THE END is best place to begin

Breaking up is hard to do. If the cover wasn’t clear enough for you, we’re moving on. Doing something new. Whatever you want to call it. The point is, the pages you’re reading right now will likely be the last the Belmont Vision ever prints. As of this summer, we will be an exclusively online enterprise...

April 18th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

The Week at Belmont – April 12, 2012

This week emotions are running high as we say goodbye to our trusty host Dustin Stout. He and the rest of campus are preparing for graduation with news on caps and gowns, ceremony tickets and “Life Beyond the Tower.” Plus, Belmont students are getting busted more than ever these days for…...

April 12th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

‘… and on his farm he had a pig, E-I-E-I-O’

Let’s play a game. What do the following words have in common? Cow. Pig. Woman. Sheep. Goat. If you said mammals, then I guess I have to give you partial credit for knowing basic biology. But according to Georgia state Rep. Terry England, the correct answer is that all of the above choices should be...

March 28th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

The Week at Belmont – March 21, 2012

This week YOU GET A CAR! Well, not really. But there is a convocation about Oprah coming up. Plus, commercially savvy Correspondent Jessica Adkins is looking to finance Dr. Reality’s sabbatical to Croatia, so we’re signing more commercial deals! Plus, Sports Correspondent Katie Greene presents...

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

The Week at Belmont – March 15, 2012

This week the crew’s all aflutter about our Bruins’ big trip to the Big Dance! Sports Correspondent Katie Greene talks with our basketball players on the road to the NCAA Tournament. Plus, a well-known icon on campus turns the big 1-9-5. Then, more ways to give all your money to BU. Joy!...

March 15th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | 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

The Week at Belmont – February 9, 2012

This week, ya need a little twaaaaaang? Well, we’re bringing it when all four contestants of this weekend’s Country Showcase drop by to chat. Plus, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and we’re celebrating early with a few related convos like “The Valentine’s...

February 9th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

The Week at Belmont – February 2, 2012

Ever wanted a law school, but didn’t have the spare change to finance it? Well, in typical TWAB fashion, we’re topping out this week with Correspondent Katie Greene’s “Financing A Legal Education.” Then, the real Correspondent Jessica Adkins stands up and hits the streets...

February 2nd, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

Parking pinch needs solution

While the Belmont community may have different opinions on anything from faith, politics or music, there is one thing that unites most students, faculty and staff: They are indignant about the lack of campus parking. Drive into any parking area at Belmont at certain times, and you are in for a nightmare....

January 25th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

The Week at Belmont – January 19, 2012

This week Lady LaLa, Adelemont and Lil’ B Dubbs offer a few rejected Bruin fight song submissions. We’ll explain. Plus, want to be work tirelessly for minimum wage? You know you do. We’ll tell you how. And it’s Sex & the Soul week! So, light a romantic candle and prepare...

January 21st, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

The Week at Belmont – January 12, 2012

This week we’re back with a bang…and a Titan. Get news on the skydiving club and “The Importance of Sleep” convo. Plus, our new sports correspondent brings the Battle of the Boulevard – ahem – results. Plus, is Correspondent Jessica Adkins really imitating Eddie George...

January 14th, 2012 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

Time is right to raise your voice

The end is near. According to the logic inside my head, it’s a statement that doesn’t need to wait until next year’s Mayan maybe-apocalypse. After this edition is published, the last of the semester, logic tells me it’s time to kick back, focus on finals, and start looking ahead to Christmas...

November 29th, 2011 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

Puck drops on new Predators culture

A sport on ice should never have worked in Nashville. It’s not cold enough. Why play hockey in a city where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk a couple of months out of the year? But nevertheless, it happened. The NHL expansion brought the Predators to Nashville in 1998 with much fanfare, thousands of...

October 25th, 2011 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

Letter: Faculty speaks out on human rights issues

[Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor was submitted by a group of Belmont faculty members, whose names and university affiliations appear at the end. The document, as presented to the Vision, begins with the university's mission statement and is followed by the faculty statement.] To the...

October 14th, 2011 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More

SlutWalkers move to end blame, shame

Slut. Whore. Skank. Ho. Trick. If you are reading this sentence, then you made it past my attempt at the “shock and awe” method that involves the same derogative terms used by SlutWalk, a protest movement coming to Nashville on Oct. 2. This international movement to reverse victim blaming in rape...

September 28th, 2011 | Blogs/Opinion, Featured Opinion | Read More