts and functioning at a fast rate. Therefore, when someone is constantly surfing the web they aren’t exercising their brain as they would when focusing on a single topic or reading a book. So as college students are assigned reading in...
by Anne Paquin | Dec 27, 2010 | News Slider
Nick Livingston knows the lifestyle of a student is far removed from the way he spent the past eight years before coming to Lipscomb. “I was in places like Iraq when I was your age,” Livingston said.”We were hungry, we ran out of food, bullets; you didn’t know if you would have anything to eat or drink the next day.” Livingston, who is at Lipscomb as a part of the Yellow Ribbon program to attract veterans, spent much of his youth at war. The program brought Livingston, now a sophomore Bible major, to Lipscomb the first year it was in effect in 2009. Veterans are able to come to school with G.I. Bill funding, but it’s not enough to cover Lipscomb costs, so the university picks up the remainder of the tuition. This year the Yellow Ribbon program participants nearly doubled in numbers, bringing more than 60 veterans and their families onto our campus. At 18, Livingston graduated from Cibola High School in Albuquerque, N.M., enlisted and left for basic training on May 30, 2001, months before the events of Sept.11 changed the world. He made a choice to sacrifice his youth because he believed in something. “I wanted to create a better world for my nieces and for my family to live in,” Livingston said. He was trained as an intelligence analyst and counter-terrorism specialist. During his eight year stint, Livingston was deployed on multiple tours, which included being in Korea for a year, Iraq for three years total and Afghanistan for eight months. “I don’t really think there are parallels (between Lipscomb and the Army), because you are coming from...
by Madalyn Chaffin | Dec 23, 2010 | News Slider
While the tree is often already packed up and the Christmas celebrating over by New Year’s here in the U.S., the festive season is just getting started in the Ukraine, according to a Lipscomb student who was born in that former Soviet republic. Christmas is not celebrated in the Ukraine, but they celebrate New Year’s in a way that seems like a mix of both holidays in the U.S., according to sophomore Nataliya Parahuz, who moved to the U.S. from the Ukraine when she was 12. While in the Ukraine, Parahuz and her family celebrated the traditional New Year’s by shooting fireworks at midnight. Every year, the Ukraine president comes on TV and gives a speech to encourage the people for a joyous New Year, just before the bells are rung 12 times, bringing cheers across the country. After the ringing of the bells, Santa comes and puts presents for the children behind the front door, according to Parahuz. The presents are opened up that night instead of having to wait until morning. When her family moved to the States, they celebrated both Christmas on Dec. 25 and Ukrainian New Year’s. “It was awesome getting double presents, but then my parents decided to stop that,” Parahuz said. “Now we get our presents on Christmas and still celebrate New Year’s the same way we did in the Ukraine, just without the...
by Tyler Lallathin | Dec 22, 2010 | News Slider
A big bowl of clam chowder. Watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. Piling into the family van and going on a trip. These are just some of the holiday traditions observed by students at Lipscomb University. “We would go on a family trip in place of getting a bunch of gifts,” says Eric Dickerson, a junior law, justice and society major from Huntsville, Ala. “When we put up all the Christmas decorations my family always watches A Charlie Brown Christmas,” says Juleen Stinson, a junior human resources major from Findlay, Ohio. Ah, but then there’s the soup. Or the clam chowder, rather, for Sarah Bailey, a junior marketing major from Philadelphia, Penn. “We all get together on Christmas Eve and eat clam chowder,” Bailey said. Some families, like junior nursing major from Cincinnati, Ohio Leanne Wright, simply enjoy going together to get the “perfect” tree. “We get a real tree, and then have Christmas Day at our house,” Wright said. AnnChristine Johnson, a junior psychology major from Nashville, also enjoys the tree selecting with her family. “We always pick out our tree and decorate it together,” Johnson said. “We always set up a mini-manger scene too.” Emily Nowers can’t think of Christmas without visions of a banjo playing in her head. No it’s not “Deliverance.” It’s the holiday spirit and a family tradition. “My family gathers around in my grandparents’ living room, and my uncles start playing their guitar and banjo,” said Nowers, a junior elementary education major from Nashville. “We all start singing along to Christmas carols, but we also sing some Johnny Cash songs and other favorites. It is a lot...
