Campus Life

Lip Sync is back, this year with an Olympics theme. The Grand Canyon University student event is expected to pack GCU Arena and showcase the flair, color, and wild dance moves that make the event so popular.

Phil Wickham’s national CD release party for his seventh album, “The Ascension,” is scheduled for Thursday night at Thunderground. For Wickham, it’s a return to Grand Canyon University, where he recorded parts of the album with the University’s New Life Singers.

Grand Canyon University’s student worship team supplies the talent behind the music at Chapel and theGathering. The group of 75 GCU students shares a passion for worship through contemporary Christian music.

Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee giant, is open for business on the second floor of GCU’s Student Union, which also includes a lounge area with more than 200 seats and a massive bank of TVs.

The number of Grand Canyon University intramural flag football teams doubled this fall as GCU provides recreation opportunities, including other team sports, to the largest student population in University history.

Hundreds of students packed the “circle” between Grand Canyon University’s colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education late Wednesday for live student performances at Java Jam.

Campus photographer Darryl Webb captured the images from a moving GCU tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks 12 years ago.

Java Jam is back this year, providing live music and comedy performances on the “circle” on the Promenade between the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education. Events are scheduled for Wednesday, and on Oct. 9 and Nov. 13.

Grand Canyon University volunteers will set up 2,977 American flags on the Quad just north of GCU Arena to mark the number of innocent victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.

Suji Shin and Samara “Samy” Carlon bring an international flavor to the Associated Students of Grand Canyon University student government. The natives of South Korea and Mexico said they hoped to make faith and communication priorities this year.