Heartney’s Appearance In Connection 100 Artists See God Exhibition at Cheekwood Museum
Belmont University announces an upcoming event in connection with the 100 Artists See God exhibition at Nashville’s Cheekwood Museum of Art. On March 16 at 7 p.m. in the Maddox Grand Atrium, Eleanor Heartney will present a slide lecture entitled “Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art.” Heartney is a New York-based art critic and writer on cultural issues. She is a contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for various publications including Artnews, Art and Auction, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post and The New York Times.
NY Art Critic Discusses “Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art”
Belmont to Host Tournament Bracket Selection Party
Belmont University will host a viewing party of the 2006 NCAA Championship Selection Special this Sunday, March 12, from 4:00-7:00pm in the lobby of the Beaman Student Life Center on the Belmont campus. Televisions will be set up throughout the lobby showing CBS Television’s coverage of the NCAA Tournament Selection Special. In addition, there will be an introduction of the Belmont players and coaches, giveaways, refreshments and other festivities that will celebrate Belmont’s first appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
Belmont takes aim at A-Sun basketball sweep – Nashville City Paper
The Nashville City Paper previews the Atlantic Sun Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament, which starts tonight in Dothan, Ala. Belmont’s women’s basketball team won won the A-Sun regular season title outright with a victory over Florida Atlantic and are the top seed in the tournament. They play Stetson University tonight. The winner of the A-Sun tournament gets an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. Belmont’s star freshman, Alysha Clark, fresh off her clean sweep of the A-Sun Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards, said it would be “awesome” for both BU teams to qualify for the NCAA tourney.
The Belmont Stakes – Nashville Scene
If there were any lingering doubts that the old Battle of the Boulevard – a major event back in the days when Belmont and Lipscomb were perennial NAIA powers – was no longer as meaningful as it once was, Saturday’s A-Sun Tournament final should have vaporized them. The two schools, both recent arrivals to NCAA Division I, shared the conference title in the regular season. Then they advanced to the tournament championship. The title game – a taut, overtime thriller that could have had any of about four different endings – is one they’ll talk about for a long time. – Randy Horick, writing in this week’s Nashville Scene.
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Belmont Student to Work on The Daily Show
Belmont University student Joseph Woolley has been selected as one of 25 students to attend the most notable student outreach effort of the International Radio and Television Society’s (IRTS) Summer Fellowship Program. Woolley was chosen from over 800 applicants across the country that applied to attend this program that teaches up-and-coming communicators the realities of the business world through an all-expense-paid fellowship in New York. The fellowship lasts nine weeks and includes practical experience and career-planning advice. After a week-long orientation the students gain full-time “real world” experience at New York-based corporations for eight weeks. Woolley has been selected to study and work at The Daily Show for the duration of the fellowship.
Woolley is also the recipient of the Bridgestone/Firestone Public Affairs Scholarship for the 2005-2006 school year. Nashville-based Bridgestone/Firestone recently established a new $2,500 scholarship at Belmont University. The scholarship is awarded annually to a full-time junior or senior public affairs student who demonstrates academic excellence, campus service and professionalism. The recipient is selected by the Media Studies Department Chair and the Public Relations Director in consultation with officials at Bridgestone/Firestone, and is based on academic criteria, internship experience, references, participation in career-building activities and demonstrated professionalism in the classroom, campus and community.
Woolley will graduate with a bachelor of arts in May 2006 as a journalism major with an emphasis in convergence media. He has frequently represented Belmont University at alumni, prospective student and other community events. His resume includes extensive internship experience with the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, memberships to multiple public relations and journalism associations and impressive volunteer work during the 2004 presidential campaign.
Freshman Phenom Clark Leads A-Sun All-Conference Team
Coach Tony Cross named A-Sun Coach of the Year
On the heels of Belmont’s women’s basketball team’s second Atlantic Sun Regular Season title in three years, two players and Head Coach Tony Cross were honored in the postseason by the conference as announced on Tuesday. Freshmen Alysha Clark (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) and Jessica Bobbitt (Trenton, Tenn.) were named to the All-Freshman Team. Clark, who was the unanimous Freshman of the Year selection, was tabbed Player of the Year and received All-Conference First Team honors. Cross was named Coach of the Year, the first time he has received the honor since the program joined the A-Sun in 2001.
Team On A Mission
Belmont University’s Paul Chenoweth reflects on a different aspect of the Bruins men’s basketball team as they head to the NCAA tournament: “Their achievements in the classroom, on the court, and in the real world are a true reflection of Coach Rick Byrd, his staff, and a commitment to Belmont’s Mission. Several times in yesterday’s game, the Belmont team playing on the court was full of last year’s Sports Evangelism Team who traveled to Ukraine. I cannot begin to describe the depth of caring, compassion, and spirit that Deb & I witnessed personally during that trip…the passion and intensity of their play yesterday might give you some idea of how these men live all aspects of their lives.” Pictured: Belmont Bruins basketball player Justin Hare visits an orphanage in Ukraine. Photo by Paul Chenoweth.
Belmont Drummer Entertains the Troops
The Greenfield, Ind., Daily Reporter profiles Tyler Oban, a Belmont University entrepreneurship student who spent much of January as a touring musician entertaining American troops at military bases in the Middle East. Oban was the drummer in a six-person band that performed on American bases in the Middle East, including Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq. Oban is a senior studying entrepreneurial business at Belmont, when he is not playing drums.
Belmont growth explosive since 2000 – Nashville City Paper
Nashville City Paper explores some of the factors in Belmont University’s rapid growth over the past five years:
In the fall of 2000, Belmont University was steadily falling into collegiate limbo, wedged between having a stagnant enrollment and being overstaffed while under-endowed. That year, Bob Fisher was named president with a vision to increase the university’s enrollment from less than 3,000 to 4,000 by 2007. Provost Dan McAlexander was brought onboard in the spring of 2001 to spearhead the expansion. “We were running programs inefficiently, and because of that, we were behind on what we were able to pay faculty and staff,” he said. “We were basically serving too few people with too many.”
“Where the term student-athlete is not an oxymoron.”
Tennessean sports columnist David Climer writes about Belmont University men’s basketball coach Rick Byrd: “March has gone mad for Belmont. Rick Byrd, who steered this program from the NAIA to NCAA Division I, has reached college basketball’s promised land after 24 years as a head coach. He has found the right fit at Belmont. He coaches an above-board program where the term student-athlete is not an oxymoron, so much so that on the evening after the Bruins punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament, the players went on spring break. Just like regular college kids. You can read Climer’s column online here.
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