Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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38 pu art EM i ¥ % | ¥ + 6 Foreword

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Looking to the sky became the national ' pastime this year as political questions clouded the horizon. Who would win the 1976 presidential election? What would the new president do about economic problems? And how would he handle the growing problem of dissatisfaction of the American people with their government? With his election, Jimmy Carter became the target for these queries. He answered them by immediately setting several plans into action. Sky-watchers found Carter’s foreign policy to be a very interesting subject, as well as its effect on the Soviet SALT talks and relations with the Mid-East. No less interesting were domestic policies, the stand on amnesty, and federal spending. The nation began literally watching the sky as winter came on with greater fury than had been witnessed in some time. Sub-freezing temperatures and unusual amounts of precipitation increased demand on an already low fuel supply. Shortages arose and debate over the Alaska pipeline continued as the nation shivered under winter’s wrath. As always, however, spring came; the nation thawed, and oil flowed through the pipeline at last. With summer’s approach meteorologists began to check the sky over California in hopes of finding rain clouds to ease drought conditions and observers continued to check the political heavens for indications of what would happen next. Foreword 5

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David Lipscomb College mirrored national events during the year: Lively student body president elections brought leaders who stressed greater student involvement, the school faced energy and economic problems due to the hard winter, and a long-time goal was reached triumphantly. Set apart from the hubbub of metropolitan Nashville and the mad rush of the world, the school bases its existence on morality and dignity. Like the human rights aspect of President Carter’s foreign policy, Lipscomb emphasizes conformity to rules of conduct — those rules set forth by God’s law, the fundamental principles of Christianity. In this place the student may explore and question. There is time to investigate academics, to contemplate self, to mature. - Lipscomb stands as a type of the nation — a community within itself, reflecting the world around it, yet differing in its slower pace and more defined approach to problem-solving. “Do you know what a man is? Are not beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?” —— Shakespeare Foreword 7