Archive for February, 2012

Santorum’s Curb rally draws crowd

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum faced mixed support during his rally at the Curb Event Center Wednesday night. A crowd of more than 500 was at the arena for the speech centered around Santorum’s beliefs about the size of government, health care and energy. During the approximately 45-minute speech,...

February 29th, 2012 | Featured News, News | Read More

Santorum coming to Belmont Wednesday

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will hold a public rally Wednesday night at the Curb Event Center, according to statements from his campaign and Belmont. The rally is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Doors will open at 7 p.m, according to the university. Santorum, a former U.S. senator from...

February 28th, 2012 | Featured News, News | Read More

New residence hall tops out, named for Dickens

For the second time in two months, Belmont president Bob Fisher stood in a construction zone in front of dozens of Belmont officials and students to celebrate the topping out of a building. This time, however, he had more to announce than just the progress of the new residence hall near Bruin Hills. At...

February 27th, 2012 | News | Read More

Introducing: A Bruin Abroad

Editor’s Note: Junior journalism major Hannah Hyde, who is studying abroad in England this semester, is a contributor to A Bruin Abroad, the Vision’s recurring blog from Belmont students studying outside of Nashville. “Let’s just go queue at the till to pay for my bangers and mash and...

February 25th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

Ducks drop Bruins to 2-2

Early offense from the Oregon Ducks put the Belmont Bruins baseball team behind for good in a 13-4 loss at Rose Park Thursday evening. The Ducks scored six runs in the game’s first two innings, and scored ten of their thirteen total runs by the end of the fourth. The Bruins allowed Oregon runners...

February 23rd, 2012 | Sports | Read More

The Week at Belmont – February 23, 2012

This week, PinPoint Evangelism demonstrates on Belmont’s campus, and we’ve got a thing or two to say about it. Plus, news on another Belmont Law convo and an Insider’s View guest with a long-winded bio. Then, sports correspondent Katie Greene’s report on the baseball team will...

February 23rd, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

Diamond Girls start inaugural season

While many girls consider a glitzy ring in a Tiffany-blue box their best friend, members of a new Belmont athletic group are instead spending their time with another diamond – one with red dirt and turf. After the Belmont Bruins baseball team earned a bid and won two games in the NCAA tournament last...

February 22nd, 2012 | Sports | Read More

Baseball ready to repeat

After winning their first Atlantic Sun conference championship and earning their first NCAA tournament bid, the Belmont Bruins are ready to return to the diamond in 2012 to try to do it again. The team hopes to have a more consistent season than last year’s 38-26, which was historic but required a...

February 22nd, 2012 | Sports | Read More

Beat ‘n’ track: Tristen Smith

The Beat ‘N’ Track plays on this month with sophomore music business major Tristen Smith. He hails from St. Clairsville, Ohio, just east of the Ohio River, where his kind of guitar slinging, rock inspired country music is alive and well. With inspirations like country guitar gurus Brad Paisley and...

February 22nd, 2012 | Music | Read More

For your reading pleasure

With all assignments given to college students every semester, it’s hard to find time to read books just for the sake of enjoyment. But if you find yourself with some down time during your busy college life, here are some noteworthy books to check out suggested by Belmont faculty and staff — no research...

February 22nd, 2012 | A&E, Art | Read More

Songwriters share room, sometimes a stage

Musicians. Songwriting majors. Belmont juniors. These roommates have a lot in common, but don’t let their similarities fool you. Although each has a style of music that falls under the folk-alternative genre, both Mackenzie Scott and Natalie Royal have their own individual styles. Scott and Royal met...

February 22nd, 2012 | Music | Read More

Hillsboro art walk turns storefronts into galleries

Floral paintings hang in A Village of Flowers. Little girls are crafting in Sweet CeCe’s. “DJ Just Greg” is mixing electronica tracks in front of Fire Finch, alongside a cakestress giving away cake pops. It’s a scene that returns, always with creative differences, on the first Thursday of every...

February 22nd, 2012 | Art | Read More

Keeping it personal: Freshman trades in label deal

A black Sharpie marks a mail-order CD with his name—a name originally known just on his MySpace page. That’s where Belmont freshman Chase Coy’s story begins. As mellow as his self-described “deeply personal music,” Coy, 21, slouched in a wooden chair and began to describe how his unique path...

February 22nd, 2012 | A&E, Featured A&E, Music | Read More

On Legislative Plaza: my day at Occupy Nashville

Mic Check. Shouts ring out across the plaza in response. Heads poke out of tents scattered across Legislative Plaza as the shouts get louder. The group meanders toward the steps, more interested in the “grub” than what the General Assembly has to say. Signs line the wall, left behind from a time...

February 22nd, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

Is The Pill newest culture war?

I never thought it would come to this. I’ve spent a year writing columns for this college media organization, and I never thought I would cross this line. But when the federal government, both major political parties and Fox News won’t stop making a fuss over it, I have to chime in with my two cents. The...

February 22nd, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More