Revenge of the Nerds Gaming Tournament set for Monday

FIFA. Call of Duty. Rock Band. Mario Kart. Do any of these names inspire a mood filled with pride from the past? If so, you should probably find three friends as soon as possible and register for Lipscomb’s Revenge of the Nerds video game competition, which is being hosted by the School of Computing and Informatics. The competition will be held in Shamblin Theater on Monday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. For this competition, a maximum of 16 teams composed of four members each will compete for bragging rights around campus as they go head to head and compete through four of the nation’s top-rated video games. Registration costs $10 per team and can be obtained through the informatics home page  or by contacting Lara Flora in the School of Computing and Informatics...
Florah Mhlanga shares life lessons from Zimbabwe with students

Florah Mhlanga shares life lessons from Zimbabwe with students

After leaving Zimbabwe, a small country in Southern Africa, and teaching at two other Church of Christ universities for several years, Dr. Florah Mhlanga came to Lipscomb in August 2011 as a biology professor. Mhlanga, one of nine children, earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Zimbabwe before obtaining her master’s and doctorate degrees at Michigan State University. She has two children, Carl, 15, and Craig, 10, and her husband, Fortune, is director of Lipscomb’s School of Computing and Informatics. Mhlanga said she came to the United States from Zimbabwe with her husband and their two sons in 2002 because the political and economic climate in Zimbabwe was beginning to “deteriorate.” “We never thought we would leave Zimbabwe,” she said, noting that she was a professor and chair of her department at the University of Zimbabwe. An opportunity arose at that time, Mhlanga said, for them to teach at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., and she said she believes it was a blessing from God. “We thought it was a God-sent opportunity to shield us from some of the problems that really we were experiencing — the political and economic problems in Zimbabwe,” she explained. “We thought it was really God’s call or a blessing, in a way, from God that he opened this avenue for us to leave Zimbabwe and to go to Alabama to work there.” Mhlanga said the condition of the political and economic system in Zimbabwe gave her concern for her children and their ability to have opportunities. “It was going to be very difficult to educate them, to find a good educational system...