May 2009 Archives

Dr. Jerry Gaw is a professor of History. He has written several books and is currently working on a book about David Lloyd George. He is married to Vicki and has one son.

What's Up LU: Dr. Gaw, tell me a little bit about your own college experience. Where did you go and in what did you major?  

Jerry Gaw: I attended Lipscomb for my undergraduate degree in History Education and then did a Masters in history at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana and a Ph.D. at Mississippi State University in Starkville.

WULU: What did you do right out of college?  

JG: I taught grades 7-11 for three years, was in full-time ministry for three and a half years, and got married to a beautiful woman who gave me a sweet baby boy.

WULU: What were some of the best experiences you had in college?

JG: Meeting good friends, some of whom I've stayed in touch with for the thirty-five years since, and getting a first rate education that prepared me well for graduate school and life.

WULU: Dr. Prill, tell me a little bit about your own college experience. Where did you go and in what did you major?

Val Prill: My college experience stretches over a long period of time. I've been a traditional student and a non-traditional student. I started out at 17 at Western Illinois University as a Music Teaching Major. I planned to be a high school choral director. After a while I switched to a theatre major with a music minor. Then I got married and dropped out of school to work at a bank while my husband finished his BA and MA at WIU. I didn't finish my BA until he came to Lipscomb to teach. At 30, I was sitting in undergraduate classes again. This time I majored in French, with music minor.

The Wheatfield with Crows

by: Luke Brooks

Between a haunted blue sky and tall golden wheat

crows flock to a field

where the soil swallowed the blood of a man

whose life's work led him to his end

-the sadness will last forever. 

The black birds' oil soaked in through his eyes;

their flapping darkened his mind.

Three paths lay ahead, but he'd walked them before,

and there was no where left to go

-the sadness will last forever. 

Lead tore flesh but missed his sobbing heart,

and took it's time to dry his tears.

Hours turned to days, and the crows never left

until death's dove calmed the stormy sky

-the sadness will last forever. 

The abstract dissolves the concrete;

reason is undulant and cruel.

Paint blurs what's real and what's make-believe,

and pastel replaces the past

-the sadness will last forever.

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• Recently got a Twitter, or just looking for new people to follow on Twitter? Paste Magazine suggests ten of the funniest comedians to follow on Twitter.

• Hope no one was caught at the Office Depot in Murfreesboro yesterday.. If so, you may have seen the 50,000 honey bees that they were trying to get rid of!

• Craigslist is the college student's best friend... sometimes.
  


• And for some country music gossip... How about Dolly Parton possibly paying for Jessica Simpson's next album? What a lady!

It's been a beautiful few days here in Nashville.  In honor of the nice weather, we'll leave you today with our picture of the day, a spring mosaic...anyone know where in town you can find it?

Good morning, LU.  Get out your tacky sombreros and fry up your signature Kraft cheese quesadillas, today is Cinco de Mayo. 

• In honor of Cinco de Mayo, perhaps you'd like to check out this new Mexican place
  
  
• Have a tendency to fly into fits of road rage?  The TN legislature says that's ok by them
  
  
• Finally!  Dierks Bently offers to be your voicemail message
  
  
• The new skyscraper is going to be a little shorter than planned
  
  
• Free food tonight (a "surprise dinner" in fact) from 10pm-Midnight at Arlos

Here what's on your minds:

• Jesse Baker ponders the very essence of cool
  
• Austin Church considers how beating the heck out of a car may just be part of growing up
  
• Raleigh McCool marvels at Joakim Noah
  
• Jeff Palk thinks the Church could learn a thing or two from Wolverine

Good morning, LU.  It's still raining, but find some comfort in knowing that exams will be over soon and you'll be free to nap until the sun comes out again. 

• If you didn't have the endurance and athleticism to run the Country Music Marathon, now is your chance at greatness.  The 14th annual 90 hour Bible reading marathon is getting underway in Murfreesboro.
  
  
• The Campus school has a new headmaster, and we've got a new VP
  
  
• Southwest is cutting back on flights to and from Nashville
  
  
• Lipscomb's alumni of the year is a real heavy-hitter
  
  
• Working as a nanny to pay the bills?  Maybe you can land a book deal
  
  
• For all you space nerds out there, apparently today is Star Wars Day.  May the 4th be with you.

Good morning, LU.  If you're planning to survive the swine flu you'd better act fast to get your surgical mask (supplies are quickly disappearing!).  In your rush to get to the nearest mask outlet make sure you don't text and drive because its about to become illegal in Tennessee.  If you don't make it in time, the fat lady will be singing at the Nashville Opera's brand new and beautiful building.  A nice touch of class for our city to be sure, not that we needed any help being classy since we already have the distinction of being home to the country's best bathroom. 

In other news, Stan Abrams, M.D., recommends a treatment for WULU's spider-bitten friend, and the Baseball Battle of the Boulevard begins tonight with free food at 6 at Dugan Field.