Art professors at Lyon Col- lege come and go. Margaret LeJeune, assistant professor of art specializing in digital art and photography, knew that well after spending three years with “a significant amount of turn- over” in the art department. When LeJeune joined the Lyon community in 2007, she worked with Chris Valle. Le- Jeune returned the next year, but Valle did not. “I was a sen- ior art professor after my first year here. It was crazy,” Le- Jeune said. - LeJeune saw this process repeat itself for the next two years. Don Overbeay took Valle’s position, but he was laid off during his first year and replaced part-time with Marvin Gates. Like Overbeay, Gates moved on from Lyon in a year’s time. - “Everything was haphazard,” Senior art major, Frances Win- frey, said of the program at the time. “There wasn’t any space to work. It was totally unorgan- ized.” - When Gates left the program in 2010, Dustyn Bork took his position. Bork came to Lyon with the intent to stick around. - “I was interested in the small size of the Lyon cam- pus,” Bork remarked. “I felt like I could make a greater impact here while furthering my own research and artwork.” His wife, Carly Dahl, became Kresge Gallery’s new gallery director, a position that LeJeune had previously juggled along with teaching every art history Hopeful future for Lyon’s art program BCM and FCA host antislavery awareness week From March 26 to 30, Bap- tist Collegiate Ministry and Fellowship of Christian Ath- letes hosted events to promote antislavery awareness. Lyon senior, Tesla Fields, said, “The goal of this week was to incite more awareness and action into our generation, because our generation is the generation who will have the skills and the power to do something about it.” - Human shaped cut-outs were placed around campus with items made by slave labor to promote awareness about this issue. Fields said, “It is important to support the companies that support fair trade.” - Lyon students could also buy red bracelets in the Temp. These bracelets were made by women rescued from sex trafficking and slave la- bor. The bracelets cost three dollars and Fields explained that “one dollar will pay the girl who made the bracelet. The other two dollars will go to finding and rehabilitating girls. If people missed their chance to buy a bracelet this week, we will also be selling them at Scot Fest.” - BCM and FCA raised money other ways this week as well. On Tuesday, March 27 Just Chillin’ donated 25% of every purchase to Well- spring Living as Hope Acad- emy in Atlanta, Ga. The school’s cause is to fund bet- ter law enforcement to better S PRING 2012, I SSUE 4 A PRIL 6, 2012 Alpha Chi awards 2 Bach’s Birthday Bash 2 Dr. Mulick Perspective 3 Bagpiping Major 3 Study Abroad 4 Macy shaves head 4 HLC visits campus 5 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Samantha Jones Co-Editor Elizabeth Ellis Staff Writer class offered at Lyon and the digital art and photography courses. “The gallery has taken off with pro- gramming,” LeJeune said of Dahl’s per- formance. “We are really lucky to have Carly Dahl.” Accord- ing to Dahl, the big- gest change she has made to the gallery is the artist featured in the gallery. “I think the gallery has changed in the sense that I’m bringing in different artists than [LeJeune] would,” Dahl said. Dahl noted that she has utilized Bork’s networking by connect- Continued on page 5 respond to human trafficking and to recognize human traf- ficking. Phi Mu helped support the cause by hosting a cake walk Wednesday, March 28 in front of the library. Participates could donate money. Any clothes left in the laundry room this week will be donated to the Family Violence Preven- tion Center. - If students could not donate their money or their clothes, they could write encouraging letters to girls who had been rescued from slavery. Zeta Beta Tau hosted a viewing of the movie Taken and Tau Kappa Epsilon partnered with BCM to host a rent-a-puppy event on campus. Fields said, “It is great to see the Greek life on campus supporting this great cause.”
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Art professors at Lyon Col-
lege come and go. Margaret
LeJeune, assistant professor of
art specializing in digital art and
photography, knew that well
after spending three years with
“a significant amount of turn-
over” in the art department.
When LeJeune joined the
Lyon community in 2007, she
worked with Chris Valle. Le-
Jeune returned the next year,
but Valle did not. “I was a sen-
ior art professor after my first
year here. It was crazy,” Le-
Jeune said. -
LeJeune saw this process
repeat itself for the next two
years. Don Overbeay took
Valle’s position, but he was laid
off during his first year and
replaced part-time with Marvin
Gates. Like Overbeay, Gates
moved on from Lyon in a year’s
time. -
“Ever y th in g
was haphazard,”
Senior art major,
Frances Win-
frey, said of the
program at the
time. “There
wasn’t any space
to work. It was
totally unorgan-
ized.” -
When Gates
left the program
in 2010, Dustyn
Bork took his
position. Bork came to Lyon
with the intent to stick
around. -
“I was interested in the
small size of the Lyon cam-
pus,” Bork remarked. “I felt
like I could make a greater
impact here while furthering
my own research and artwork.”
His wife, Carly Dahl, became
Kresge Gallery’s new gallery
director, a position that LeJeune
had previously juggled along
with teaching every art history
Hopeful future for Lyon’s art program
BCM and FCA host antislavery awareness week
From March 26 to 30, Bap-
tist Collegiate Ministry and
Fellowship of Christian Ath-
letes hosted events to promote
antislavery awareness. Lyon
senior, Tesla Fields, said,
“The goal of this week was to
incite more awareness and
action into our generation,
because our generation is the
generation who will have the
skills and the power to do
something about it.” -
Human shaped cut-outs
were placed around campus
with items made by slave
labor to promote awareness
about this issue. Fields said,
“It is important to support the
companies that support fair
trade.” -
Lyon students could also
buy red bracelets in the
Temp. These bracelets were
made by women rescued from
sex trafficking and slave la-
bor. The bracelets cost three
dollars and Fields explained
that “one dollar will pay the
girl who made the bracelet.
The other two dollars will go
to finding and rehabilitating
girls. If people missed their
chance to buy a bracelet this
week, we will also be selling
them at Scot Fest.” -
BCM and FCA raised
money other ways this week
as well. On Tuesday, March
27 Just Chillin’ donated 25%
of every purchase to Well-
spring Living as Hope Acad-
emy in Atlanta, Ga. The
school’s cause is to fund bet-
ter law enforcement to better
SPRING 2012, I SSUE 4 APRIL 6 , 2012
Alpha Chi awards 2
Bach’s Birthday Bash 2
Dr. Mulick Perspective 3
Bagpiping Major 3
Study Abroad 4
Macy shaves head 4
HLC visits campus 5
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Samantha Jones
Co-Editor
Elizabeth Ellis
Staff Writer
class offered at Lyon
and the digital art and
photography courses.
“The gallery has
taken off with pro-
gramming,” LeJeune
said of Dahl’s per-
formance. “We are
really lucky to have
Carly Dahl.” Accord-
ing to Dahl, the big-
gest change she has
made to the gallery is
the artist featured in
t h e g a l l e r y .
“I think the gallery has
changed in the sense that I’m
bringing in different artists than
[LeJeune] would,” Dahl said.
Dahl noted that she has utilized
Bork’s networking by connect-
Continued on page 5
respond to human trafficking
and to recognize human traf-
ficking. Phi Mu helped support
the cause by hosting a cake
walk Wednesday, March 28 in
front of the library. Participates
could donate money. Any
clothes left in the laundry room
this week will be donated to
the Family Violence Preven-
tion Center. -
If students could not donate
their money or their clothes,
they could write encouraging
letters to girls who had been
rescued from slavery. Zeta
Beta Tau hosted a viewing of
the movie Taken and Tau
Kappa Epsilon partnered with
BCM to host a rent-a-puppy
event on campus. Fields said,
“It is great to see the Greek life
on campus supporting this
great cause.”
SPRING 2012, I SSUE 4 P AGE 2
Students from the Lyon College chapter
of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society
won several awards recently at the soci-
ety’s Super-Regional Convention in Balti-
more, Md. -
Juniors Hannah Ellis, Megan Holifield,
and Jon-Michael Poff attended the confer-
ence with advisors Dr. Tim Lindblom and
Dr. Terrell Tebbetts. -
Ellis was elected to the Alpha Chi Na-
tional Council as the student delegate
from Region II. She will serve a two-year
term on the council. -
“I am truly honored to be the newest
student representative for Alpha Chi,”
Ellis said. “I’m proud to be able to be a
part of such a prestigious organization
and to represent our school there.”
Holifield won both a Region II junior
scholarship and a presentation award in
creative writing. Holifield’s paper was
called “Big Awful, Bad Awful.” -
Poff won the Alfred H. Nolle national
scholarship for his paper titled “‘City
Shower’ as Swift’s Parabolic Ars Po-
etica.” He also won a presentation award
in American Literature for his paper
called “Phrenology and Deviant Sexuality
in Poe and Whitman.” -
Junior Marc-Andre LeBlanc, who was
unable to attend the convention, also won
a Nolle scholarship. Alpha Chi awards
only ten Nolle scholarships each year. -
According to the Alpha Chi website,
the honor society seeks “to promote aca-
demic excellence and exemplary charac-
ter among college and university students
and to honor those who achieve such
distinction.”
Brian Neel, Scott Trantham, Victor Wil-
son, and Kelley Wyatt each played multi-
ple roles within the play. -
Sophomore Miracle Davis hopes that the
play encouraged the Lyon community “to
be more accepting.” -
“My hope is … they come to an under-
standing to not be so quick to judge or
persecute others,” Davis said. -
Senior Victor Wilson felt that the play’s
emphasis on community perspectives was
an important part of the message. “One
should be aware of one’s community at all
times,” he said. -
Davis says there has been an overall
positive reception to the play on campus.
On Oct. 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard
died after receiving severe head injuries
during what has been labeled a hate
crime; Shepard was homosexual. -
On March 22 – 24, Lyon College’s
Harlequin theatre presented The Laramie
Project, an account of the tragedy as seen
through the perspectives of 60 characters.
The production not only addressed issues
of prejudice and violence, but connected
the audience with a not so distant past.
Tonya Clapp, Miracle Davis, Justin
Holmes, Lauren Holt, Matthew Horne,
“They like what message we were sending.”
Other actors who had been part of The
Laramie Project in other productions had a
similar reaction and felt that the Harlequin
theatre “got the message” portrayed.
Davis felt the most difficult part of partici-
pating in the production was primarily the
abundance of characters every actor had to
master. She found it especially challenging
to become personas “that were so not like”
her and “hearing these things… watching
people say such hateful things.” -
She found the experience rewarding for
not only the positive reception and message,
Alpha Chi wins big in Baltimore
Harlequin Theatre: a step past entertainment
Press Release
Molly Young
Staff Writer
Junior Jon-Michael Poff and Dr. Ter-
rell Tebbetts visit Edgar Allan Poe’s
house in Baltimore.
Students, faculty, and staff honor Bach’s 327th birthday
Joey Gartin
Staff Writer
On Sunday, March 25, Lyon students
and faculty performed a musical celebra-
tion of the works of Johann Sebastian
Bach, in honor of the famous Baroque
composer’s 327th birthday. Dozens of
guests gathered in Brown Chapel to hear
the concert, led by Dr. Joel Plaag and Dr.
Russell Stinson. -
After an introduction from Dr. Plaag in
which he described Bach as not looking
“a year over 315,” the concert opened
with oboe soloist Hannah Cruse, followed
by organ performances from soloists
junior Aaron Walton, Cruse, and Dr.
Stinson. Other selections included a duet
between Dr. Stinson on organ and junior
Aaron Farris on drums, and a duet be-
tween Walton on violin and sophomore
Willa Thomason on cello. -
Guests then crowded into the Bevens
Music Room to hear a vocal duet between
Dr. Plaag and junior Diana Turnbo in
which Turnbo portrayed a young woman
addicted to coffee, and Dr. Plaag acted as
her exasperated father who just wanted to
find her a man. The audience laughed at
hearing a singing Dr. Plaag call his
“daughter” an “annoying little monkey,”
and seeing fellow audience members such
as Dr. Weatherman grabbed from the crowd
as prospective—and unsuccessful—suitors.
Lyon continues to support Bach’s legacy
in annually performing the composer’s
works and by relying on the knowledge of
organist and leading Bach scholar, Dr.
Stinson.
Continued on page 6
THE H IGHLANDER NEWSPAPER P AGE 3
time a student has concentrated the music
major with bagpiping. -
The major has
the basic require-
ments of the music
major with an
added requirement
of a final bagpip-
ing concert. Smith
is the director and
orchestrator of this
concert; his job
includes booking
the venue, market-
ing the concert to
the Lyon College
and Batesville
communities, and
teaching the pipe
band leading up to
t h e c o n c e r t .
Bagpiper Elliot Smith
came to Lyon College with
a history degree in mind.
However, after one short
year working under Jimmy
Bell’s guidance in the pipe
band, he decided to change
course a bit. -
“Jimmy taught me that
the goal of piping is to
teach as well as play,”
Smith said. He is now
pursuing a bagpipe major,
which would be a bridge
between the music major
and the Scottish arts de-
partment. While the major
is not new, this is the first
Lyon College’s Associate Professor of
Psychology, Dr. Patrick Mulick, is like
any other professor, teaching several
classes and always having something to
grade, but there is one characteristic that
sets Mulick apart from his colleagues. He
and his family live on campus. -
Spragins house, located by the freshman
dorms, serves as the Mulicks’ residence.
Initially, this had not been a plan for the
Mulick family. -
“I really had not thought at all about
living in Spragins House until the Lind-
Bagpiper Smith creates first bagpiping major
Professor Spotlight: Dr. Mulick’s on-campus perspective