Betty Wiseman, former long-time coach of the Belmont University women’s basketball team, will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame at its Induction Banquet and Dinner Feb. 27, 2004, in Nashville, along with ten other inductees. Wiseman established the Belmont women’s basketball team program in 1968, one of the first collegiate women’s basketball programs in Tennessee.
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame to Induct Wiseman
12th Annual Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game, Concert Set
The 12th annual Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert is scheduled for Monday, March 22, 2004, at the Curb Event Center. The event is an annual scholarship fundraiser sponsored by the Belmont University Athletics department and College of Music Business.
Belmont Spanish Students Help Build Habitat House
Students from Belmont University Spanish classes and members of the Hispanic Achievers organization worked with the Nashville Hispanic community on a Habitat for Humanity Home this past weekend.
Belmont’s Christmas Gift to Nashville: Five Free Concerts
Belmont University announces a Christmas gift to the Nashville community: five free concerts, including one that will be nationally televised on PBS.
Litvak appearance makes paper
The Tennessean mentions the appearance of Dr. Meir Litvak, a professor in Middle Eastern and African history at Tel Aviv University in Israel, at Belmont University. Litvak will address the issue of Islamic fundamentalism and hatred of the United States and Israel Wednesday night at Belmont University. The university’s press release is here.
Harrington quoted in AP story on Wal-Mart’s online music plans
Dr. E. Michael Harrington, professor of intellectual property and music business at Belmont University, was interviewed recently by the Associated Press for comments on Walmart’s decision to sell music online. The story has been carried so far in the:
Atlanta Journal Constitution
USA Today
Detroit News
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Louisville Courier Journal
Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise.
Gwinnett Daily Post (in suburban Atlanta)
Belmont Journalism Students Cover ONA Conference
The future of news in a digital, converged-media age was the topic of much discussion at the Online News Association’s 2003 Conference and Awards Banquet in Chicago, where two Belmont University journalism students helped produce the written and video news coverage of the event. Here’s a web page listing more coverage of blog-related ONA events. Some of the stories were written by Belmont University journalism students Chasity Gunn, news editor for the Vision, and Amanda Wheeler, arts & entertainment editor for the Vision.
Brad Paisley To Receive Distinguished Alumni Award
Country music superstar Brad Paisley will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from Belmont University at a banquet during Homecoming festivities. Paisley, who graduated from Belmont in 1995 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majored in music business at Belmont’s Mike Curb School of Music Business.
