Posts Tagged ‘GLBT issues’

LGBT group focuses on creating ‘open environment’

Goofy topics and laughs and giggles are the only thing happening as 20 students move University Ministries’ furniture around to form a circle late on a Friday afternoon. The 4 p.m. meeting is late, “like usual.” Some chair shuffling takes place while the stragglers seat themselves for the weekly...

March 28th, 2012 | News | Read More

Bridge Builders approved

The focus of the LGBT group Bridge Builders is shifting from two years of hurdles to get university approval to a future as a student-led, officially affiliated group on Belmont’s campus. Approval came at the end of February following the group’s third application over the past two years. Bridge...

March 31st, 2011 | News | Read More

On third try, Bridge Builders gets official status

Belmont Bridge Builders was approved Friday afternoon as an official student organization after being denied affiliation two times in the past year. The Office of Student Affairs says the group will be affiliated with University Ministries because it will deal with the relationship between homosexuality...

February 25th, 2011 | News | Read More

Faculty Senate recommends handbook changes

Belmont’s Faculty Senate voted to recommend adding “sexual orientation” to existing nondiscrimination policies in faculty, staff and student handbooks. The proposals, to be presented to the office of the provost for review, ask that the university’s written policies reflect Dr....

December 17th, 2010 | News | Read More

Proposal could halt Rose Park renovation

A proposed Metro Council ordinance could halt or delay renovation of Rose Park, intended to be the future home for six Belmont sports teams. Belmont President Bob Fisher quickly responded to the proposal in a statement in which he said, “I am surprised that two Metro Council members would offer...

December 13th, 2010 | Sports | Read More

Howe speaks out for civil rights

Former Belmont women’s soccer coach Lisa Howe speaks softly, but with clarity. Her voice level rarely rises. It always maintains a calm, comfortable consistency. She is more likely to raise her voice over a blown crossing pass on the field, rather than champion for civil rights. But last week she...

December 10th, 2010 | News | Read More

Neighbors association urges nondiscrimination

A group of Belmont’s neighbors is asking the board of trustees to “do the right thing.” The right thing, in a letter from Belmont Hillsboro Neighbors Inc. to the board Wednesday, is “to take a stand … by adopting a broad nondiscrimination policy.” The letter is posted...

December 9th, 2010 | News | Read More

Students establish ‘unified front’

About 80 Belmont students and faculty members gathered in a closed-door meeting Wednesday afternoon to help form a “unified front” on their stance toward the university’s policies regarding sexual orientation. The discussion was primarily led by current leaders of Bridge Builders—an unofficial...

December 9th, 2010 | News | Read More

Video: Dr. Fisher gives himself ‘low marks’

Video by Erin Carson Read the Vision’s coverage of Fisher’s statement.

December 8th, 2010 | News | Read More

Demonstrators want LGBT equality

More than 100 people protested the exit of Lisa Howe and Belmont University’s hiring policy related to sexual orientation Wednesday afternoon. The demonstrators marched from the Beaman Student Life Center to outside the Inman Health Science Center on Wedgewood Avenue. The events, which included...

December 8th, 2010 | News | Read More

Donor Mike Curb calls on Belmont to correct ‘injustice’

Major Belmont donor Mike Curb is calling on Belmont to reconsider its hiring policies. “I will do everything I can to try to get the Board of Trustees to reconsider their position based on the fact that this is a basic civil rights issue,” Curb said with reference to the recent exit of...

December 7th, 2010 | News | Read More

Media coverage links regarding the Coach Howe story

New York Times Belmont Players Supporting Ex-Coach; Sports Brief; December 8, 2010 Sports Illustrated Online Belmont gets it all wrong in ousting woman’s soccer coach Lisa Howe; Jeff Pearlman, Pearls of Wisdom column, December 7, 2010 CBS News Sports Belmont Coach Resigns Upon Lesbian Disclosure;...

December 7th, 2010 | News | Read More

Letters to the editor

December 9, 2010 To the editor, I worked in a business close to the campus about 20 years ago. It was a nice community that was very tolerant of gay oriented people. I would guess at least 1/3 of the population was gay. I had a lot of nice customers who were gay. I found the gay population considerate...

December 7th, 2010 | News | Read More

Faculty Senate wants open dialogue on hiring policy

The Belmont Faculty Senate postponed a vote on a resolution calling for clarification of Belmont’s hiring policy concerning sexual orientation, but passed a resolution encouraging the university and administration to have a open dialogue on campus. Religion professors Dr. Robert Byrd and Dr. Ben...

December 6th, 2010 | News | Read More

Howe: ‘I am proud of … my family and our future’

For the first time since her exit from Belmont University last week, former Belmont women’s soccer coach Lisa Howe released a statement that did not come from the school, but rather on the website of a national magazine. “I was a good student athlete recruiter, had an organized and professionally...

December 6th, 2010 | News | Read More

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