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New building to house Media Studies being discussed
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New building to house Media Studies being discussed

Campus officials are discussing constructing a new building that will at least house the Department of Media Studies, according to top university and department officials. At a presentation discussing the features of the Wedgewood Academic Center Friday morning, Provost Thomas Burns acknowledged the Media Studies department would be built new [...]

Brian Wilson
Blogs/Opinion

Students need greater access, input

So if anyone missed it in the push to finals last semester, some Belmont school decided to cut tuition by a third next fall. Now before anyone calls home saying Bob Fisher has done the best thing of his 11-year tenure, let me clarify – it ain’t us. Belmont Abbey [...]

Beat ‘n’ Track: Aubrey Wollett
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Beat ‘n’ Track: Aubrey Wollett

Straight from the pages of her elementary school diaries, Tampa, Fla. native Aubrey Wollett wanted to one day move to Nashville to be a famous singer. Although she was willing and ready to start her college career at Belmont after graduating from high school, Wollett’s journey to campus took a [...]

Bruins rout Redhawks 107-72 in OVC home opener
Sports

Bruins rout Redhawks 107-72 in OVC home opener

For the Belmont Bruins, the final of the Ohio Valley Conference home opener against Southeast Missouri was all about the records. The 107-72 rollover win against the Redhawks broke the record for most points scored by the Bruins in the Curb Event Center, plus it was first game in the [...]

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RA applications available through Jan. 25

Students can apply to become a resident assistant for the next two weeks, but the process they will go through afterwards has changed. After years of focusing on individual applications and interviews, the Office of Residence Life plans to have applicants participate in a group process day once the first [...]

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Acuff to speak at Career and Calling Week

Best-selling financial and Christian author Jon Acuff will be the keynote speaker at University Ministries’ Career and Calling Week next week. Acuff, the author of “Quitter” and “Stuff Christians Like,” will speak four times in three days starting Monday as part of the program co-sponsored by the Office of Career [...]

Hand scanners coming to Beaman
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Hand scanners coming to Beaman

You don’t need to have a mugshot to get into the gym, but soon you will need to have a handprint. Big changes are taking place at the Beaman Fitness Center, and many are them are due to the implementation of Fusion, a new software that works as an access [...]

Green Fleet expands scope from Edgehill hub
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Green Fleet expands scope from Edgehill hub

Green Fleet Hub can’t afford to be subtle. The space the bike shop occupies could be easily mistaken as someone else’s garage without its logo plastered on its Edgehill Village exterior. The low-profile white brick building next to a recently-built development takes up a few hundred square feet at best. [...]

Security officer journeys from destruction to divinity
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Security officer journeys from destruction to divinity

His cap says ‘Security.’ His nameplate: ‘L. Maxwell.’ He patrols the campus with an ear-to-ear grin and despite the wrinkles and gray hair. There’s no question he loves his job. But before he began wearing his Belmont University Patrol Officer badge, he spent years rebelling against the law he now enforces. [...]

Campus transitions from BIC to MyBelmont
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Campus transitions from BIC to MyBelmont

Students coming back to campus this semester will have to adjust to something digital along with the typical construction. MyBelmont, the university’s new community intranet system, was fully implemented in December as the most recent overhaul to the Belmont Intranet Connection. Getting the new system to this point took more [...]

Sports

Belmont wins OVC opener

In its first game in the Ohio Valley Conference, the Belmont women’s basketball team came back to defeat SIU Edwardsville 66-52 Saturday night at the Curb Event Center. “It was nerve-wracking to be honest,” coach Brittney Ezell said. “I normally don’t get nervous, and the coaching staff doesn’t get nervous. [...]

Second half run puts Bruins past Jackrabbits
Sports

Second half run puts Bruins past Jackrabbits

All the Belmont men’s basketball team needed was a three to get started. The second half shot from Kerron Johnson sparked the Bruins on an 18-5 run that gave them to a 76-49 win against the South Dakota State Jackrabbits Wednesday night. “That’s about as much as I can remember, [...]

Kansas creams Belmont by 29
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Kansas creams Belmont by 29

LAWRENCE, Kan. – When Kansas guard Ben McClemore completed an alley-oop dunk to end the first half, the Belmont men’s basketball team left the Allen Fieldhouse court before he could make a subsequent free throw for the Jayhawks after the play. In a way, the Bruins never returned, getting drubbed [...]

Bruins blast Blue Raiders in 15-point win
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Bruins blast Blue Raiders in 15-point win

With a one-point lead, an Ian Clark 3-pointer late in the first half was more than just the first long-distance shot the Belmont men’s basketball team made on the night. Clark’s basket sparked a 21-5 run that pushed the Bruins to a 64-47 win over the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders [...]

Just ‘tweet’ it: The curse of convenience of social media in sports
Blogs/Opinion

Just ‘tweet’ it: The curse of convenience of social media in sports

We all know the power of social media, especially at sporting events. We can take a photo from our smartphone, apply a filter on it in Instagram and tag our location in FourSquare. From there we can tweet it or post it on Facebook. Whether it’s to vent or to [...]