VIDEO: Take a tour through Haunted High Rise Hall

VIDEO: Take a tour through Haunted High Rise Hall

High Rise Residence Hall puts on a haunted house for students each year, transforming the eight-floor building into one of Lipscomb’s main Halloween attractions.  Each floor was themed and most of the residents participated in the scenes, turning their floors into spooky scenes. This year’s themes included haunted hospitals and jails. If you haven’t ever checked out Haunted High Rise, it’s worth experiencing at least once.  In the GoPro video below, you can hear people screaming at the individuals jumping out at them on the haunted hospital floor. Take an inside look to see what it was like to go through the “haunted”...

Lumination’s Sam Webb shares Haunted High Rise experience

I am not a huge fan of scary things. However, I found myself crashing through the darkened hallways of Haunted High Rise with my friends. Residents of High Rise began preparing for the event around the beginning of October, and the decorating started around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Each floor had a different theme, ranging from hotels to butcher shops. Freshman and High Rise resident Ethan Osborne spent the night startling  people on the fifth floor. To Osborne, being as groggy as a zombie was well-worth it. “We don’t get much rest but [Haunted High Rise] is all in good fun,” said Osborne. One floor that received a great deal of attention was the contagion floor, which appeared to play off of the publicity from the Ebola virus. As for me, one go-around through the horrifying halls of Haunted High Rise was enough to remind me that I am not as brave as I...

Lumination’s 2013 Fall Slate

Before the semester becomes too overloaded with events and calendars gets completely booked, Lumination would like to offer a handy guide to all of the events coming up during the fall semester. September looks to bring a full slate of men’s and women’s soccer games. Pledge week also kicks off in September as Bid Night took place Sept. 12. Some of Lipscomb’s most anticipated events begin in October starting with the Tau Phi Cowboy show on Oct. 5, Paint the Herd on Oct. 30 and Haunted High Rise scaring students on Oct. 30. The women’s volleyball schedule kicks into high gear during October as well. Lipscomb’s annual Dodgeball tournament will start November off with a bang. The men’s basketball team will open up their season against Belmont with the Battle of the Boulevard against rival Belmont on Nov. 8, followed by the women’s Battle less than a week later on Nov. 14. Everything from sporting events across all sports to special Student Activities Board sponsored events, to usual favorites like Wednesday Night We Eat are taking place throughout the next few months, making Lipscomb’s campus a busy place. All sporting events take place at Lipscomb University unless otherwise noted. September: 16 Women’s Soccer Battle of the Boulevard vs. Belmont at 7:00 18 Wednesday Night Devo/Wednesday Night We Eat 19 SGA Coffeehouse Maggie Moo’s 9:45 p.m. Bison Square 20-22 Men’s Tennis MTSU Fall Tournament 20 Men’s Soccer vs. Appalachian State 7:30 p.m. Fun in the Square 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Almost Golf 20-21: Midnight Movie: Space Jam at The Belcourt 21 Volleyball vs. Kentucky 2:00 p.m. 22 Men’s Soccer...

High Rise transforms into spooky place of fright and fun

On a cool, windy October night at Lipscomb University, something changed about one of the men’s residence halls. Haunted High Rise was the occasion, bringing Lipscomb students out to get the adrenaline flowing. Men from each floor set up their own “haunted house” in their respective hallways. Setup was tedious with all the garbage bags, fake blood and masks, but when things finally got rolling, the fun began. “I think I was the scariest clown ever. I made people cry,” said Charlie Coffee, who played the part of the infamous Jigsaw from the Saw series. Students would walk into the bathroom where a merciless clown would slam the door behind them. The doorknob was removed so groups were left helpless in the third-floor bathroom with no way out. In pitch black, a strobe light flashed and Coffee came into view, wearing his Jigsaw mask and suit and sitting on his knees. After a creepy voiceover from a nearby computer, Coffee then took out his power drill and went after the groups. He was joined in his mission by some bathroom clowns. One victim was freshman Julie Berardinis. “We got locked in with a creepy clown and a drill, but you all did such a good job,” she said, calling it the “highlight of my time here.” Every floor had its own unique, creative ideas in order to get a scream out of people. In the end, the fifth floor won the competition for the scariest hall, with the third floor coming in at close second. “We may not have won, but we had a great bonding experience working on...