by Colleen Casner | Apr 27, 2016 | News Slider
Sigma Omega Sigma and Delta Omega won Male and Female Clubs of the Year at a reworked Greek Life Awards ceremony in Allen Arena Tuesday night. Styled in the form of an awards show, the event featured food, entertainment and eight new award categories in addition to Male Club of the Year and Female Club of the Year. Previous awards ceremonies were titled the Greek Life Appreciation Awards and were held in Collins Alumni Auditorium. Senior and former Pi Delta president Lauren Cassetty helped plan the ceremony along with Sam Parnell and Laurie Sain. “Last year we had an event in Collins Auditorium, which was great, but because Greek Life is in Collins a lot with Singarama and Stompfest and the Cowboy Show, we thought it would be a great idea to go bigger and better and Allen is just a venue that is different from what Greek Life is used to,” Cassetty said. Cassetty, Parnell and Sain also created the list of eight new awards to highlight the accomplishments of the social clubs that go beyond Club of the Year. “We wanted a more awards-style presentation,” Cassetty said. “Part of being in Greek life, there’s several qualifications that you have to reach. There’s a jersey or having a philanthropy and raising money and being involved at intermurals and so I thought it would be a great way to not just award the Club of the Year but also give individual awards to several clubs based on their accomplishments throughout the year.” Delta Omega president Natalie Perry enjoyed the changes made to the event but also enjoyed the way...
by Colleen Casner | Apr 23, 2016 | News Slider
During Sexual Assault Awareness Week, students had the opportunity to share their thoughts and personal stories about sexual assault. One of the ways was through the prayer walk Thursday night. Graduate student Pieter Valk, who helped plan the prayer walk, explained the purpose behind the event. “So the big hope with this Take Back the Night event was a first step in giving students a public way to share about their experiences, share about their thoughts and even their anger, their sadness around this, and around the brokenness of our society with this,” Valk said. “And then a way for us to take action even more and to go across campus and pray for this, as you can imagine, like spots of little hallowed ground across campus where we can ask for God’s blessing on this campus and the work that’s being done.” Valk said he was pleased with how the event turned out. “I think we were hoping that it would be a small group of students that really wanted to be here and that would really engage and share about their experiences and really take part in the prayer and we’re really happy that there was that participation,” he said. The event was the culmination of Lipscomb’s first Sexual Assault Awareness Week, in which a team of students led by Lipscomb Title IX coordinator Kathy Hargis sought to make students aware of the resources Lipscomb provides to survivors and bystanders of sexual assault and to raise students’ awareness of the problem. “The whole issue of Title IX on college campuses has been really huge, really in the last...
by Colleen Casner | Apr 16, 2016 | News Slider
On Friday evening the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new wing of the McFarland Science Center honored the ways the Lipscomb science department has inspired students to help others. Former Lipscomb student and current biology department chair Dr. Kent Gallaher spoke about how his relationships with his Lipscomb professors inspired him to return to Lipscomb to teach. He concluded his remarks by celebrating the new wing’s role in the science department’s mission to educate and to inspire. “As we have grown, as the school has changed, as our standing in the academy has improved, one thing remains the same: we are affecting and transforming lives. And that is what this building will let us do,” Gallaher said. In addition to Gallaher’s speech, the ceremony featured former chemistry department chair Dr. John Netterville, Lipscomb graduate and otolaryngologist Dr. John Little, and current Lipscomb senior Hannah Stephen in a panel discussion about the past, present and future of Lipscomb’s science department. Little and one of his former patients spoke about a cochlear implant surgery that restored the patient’s hearing and has allowed her to graduate from her local public school. Hannah Stephen discussed how the mentorship she has received through the Lipscomb biology department has inspired her and has helped her in her path to graduate school. “At how many schools, how many universities do you think you could walk into the chair of the department of biology’s office in the middle of the summer in the morning and have them sit down with you and talk through all of your life goals. So that’s what I did last summer with...
by Colleen Casner | Mar 26, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
The Department of Theatre, College of Engineering and Department of Fashion and Design collaborated to produce an exhibit of works by the fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston. Halston was a preeminent fashion designer in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s who designed clothes for stars such as Lauren Bacall and Liza Minnelli. Lipscomb fashion professor Katy Bates said he was an important American designer. “He was kind of a forerunner in what he did,” Bates said. “He always was forward thinking in his collaborations and in doing a lower price line with J. C. Penney. He was one of the first to do that. The first to use a black model on a runway. He did a pillbox hat that Jackie Kennedy wore. He’s just got a lot of significant historical events and firsts.” The exhibit features several garments displayed on a revolving stage surrounded by fashion photographs projected onto the walls with theatrical lighting. On top of the stage are several mannequins dressed in brightly colored gowns and pantsuits. And the stage itself was designed by five mechanical engineering students as their senior projects. Senior Gabriela Barboza designed the panels and some of the lower portions of the stage. She had been working on designing the stage last semester. “My biggest takeaway would be just being able to think about the actual manufacturing process,” Barboza said. “You can design it one way, but you always have to think about how it’s going to be built actually.” The garments on the rotating stage are only a small portion of a collection of Halston’s work that Lipscomb owns. The entire...
by Colleen Casner | Mar 6, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
After four performances and many hours of hard work, Delta Sigma, Delta Nu, Theta Psi, Phi Sigma and friends took home the Singarama Sweepstakes Award for their show, “The Best Day of Your Life” Saturday night in Collins Alumni Auditorium. The group also won the music category on Friday night and the staging category on Saturday afternoon. “The Best Day of Your Life” starred junior acting major and Theta Psi member Nelson Tilley as an anxious wedding planner faced with multiple mishaps on the day of a wedding. Tilley said he was ecstatic after the big win. “It’s an incredible experience,” Tilley said. “We’ve put so much hard work into it — just as every other club did. Words cannot express how happy I am.” As a first-time Singarama participant, Tilley said he enjoyed getting to know people from the other social clubs in the group. “I kind of equated Theta Psi and Phi Sigma’s relationship at the beginning to, like, a middle school dance,” Tilley said. “We were scared of them — they were scared of us. But I think we just love each other, and it’s just great to be part of such a loving group.” Junior Emily Ann Ray directed the winning group. The Phi Sigma member has participated in Singarama twice before this year, but this year was her first time as director. Ray said she was thrilled that her group’s hard work paid off in a win. “It made everything really worth it,” Ray said. “But I think that it was great after putting so much work into it — not just me, but our...
