As a musician, playing in New York is a mindboggling dream many strive for. However, three young Lipscomb students fulfilled this dream when the Avalon Trio was named third best in the nation as a chamber ensemble on Mar. 24 in New York City. Read the full story

You would think walking in to a Green Hills movie theater at 10:25 on a Sunday night that it would be empty. Not that night! It was full! Read the full story

Kiernan McMullan, the opening act for Mat Kearney when he performed at the SGA-sponsored spring concert, sat down with Lumination, offering a look into his past, his new album, Two Years,  and his new organization, American Cadence Records. Read the full story

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!

This week, Jessica Burke and Wade Funderburg fill you in on what’s happening at Lipscomb, from the figurative flood of musicians on campus to the actual flood of the High Rise dormitory.

Plus, Clay Smith has the latest in entertainment news, Sydney Poe gives the sports report and Hunter Patterson brings you the weather forecast.

Lumination Newscast, March 9, 2012 from lumination Network on Vimeo.

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

To honor those who both attend Lipscomb and have served our country in the past ten years, Charlie Daniels returned to Lipscomb Tuesday night to headline the third annual concert benefitting the campus’ Yellow Ribbon program.

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This past Friday, Lipscomb students were given a rare treat.

Mat Kearney, best known for hit songs “Nothing Left to Lose”, “Undeniable” and more recently, “Ships in the Night” and “Hey Mama”, headlined the free SGA-sponsored spring concert alongside Kiernan McMullan in Alumni Auditorium.

Kearney, a resident of Nashville, offered insight into his past, his music, his faith and his love of everything Lipscomb. Read the full story