8, 9 a.m. classes canceled for Friday due to winter weather

All 8 and 9 a.m. classes for Friday, March 6 have been canceled due to winter weather. Rain turned to a wintry mix late Wednesday night and snow fell on campus throughout Thursday morning. Almost two inches of snow accumulated with low wind chills. Classes will resume at 10 a.m. tomorrow following the Class Schedule Disruption Policy. All traveling to campus should use their own judgement, as temperatures are predicted to remain below zero until mid-day Friday. Students should look for communication from professors for missed...

Wintry weather to continue into weekend

Nashville’s wintry weather — that has disrupted classes and made it tough for many students and faculty to make it to campus — may continue into the weekend. Students returned to class Wednesday, Feb. 18, after two days of canceled classes, but a mixture of snow and ice is lingering on campus. And it’s not going to melt away on its own, with local TV meteorologists predicting temperatures to plummet into the negatives Wednesday night. Nashville hasn’t seen this much snow and ice since the largest snowfall of the century, when 7 inches of snow fell on Music City in January of 2003. Sure, some say this is the “sunny South,” but the Nashville area has had a few winter storms of epic proportions. The wintry mix the area received during this week reminded many Nashvillians of the brutal ice storm of February 1994, when electric transformers lighted the sky like lightning as they exploded. Tree limbs covered in heavy ice ripped down power lines. That ice storm left many Middle Tennessee residents without power and heat for more than two weeks. During that storm, many parts of Tennessee experienced more than 5 inches of rainfall, much of it frozen. “I remember we played Belmont the night that it started to snow,” said Kim Chaudoin, Assistant Vice President of University Communication and Marketing. “I lived in Murfreesboro at the time and commuted to Lipscomb for work. I tried to get home and had to leave my car along Tyne Boulevard. I walked back to my office and slept on my office floor that night.” And there have been other instances...

UPDATE: Evening classes canceled for Wednesday, Feb. 18.

All evening classes have been canceled for Wednesday, Feb. 18. University offices will close at 4 p.m. Lipscomb Dining Services will be operating on its regular schedule. Classes resumed at 10 a.m., following the Class Schedule Disruption Policy.  The wintry mix that is lingering on campus occurred Monday morning. Students enjoyed the first snow day by sledding and catching up on homework as freezing rain continued falling throughout the day. The Campus Service Operations team worked on clearing ice and snow from Bison Square and major sidewalks on Tuesday. A layer of light snow fell on campus Wednesday morning, covering what was left of the ice. The team worked throughout Wednesday, spreading salt and clearing walkways so that students could make their return to class on Wednesday morning. Photos taken at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Photo gallery by Erin...