by Mckenzi Harris and Kathryn Farris | Jul 1, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, Galleries, News Slider
Lipscomb closed out the Summer Celebration conference with the music and fireworks of the 15th annual Bison Block Party. Summer Celebration, previously known as the “Lipscomb Lectures,” is when Lipscomb opens the campus for guest speakers and hundreds of visitors from the community. The celebration started over 90 years ago and is one of Lipscomb’s oldest traditions. Each year since about 2003 Lipscomb has celebrated Independence Day by hosting the free, grand finale Bison Block Party in the Allen Arena Mall. This year’s big finale was June 28. The block party kicks off the Independence Week celebrations by offering the community an evening of food vendors, live music and fun. Lipscomb alumni bands Arcadian Wild, Dave’s Highway, and S. Grant Parker performed as did the Faculty Brass Quintet with Ben Blasko. The full evening was hosted by retired long-time WSMV-TV sports anchor and Christian inspirational speaker Rudy Kalis. The night ended with a free fireworks show set to music from the Faculty Brass Quintet. Check out the following photo gallery from Mckenzi Harris and video from Kathryn Farris. ...
by Erin Turner | Jan 5, 2015 | News Slider
For junior Ashley Arledge, Alpha Zeta is more than just a social club. Arledge, the club’s president, hopes the club will be something different for girls on campus. “We want to be a different club,” said Arledge. “We’ve decided to call our Pledge Week ‘Declaration Week.’ We want our girls to feel empowered by saying they are declaring to the campus that they are a part of Alpha Zeta.” The new social club was founded just today, and the idea stemmed from Arledge’s first experience with Greek Life at Lipscomb. She knew she wanted to be a part of a social club when she began college, but finding a place that she fit in was harder than expected. “I was looking for more out of college than an education, but to be able to experience that collegiate experience with wonderful Christian people.” After going to the rush fair, open rushes and a few closed rushes, Arledge didn’t feel a connection to any of the social clubs. “I knew I wanted to integrate myself into Lipscomb Campus Life, but I didn’t feel there was a place that I fit. And I think there are other girls on campus that feel the same way.” Since that very moment, Alpha Zeta has been in the works. Arledge first brought up the idea to Laurie Sain, Fanning’s head resident, then began working with Dean of Student Life Sam Smith and Sewell head resident Sam Parnell during the drafting of the constitution. The founding members presented the club’s overview to the head of Greek Life and it was approved for charter. Although forming the...
by Kyrsten Turner | Sep 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
The third floor of Beaman Library is home to the Lipscomb archives, including those of The Babbler, the university student print publication that ceased in 2009. The third floor is also where Marie Byers, the Beaman Library archivist, volunteers her time, scanning in old stories and photographs to use in The BabblerExpress. “I like to show off my stuff,” said Byers, motioning to the archive room in the corner behind her chair. The BabblerExpress is a new Lipscomb paper, published by the Senior Alumni Council and mailed out to alumni ages 55 and older. Similar to the Nashville Retrospect, The Babbler Express pulls from old student publications to compose a bi-yearly newspaper for the senior alumni. “The idea came from the Nashville Retrospect, which is the newspaper that’s published, I think monthly. It is a newspaper – only it’s bigger than the current Tennesseean, and it’s larger, like the old newspapers used to be, but it just re-prints articles from The Tennessean, the Nashville Banner and earlier Nashville newspapers from, say, the 19th century.” Byers emphasized that although everyone reading the Nashville Retrospect doesn’t remember what happened fifty years ago, the people who lived at that time do and the stories are sentimental. The same is true of The BabblerExpress. The committee makes it a priority to include a “little of this, little of that” in order to connect with all the alumni, many of whom enjoyed different interests, Byers said. “We do have some guidelines,” Byers said. “We don’t have all sports. We don’t have all beauty queens, and we don’t have all Singarama. We try to show student activities. We try to have something about faculty. “This was the campus newspaper for many...
by Cory Woodroof | Mar 6, 2013 | News Slider
A packed house rocked out to free music for a great cause in Allen Arena Tuesday night as country music legend Charlie Daniels and a host of others headlined the annual ioStudio Charlie Daniels’ Scholarship for Heroes Tour. In its fourth year, the show, always led by Daniels, helps benefit the Yellow Ribbon initiative, a program that pledges to help post-9/11 GI Bill veterans receive an education with little-to-no cost at Lipscomb University. This year, there are around 200 Yellow Ribbon students that attend school. Alongside Daniels, The Grascals, Chris Young, Keni Thomas, Bleach and surprise guest Jason Aldean all played a mix of current hits and classics in order to give the Yellow Ribbon students in attendance an exciting night to remember. Before the show, Daniels met with the Yellow Ribbon students and posed in a group picture. Daniels said that the veterans are brave individuals who endure daily strife all for the ultimate aim of receiving an education. “It takes something that a lot of people don’t have to get out of a bed, to turn off the pain medicine and to walk into a situation where you’re trying to better yourself,” Daniels said. “Just the act of getting out of bed every day is a bigger job than most of us can ever even imagine.” To Daniels, the Yellow Ribbon students – and all those who serve in the military – may have different stories, but all deserve to be recognized in the highest regard for their service to the country. “Everybody’s story is different, but everybody’s got one, and everybody has really struggled to be...
by Crystal Davis | Sep 11, 2012 | News Slider
Students participating in formal rush this week are experiencing new changes to the rush process. Campus Life instituted the changes for this semester, hoping to give more students opportunities to be involved in Greek life on campus. Sam Parnell, director of Greek life, said during the spring 2012 semester that 110 students received bids, and 37 did not. Three of those students who did not receive bids were ineligible due to “academic/institutional requirements.” Five hundred undergraduates make up Lipscomb’s 13 social clubs. Parnell said campus life doesn’t “monitor the criteria the social clubs use to pick their members. We are changing the process to allow more students the opportunity to be in a social club.” “The major change is having students list their top choices of social clubs in which they wish to rush,” Parnell said. “If a student doesn’t get sent a formal bid for their club of choice, then they still have other chances to make it in to an alternate choice.” With the new system, students rank their top three choices of clubs, and then are placed in the highest ranking club that extends a bid to them. According to posted eligibility requirements, all students must be in good academic standing and have completed one semester as a full-time student at Lipscomb to rush. Freshmen have to achieve a GPA of at least 2.5, and other undergraduates must earn a GPA of 2.0 or higher. Other requirements include attending four open rush events, three club prospective events and all formal rush events for which you receive an invitation. The men’s (Sigma Omega Sigma, Delta Nu, Tau Phi, Gamma Xi, Sigma Iota Delta) and women’s social clubs (Gamma Lambda, Pi...
