For some Belmont students, the pain of running 13.1 miles was worth the pleasure of crossing the finish line during the Country Music Half Marathon. This year marked the 11th anniversary of the event, which also included the 26.2-mile Country Music Marathon. The race began at Centennial Park and ended [...]
Belmont ‘s eight-man golf team has five seniors, which sends an obvious message to next season’s young team. Freshman Elliott Wickenden gets that message. “What I like about college golf is the competitiveness,” he said. “I like the pressure of having to hit the shot when my team needs it.” [...]
When fans go to Belmont men’s tennis matches, they better get their Portuguese ready, as the eight-man team consists of six Brazilians and two local players. The rest of the Atlantic Sun has eight Brazilian players combined. Coach Jim Madrigal has always had a large number of South American players [...]
Interstate towns are not often my destination. They are waypoints, signs and reminders of how much farther I have to navigate around incompetent drivers and cope with the ever-growing presence of tractor-trailers bearing down in my rearview mirror. Occasionally, if the length of the trip warrants it, an exit can [...]
Middle Tennessee is home to dozens of music venues, some of them iconic pieces of local history. That number explodes into the hundreds if bars, coffee shops, band shells, record stores and anywhere else where guitars are strummed are considered. But despite Music City USA’s musical economy most music venues [...]
A series of band cancellations, rain and the looming threat of a tornado watch marred Vanderbilt’s Rites of Spring music festival last weekend. The festival officially kicked off on Friday afternoon, with performances by soul band Lubriphonic, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars and indie rock stalwarts Cold War Kids. As [...]
Belmont University recently made a decision not to charter Belmont Bridge Builders, a proposed student organization to foster dialogue about the intersection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – LGBT – issues and the Christian faith. Instead, the university is sponsoring a dialogue group, which has already met several times, [...]
Construction won’t stop anytime soon at Belmont, according to the university’s Vision 2015 plan. The plan calls for continuing construction on and off the main campus, including everything from building new athletic facilities in Rose Park and renovating the Belmont Heights Sanctuary to restoring the historic bell tower and possibly [...]
A spike in mental health issues at Belmont has resulted in 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in the fall of 2009 alone, an increase of more than 500 percent from the semester before. Peg Leonard-Martin, director of Counseling Services, believes the reason behind the increase is obvious: the added stress college students [...]
Belmont’s Vision 2015 plan outlines a number of future building projects, including residential space, dinning facilities, general classrooms, and a mall/plaza development. Even before those projects go forward, today’s students are expressing concerns about the state of student facilities at Belmont. Namely, the issue is condensed to this question: As [...]
President Bob Fisher paints a strong picture of Belmont University, thriving in terms academic quality, student enrollment, fiscal condition and campus size. Yet for all the positivity, when Fisher addressed the faculty and students at last fall’s Opening Convocation, he quickly cited one area as an ongoing weak spot in [...]
I admit that I can be pretty long-winded at times. Concise verbal storytelling is not my strong suit. But, I was taken aback when, 30 seconds into explaining my future job plans and expecting a response from my fiancée, I was met with silence. Peeking around the corner, I saw [...]
We’d all like to forget those years—somewhere around junior high—where all of our pictures are polluted with braces, bowl cuts and glitter jeans. We tried out the sliver glitter eye shadow and the boys went a bit overboard with hair gel. They were the awkward years, and we’d all rather [...]
The Vince Gill room was alive with buzz on April 19, as just about everyone close to the women’s basketball program—and media—was invited to meet new head coach Brittney Ezell. After an exhaustive search, there were probably a few sighs of relief, as well. Within a few minutes of meeting [...]
Andre’ Waller and Terrell Crudup, both Belmont religion students, joined five other Nashville college students in a diverse worship service just before Easter, focusing their sermons on the topic, “An Attempt to Silence the Lamb: Seven Last Sayings of a Crucified Christ.” They came together to offer a worship experience [...]
04/19/2012
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