by Monaih Sam | Oct 25, 2013 | News Slider
As October comes to an end, Halloween isn’t the only thing on the mind of Lipscomb students. Many highly anticipated events are returning this fall and promise to bring even more fun and excitement. Paint the Herd returned Friday, Oct. 25, in it’s fourth year under the sponsorship of the Lipscomb Student Government Association. Student Activities Director Louis Nelms said Paint the Herd started his junior year in 2010 at Lipscomb University, and it has been a hit every year since. “It’s one of Lipscomb’s bigger events,” Nelms said. “There is always several hundreds of people there. It’s going to be one students talk about for a while. It’s one that students look forward to all year.” “It’s fun, it’s this Friday, and it’s going to be a blast,” he added. Paint the Herd isn’t the only exciting event that has been planned. The always popular annual dodge ball tournament put on by Campus Ministry is also just around the corner. This years ninth annual tournament is comes back to campus on the first of November in Bison Square. “It started off as just a goofy event for people to dress up around Halloween and play dodge ball and it sort of evolved into this massive celebration of what I think is the Lipscomb culture,” Nelms said. “I always tell people there is two ways to win dodge ball. One, you can win the actual tournament and you take a trophy home, but no one remembers you. Two, you can have the best costume and everyone remembers you.” If getting paint on your body or getting hit by dodge...
by Monaih Sam | Oct 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you spend time in the Lipscomb administration office, studied abroad recently or have a passion for fashion, you know Alisha Robinson. Robinson is a Lipscomb Senior from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada who is double-majoring in Textiles and Apparel and Fashion Merchandising. It may be a long title, but clothing and textiles studies involve more than just designing clothing. Students also learn how to create a product that consumers will want to purchase. Plus they learn how clothing is designed, created, advertised and sold. “I spend a lot of my time sewing and doing crafty things,” Robinson said. She is focused on costume design and has dreams of winning an Oscar one day for costume design in a movie. “I enjoy the creativity and I enjoy people being able to reflect their personalities through clothing,” Robinson said. “I buy the majority of my clothes from the thrift store and I sew them or change them to fit me or to be something different.” Robinson says Canadians are a bit different than the United States when it comes to fashion sense. And though she doesn’t consider herself a fashionable person, she does have some fashion advice for Lipscomb students. “The guys who wear the sunglasses with the elastic strap on the back drive me crazy,” Robinson said. “Camo is never a good fashion pattern. If you’re out hunting, that makes sense. If you’re walking on campus, that doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing to hunt.” Guys who wear short pastel shorts and girls who wear heels to class are also a fashion “no-no” for Robinson. The future fashion merchandiser urges students to...
by Monaih Sam | Oct 10, 2013 | Opinion
I like to call Christian rap “lyrical theology.” So much music in today’s world rely on catchy hooks and a beat you can bounce to, but they lack sustenance or meaning. For many years, Christian rap was the total opposite. Artists’ produced songs with meaningful messages, but the production and quality failed to reach the ears of the hip-hop nation. This year’s crop of Christian hip-hop and rap artists have finally put it all together. Here are the nominees for this year’s Dove Awards for Rap/Hip-Hop album and song of the year: Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year Manafest – Fighter Fighter is the Canadian rapper’s sixth full-length album. If you like rap or hard rock, you will enjoy Fighter. I wasn’t really impressed with this album, but it is very encouraging and loud album for when you need a “wake me up.” The album is more rock then rap, laced with screaming, guitar and electronic sounds. Rap rock isn’t represented well in Christian music, so mad props to Manafest on this album. KJ-52 – Dangerous KJ-52 has been in the game for a long time and is arguably the most polarizing figure in Christian rap. Dangerous is a mixture of different styles and techniques from rock-rap to electro-pop and traditional hip-hop sounds. KJ-52 uses his quirky and self-deprecating sense of humor, combining his personality with his particular style of evangelism in Dangerous, which is sure to please hip-hop fans alike. Andy Mineo – Heroes For Sale This is one of my favorite album titles, and the album goes along with it. Mineo is a rapper who embraces many genres without...
by Monaih Sam | Sep 19, 2013 | News Slider
Working with inmates is a natural fit for Lipscomb alum Scott Pieper. After graduating in 2012 with a degree in social work, Pieper is now working to help former inmates integrate back into society. “Dismas is family.” This is the slogan residents, staff members and volunteers live by at the Dismas House. The Dismas House is a transitional housing program on a mission to facilitate the reconciliation of former prisoners to society through supportive communities. That community consists of students and former prisoners living together in a family setting. Pieper interned with the Dismas House while attending Lipscomb University. After graduation, Pieper became the Executive Director. “Former inmates were one of the populations that I had identified with wanting to work with,” Pieper said. “It was a natural fit.” “My most important job is keeping everything we do focused on accomplishing the mission – organizing volunteer opportunities, arranging in-house programming and developing partnerships or fundraising efforts,” he said. “Everything is in the spirit of working towards the Dismas House mission.” The name “Dismas” comes from the “repentant” or “good thief” who was crucified with Christ on Calvary in the Christian tradition. The late Father Jack Hickey and a group of Vanderbilt students founded the Dismas House in 1974. Student residents are still a big part of the Dismas community today. “Father Hickey recognized the similarities between college students and individuals exiting incarceration as sort of being in the same transitional period of entering into society,” Pieper said. “Student residents present a constant presence of the supportive community in our mission.” “Student residents are living in the house – they...
by Monaih Sam | Aug 29, 2013 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s first day enrollment numbers top over 4,500 students, which is an 81 percent increase in students from the last eight years.As Lipscomb began its 123rd academic year, more than 2,000 students have been added to the academic community since 2006, bringing this year’s record enrollment numbers to exactly 4,509. “To my wife and I, this is one of the most precious moments of the academic year,” Lipscomb President Randolph Lowry said at this year’s convocation ceremony. Lowry noted more Lipscomb accomplishments in his convocation presentation including the university’ record enrollment of 5,911 for the entire institution so far this year, a record 218 students expected to participate in global learning programs and 24 new university faculty members. Adding to the record enrollment are: Five new graduate programs including the Master of Education with an emphasis in collaborative professional learning, a Master of Business Administration concentration in strategic human resources, a master’s degree in software engineering and a Master of Film and Creative Media degree. Four new concentrations in the Education Specialist program. 148 nursing students, the largest enrollment in Lipscomb’s history. 695 freshmen. 553 Master of Education students and 73 Doctorate of Education students. 463 first-time graduate students. (list from lipscomb.edu) Lipscomb’s growth is also attributed to eight bachelor’s degrees in 78 majors or 145 areas of undergraduate study, several pre-professional programs and an accelerated adult degree program. Lipscomb also offers 25 master’s degrees, four education specialist degrees and three doctoral degrees. The degree options encompass 58 fields of study. The enrollment record is the latest sign of excellence at Lipscomb University and Lowry encourages the Lipscomb community to...
