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Lipscomb by the numbers: Giving Day
This week with Lipscomb by the numbers we’re looking back at the university-wide Giving Day, which took place on Thursday, February 23rd. There are a lot of numbers from Giving Day, so let’s dive into some of them. Giving Day this year was a success, with over two million dollars raised. The official final number is $2,097,446. To put this into perspective, the highest Lipscomb has raised in the past was $2,330,643 during former Lipscomb President Willard Collins’s “Million Dollar Day” in 1985. Let’s look at some more numbers… Lipscomb broke up their donors by affiliations, separating them into groups like “Faculty/Staff,” “Friend,” “University Parent,” and more. The leading group…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Men’s basketball at Liberty
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers heads back to an epic conference upset game – the Lipscomb Bison’s against the Liberty Flames. The men’s basketball game on February 4th against the Flames featured a lot of numbers. The Flames were the number one team in the ASUN conference, with a 9-1 win-loss. The Bisons were the number six team in the ASUN, with a 5-5 win-loss. Despite what those numbers might suggest about the outcome of the game, the Bisons beat the number one team in the ASUN 69-64. Beyond those numbers, the attendance at the game was a huge number: 3,587 students and fans packed into Allen. Compared to…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Baseball victories
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers looks back at this past weekend, at Ken Dugan Field. On Friday the 17th, the Lipscomb Bisons baseball team faced off against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the first time. The odds that the Bisons would beat the Irish were about twelve percent, some said. Despite the odds, the Bisons went on to beat the Irish, five runs to four. The Bisons played in not just 35 degrees – that felt like about 22 degrees until the sun finally came out about two hours into the game – but they played in snow. There were almost 650 fans in attendance, a great number…
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Behind the scenes with the Bisons – a pre-season look at the baseball team through photos
Baseball season begins this Friday, with the Bisons playing their home opener against Notre Dame. In preparation for the start of the season, the Bisons have scrimmaged several times in practice. Herd Media photographer Micah Barkley covered the most recent one, on February 12, capturing the Bisons’ season readiness on camera.
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Micro-home built by the Engineering Department is delivered
The Lipscomb Engineering Department shipped out its first-ever micro-home on January 21st. After the horrendous flood in Waverly, Tennessee back in 2021, the town is still rebuilding. The deadly flood caused people to lose jobs and many people became homeless. Green Street Church of Christ, a church that Lipscomb has partnered with for many years, has a micro-home community in partnership with various organizations that allow people who need transitory housing to live on their property. A micro-home is a structure that is typically 600 square feet or less with at least one window. When Second Chance Ministries was looking for ways to serve the Waverly community, they heard about…
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An inside look at Rush Week for Lipscomb
Rushing social clubs at Lipscomb University is a three-to-four week-long event. Full of excitement, nerves, and finding where they fit in. This year, two Herd Media staff members cover rush from both the male and female perspectives. Saxon Brown, a freshman journalism and new media major, is currently not rushing, while Emma DeVries, a freshman advertising major, is currently rushing. Saxon Brown For many freshmen arriving on campus provides the first opportunity to be fully independent. Though many of us long for that independence, we also seek out a sense of belonging. For some students, this is found through athletics, either at the NCAA level or on an intramural team.…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: IT
This week’s Lipscomb by the numbers heads over to the IT department. IT helps students with various tech problems, from internet issues to school software malfunctions. They assist students mainly through help desk tickets and phone calls. How many students do they help, though? In the fall 2022 semester, IT answered 1,920 phone calls. So far this semester, they have already answered over 200. Since their new help desk ticketing software went live on June 15th, the IT department has answered 5,753 help desk tickets. The fall 2022 semester saw 3,401 help desk tickets answered. Already this spring semester has seen 941 tickets submitted and answered. And even as of…
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Ambulances arrive on campus to science lab situation
Update Jan. 27, 11:45 am: Lipscomb University released the following statement. “Last night while conducting a routine lab experiment, three students came in contact, on their hands, with a substance identified as n-Bromosuccinimide (NBS). Out of an abundance of caution, the three students were transported last night to a medical facility for an examination of the skin irritation. They were evaluated, cared for, released last night and are back on campus today and attending classes as scheduled.” “The first two [ambulances] went by our house,” says Emma Shanahan, a senior political science major. “And then we went to our window, and a third one passed by,” says Shanahan, “we were…
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Lipscomb by the numbers: Allen Arena attendance
1,681 students and fans crowded into Allen Arena on Thursday, Jan. 19, to watch the Lipscomb Bisons men’s basketball team take down the EKU Colonels. This was the highest-attended home basketball game since late November when the Bisons played the Covenant College Scots on the 21st. Interestingly, the biggest game this season was not the Battle of the Boulevard game in November, which had 3,772 students and fans in attendance, but the Homecoming weekend game against the Campbellsville-Harrodsburg Pioneers, which had 4,789 students and fans at the game. Last night’s game had the fourth-highest attendance of the season, even passing the attendance at the Navy game – although not by…
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The Bisons’ furry friend: campus life in a nutshell
There are more than 200 squirrel species around the world. The squirrels on campus are very friendly and interactive with students, as they’ve become used to everyday campus life. Squirrels love to eat almost anything, including Chick-fil-A fries, says Professor John Lewis.
