The Nashville City Paper reports on the nearly-completed Curb Event Center, Beaman Student Life Center and Maddox Grand Atrium, the grand new complex anchoring the southwest corner of the Belmont University campus.

The Tennessean reports on the coming of an exhibit of Russian Impressionism to Belmont’s Leu Gallery. You can read more about it here.

Belmont University is one of a handful of Nashville universities upset with how an online university based in Wyoming is hijacking other universities’ names in its online advertising on the Google search website. Nashville City Paper has the details.

The Gainesville Times in Gainesville, Ga., reports on hometown triplets, Jaclyn, Jessica and Jocelyn Kerr, recent graduates of Belmont University.

The Kerrs, who have no other children, moved to their Pine Vale Road home about one year ago from Kentucky, where the daughters lived when they decided to attend Belmont, all on scholarships. At the time, the triplets also entertained scholarship offers from Tennessee Tech and Western Kentucky University. “Belmont was their fantasy place to go, so when the doors opened up for all of them to go there, that’s the place they chose,” Kerr said.
The siblings’ strikingly similar lives don’t end there. All three competed on the high school swim team, with each sibling cultivating a favorite stroke. They were members of the Belmont Bruins Dance Team. They received Dean’s List recognition all eight semesters and are members of Sigma Beta Delta, Alpha Chi and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies. Also, each received the Massey School of Business Outstanding Student of the Year award for 2003.

The Wheeling, W.Va. newspaper reports on Belmont grad and country music star Brad Paisley’s concert in his hometown:

Paisley’s rise to fame has been well-documented on the Ohio Valley scene, as he spent much time performing throughout the Ohio Valley, before attending West Liberty State College for two years and then deciding to move to Nashville, where he attended Belmont University, while honing his songwriting skills and earning extra money by singing and playing on demos. Paisley signed a songwriting deal only one month after his graduation from Belmont, and here he is.

Nashville City Paper reports on planning involving Belmont University and its neighbors along Belmont Boulevard for upgrading the streetscape.

Changes under way for Belmont University include a proposed streetscape plan for Belmont Boulevard that includes crosswalks, lighting, landscaping, possible parking scenarios and a stoplight at Compton Avenue. … Improvements would occur from 18th Avenue to Ashwood Avenue, and funding for the project on the school side of the street would come from the university. … Illustrations presented Thursday include landscaping and decorative lighting improvements, with sugar maples and flowering trees lining the street.
“In general terms I think it is great that Belmont Boulevard is getting some attention from the university and hopefully the city putting some money into fixing it up,” Bongo Java owner Bob Bernsteine said. “It is a busy corner in terms of business, students and traffic so it needs some attention,” he said.

Vanderbilt University will be Belmont’s opponent in the first men’s basketball game at Belmont’s new Curb Event Center, Nov. 21. Press coverage in The Tennessean here and Nashville City Paper here. The City Paper also comments on the renewal of the rivalry with Lipscomb University.

BPSports.net reports on staff changes in the Belmont athletic department.