Al Tompkins, Broadcast/Online Supervisor at the prestigious Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla, and a member of Belmont University’s New Century Journalism Advisory Board addressed legal and ethical issues facing journalists during Monday’s meeting of Professor Thom Storey’s First Amendment Law class. Tompkins was joined on the panel by two other members of the program’s advisory board – Lorrie Grant, senior retail and business reporter for USA Today (center), and Michelle Williams, Executive Director for the Texas Associate Press. (Click image to expand photo.)
Journalists Discuss Ethics Issues at Belmont
Bruins Are Unfamiliar With Kin – Los Angeles Times
UCLA has the same nickname as its first opponent in the NCAA tournament, Belmont, but that’s where the similarities end, say the Los Angeles Times, looking at the upcoming Belmont vs. UCLA men’s basketball game in the opening round of the NCAA tournament through UCLA’s eyes.
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Small school finally able to sing new song – USA Today
USA Today features Belmont on its front page today, with a look at how Belmont’s first NCAA men’s basketball appearance “validates the bold and expensive step the 4,300-student private institution took in 1996, when it jumped from the low-profile NAIA to the NCAA.”
Fans Revel, Coach Reflects as Bruins to Play Bruins of UCLA
Belmont men’s basketball players and fans react as their first-round opponent in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was announced Sunday. Photo by Belmont University staff photographer Michael Krouskop.
Belmont’s opponent in the the opening round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was announced Sunday. The Belmont Bruins (20-10, 15-5 Atlantic Sun) – winners of the Atlantic Sun Championship – received a 15 seed in the Oakland regional, and will play the Pac-10 Champion Bruins in San Diego Thursday. The Tennessean covers the scene at Curb Event Center when the announcement was made and also has more here on the coach leading the Bruins to their first-ever NCAA tournament. The Nashville City Paper has coverage too. Bruins Online will have updates and ticket information.
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Women Fall in Semis
Belmont University’s women’s basketball team lost to Gardner-Webb University in the semifinals of the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament in Dothan, Ala., Friday night. Check Bruins Online for the details.
Belmont Staff Present at Technology Conference
Three Belmont Univeristy staff members from Administrative Computing and Instructional Technology presented at the 2006 Southeast SCT Education Technology Association conference held in Nashville.
Kevin McClung presented two sessions: “Online Course / Instructor Evaluations in Banner” and “Adirondack’s Housing Module and the Student Web Interface.”
Kelly Moreland Jones presented “Managing Banner 7 Training.”
Claudia Myrick and Jones co-presented “Creating Computer Based Training with Captivate.”
Bruins eagerly anticipate Selection Sunday – Nashville City Paper
Minutes after Belmont won the Atlantic Sun Tournament last Saturday, clinching its first ever NCAA Tournament berth, Coach Rick Byrd said the magnitude of the victory hadn’t sunk in yet. Now Byrd has had almost a week to reflect on his Bruins’ history-making win. He’s spent that time doing interviews with various national media outlets, paying close attention to other mid-major conference tournaments and accepting congratulations from all across the country. “I’m grateful for what this win does, in terms of giving attention to Belmont,” Byrd said. “I’ve received so many calls from all over. That’s been the part I had no idea would happen, how many people would call to say, ‘Good job.’”
Now Byrd and his players, who returned from spring break Thursday, turn their attention to the NCAA Tournament Selection Show, which airs Sunday at 5 p.m. on CBS (WTVF-Ch. 5). Belmont will host a viewing party from 4-7 p.m. at the Beaman Student Life Center inside the Curb Event Center. – From today’s Nashville City Paper.
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Women’s Basketball Beat Stetson, Advance to A-Sun Semifinal
Determined to make its own history, the Belmont women’s basketball team knocked off eighth-seeded Stetson University 63-49 Thursday afternoon in the opening quarterfinal round of the 2006 Atlantic Sun Women’s Basketball Championship in Dothan, Ala. The winner of the tournament gets an automatic bid the NCAA tournament. Belmont Bruins News has the game report. Belmont will meet the winner of the #4 Gardner-Webb vs. #5 Campbell game tomorrow night at the Dothan Civic Center at 6 p.m. CST in a semifinal match-up. The game will be broadcast live on Bruins Online.
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Belmont Alumni Receive 12 ACM Award Nominations
Belmont University alumni received a total 12 awards nominations yesterday when the Academy of Country Music Award nominations were announced – including 10 of the 58 nominations given in the major categories that will be part of the televised awards show. Brad Paisley (’95) led all nominees with six nominations, including Top Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year for his album Time Well Wasted. The ACM Awards will be broadcast life on Tues., May 23, 2006, at 7 p.m. CST on CBS.
Maddox Foundation Continues Generous Support of Belmont
Most Recent Gifts for Building and Scholarship Funding
The Maddox Foundation, founded by the late Dan and Margaret Maddox, has continued its generous support of Belmont University with two recent gifts totaling $456,880, including a $350,000 installment of the total $5.5 million that the foundation pledged to help build the Maddox Grand Atrium that connects the Beaman Student Life Center and Curb Event Center on the Belmont campus. The foundation also gave Belmont $106,880 to continue funding Belmont’s Presidential Scholars Program and the Rasmussen Foreign Studies Program.
