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Elliott’s Eye (On Fashion): Lipscomb Street Style Take 5

Style is found everywhere, from the hectic streets of New York City to the rolling hills of Tennessee.  Style even appears at Lipscomb University.  These are our stories – your stories. This is Lipscomb Street Style. Read the full story

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[Column] TRUE TALK with Trendy: What’s your biggest fear?

What is your biggest fear? Personally, mine is spiders and bees. They scare the crap out of me. I would fight a bear in a fist fight in a closed off area before I willingly set foot in the same state as a beehive. Read the full story

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[Editorial] Top 10 Reasons Lipscomb Would Cancel Classes

Rumor has it, before High Rise’s water problem on Thursday that classes have not been cancelled for a non-weather related event in over 30 years!

During the news meeting on Friday, Lumination Network staff compiled a Top 10 list a la David Letterman. Staff members Emily Snell, Hunter Patterson, Whitney Jarreld, Nicci Carney and Cory Woodroof all contributed to the list below.

 

10. The bison statue’s head is cut off, prompting a student-led search party headed up by Garner Goode dressed as the LU Bison

9. Belmont students litter campus with cups from Bongo Java

8. A group of High Rise freshmen organize a campus-wide simultaneous toilet flushing, causing the campus to overflow

7. Student leads a revolt after being turned away from singing praise chapel in Shamblin for third time in three weeks

6. Fire Marshal shuts down campus after trying to attend singing chapel in Shamblin with his daughter, a prospective student

5. Nicolas Cage discovers the Ark of the Covenant in the LU cave system

4. All students get chapel credit on time, prompting the university to give the students a day off

3. Network frame crashes after absurd amount of Blackboard and Academic Workshop emails

2. Squirrels invade student center before storming the Campus Life office, holding Dean McDowell for ransom

1. Professors run out of paper to use in classes after security fills year-long parking ticket quota in a single day

 

Have one better than ours? We think you can probably do better. Comment below or tweet at us at @LuminationNet with your suggestion. We’ll publish the best!

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A night on the town: four Nashville treasures

With some musician friends in town for the week, I knew I’d be in charge of entertaining. Entertaining means late nights for me. I don’t do late nights well with my class schedule, but sometimes you’ve got to step out of the box and have some fun. Read the full story

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Students are steamed about stuffy Old Johnson

With unseasonably warm weather outside and the continued blast from the heating system indoors, students in Old Johnson not only can’t cool off, many of them say they can’t sleep. Read the full story

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Elliott’s Eye (On Fashion): Lipscomb Street Style Take 4

Style is found everywhere, from the hectic streets of New York City to the rolling hills of Tennessee.  Style even appears at Lipscomb University.  These are our stories – your stories. This is Lipscomb Street Style. Read the full story

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International Justice Mission battles bondage and sex slavery

Slavery. It’s a term that may remind some of their middle school social studies class, the Civil War, or figures like Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Tubman. What may shock people is that slavery still exists. Not only that, but there are more slaves today than ever in history.  Read the full story

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[Column] TRUE TALK With Trendy: First World Problems

All of us have a particular group of friends we hang out with. And in every group there is generally the same makeup of the types of people. However, it seems there is always a pessimist. If you know that person, or it is you, please do me a favor. Read the full story

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Nashville Weather:

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It is forcast to be Thunderstorm at 10:00 PM CDT on May 19, 2012
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It is forcast to be Partly Cloudy at 10:00 PM CDT on May 20, 2012
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86°/63°
It is forcast to be Chance of a Thunderstorm at 10:00 PM CDT on May 21, 2012
Chance of a Thunderstorm
82°/59°

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