by Cory Woodroof | Apr 7, 2013 | News Slider
“No Day But Today,” the Singarama act composed of members of Delta Omega, Delta Xi, Gambda Lambda, Kappa Xi, Sigma Iota Delta and friends, swept this year’s competition awards, including claiming the highly coveted sweepstakes award. In its fiftieth year, Singarama took on the Timeless theme, with Yesterday, Today and Forever as the show’s group themes. The Today group took home the program’s top prize. During their Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows, the act, directed by senior David Grayson, won the theme, music and staging prizes before taking overall sweepstakes award on Saturday night. The winning act followed a family of four on a detoured vacation into a Southern town celebrating the arrival of a famous basketball player. The performance featured the group’s renditions of “Perfect Day,” “Mountain Music,” “Bring Me to Life,” “Payphone,” “Larger than Life,” “Seize the Day,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Finale B.” Grayson shared his excitement in the group’s big sweepstakes win Saturday evening. “We’re all pretty excited,” Grayson said. “We worked really hard to put the show together, and it’s had a great outcome.” The director of the winning show said he felt that the musical selection stood out. “I think the song selection was the best part of our show,” Grayson said. “Just the songs, and the quality and how our songs told a story is what I was most proud of from our show.” On Friday night, Grayson shared some thoughts about the group’s win in the music category, saying that the crowd’s reaction meant more to him than the awards. “I thought our energy maybe wasn’t as much as we could’ve given...
by Anne Paquin | Apr 5, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s eleventh installment of Lumination News, Jeremy Keck and Savanna Schubert are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Nick Glende brings you up to date with technology news, and Brynn Watkins gives the scoop on all things entertainment. Joe Sanderson updates you on the weather for this week and Kage Sanderson lets you in on all the sports news this week. This week’s newscast features the business department’s Entrepreneurship Week, a look into the 50th anniversary of Singarama, information on the gay marriage debate and insight into the cafeteria’s locally grown food. We also take a closer look at the upcoming international student fashion show, the brewing tension surrounding North Korea and last week’s Fight Night charity event hosted by Delta Tau, 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...
by Kyrsten Turner | Apr 3, 2013 | News Slider
Walk into the front door of The Well Coffeehouse and your attention might be drawn to the wall just left of the cashier. The thin wood shelving holds numerous bags of brightly colored coffee with names of foreign countries in bold across the label. The coffee is Just Love Coffee, and it’s packaged right here in Tennessee. Just Love Coffee Roasters is headquartered in Murfreesboro, but the company ships its products all over the nation. The local coffeehouse was started in 2009 by Lipscomb alumni Rob and Emily Webb. The Webb’s had just adopted two little girls from Ethiopia and had witnessed first hand the growing orphan crisis. Webb wanted to find a way to help other families through the adoption process, therefore, Just Love Coffee was born. Families who are adopting can set up a fundraising storefront through Just Love and receive a proceed of the items purchased through that storefront. Over the past few years, Just Love has expanded the fundraising program to help non-profits and other mission groups, giving over $250,000 to families and organizations across the United States. The hand-roasted artisan coffee is considered fair and sustainable. Fair, because the coffee farmers are paid a wage for their work, and sustainable because the coffee beans are harvested in such a way that protects the environment. But, you don’t always have to buy Just Love Coffee in a bag. The Well Coffeehouse, located right off of Richard Jones in Green Hills, brews Just Love Coffee in house. With a wide variety of roasts, from Cinnamon and American, to Full City and French, the blend of flavors...
by Cory Woodroof | Mar 29, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
On Thursday night, students packed the gym floor of the Student Activity Center to watch a few friends duke it out in the ring for Delta Tau’s Fight Night. The boxing event is the social club’s way to raise money for Youth Encouragement Services, an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of inner city children. For a $5 fee at the door, those in attendance surrounded the makeshift boxing ring to watch and cheer on their fellow Bisons through three rounds of boxing. Laced with gloves and wearing protective headgear, members of Delta Tau, Tau Phi, SID, Delta Nu and SOS (and even two independents) entered the ring to see who would be crowned the victor. Delta Tau member Evan Webb declared the group’s event a unique way to bring the Lipscomb community together. “It’s fun because it’s a little bit different than all the other events,” Webb said. “It’s the only event on campus like it.” In the night’s first fight, Delta Tau’s Tate Dalrymple took on Delta Nu’s Andrew Rios, with Dalrymple emerging the victor. To follow, SOS’s Andrew Gallaher defeated Delta Tau’s Geoff Patterson. Gallaher started the night off right for the social club, who went on to be undefeated for the evening. Other SOS wins included Tyler Hickey’s victory over independent fighter Aaron Schmelzer, Connor Ray’s victory over Delta Tau’s Ty Ragsdale and Austin Nichol’s victory over independent fighter Matthew Proctor. Gallaher said that the fight was challenging in the first round, but later efforts helped solidify his win. He expressed his enjoyment of the fighting experience. “It was a lot of fun,” Gallaher said....
by Janice Ng | Mar 29, 2013 | News Slider
The horrific rape and murder of a young woman last December in New Delhi sparked conversations and protests in favor of the rights of women globally. Lipscomb’s international students are in unique positions to examine women’s rights in the United States versus the rights in their homelands. Samha Siddiqui, a junior from Pakistan, said there is little similarity between what she experiences here as opposed to the experiences of women in her homeland. “In comparison to the U.S. where almost all women have protected rights, in Pakistan, especially in rural areas, even if they do have rights (and) even if the government does grant them, they are not protected,” she said. However, Siddiqui pointed out that Pakistan already had its first female prime minister. Benazir Bhutto took office in 1988 and was re-elected in 1993. Bhutto later was assassinated in 2007 after returning from years of exile to once again seek the nation’s top office. “Women do have rights that protect their opportunities for getting jobs in all kinds of fields, be it educational institutes, or banking or maybe the political offices,” Siddiqui said. Pipe Del Basto, a freshman from Colombia, provided a historical background on the escalation of feminism there. “A movement called feminism has been rising since before World War I, with women asking for the right to vote, the right to participate in politics, to get involved in public life,” Del Basto said. “When World War I came around, feminism took place, and, well, first of all, you have to understand what feminism is. Feminism is where they wanted the equality between genders. They didn’t want...
