By Elizabeth Clarke, LCU News
PINEVILLE, La. (LCU News) – Louisiana Christian University will offer high school students an inside look at life as a Wildcat during it Fall Preview Day, Oct. 7.
Scheduled from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., the event will offer prospective students a tour of the school’s campus, hear from current students and faculty members, learn more about student clubs and organizations, athletics, academic programs, ministry opportunities and residence life and gain scholarship and financial aid information.
Additionally, two scholarship competitions will take place that day.
The History and Political Science Division will host a speech competition. Students will be asked to compose a short speech answering the following question — “which of the purposes set forth by the Preamble do you believe has been best fulfilled within American society?”
Students interested in majoring or minoring in Spanish may take part in a read-aloud scholarship competition. Students will read “Poema 20” by Pablo Neruda.
Students should indicate their interest in participating in a specific scholarship competition on their Preview Day registration form.
“We urge all future college students — regardless of what high school grade — to participate in LCU’s Annual Fall Preview Day,” said LCU President Rick Brewer. “Prospective students and their families will receive information regarding academic programs and financial aid while meeting faculty, staff and students of the university. We have made plans for a comprehensive day on campus including lunch and tickets to our Wildcat football home contest that afternoon. Join us and discover the difference in the student learning experience at Louisiana Christian University where we prepare graduates and transform lives.”
Students who attend Preview Day will receive free lunch, tickets to the football game and LCU merchandise. All students who pre-register for Preview Day will have the $25 application fee waived.
To learn more or register for Preview Day, visit https://lcuniversity.edu/admissions/visit-campus/preview-day/
Lyon to speak C3 event
PINEVILLE, La. (LCU News) – Larry Lyon, senior vice president for business administration and an associate professor of ethics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, will be the guest speaker at Louisiana Christian University’s second Christ, Church, Culture event of the fall semester, Oct. 2.
Lyon will share about “Faith and Sexuality: Understanding our Cultural Moment.”
Lyon’s academic interests rest primarily in the areas of Christ and culture, public theology, and Christian ethics.
The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. in Guinn Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Wildcat debate team competes in first fall tournament.
PINEVILLE, La. (LCU News) – LCU’s Wildcat debate team made it to the final round of the novice division in the 2023 Mendoza Debate Tournament at Lee College in Baytown, Texas, Sept. 22-24.
Zavier Whiting, a senior criminal justice major from East Orange, New Jersey, came in second place, losing in a split 2-1 decision in the finals. He also placed 4th in overall speaker points in the novice division.
Daniel Wilkerson, a sophomore applied biology major with a minor in communication studies, from Bastrop, made it to the quarterfinals of the novice division.
The debate team’s next tournament will be the LSU-Shreveport Red River Swing Tournament, Nov. 3-5.
