by Sarah McGee | Mar 19, 2015 | News Slider
Junior graphic design major Scott Coffey gets to combine his love of art, writing and math in an unusual way. “The first real board game that I bought was Settlers of Catan, and that was in high school,” Coffey said. “Ever since then, I’ve really loved playing and making games.” Coffey has created multiple board game prototypes with creative premises. One game is called Cat Fight, which is set up like a reality show, and the goal is to get the most fame in the end. Another game is named The End, where the players try to be the first to end the world. Coffey also receives college credit for his board game designs in his independent study in the graphic design major. His most recent development is Quiver — a game that came from an idea he had while studying abroad in England in 2013. “Everyone in the game is an archer, and the goal is to score the most points in an archery contest,” Coffey said. In the comical game, players have to shoot past different obstacles, and each obstacle gives the players a different amount of points. Coffey is designing the entire game himself and said he wants to develop it so that it can be sold to a publisher. This process includes creating the rules, play testing and designing the artwork. “I’m hoping to get the deck of cards for the game professionally printed so that I can possibly take it to a publisher,” Coffey said. The game has 108 cards in the deck, and there are 75 unique illustrations on the cards. One card...
by Sarah McGee | Feb 26, 2015 | News Slider
The lists of websites being blocked on Lipscomb’s Internet server are growing, and students are beginning to notice the change. Some links that are shown on Facebook are going through to a blocked website domain. Even the occasional link to sites like BuzzFeed lead students to a blocked domain screen. “I understand why they block some websites — for example when I’m trying to stream stuff — but I find it really frustrating when I go onto Facebook and try to look at links that friends post and it takes me to a blocked website,” junior Sandra Cronin said. Junior Scott Coffey said that Lipscomb is blocking some of the news sites he checks. “Some websites that I personally use that Lipscomb may block are some LGBT news sites and some streaming sites that can host copyrighted content,” Coffey said. Director of information security and infrastructure Dave Wagner explained how Lipscomb chooses to filter the Internet. Websites are broken down into 59 different categories. Lipscomb picks five out of the 59 as being the most important. Each site is broken down further by the material that it hosts. Websites that feature anything related to alcohol, drugs, gambling, hate/discrimination and pornography are automatically blocked from the server. Other categories are blocked under suspicion of containing advertising-supported software, malicious software and file sharing. Those sites are blocked in order to keep students’ computers and the Lipscomb server from being contaminated with viruses. “I think that it’s good and it definitely keeps with Lipscomb’s policy on everything when it comes to keeping up a good Christian environment,” Coffey said. “However, I do think...
