by Jesica Parsley | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Helping the environment and saving people money with a new type of crocheting is Accounts Payable Clerk Ginger Santiago’s passion. Santiago acquired her crafting skills from family tradition and began crocheting in high school. Her mother paints and her grandmother knits, so Santiago picked up on crocheting. Santiago found a new form of crafting, called plarning, from searching on the internet. She thought it would help her create things for her grandchildren. “I knew I was going to make the grandkids stuff often, but I didn’t want to spend all the money at one time,” Santiago said. “Plarning is a free way for me to make whatever I want.” Plarning involves cutting plastic grocery bags into strings similar to yarn and then crocheting them together. Santiago says she has received many bags from her coworkers. “I got everyone in the office to bring me their grocery bags, which is when I really started having fun,” she said. Santiago says she did not realize until she made several items that she was recycling in a fun way. “Plarning is a free hobby that helps the environment as well, and it can’t get much better than that,” Santiago said. Santiago’s plarning helps save the environment and helps her customers save money. Santiago’s mother sells her own paintings, as well as Santiago’s plarning items. “Since the plastic bags are free, the items sell for just a few dollars, which helps a lot in today’s world,” Santiago said. Purses, coasters, sandals, cup holders and hats are just a few of the items that can be made through plarning. Since different stores have different color bags,...
by Cory Woodroof | Feb 8, 2013 | News Slider
SGA President Patrick Grace has confirmed a few major developments for Lipscomb students, including a potential breakthrough in the long-awaited possibility of off-campus dining. To start, Grace confirmed that there will indeed be a spring concert taking place this semester. “We have a spring concert. It should be in the middle of March,” Grace said. “We’ve got a band kind of in agreement in principle.” Grace says that SGA will make an announcement next week as to who will be playing as soon as it’s set in stone. The spring concert has long been a successful tradition at Lipscomb, with singer-songwriter Mat Kearney headlining the show last spring. Alongside the spring concert, the SGA will help sponsor a new edition of Tokens, a show founded by campus’ Dr. Lee Camp on March 7 in Alumni Auditorium. SGA is planning to release tickets for free to the student body. Grace described the show as “sort of a theological, variety, folk music radio broadcast.” SGA will be holding auditions for a student act to play during the show on Friday, Feb. 15, in the afternoon. The tryouts will be held in Ward Hall. “I’m looking forward to [the auditions] because we’ve got some real talent on campus,” Grace said. Off-campus meal plan in negotiations, could be ready for fall semester The SGA president said he and Dr. Scott McDowell,Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Campus Life, have been in negotiations with Sodexo and human resources to potentially create a plan that would allow for Lipscomb students to use their dining plan at off-campus locations. Grace said he has a level...
by Cory Woodroof | Jan 25, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s third installment of Lumination News, Brynn Watkins and Jeremy Keck are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Monaih Sam brings you up to speed with sports, Jessica Burke takes us around the world in a minute with the week’s top headlines, Ariel Jones has some insight on this week’s Presidential Inauguration and Madeline Smith delivers your weather forecast. This week’s newscast features a look into Nashville’s new status as the nation’s “It City,” a look at students participating in service events in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a look at campus’ recycling group EKO, some information on this weekend’s Anteater’s Ball, a look into Lipscomb’s Revenge of the Nerds video game tournament, some news on the big Singarama announcements, insight into March’s 2nd Annual Student Scholars Symposium, some insight into the upcoming golf season and some student opinions of Nashville’s winter weather. Be sure to stay tuned for future newscasts published every Friday here on...
by Cory Woodroof | Jan 11, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s first installment of Lumination News, Nicolette Carney and Jeremy Keck are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Ariel Jones brings you up to speed with sports, Jessica Burke gives the scoop on all things entertainment, and Brynn Watkins delivers your weather forecast. Videos feature a look into how Lipscomb students spent their winter break, highlights of Monday’s Bison basketball match-ups, an update on the new shuttle changes, interviews with a few Predators players and Coach Trotz concerning the recent end of the NHL lockout, a look into ‘senoritis,’ some information on Campus Recreation’s Get Fit initiative, information on AfterDark’s visit to campus, a look into campus’ recycling efforts, a few student opinions on why the Mayan’s supposed apocalypse didn’t happen, and our weekly Nashville Spotlight/Tweets of the Week. Be sure to stay tuned for future newscasts published every Friday here on...
by Nick Glende | Nov 15, 2011 | News Slider
America Recyles Day had eager participants at both David Lipscomb Elementary School and Lipscomb University today. E-waste — from cellphones to computers to batteries — and many other items were collected from 9 a.m to 2 p.m. Tuesday at David Lipscomb Elementary School. Student pharmacists from the Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy collected unused and out-of-date medications. It’s part of the lesson plan at David Lipscomb Elementary School, where third graders are studying the negative effects of medications that get into landfills and the water supply. The students capped off their study by coordinating a household and e-waste collection today. Throwing away trash has grown more complicated as awareness has been raised on the damaging effects of mercury, lead and arsenic on the environment. Throwing out household trash – including light bulbs, batteries or old electronics — has become much more complicated with various items needing to be disposed of in various locations around town. And now with more than 100 different pharmaceuticals having been detected in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and streams throughout the world, disposal of expired and leftover drugs has become an important issue. Pharmacists recommend that many drugs be returned at only designated “take-back” locations, but they are not often easy to find. “For years, pharmacists have instructed patients to flush leftover medications down the toilet, but now that practice is having ill effects on the nation’s water table,” said Ginger Reasonover, the science laboratory coordinator at the elementary school. In March 2008 the Associated Press found that 24 major metropolitan areas had trace amounts of drugs in their water supplies, meaning at least 41 million Americans had tiny levels of drugs...
