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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...
Lillie Burke
Nov 1, 20132 min read
Fight for ‘LU’ moniker pointless argument
As a Belmont student, I’m not normally one to stick up for Lipscomb. Lipscomb is our enemy, our adversary, our foe. But, when I...
Lillie Burke
Oct 25, 20132 min read
UN Women Google ad campaign exposes disheartening Internet searches
According to the Internet, Google must be a woman. Why is that? Because the search bar tries to finish your sentence before you can even...
Lillie Burke
Oct 4, 20132 min read
Attention: Clodhoppers wanted
A few years ago, the Belmont men’s and women’s soccer teams played on Whitten Field. It was a vast green space in front of McWhorter Hall...
Lillie Burke
Sep 20, 20133 min read
Gun control: mental health becoming larger part of dialogue
Headlines tell of a shooting. Conflicting reports mention a shooter on the loose, the same shooter that another news agency said was dead...
Lillie Burke
Sep 5, 20131 min read
The Week at Belmont – September 5, 2013
One host. Two hosts. Three hosts? Host Katie Greene is joined by Ashley Burton and Gracie Helms in a triple-host showdown of sorts....
Lillie Burke
Aug 30, 20132 min read
A lasting legacy, granddaddy Greene’s love of the game
Most of the time people expect to see my brother with a grungy baseball hat on since he plays. But this time was different. Sweat stained...
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