Articles By: Erin Carson

More students, more concerns

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....

April 30th, 2010 | News | Read More

Diversity at Belmont

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...

April 30th, 2010 | News | Read More

For better or worse, tweets go down in history

The Library of Congress announced the decision to preserve public tweets, as in those 140-character messages sent using micro-blogging site Twitter. The idea is to save a “snapshot” of history and Twitter is definitely the phenomenon of the month, so maybe it makes sense. For anyone not on Twitter,...

April 29th, 2010 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

The Week at Belmont – April 14, 2010

Click here to watch! This week: Senator John Thune pays a visit to campus, the library gets its own week and Correspondent Cassidy Hodges has a showdown with Dr. Fisher. Trust us, you’ll want to check it out.

April 15th, 2010 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

New SGA constitution up for approval by student body

After nearly a year in the works, Belmont’s Student Government Association is ready to present a new constitution for ratification by the student body. On Tuesday, April 13th, students can log on to Blackboard to vote on whether the constitution should be adopted. Changes include: Limiting the...

April 12th, 2010 | News | Read More

The Week at Belmont – April 7, 2010

Click here to watch! This week we debut our snazzy new opening graphic, courtesy of Vision Editor Lance Conzett. Also: Greek Week, student unrest, the 6th annual dance concert and a whole bunch of community service convo.

April 7th, 2010 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

Broken water main floods portions of campus [Update: Video]

A broken water main on Bernard Avenue sent a geyser of water shooting into the air and spilling onto portions of Belmont’s campus this morning. According to field supervisor over construction repair, Greg Knalls, the call came in around 6:30 a.m. though the system that monitors water pressure...

April 7th, 2010 | News | Read More

The Week at Belmont – March 31, 2010

Click here to watch! It was a light news week, mainly because break is Thursday and Friday, so we sort of followed our whim in this episode. Happy Easter.

March 31st, 2010 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

12 South chic, cool, funky

12 South is the place where the cool artsy people you knew in college in the 90s, moved, married and made babies. Past the liquor store, past the Bass Street Missionary Baptist Church, past the gray Hillside apartments, chipped sidewalks, and chain link fences, a short sign lets the visitor know that...

March 24th, 2010 | A&E | Read More

Music: To delete or not to delete

I have five days worth of music on my computer. This is by no means the largest collection out there, but five days is a lot of music. What does anyone really need with 120 hours of songs? I have no idea, but I sure have a hard time deleting any. There’s always the off chance I’ll want to listen...

March 24th, 2010 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More