by Whitney Jarreld | Jun 3, 2011 | News Slider
For those who are not from Tennessee or old enough to remember, cicadas can seem like a plague of locusts. Every 13 years, Tennessee, along with 13 other states, experience an invasion of cicadas. While these insects are not related to locusts, they still can reek a havoc of annoyance. The majority of their life cycle is lived underground after they hatch from the eggs that the females lays into bark. Along with other noises, mating calls are produced by the males, called imagos, and sometimes multiple males join together for a chorus. They can reach around 100 decibels of noise. The cicadas make noise by using instruments called tymbals that are located on their abdomens. What makes the cicadas so loud? Their bodies are used as resonance chambers, amplifying the sound to deafening levels. Do not go outside and try and mow the lawn, either. You will more than likely be swarmed by the red-eyed creatures if you try and cut your grass. Cicadas are attracted to noises made my lawnmowers and other machinery because it is similar to their sounds. Their constant flying around and landing on or flying into people is just an annoyance. If one lands on someone it is just because they need a place to land. There is no real damage that can be done to people and their pets. If a pet eats a cicada there is no need to worry, it will most likely just give it a stomach ache. The torture is almost over, though. Cicadas only hang around the Nashville area for four to six weeks. If that timeline holds true,...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 18, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
“What is a winner? Someone who wins everyone contest, but there is not anyone like that. A winner is someone that never lets a failure or a loss be his or her final destination.” Those were some of the encouraging and inspiring words spoken by Mike Krzyzewski at the Third Annual Don Meyer Evening of Excellence held on Saturday night. Better known as Coach K, Krzyzewski has won four NCAA Championships as the head basketball coach at Duke. Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001, Coach K boasts the most wins in NCAA Tournament history with 78. Saturday, though, he was not coaching the Blue Devils to victory in Cameron Indoor. He was instead being introduced by fellow Hall of Famer Don Meyer to speak in Allen Arena. University president Randy Lowry started off the evening welcoming the sold out crowd to Allen Arena. Lowry also highlighted the several accomplishments that Lipscomb’s athletic program had achieved over the calendar year. Following a short video, athletic director Philip Hutcheson took the stage and talked about the impact that Don Meyer left on him and the campus. On the stage next was former Lipscomb basketball coach Don Meyer. Coaching at Lipscomb from 1975-1999, Meyer led Lipscomb to victory 665 times. The Evening of Excellence is not only named after Meyer, but it embodies his character as well. Better known as Coach, he boiled the game of basketball down to the ‘little things.’ “Everyone makes notes, everyone says yes ma’am and no ma’am, and everyone picks up trash,” Meyer said. Unable to attend last year’s event because of scheduling conflicts,...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Apr 15, 2011 | News Slider
UPDATE : A statement from President Lowry on the tree removal. Please upgrade your browser After two weeks of rain and windstorms, with gusts measuring in excess of 50 miles-per-hour, Lipscomb is forced to say goodbye to some beloved trees. On Friday afternoon, April 15, campus safety and security personnel began a second round of trim work on the “wishbone tree.” Storms from this past Monday and April 4 caused many large branches to fall from the tree, and campus safety cut down many of the branches in danger of falling as a safety precaution. Click here to view video footage of campus safety trimming the tree earlier this week. Student Government Association President Jackson Sprayberry confirmed that this, the “wishbone tree,” and the other larger tree in Bison Square will be “coming down soon.” Sprayberry sent this email out to the student body this afternoon, offering explanation and future plans for Bison Square: “While we often become uneasy in accepting big changes, it is necessary for the tree in Bison Square to come down. The tree is over-matured, disease-ridden, and nearly rotten. Pieces of the tree have been crashing to the ground in every storm we have had this season, thus creating a heightened concern for student safety. But don’t fret! Your Student Government has already made plans to implant two maple trees in the square that, in a few short years, will provide increased shade from the current trees and also provide beautiful, colorful foliage each Autumn.” Students seem upset about the trees they’ve come to know and love being chopped down. Senior family relations major...
by Whitney Jarreld | Feb 24, 2011 | News Slider
Think Pink was an all day event, raising awareness of breast cancer, and culminating with a Lady Bisons basketball game. The entire day, Lipscomb had ‘Think Pink’ themed giveaways and activities. Prizes such as an iPad and movie tickets were given away, and students even received a chapel credit for attending the game. At the doors money was raised for breast cancer research, though the night was not meant solely for this purpose. This was also senior night for the Lady Bisons. Jenna Bartsokas, Miaca Bowman and Valerie Bronson were the honored seniors. USC Upstate began scoring early, but the Lady Bisons came back in quickly in the first half to challenge them. By the end of the first, the Lady Bisons had the slight advantage of 33-28. The begining of the second went well for the Lady Bisons holding, USC Upstate to a with a 10-point lead. But Upstate came back with vengeance on a 17-2 run with 7 minutes left in the game. The Lady Bisons recovered and the score was close-knit until the final minutes where Upstate toppled over the Lady Bisons 81-76. Please upgrade your browser Photo Credit: Hunter Patterson & Whitney...
by Hunter Patterson | Jan 26, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
Respect, bragging rights, an undefeated record and an entire boulevard were at stake on Tuesday night when the Battle of the Boulevard went down inside Allen Arena. Coming off of a big win against USC Upstate, the Bisons had all the confidence in the world that they would be able to improve since the last time they faced the Bruins. The Bisons lost that game 88-52 less than two weeks ago. With the deck stacked against them coming into the game and for much of the first half, the Bisons were able to rally from an 18-point deficit with 24 minutes left in the game. “For the first 16 minutes, we were not very good,” Coach Scott Sanderson said. “We didn’t do anything we wanted to do offensively and defensively. I was extremely aggravated at our players.” In the last four minutes of the first half, the Bisons started their run. Trailing 38-20, the Bisons cut it to 40-31 with an 11-2 run that re-energized not only the team but the fans as well. Luckily for Sanderson, the Bisons did not stop their scoring when the half ended. The Bisons came out red-hot and outscored their cross-town rivals 42-24. “To come back from an 18-point deficit says even more about the resiliency of our players,” Sanderson said. “But it is one game with nine more games to go. We have 32 days to keep getting better until March gets here.” After the game at Belmont earlier this month, some questioned if Lipscomb center Adnan Hodzic was outmatched by Belmont big men Mick Hedgepeth and Scott Saunders. The Bosnian native...
