Nashville City Paper reports on a proposed change to Nashville parking ordinances that could impact Belmont University.
Belmont Athletics Unveils New Logo
After nearly six months of development, Belmont University and the Department of Athletics unveiled their new athletics logo on Tuesday. The new logo is an updated version of the previous mark introduced when Belmont University introduced the “Bruins” nickname in the fall of 1995. Featuring a growling bear and new Belmont script, the logo change coincides with the opening of the Curb Event Center on the south end of the campus.
“This is a time at Belmont where a lot of different things are going on. In coordination with President Dr. Robert Fisher, we decided it was time to reintroduce Belmont Bruins athletics to the Nashville community,” stated Assistant Athletics Director for Marketing Eric Jones. “It is just perfect timing with the opening of the Curb Event Center, an arena we feel will be one of the best facilities in the country.”
Local firm Dye, Van Mol and Lawrence created the new logo. The same company was chosen to develop the new Belmont University logo earlier this year.
The mark will be featured at center court on the new arena floor and will become the prominent symbol at all athletic venues and on team uniforms. Official merchandise bearing the new mark is available exclusively at the Belmont Bookstore on campus or via the internet at www.belmont.edu/bookstore. Additionally, a new Bruin mascot will be rolled out at a special new student gathering on Belmont
Belmont Grad/Marine Buried
Marines flank the casket of Lance Cpl. Gregory E. MacDonald at his burial ceremony Saturday in Massachusetts.
The Burlington Union in suburban Boston has coverage. MacDonald, a 1995 Belmont University graduate, died June 25 in Iraq while serving with the United States Marines.
Changes ahead for A-Sun?
Is the Atlantic Sun Conference, of which Belmont University is a member, headed for changes as a result of realignment of some of the big university athletic conferences? Perhaps, reports the Associated Press, noting that A-Sun member Georgia State University is expressing interesting in leaving the A-Sun for the Atlantic 10, the Southern Conference or Conference USA.
The 11-team league has six small, private schools that have little in common with Georgia State – Belmont in Nashville; Campbell University in Buie Creek, North Carolina; Gardner-Webb in Boiling Springs, North Carolina; Jacksonville University in Florida; newcomer Lipscomb in Nashville; Mercer in Macon and Stetson in Deland, Florida.
Georgia State President Carl Patton says the school would like to be in a league with bigger schools like itself and attract bigger audiences. If changes are afoot in the conference, Patton said, “We need to either bring some other larger schools into the Atlantic Sun, or we need to look into another conference.”
Troy State, the A-Sun’s representative in the 2003 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, will exit the conference for the Sun Belt Conference one year from now.
Another A-Sun member, Central Florida, “also could be moving on as a result of the trickle down effect from ACC expansion,” the AP reports.
Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher is president of the A-Sun Conference.
Dean’s List Coverage
Naples Daily News of Naples, Fla., mentions Belmont University spring 2003 Dean’s List member Sarah Dew. The Pine Journal of Cloquet, Minn., mentions spring 2003 Dean’s List member Teresa Jeffers. The Bowling Green Daily News in Kentucky mentions spring 2003 Dean’s List member Jeffrey Williams.
Nashville City Paper reports on ESL program
Nashville City Paper comments on Belmont’s ELS Language Center:
Foreign students are choosing Nashville as a place they would like to visit while they study English, which is why ELS Language Centers, located locally on the campus of Belmont University, is in need of host families for six-eight week periods.
[ELS Language Center Director John] Robinson said many students choose Nashville out of 30 U.S. center locations because the city is more inland and offers Southern hospitality and a safer environment. The center teaches 13 terms of English per year to a variety of persons, including students from Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and Ecuador wanting to apply to a college or university in the United States.
Professor-Entrepreneur-Author Joins Belmont Business Faculty
Dr. Jeffrey R. Cornwall, a veteran business professor, author of books on entrepreneurship and founder and former CEO of a fast-growing healthcare company, has been appointed as Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business.
As a member of the Massey School faculty, Dr. Cornwall will provide leadership within the overall College of Business Administration with respect to entrepreneurship outreach, research and teaching. Cornwall will also serve as director of the college
Noted Singer Joins School of Music Faculty
Kathy Chiavola, a Nashville singer who has graced hundreds of recordings by the likes of Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Tammy Wynette, Kathy Mattea, Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, and Bill Monroe, has is joining the faculty of the Belmont University School of Music starting with the fall 2003 semester as an adjunct instructor of voice. She earned both her Master of Music in voice and Bachelor of Music in voice from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has taught voice privately since 1976. has taught voice privately since 1976.
Chiavola brings a wealth of teaching knowledge to her students. She sings all styles of music from bluegrass to classical and is a highly acclaimed session singer and recording artist. Chiavola was voted 1995’s Outstanding Background Vocalist in the Nashville Music Awards.
Her numerous awards and nominations include 1997 contemporary Vocalist of the Year from the Society For the Preservation of Bluegrass Music; a 1997 nomination for International Artist of the Year on an Independent Label from the British Country Music Awards, nominations in 1998 and 1999 for contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year from the Society for the Preservation for Bluegrass Music.
Chiavola serves on the Board of Directors for the Nashville chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Her debut album, Labor of Love, gathered critical acclaim from various prominent music critics, and her subsequent recordings, The Harvest and From Where I Stand, are likewise critically acclaimed.
For more on Kathy Chiavola, visit www.kathychiavola.com. You can listen to a National Public Radio interview with Chiavola here.
Writing Prof Joins Belmont English Faculty
Belmont University’s Department of English has added a new faculty member for the fall 2003 semester.
Belmont Grad/Marine Killed in Iraq
Lance Cpl. Gregory E. MacDonald, a 1995 graduate of Belmont University, was killed in Iraq. The Lowell Sun newspaper in Lowell, Mass., has complete – and moving – coverage.
MacDonald earned a degree in philosophy and social policy in 1995 from Belmont and a graduate degree from American University in Washington, D.C., in 2001.
From the Lowell Sun:
BURLINGTON – “That I have died means that I have failed to achieve the one thing in life I truly longed to give the world, PEACE,” reads the last statement of Lance Cpl. Gregory E. MacDonald.
More than 200 friends and family mourned MacDonald at a military burial yesterday in Pine Haven Cemetery in Burlington, after services at St. Margaret’s Church.
A 21-gun salute was fired in honor of the U.S. Marine whose life’s work was to help achieve peace in the Middle East. MacDonald died June 25 in Hilla, Iraq, when his light armored vehicle turned over on his way to rescue ambushed American soldiers. He was 29.
The Washington Post reports MacDonald, who lived in the Washington D.C. area, joined the Marines after earning his master’s degree at American University because he saw military service as a way to gain credibility and experience in his intended career in Middle Eastern affairs:
“He wanted to do foreign policy work,” [friend Jeni] Spevak said, “and he wanted to do it for the Middle East, and he wanted to create peace in the Middle East.”
The Post says MacDonald was “a cerebral man with red hair and blue eyes who loved books and classical guitar and studied philosophy as an undergraduate (and) did not fit the classic profile of an enlisted Marine.”
