Belmont Campus Security, in partnership with Residence Life and Facilities Maintenance Services, recently donated 45 bikes to the Edgehill Bike Club, an organization in the Edgehill neighborhood that aims to provide free bicycles to local children. The partnership has been in place for two years, and this year’s donation is the largest yet.
Security gathers the donation by collecting abandoned or forgotten bikes from racks across campus at the end of the summer. After sending out several notifications to current students in an effort for bikes to be reclaimed, the team donates the ones that have been left behind to the Bike Club.
Created in 2013 by Terry Key to create crime-free communities, the Edgehill Bike Club “seeks to change lives one child at a time by combining the refurbishing of bikes with regular bikes rallies and mentoring.” Key seeks to achieve the Club’s goals by educating and inspiring children and families living in disadvantaged neighborhoods through providing active community-based programming.
Belmont Campus Security Captain Louis Mills said the opportunity to donate the bikes is a positive experience for everyone — including his officers. With bike officers included as an active part of Belmont’s fleet, Mills and the rest of his team enjoy cycling, themselves. The opportunity to partner with another cycling organization is exciting. “We enjoy working with Mr. Key and the community to put bikes in the hands of our neighbors,” Mills said. “With several bike officers across our campus, we are happy to share our love of cycling with others.”
Associate Professor of Audio Engineering Technology Dr. Dave Tough’s song “Lonely World” was featured in the season finale of “The Fosters” on ABC Family (Freeform) on September 5. Tough produced/engineered the song and co-wrote it with Belmont alum Tyler Stargle who is also singing on the track
Dr. David Herrera, assistant professor and Dr. Cheryl Carr, associate dean of the Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business recently performed with the Rory Partin Big Band to benefit band member and Belmont alumnus Rory Partin who is recovering from lymphoma.
He closed out the chapel, though, by reflecting back on his days on campus and the inspiration for his first hit, “Long Black Train,” which he sang at the conclusion of the event. The story began with the 1998 release of a Hank Williams Box Set, which Turner couldn’t afford to purchase but which he was able to find in Belmont’s Bunch Library music collection. After listening to the entire collection one night, Turner left the library for the walk back to his room in Hillside. “I got this vision of a long, black train moving through an open plain… I realized that the train was a metaphor for temptation, and I went back to my room and wrote three verses and a chorus that night. After class the next day, I realized the song wasn’t quite finished, and I wrote the fourth verse while working at the clubhouse. Today, after visiting The GIG, is the first time I walked in and out of the library since I wrote that song, and it gave me chills. It’s always fun to come back to play this song where it was born, here at Belmont.”
Belmont University recently announced the expansion of its successful Belmont East (New York) and Belmont West (Los Angeles) programs—historically designed primarily for music and entertainment business students—to include new opportunities for students from any major to experience study away without securing a passport. An exclusive Belmont University experience away from Nashville, 
Katie Boatman, lecturer and director of galleries at Belmont University, has been invited to exhibit new work in A Curated Life: Mediations Between Art, Objects and Ideas at Clemens Fine Arts Gallery in Paducah, Kentucky. The show highlights several artists that also work as curators, exhibiting other artists’ work.