Amanda Gargus News Reporter Last month, the Carnegie Foundation named Dr. Stephen Chew National Professor of the Year, which recognizes professors from across the country that teach at baccalaureate colleges, community colleges, doctoral and research colleges and master’s universities. It is also the only award of its kind that recognizes professors at the undergraduate level. [...]
Elizabeth Cassada News Reporter With a cast of 36 actors, a 25-person orchestra and over 150 people involved in each night’s production, “White Christmas” is Samford’s theatre department’s largest production to date. Preparations have been underway since May and the 2,650-seat Wright Center is sold out on opening night. “It’s a monster of a show,” [...]
Chris Davis News reporter Samford University hosted two special annual events last night, Hanging of the Green and Lighting of the Way. The two organizations that helped plan these events were University Ministries and SGA. The first event of the evening was Hanging of the Green. Caroline Noland who is a senior non-profit management major [...]
Charles J. Underwood III Staff Writer The Bulldogs ended their season with a 6-5 record on Nov. 19 on a strong note, losing a tough battle to Auburn in Jordan-Hare Stadium 35-16. Samford went 4-4 in their conference, putting them only a few games out of the FCS playoff picture. At one point, the Bulldogs [...]
Logan Heim News Editor NASCAR recently announced that they would be honoring the charitable efforts of one passionate fan by awarding him or her the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award. Samford class of 1949 graduate Robert Weaver of Talladega, former editor of the Samford Crimson, is one of four national finalists in for the award. [...]
Amanda Gargus News Reporter Last month, the Carnegie Foundation named Dr. Stephen Chew National Professor of the Year, which recognizes professors from across the country that teach at baccalaureate colleges, community colleges, doctoral and research colleges and master’s universities. It is also the only award of its kind that recognizes professors at the undergraduate level. [...]
Elizabeth Cassada News Reporter With a cast of 36 actors, a 25-person orchestra and over 150 people involved in each night’s production, “White Christmas” is Samford’s theatre department’s largest production to date. Preparations have been underway since May and the 2,650-seat Wright Center is sold out on opening night. “It’s a monster of a show,” [...]
Chris Davis News reporter Samford University hosted two special annual events last night, Hanging of the Green and Lighting of the Way. The two organizations that helped plan these events were University Ministries and SGA. The first event of the evening was Hanging of the Green. Caroline Noland who is a senior non-profit management major [...]
Samford News Network’s Hailey Rogers reports on how Samford’s greek community is celebrating the Christmas season.
Jake Davis Film Critic / Managing Editor With “J. Edgar,” Clint Eastwood and Leonardo Dicaprio set out to bring one of the most prominent and controversial figures of the 20th century to life. In doing so, the duo produced the season’s most polarizing film. “J. Edgar” has some critics up in arms, unsatisfied with the [...]
Jennifer Ferry Features Writer Nancy Whitt, professor of English at Samford University, left Duluth, Minn. in 1961 to study at the University of Alabama. Whitt said when she first moved to Alabama, the women and their “Old South” rules stunned her. She said she was always socially liberal and so the social and theological conservatism [...]
At homecoming the Journalism and Mass Communications department welcomed two distinguished inductees into its Wall of Fame. Here, in three parts, is the ceremony honoring the late Hugh Frank Smith (’37) who was the first three-time editor of the Crimson; and George H. Smith (’60 and ’70) a Birmingham area businessman who was public relations [...]
Most of you are aware of Joel Osteen. Love him or hate him, the wide-grinning Texas pastor of Lakewood Church – currently located in Houston’s old Compaq Center – is certainly one of the most visible figures of American Christianity. Lakewood has certainly earned that visibility, spending upwards of $30 million a year on their [...]
Walk into the Pete Hanna Center any afternoon and you will find twenty people biking, jogging, and elliptical-ing in their own worlds. Each person is isolated by either their iPod (jamming to the latest boring rap tunes), the preinstalled cable television (getting motivated by the Food Network), homework (Reading Rousseau at 300 RPM? YES.), or [...]
Despite having spent entire summers managing the interactions of American tourists with working dogs, I never realized how little most people understand sociocaninical etiquette until I adopted a dog a few weeks ago. Eliza, my beautiful mutt, is somewhat skittish; when a new person approaches, she cowers behind me, tail between her legs. Occasionally she [...]
You know that guy? That guy who thinks he knows everything? The one who uses academic jargon that few understand just so he can make himself feel more intelligent than everyone else? The student who consistently interrupts the professor in order to stir a debate about some tangent point slightly irrelevant to the class? That [...]
Charles J. Underwood III Staff Writer The Bulldogs ended their season with a 6-5 record on Nov. 19 on a strong note, losing a tough battle to Auburn in Jordan-Hare Stadium 35-16. Samford went 4-4 in their conference, putting them only a few games out of the FCS playoff picture. At one point, the Bulldogs [...]
Clayton T. Hurdle Staff Writer The Samford men’s basketball team began its Southern Conference season on Thursday with a home game against Western Carolina. In anticipation, the athletic department held a “Monday Madness” event in the Caf at the beginning of the week. On Monday night, both the men’s and women’s team interacted with the [...]
Jordan Cox Staff Writer Amidst a full Harry’s Coffeehouse, the Samford volleyball team discovered that the Cincinnati Bearcats would be their NCAA Tournament first-round opponent. The two teams will face off Friday, Dec. 2 at 3:30 p.m. CST in Tallahassee, Fla. Host team Florida State is set to face Albany at 7 p.m. later that [...]
The Samford News Network’s Leslie Graf traveled to Auburn to catch the action of Samford’s last game of the season. For more on the game, read our recap. Also, check out the moving ceremony with which Auburn honored Samford head coach Pat Sullivan before the game. Graf is also the co-editor of the Features section [...]
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