by Amy Estepp | Nov 1, 2010 | News Slider
A university that has received plenty of praise for other environmentally friendly efforts finally put into effect a campus-wide recycling program last week. Students and faculty are expressing satisfaction with what they’ve seen in the first week of the expanded — and expanding — program. Click here to see a video feature on the new recycling program. “I actually recycled for the first time last night,” said Kirk Averitt, a junior music major from Decatur, Ala. “Adding this to our already LEED certified buildings will make us more sustainable.” In fact, before the recycling was put into place, there were already plenty of green initiatives, like geothermal buildings, bike racks and tray-less dining here. But students pushed hard for recycling. Before recycling was introduced, many students would take their recyclables to the drop-off located at Hillsboro High School, just a few blocks from campus. Now Lipscomb students simply must take their recyclables down the hall of their residence halls. Jackson Sprayberry, student body president and Lipscomb senior, said that because so many students made the university aware of how important recycling is to them, the administration could not ignore the need for a recycling program. Scott McDowell, vice president for student development and dean of campus life, heard that need from the students. “Jackson resurrected [the issue of recycling] with a sense of urgency,” McDowell said. “Also, I had one of my freshman students, Ellie Stimax, who brought it back to me with urgency.” After 14 months of active pursuit for recycling from the SGA, receptacles were ordered on Oct. 20 and were in place three days later. Located in every residential hall, the bins are...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Oct 29, 2010 | News Slider
After exhausting all other avenues and waiting for a year and two months for recycling to hit Lipscomb, students decided on another route. Rumor had it that students were organizing a protest aimed at raising awareness to the need for recycling on Lipscomb’s campus. In response to that, Scott McDowell, vice president for student development and dean of campus life, and Jackson Sprayberry, SGA president, worked together to expedite the implementation of a recycling program in residence halls. This program has been a topic of discussion between campus life and SGA over the past year. But the fact that students were organizing a protest showed their passion about recycling and a commitment to making a recycling initiative successful on campus. Watch below for more. Click here for another story on Lipscomb’s new recycling program. Please upgrade your...
by Hunter Patterson | Oct 28, 2010 | News Slider
On Thursday, Nov. 4th, Lipscomb University’s Career Development Center will host the 2010 Job and Internship Expo. The exposition will provide students an opportunity to network with employers representing a large selection of organizations. Opportunities from summer internships to full-time positions will be available. Interested students should sign up to attend either the 1:30 or 2:30 expo in Ezell 301. To sign up, log in at Lipscomb.experience.com, click on “Job Fair” under the calendar section on the left side of the homepage, and select and sign up for the time slot that fits your schedule best. Please upgrade your...
by Rachel Carden | Oct 28, 2010 | News Slider
Tuesday, Oct. 26, President Randy Lowry welcomed students, faculty, and guests to Collins Alumni Auditorium to celebrate the completion of the final phase of Lipscomb 2010. This phase came in the form of the James D. Hughes Center, the new home of the Department of Art and the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering. “Because of generous donors, because of a visionary board, because of a tireless administration and an extraordinarily creative faculty, we can know wind up the Lipscomb 2010 plan,” Lowry said. The late James D. Hughes served as the Metro Schools’ director of art education for 30 years. His wife, Elizabeth, assisted Dr. Lowry with the ribbon cutting. Guest speakers included Susan H. Edwards, the executive director and CEO of the Frist Center, and Stephanie Valdez Streaty, senior manager of Philanthropy and Diversity of Nissan North America, Inc. Edwards thanked Lipscomb for its belief in the power of art while Streaty is excited to start impacting the community through a partnership between Lipscomb and Nissan. “We can’t be a fine liberal arts college if we don’t have excellent art, excellent music and excellent theater,” Lowry said. The new $4.1 million building includes studios for ceramics, drawing, painting and printmaking, a photography darkroom, an outdoor sculpture work space, and a gallery. Engineering students will enjoy updated technology systems and a number of brand new lab spaces including two LearnLabs, the first of their kind in Middle Tennessee. “After spending three years in the basement of McFarland, I am overjoyed to be in a brand new, sunlit building,” said Parker Loudermilk, a senior mechanical engineering major from Old Hickory,...
by Amanda McDowell | Oct 28, 2010 | News Slider
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 20, Lipscomb students walked away with much more than a chapel credit. After watching “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story” in Shamblin Theater, Cyntoia’s powerful life story came to light. The documentary on her life, made over a six-year period, tells of Cyntoia’s past. At 16 years old, Cyntoia Brown, a young woman with a troubled past, was forced to face the reality that the rest of her life would almost certainly be spent behind bars. Now, she is an inmate at the Tennessee Prison for Women and a participant in Lipscomb’s LIFE program. The program, which began in 2007, is dedicated to educating inmates to change their lives for the better. Brown was 16 when she killed Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old Nashvillian who picked her up while she was streetwalking at a Sonic Restaurant. Cyntoia had run away from home and was forced to work as a prostitute for a violent drug dealer. As a result, she encountered Allen on the night of Aug. 6, 2004. After riding with Allen back to his home, Brown began to fear for her safety. Allen had begun talking about guns and his time spent as an army sharp shooter, frightening comments that ultimately led Cyntoia to shoot Allen in the head. Her murder conviction at age 18 led her to the prison cell she now calls home. Cyntoia still claims that she shot Allen in fearful self-defense, after he allegedly reached for a gun. Her fate was then determined, despite family testimony from both her biological and adoptive mothers of a troubled and abusive childhood. Jurors still convicted...
