Effective within the first few weeks of the Spring 2010 semester, the Lee University Counseling Center will be expanding their group counseling services to better accommodate the needs of the student as identified in a general survey sent out last month. Students will be able to take advantage of five different support groups. These groups [...]
For Emma Humphreys, a freshman double major in public relations and Spanish, Operation Christmas Child (OCC) has been about more than filling up shoe boxes. In August 2008, Humphreys helped deliver shoe boxes in Ecuador. She was one of 20 people chosen from across America to go on a Samaritan’s Purpose Youth trip. The trip [...]
Thursday, Nov. 12, a national representative of Invisible Children hosted a screening of the film “Sunday” on the Lee University campus. As a national representative of Invisible Children, Brennon Bloemendal travels to specific regions to show the film and tell the story of the war that is going on in Northern Uganda to get people [...]
Nov. 3 marked the first installment of Lee University’s Middle East lecture series scheduled for Fall 2009. Opening the series, Rev. Paul-Gordon Chandler spoke during Dixon Center chapel to promote his U.S. book tour “Salaam on Israel: Waging Peace on Muslims in the Spirit of Christ”. Raised in Muslim, French-speaking West Africa, Gordon is a [...]
Lee students, faculty and community members flooded the Dixon Center auditorium on Oct. 30 to hear a panel of scientists and theologians from Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment speak about an important and all-inclusive issue: saving the planet. “Creation: A Call to Care” was a symposium dedicated to addressing the [...]
The crowd at the Nov. 7 men’s basketball game vs. Bluefield College (Va.) erupted into cheers at half time as senior Jill Singerman was crowned the 2009 Homecoming Queen. Singerman is a public relations major with a minor in psychology. She is well known for her work with the Student Leadership Council, where she serves [...]
The Student Leadership Council collected more than 2,400 items during their annual clothing drive from Oct. 19 to Oct 30. On Oct. 29 and 30, SLC partnered with the Kairos Scholars and Gateway classes to help sort the mounds of clothes. “The incredible thing about the clothing drive is that it gets the whole campus involved, [...]
Students of The Bridge are part of a growing ministry reaching out to the older generations on Lee University’s doorstep. The Bridge was started at the end of last semester by Rebekah Melvin, a sophomore with an undeclared major, and several of her friends when they began going to North Cleveland Towers, a senior apartment [...]
Just in time for Homecoming weekend, the new Eternal Flame and Fountain on the Lee University campus will be completed. Alpha Gamma Chi announced during last year’s Homecoming that the Eternal Flame would be in the lawn just south of the DeVos Recreation Center. TriCon, Inc. is the company that rebuilding the fountain. “The [...]
A panel of students representing Lee’s Council of Revolutioary Endeavors (CORE), vocalized concerns about each club’s respective cause during Shalom 2009: Building Communities for Peace and Justice. The conference was held at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary by the Pentecostals & Charismatics for Peace & Justice organization (PCPJ) on Oct. 23 and Oct. 24. Held annually, [...]
This year, students will have an opportunity to get a jump start on the Christmas craziness and make a difference with their Christmas shopping by visiting the Global Gift Shop. The Global Gift Shop is a fair trade shop where students and other members of the community can purchase hand made goods from artisans around [...]
They Came Running shot footage for a live DVD during their concert in the Conn Center on Oct. 25. However, the idea for this DVD did not originate with a member of the band but with a telecommunications student. Matt Smith, a sophomore telecommunications major, said he got the idea to record the concert the [...]
Lee University recently acquired land that it had been trying to purchase since 1994. Success came last month when Lee was finally able to purchase the house that sat behind the School of Music building. Over the years the house had become surrounded by the School of Music parking lot. The house was torn down [...]
On Oct. 22, seven bands performed at the Dixon Center in Life Care Centers of America’s first Battle of the Bands. The show consisted of three high school bands and four college bands competing for two championships. The winners received three 10-hour days of recording time at Life Care’s media center. All the night’s proceeds [...]
UPDATE: On Nov. 3, Lee University will be testing the LeeU Alert emergency text message system. “Announcements in chapel, campus-wide Power Point, fliers, Facebook and Twitter will be utilized to make sure everyone knows…it is only a test,” said Dr.Walt Mauldin,vice president for student life. The LeeU Alert system is a system whereby messages would [...]
