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Lillie Burke
Aug 20, 20143 min read
Meet the editorial staff
This year we have an all new editorial staff, here’s just a bit to get to know them; Gracie Helms-Editor. I’m a junior journalism major...

Lillie Burke
Apr 23, 20142 min read
Finding the prize in the process
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of getting to chat with Betty Wiseman, a living Belmont legend at her home in Brentwood. She was...

Lillie Burke
Apr 16, 20143 min read
We are BU(ID)
I am a caucasian female on the Dean’s List who receives academic scholarship and federal grants. My class entered with an average ACT...

Lillie Burke
Apr 11, 20142 min read
Stress overwhelms and isolates students
In your last year of college, one of the words you hear most frequently is “senioritis,” that deep, dark hole of procrastination that...

Lillie Burke
Mar 28, 20142 min read
A letter to the fans: ‘Thanks for proving me wrong’
Belmont, I’m really proud of you. I know that’s not something I say very often, but I am. When our men’s basketball team was slated to...

Lillie Burke
Mar 21, 20142 min read
Vision 2020, the next steps
Growth is something Belmont students are used to. Since the start of Dr. Bob Fisher’s tenure as university president, Belmont has added...


Lillie Burke
Mar 14, 20142 min read
Bruin abroad: Home
Shreveport. Nashville. London. Home. All of these places I’ve referred to as home on more than one occasion. Even Denver and the stretch...

Lillie Burke
Mar 14, 20142 min read
White walls, blue professors
The new nursing and law buildings may be new, shiny and clean, but the older humanities building has one thing on them: personality. In...

Lillie Burke
Feb 28, 20142 min read
Intentionality before immediacy
For many students at Belmont, these past few days have been very difficult. Our campus lost a senior nursing major–a friend, a peer in a...
Lillie Burke
Feb 27, 20144 min read
Trading Spaces: Being Vandy for a day
Although located less than a mile and a half away from each other Vanderbilt University and Belmont University are two entirely separate...

Lillie Burke
Feb 14, 20142 min read
Breaking Cupid’s arrow
Love is in the air, as is trepidation, fear and disdain. The supposedly most romantic holiday of the year lately seems to inspire more...

Lillie Burke
Jan 31, 20143 min read
Losing labels: What do athletes really look like?
At this point, the name Richard Sherman should be familiar to those who at least halfway pay attention to sports. The Seattle Seahawks...


Lillie Burke
Jan 30, 20143 min read
Bruin abroad: ‘it’s what i’ve always wanted to do’
I was chatting with my friend the other day (shout out to Laurs, the coolest geological engineer major around), and she was telling me...

Lillie Burke
Jan 24, 20143 min read
The grass is browner on the other side
With temperatures close to freezing on a semi-regular basis, the last place students want to be is outside. But come the end of March,...

Lillie Burke
Jan 17, 20142 min read
One trip is never enough
Originally, I wholeheartedly believed that studying abroad was a ploy. I assumed it was something that universities pushed on you,...


Lillie Burke
Jan 10, 20142 min read
Bruin abroad: expectations vs. reality
There’s an artfully-crafted scene in the movie (500) Days of Summer which compares main character Tom’s expectations about a meeting with...

Lillie Burke
Dec 4, 20131 min read
Anchorladies: The true story of Rhonda Olive
It’s our Christmas gift to you: There was a time when newsrooms were a woman’s domain. And the top anchor during that period was Rhonda...


Lillie Burke
Dec 3, 20132 min read
Vision to expand editorial staff
Every November, it’s the same story. Stress and the mentality to just push through are the dominant mode for all students. With projects,...

Lillie Burke
Nov 15, 20132 min read
Overcoming #BelmontProblems
I’ve often told people what has kept me at Belmont is the people I deal with on a daily basis – my professors, fellow students and...


Lillie Burke
Nov 12, 20132 min read
‘Never have I ever’ … pierced my bellybutton
For this installment of “Never Have I Ever,” I ventured to Icon Tattoo and Body Piercing on Church Street to *gulp* get my belly button...
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