by Cora Coletti | Aug 28, 2021 | Galleries, News Slider
As the school year officially kicked off at Lipscomb, students did not let summer heat or “temporary” COVID restrictions get in the way of campus fun. In the coming week, the university is expected to announce the continuation or dismantlement of its indoor mask mandate. This comes as Lipscomb’s daily positive tests peaked Wednesday, with 10 university students testing positive for COVID. Gallery by Cora Coletti ...
by Jack Roper | Aug 27, 2021 | Galleries, News Slider
The days of “open rush” and “bid day” are coming upon the Lipscomb campus. Thursday afternoon, new students and prospective pledges filled the square with hopes of finding community in one of Lipscomb’s social clubs....
by Tia Calvin | Oct 22, 2019 | News Slider, Student Spotlight
American musician Shawn Amos once said, “Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It’s full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.” Lipscomb’s Office of Intercultural Development and Law, Justice, and Society program invited students to Memphis over fall break to witness this city’s unique dichotomy. Students first visited Beale Street, named by CNN Travel as one of the most iconic streets in America. These three blocks in the heart of downtown Memphis gave students a glimpse into the place where blues, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll were founded. “As a music lover, I felt like I could feel my roots on Beale Street. It was heavily influenced by the past and that’s where most of today’s music comes from. Memphis is soul and you could feel it when you walked those streets,” senior Noah Kimbrough said. But, the ultimate purpose of the trip was to give students tangible insight into the struggles, sacrifices, and successes of the Civil Rights era and the people who gave the movement life. The National Civil Rights museum stands in conjunction to the Lorraine Motel, the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed. Each exhibit within shows a different aspect of African American history, from transatlantic slavery of the early 1600s to the beginning of the Obama Administration in 2012. With a recent 200 million dollar update, the museum uses modern technology, live exhibits, artifacts, and film to give students an immersive look at Civil Rights. Lipscomb junior Eden Melles said that “the trip gave her a...
by Kathryn Farris | Sep 19, 2019 | News Slider
With the school year coming into full swing, changes in how the student life offices are run have taken effect. This summer, Al Sturgeon sat down with Lumination to discuss his plans on making adjustments to Lipscomb’s atmosphere. “The whole point of community life is that this is the part of our campus where students interact with each other, where relationship happen, where interests are explored.” Said Sturgeon on the importance of the Student Life office on campus. An overlying theme of the changes Sturgeon hopes to bring to Lipscomb is the unification of groups across campus. “We’re putting everything together in a world where we can have conversations and learn how they [different groups] interact across social boundary lines that naturally form,” Sturgeon said “It’s not like I’m having to convince people to be good people, here [Lipscomb] they’re everywhere, it feels like there is more of a need for me to use my organizational skills and relational skills to build the bridges and connect the pieces together.”. With the reorganization, comes new roles for both familiar and new faces on campus. “This is just an attempt to make some order out of things,” Sturgeon said. “Prentice Ashford is the Dean of Community Life, which is a new phrase for him, and Louis Nelms is stepping into the role of overseeing Greek life as well as student activities, organizations, and commuters. “Office of Student Well Being will be led by Dannie Woods, we’re clustering in with the things she does already in her office… the idea is that our concern is not just that students form relationships and...
by Anna McClure | Jun 5, 2015 | News Slider
High Rise renovations that are aimed to provide the “wow” factor to residental living on campus include new flooring, paint, furniture and more room for socializing. “We’ve done this because the students need it,” Dean of Student Life Sam Smith said. “The university needs it for when we’re recruiting and students come to our campus and then they go to Belmont and they go to Vanderbilt. “We needed a facility that would make a ‘wow statement’ for them, and High Rise will be that building,” Smith said. 10 rooms have been eliminated to add to the main level lobby and expand common area on some of the floors. The common area expansions on the third, seventh and eighth floors will include sitting areas, conference rooms and study rooms. “We’ve taken a big shot at increasing the community space in High Rise,” Smith said. “We don’t want students to just live there, we want them to enjoy being there and have time to be around people they want to be around, people that they want to be with, for it to feel like home while they’re here.” In addition to expanding lobbies, the closets of each room have been removed and will be replaced with wardrobes. This will increase room space and allow residents more freedom to arrange their rooms in a way that suits them. The bathrooms will be redone with changing stalls attached to the showers to make the spaces more private despite being community restrooms. “I am very excited about the renovation,” High Rise Resident Hall Director Mike Smith said. “The extra community space will give residents more space to...
