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FEBRUARY 25, 2005
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Neighbors struggle
with campus cars
By Lacey Lyons
EDITOR
You’re not the only one who can’t find
a parking place.
“There’s an ordinance that says if
neighbors who share 250 feet of road front
can’t access their homes, they can petition
to restrict parking to themselves and their
guests only,” university council Jason
Rogers said Monday at the second of a
series of community meetings concerning
Belmont growth.
The university doesn’t want that to happen, but if the Belmont neighbors who find
their driveways blocked and curbside parking also filled with cars sporting Belmont
parking passes, it could.
“If students keep parking in front of the
neighbors’ homes, they will petition for
RPPs and be able to have a student towed
for parking on a public street.”
As the dialogue on parking and other
issues related to increasing enrollment and
facilities continued, Rogers said he is
“hopeful and anticipating” that parking
needs will be met by two new “parking
structures,” each of which will provide 800
spaces.
Rogers said Belmont has plans to complete those by August 2006, and the possibility of resuming satellite parking is also
under consideration. However, Rogers said
the university is against a residential permit
parking plan the neighbors suggested as a
solution.
The university is also considering using
some existing space as gravel lots.
“These are public streets,” Rogers said.
“Neighbors have private driveways and
access by alleys. We’re not the state. We
can’t tow or write tickets.”
See PARKING, page 4 ➲
PHOTO BY JENNY DEW
Dr. Joe Smolira’s Advanced Business Finance class is using the new Financial Trading Room to
learn about stocks and how to use the Bloomberg.
From BU to Wall Street
By Katie Harp
MANAGING EDITOR
In just the first month of its opening, the
financial trading room is providing students
with the resources needed to get them ahead in
the world of business.
“This is the first of its kind in Tennessee,”
John Gonas, assistant professor of finance, said.
The room includes portfolio simulation software, a ticker that displays stocks from the
New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ,
a 61-inch plasma television and a Bloomberg
terminal.
“We wanted to simulate what an investment
research analyst or a portfolio manager does
day to day. The students have access to the
same resources that they do,” Gonas said.
The financial trading room was the idea of
Pat Raines, dean of the college of business
administration. Raines came from a college that
had a room similar to this one.
There are three professors using the room
right now to teach classes. All of these classes
are upper-level business classes.
However, this number is expected to grow.
“We intend for all upper level classes in
economics, accounting, international business,
finance and other disciplines will use the room
for its function,” Gonas said.
Currently one of the classes has the students
managing the Bruin fund, two mutual funds of
$35,000 and $400,000 that students can use to
invest in various stocks.
Managing these funds is a very important
task for these students.
“Students can buy under a strict investment
policy,” Gonas said.
Everything in the room is strictly business
with no time for playing on the computer.
One of the neat things about the room is the
podium behind which the professor stands to
teach class. The professor can monitor the students’ work from the podium.
The professor can also put a student’s computer screen on the plasma television.
“I’ve busted anybody that is checking email or playing solitaire during class,” Gonas
said.
Crowd pleasers
PHOTO BY AMY JOHNSON
Blaze and Knowledge, a duo that includes Belmont music business majors Brandon
Reed, from St. Louis, and Tory Chapmon, from Atlanta, respond to their growing fan
base at the recent Urban Showcase. The two won the showcase with their R&B/rap performance. ADDITIONAL URBAN SHOWCASE PHOTOS, page 8. ➲
‘Price is Right’ for junior Jack Young
By: Katie Harp
MANAGING EDITOR
A Belmont student will make an appearance on national television March 2, but it
won’t be in a country music video.
Jack Young will “come on down” to The
Price is Right in the show set to air next
Wednesday.
“I was really astonished. I didn’t think
they would call me,” Young said.
Other members of Belmont’s show choir,
Company, were equally as shocked.
“The thing I think that made Jack stand
out among all of us was he was the only one
who introduced himself in the interview,”
Faith Oliphant said.
The choir, which tried to maintain a professional manner, was set to perform the
same day so they tried not to yell too loud
and not hurt their voices when Young was
called down.
They also advertised their musical ensemble by wearing Company shirts that told
about their next performance, the Music City
Show Shoppe at Belmont Saturday, Feb. 26.
Attending the show was something group
members had been working on for some
time. The group wanted to attend a taping of
the show while they were in Los Angeles for
a performance at the American Choral
Directors Association Convention.
“As soon as we found out we were going
to California, we started trying to get tickets
to get on the show,” Oliphant said.
The show airs at 10 a.m. weekdays on
CBS.
“We had talked about wanting to go and I
made some phone calls,” Company member
Sam Allen said.
A woman returned his call and was able
to give him 20 tickets to attend the show.
The Price is Right is something several
members of the group have been watching
for many years.
“I watch it every chance I get,” Josh
Funderburg said.
Young was the second person called to be
a contestant on that day’s taping.
He won his chance to get up on stage by
bidding $501 on a group of patio furniture.
Young then got to shake the hand of Bob
See PRICE IS RIGHT, page 4 ➲
Page 2
The Belmont Vision, February 25, 2005
Amnesty group supports human rights
By Christy Frink
GETTING THERE
STAFF WRITER
In 1961, two Portuguese students were
arrested and imprisoned after raising their
wine glasses in a toast to freedom. On May
28 of that year, British lawyer Peter
Benenson wrote an appeal for amnesty on
behalf of the students, which was published
worldwide. The article garnered the muchneeded support for Benenson’s vision for
Amnesty International, an international campaign for the protection of human rights.
More than 40 years later, Belmont students can be found writing letters every
Friday morning in the Wheeler Humanities
Building, lobbying foreign governments for a
variety of human rights issues. These students are taking part in the weekly letter
writing convocation presented by the
Belmont University Amnesty International
Group.
The group, which was founded in fall of
2000, aims to raise awareness of human
rights issues, both on global and local levels.
Belmont’s chapter of Amnesty
International will host a convo March
4 to teach participants how to write
letters on behalf of victims of human
rights abuses. The event, for community service credit, will take place in
Wheeler 309 at 10 a.m. Human
rights letter writings are held at 10
a.m. every Friday in WHB 309. To
find out more about the group,
check out their Web site at
www.geocities.com/amnestybelmont,
which includes a calendar of convo
opportunities.
Issues addressed include the death penalty,
domestic violence, child labor, torture,
women’s rights and treatment of prisoners.
“In general, Amnesty International is
Speech, debate win 1st
For the fourth year in a row,
Belmont's speech and debate team
won the Tennessee Intercollegiate
Forensic Association State
Tournament.
“Some exciting things are happening” the team's coach, professor
Mary Vaughn, said, now that the
team won this year as well as the
previous three years.
In addition to Belmont receiving the state champion title as a
school, several individuals were
state champions in their categories.
Those who were state champions for individual events include
McKinley Belcher for informative
speaking, poetry and communication analysis; Ryan Greenawalt for
impromptu speaking; and Kristen
Taylor for after-dinner speaking.
Champions for debate include
Aketa Simmons and Travis
Holloway for open debate and Will
Cromer and Caleb Smith for the
novice category.
Vaughn said the team continues
to improve and is a very hardworking.
"I'm so pleased," said Vaughn.
"They're usually begging me for
more group practices. They are a
very motivated group."
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about bringing cases of civil and human
rights violations to the public’s attention and
encouraging people in democratic areas to
lobby their governments,” says Dr. Daniel
Schafer, faculty adviser to the group. “It’s
possible to be active on many human rights
issues even if you’re not entirely decided on
each one. I think people should take action
on their beliefs.”
In addition to the weekly letter writings,
the group puts on other convocation events
concerning issues ranging from women’s
rights to sweatshops. They also work with
local organizations such as Nashville
CARES, Tennessee Coalition to Abolish
State Killing and Murder Victims’ Families
for Reconciliation.
“Our main purpose is to educate people
about human rights issues that go on worldwide,” said group coordinator Sarah Smith.
Because the group is often perceived as a
more “liberal” organization, she said, this
task can prove difficult on a relatively conservative campus. Both Amnesty
International itself and its Belmont group,
however, are neither religiously nor politically affiliated.
“I think the genius of Amnesty and the
way it’s organized is that it is non-partisan,”
says Schafer. “Although some might consider human rights more of a liberal issue,
Amnesty does not take sides on specific
political issues unless they deal directly with
upholding the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, which has been ratified by
nearly every nation.”
Still, it is a struggle on campus.
“We accept everyone into our group,”
says Smith. “We’re not some crazy left-wing
organization; we just want to help raise
awareness about issues that everyone should
be concerned about.”
Human rights letter writings are held at
10 a.m. every Friday in WHB 309. To find
out more about the group, check out their
Web site at www.geocities.com/amnestybelmont, which includes a calendar of upcoming convocation opportunities.
Montessori comes to campus
By Jenny Dew
STAFF WRITER
A special way of teaching is headed to Belmont
University this summer.
Montessori education is designed to help children
develop their social skills in early childhood education. Courtesy of Belmont’s Dr. Mere King, associate
professor of education and Montessori program
director, Belmont can now offer students wanting to
major in education more opportunities to find a job
when they graduate.
“This program enables our students to be able to
teach in traditional schools as well as Montessori
schools,” King said.
The Montessori program is designed to allow
children to experience the excitement of learning by
their own choice rather than by being forced. The
program not only educates children as they would be
in a traditional preschool or kindergarten, but also
helps the children mature and develop socially.
According to A Parent’s Guide to the Montessori
Classroom, by Aline D. Wolf, the young mind is like
a sponge. The Montessori program takes advantage
of the absorbance by letting the children learn to read
and write as they would naturally learn to walk and
talk.
“Montessori is a whole philosophy of life. It goes
beyond skills and techniques,” King said.
Although Belmont’s program will only be available for those seeking their master’s degree, King
hopes to add the Montessori program to the 4+1 education program Belmont currently offers. The 4+1
program is designed to let traditional students get
their undergraduate and masters degree in five years.
“You can minor in education and then get your
“Montessori is a whole
philosophy of life. It goes
beyond skills and
techniques.”
Dr. Mere King
Montessori program director
masters in the Montessori program and still use the
4+1 program,” King said.
Belmont’s Montessori program is not currently
offered to traditional students because the program
requires an internship for an entire academic year.
Montessori teaching is not a new philosophy. It
has been around since 1907 when it began in a small
school in Rome. This way of teaching is also used
on all continents. This program is “so universal it’s
worked with all races and cultures,” King said.
For more than four years, King has been working
to bring the Montessori program to Belmont. After a
lot of paperwork, meetings and getting the program
accredited, her work with students in the program
will now begin.
“I will be not only be overseeing the logistics of
the program, but will also be teaching as well,” said
King, a former Montessori schoolteacher.
King is a strong advocate for early childhood education and feels Montessori teaching is the best
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Page 3
‘Vision’ staff wins awards
in regional competition
Panel discusses
campus diversity
By April Watkins
STAFF WRITER
At a Q&A convocation that asked,
“How Does Belmont Recruit Minority
Students?” a panel of five Belmont faculty
agreed that even though the university is
aggressive in its attempts to attract minority students, progress is slow in coming.
The panel included President Bob
Fisher; Kathy Baugher, dean of enrollment
services; Dan McAlexander, provost;
Deborah Nunn, director of organizational
development (human resources); and
Vaughn May, assistant professor of political science.
Chasity Gunn, moderator and Black
Student Association president, asked
Fisher why diversity on Belmont’s campus
is significant.
“The mix of students needs to be
reflective of the community we live in,”
Fisher said. “It enriches us all to be
around people [minority students] who
bring different perspectives.”
For the 2004-2005 year the minority
rate is 9.3 percent, or 365 of 3,900 students identifying as a minority.
As the undergraduate enrollment
increases, the enrollment of minority students has not proportionately risen.
“There are no excuses, but there are
reasons,” Fisher said.
Fisher said a goal for several years has
been to reach 12 percent minority enrollment by 2007. Unfortunately, Belmont is
not making much progress percentagewise, Fisher said.
Percentages of minority faculty are low
as well.
“Our part-time faculty has improved,”
McAlexander said, noting Belmont had
been under 4 percent with 7 adjunct professors, but now “we are slightly above 6
percent with 23. We do feel good about
where we are headed, but we don’t feel
good about where we are.”
May made the parallel of minority faculty to minority students clear.
“It’s important that the minority students that we have here feel comfortable,”
May said. “We have tweaked the curriculum and designed it to attract students of
color, I think it is important for professors
to get out of their comfort zone.”
McAlexander explained that it is hard
“targeting Ph.D. qualified professors” and
that Belmont is “competing with other universities” not only for top-notch faculty,
but also top-notch minority faculty.
With the 26 percent salary increase
over the past five years, McAlexander
said, “We are catching up to average. We
are now competitive.”
Baugher said Belmont is participating
in many different efforts , including a
dean’s task force that stays in touch with
high school counselors and organizations
such as Community Impact Nashville, to
try to identify minority students.
“[Counselors] see what other universities are doing, they tell Belmont and we
look at what we’re doing and try new
things,” Baugher said.
With attempts at raising awareness for
minorities to enroll, “now you do see
African-American and Hispanic families at
preview day and special preview day,”
Baugher said. “More than anything we
want to raise awareness.”
McAlexander said that a challenge the
university faces is how to make a Belmont
education affordable to minorities who are,
historically, disproportionately poor.
“We are very responsive in looking at
financial aid and trying to help students
here afford to stay here,” McAlexander
said. “I won’t say we have everything in
place we should have.”
Baugher said the largest percentages of
minority students leave Belmont after their
sophomore or junior year; a contrast withmost non-minority students who leave
after freshman year.
Senior Aketa Simmons said retention
levels “are the most important part” of
Belmont’s diversity recruitment plan. She
said her experience at Belmont is that
minority students leave more often for
social reasons, than financial.
May emphasized the idea of Belmont
“really trying to integrate the campus … to
meaningfully integrate this campus.”
May suggested that Belmont bring in
new ideas, even suggesting exploring a
diversity convocation credit.
“Another issue Belmont has [is that
we need] a genuine environment that
invites and welcomes diversity, [we need
to] create an environment where its appreciated and valued…not just thinking of
just the mix,” McAlexander said.
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“What really sets the
Vision apart is it’s really a
student newspaper written
by students about
Belmont.”
Thom Storey
associate dean,
College of Arts and Sciences
top students from other schools in timed competitions during the conference.
The public relations team of Sara Strong,
Jen Clark and Meg Coppage took first place in
the public relations category.
This is the first year for Belmont to have a
public relations major.
“I’m very proud of them. They are a special
and talented group. It says a lot about the program,” said Pam Parry, public relations program director.
The media ethics team of April Watkins and
Amelia Consedine also took first place honors
in the media ethics category.
“To even place in on-site with Belmont
going head-to-head with large state schools
is a big deal,” Storey said. “ To place first in
theoretically-based subject says a lot for our
students.”
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A panel made up of Belmont University’s faculty and administration answered student’s
and faculty’s questions about how Belmont is making minority students feel welcomed.
Belmont journalism and public relations
students came away with high honors at the
Southeast Journalism Conference at Louisiana
Tech University in Ruston, La., Feb 17-19.
Overall, Belmont placed sixth in the SEJC,
which includes more than 40 schools, many of
which have daily newspapers, such as those at
UT-Knoxville, Auburn and LSU.
In the Best of the South competition, student
portfolios were sent in with work they had done
during the school year.
The Belmont Vision won its honors in the
best newspaper category, taking away fifth
place. This is the first year The Vision has
placed in the best newspaper category.
“What really sets The Vision apart is it’s
really a student newspaper written by students
about Belmont,” said Thom Storey, associate
dean of colleges of arts of sciences and longtime journalism professor.
“It takes more effort to do that. Under the
leadership of Linda Quigley, the paper has gotten more professional every year.”
Amy Johnson was the best in the south as
she took first place honors in the best press
photographer category.
“Amy really in one year has come from
being someone interested in photography to a
real photojournalist,” Storey said. “She can
shoot quality in a variety of subjects,” Storey
said.
Troy Senik was in a three-way tie for fourth
place in best opinion writer and Katie Harp tied
for 10th in the best sportswriter competition.
Belmont also represented well the on-site
competitions with students competing against
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The Belmont Vision, February 25, 2005
PRICE IS RIGHT,
from page 1
Barker, the king of game shows’.
Young is now able to answer the question people have been dying to know for
centuries, well decades.
What does Bob Barker really look
like up close?
“He looks orange in person. He has
so much make-up on to cover up the
droopiness of his face. He looks frail but
he has a good handshake,” Young said
of Barker, whose biography lists his
birth year as 1923.
Young got to go for the granddaddy
of all the prizes when he got to play for
a new car.
However, he lost on the “True or
False” round.
Young said was also not a big hit
with the crowd when he didn’t get the
big wheel completely around the first
time.
WhileYoung may have not made it
to the showcase showdown, but he
ended up with some patio furniture, a
space heater and a toaster.
“I plan on selling the furniture,”
Young said. “It is nice, but I don’t have
room for it since I live in Hillside.”
Young is going to be sure to keep
one of his souvenirs, his autographed
picture of Bob Barker.
Adoption
memoir
published
By Preston Penn
STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY AMY JOHNSON
Jack Young, center, holds his autographed photo of Bob Barker that he got after appearing
on CBS’s The Price is Right. Young and the other members of Company, who were in
California for a show choir performance, all attended the show which will air at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, March 2, on WTVF-Channel 5 Comcast.
PARKING, from page 1
Resident Ross Pepper said his
driveway is not always accessible.
“As neighbors, we ask that they
(students) be respectful,” Pepper
said. “When they get out of school
and have worked for a while,
they'll want to come home and
have a parking place.”
Possible locations for a parking
garage for residents of Bruin Hills
are 15th Avenue, Caldwell Avenue
or Bernard Circle. Bob Murphy, a
transportation consultant hired by
the city to monitor traffic, said his
recent study of the area showed
traffic on 15th Avenue nearly doubles during the afternoon rush.
“We looked at 20 intersections
… the good thing is that there are a
number of ways in and out of the
campus,” Murphy said. “Our recommendation is that Wedgewood
be widened, and that is actually a
condition of approval by Metro.
We believe the traffic at 15th and
Wedgewood will be high enough
to justify a traffic signal.”
Other plans include better signage directing visitors to campus,
and Murphy said “the goal is to
spread traffic out so everything
isn't concentrated on the north side
of campus.” He said that as
Belmont grows, smaller focus
studies would be conducted to continually monitor traffic flow.
Rogers said the university would
look at existing space on campus.
Julius Young lives in the
neighborhood, and he said it is
important to “come to a neighborly
solution.”
“I'm not here to stop growth.
Really, we need an advocate. It's as
though this thing is going to happen regardless,” Young said.
Add Dr. Robbie Pinter’s name
to the extensive list of Belmont
professors who have had their
work published.
Pinter’s
book, For
This Child
Getting
I Prayed,
there
was written
with the
Dr. Robbie Pinter
help of a
will read from
writer’s
and sign copies of
group at
Davisher new book,
Kidd, shap- For This Child I
ing Pinter’s
Prayed, at 6 p.m.
writings
Monday, Feb. 28,
into her
Davis-Kidd
personal
story.
Booksellers, 4007
“I think Hillsboro Road.
it was the
impetus to
write because the process is so
strong and meaningful in my life,”
Pinter said. “It’s a way to practice
what I preach – a way to deal with
all these emotions.
“It’s pretty much the experience of having a child after years
of not having one,” Pinter said.
“This book is my own memoir.”
Pinter and her husband, Dr.
Mike Pinter, also a Belmoht professor, adopted their child,
Nicholas, from Miriam’s Promise,
a local adoption agency.
“I want [this book] to have
effect on people who want to
adopt and write,” Pinter said.
“For a long time in our culture
we’ve looked at birth mothers as
selfish and ‘giving up their
babies’, but in reality they’re trying to search for the best place for
them.
“To me it’s been worth doing
because it’s allowed me to bring
my thoughts together and it’s such
a benefit in clarifying and reflecting on life through writing,” Pinter
said.
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City life is If you’ve got it, don’t flaunt it
what you
make it
The next time you find yourself whining that there is
nothing to do in Nashville, I dare you to let your mind
wander a little farther south, all the way down to Ruston,
La. (To those readers who hail from this locale, I offer a
disclaimer: my observations are based on one weekend
trip, and I’m sure if I had cool people like you to show
me around, things would be different.)
A group of media studies students recently traveled
there for a convention, and when we hit Belmont
Boulevard on our way home, I was ready to hop out of
the car and kiss the highway. It was so nice to see a skyline that included more than a Pizza Inn (a restaurant)
and a Ramada Inn (an actual hotel that bore too much
resemblance to a hunting lodge for our tastes.)
I know late February in Nashville can be gloomy,
and there are days when it seems like meteorologists are
just teasing us with the promise of spring, but it could be
worse. Here are a few of my picks for things to do to
make it to warm weather:
Have an Oscar party. The 77th Annual Academy
Awards show may be all the way in Hollywood, but you
can watch it just down
FROM THE EDITOR
the block at the
Belcourt Theater. The
star gazing starts at 7
p.m. Feb. 27. Tickets
to the Belcourt’s
Oscar Night America
viewing party are still
available, and you can
do your homework
ahead of time, because
many of the nominated movies are still in
Lacey Lyons
theaters.
Get your fill of
comfort food at
Chef’s Market Café and Take-Away. This is one of
my favorite places for casual winter dining. It’s in
Goodlettsville, (the address is 900 Conference Drive), so
it might be a little off the beaten path for those of you
who stick to the Hillsboro Village area, but that’s all the
more reason to go. Now is the perfect time, too, because
their best dishes are served hot. I recommend the
creamed spinach and Jerusalem chicken with fruit tea.
(Prices are $9.99 and under.)
Go line-dancing. I know, I know, it’s touristy, but
it’s good exercise. I had my doubts when I took a linedancing class for P.E. credit a few years ago, but the
boot-scootin’ boogie really gets your blood flowing. I’m
not a huge country music fan, but I still had a good time,
so there’s hope for the rest of you.
Spend an afternoon at the downtown library.
College students study enough as it is, so walk on by
nonfiction and research. Go by the children’s room –
it’ll make you wish you were 5 again. The Nashville
Room is also a fun stop if you want to learn something
new about your adopted hometown, and you can enjoy
the material you check out over a hot cup of coffee from
Provence Bakery on the first floor.
These are just four of your options. Go explore on
your own, as long as our infamous roads are clear
enough that your day will still be enjoyable. This is your
town for at least four years, maybe longer, so get out and
enjoy it. Maybe by the time you get back, spring will
have sprung.
Lacey Lyons is a senior majoring in journalism.
Contact her at lyonsl@pop.belmont.edu.
Skin is in.
The worst part: In between her top and her low-rise pants
Over the past five years the general consensus has been the was a roll of pudge. Why, why, why would this perfectly
more skin, the better. But if you look at the fashions of fall
beautiful girl wear this?
’04, you’ll find that classics are more in style. Watching the
Magazines such as O have featured articles such as how to
fashion mags, any reader can see miniature people wearing
dress 10 pounds lighter and dress to your size; none include
baring midriffs and miniskirts and necklines
wearing clothes that are too small for your
that are so low wearing a bra is out of the
body.
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question.
Face it. They make you look fat. And
However, citizens of the real world
who wants to do that to themselves?
sometimes forget that wearing that much
There is a time and a place to dress
skin to dinner, the movies or even to class is
trendier or “fun,” as some may say.
not appropriate.
Where has the idea of saving your body
I’ll be the first to admit that I struggle
for the one you’re meant to be with gone?
with how I see myself in the mirror. My face
Saving yourself may usually relate to preis always too round and my bottom half is
marital sex, but would your future husband
always 10 times the size of my top half.
want you flaunting cleavage and butt crack
But even though I wish I could look like
for the world? Or even for the campus?
a hottie in a halter or be sexy in a fabulous
The solution: Buy a bigger pair of jeans,
skirt and tall boots, I have to be realistic.
or maybe don’t wear the ultra low-rise to
There are ways to look amazing, classy and
class. Save those for when you’ll be standeven sexy without having to wear a size
ing most of the time.
Amelia Consedine
small.
Don’t be afraid to buy a medium or a
One way is to wear the size that fits.
large. Remember, the tag is inside your
Countless times I’ve walked across campus and seen girls
pants, not outside.
wearing clothing that is too small. Instead of it being flatterPlease don’t read this thinking I’m some angry size-2
ing to them, they look heavier than they truly are.
wannabe, but when you hear guys complain about girls’
On a recent warm day a girl walking past Pembroke was
revealing too much, something is obviously unappealing.
wearing low-cut faded army pants, a light pink spaghetti strap
top and a denim shirt tied just below her chest. Major mistake.
Amelia Consedine is a junior PR major. Contact her at
The tank top was about two sizes too small.
Earhart7@aol.com.
Soy: another healthy lie
It’s time for me to shed a little light
on an ever dim subject - one clouded
with half-truths, lies, and clever marketing. I’m about to rock your dietary
world. You won’t hear about this on
TV, from your parents, or from your
high school health teacher. OK, so I’m
not a registered dietician, but many of
them are responsible for approving and
regurgitating some of these outdated
and tired beliefs.
Here is a list of some foods wrongly thought to be healthy by the public:
• Balance Bars. This is not a meal substitute. Neither is the Zone bar, Snickers
Marathon, Clif, or any other bar like it.
This “health bar,” barely fit for a dog,
contains way too many cheap sugars,
unhealthy fats, and lacks any significant
fiber content. Natural forms of whole
foods are much better.
• Gatorade. I had someone tell me they
replaced Coke with Gatorade, as if this
is some healthy alternative. “Sport
drinks” have no place in the average
sedentary person’s diet unless you’re
begging for elevated insulin levels and
concomitant fat storage. You might as
well drink a few tablespoons of sugar.
Unless you’re an NFL running back during halftime, you don’t need this. Also,
keep in mind that the commercially prepared formula is also worse than the
powdered mix. I know, I know, it has
electrolytes. It’s just a little salt and
potassium meant to replace what’s lost
through profuse sweating. Bottom line
– if you lead an average lifestyle and/or
are trying to lose some fat, drink water
99 percent of the time.
• “Fat Free” foods. Unless this is some
a fruit or vegetable, there is probably
nothing inherently healthy about this
food item either. Usually, “fat free” and
“reduced” fat equal empty calories.
Cheap cereals, bagels, pretzels, white
rice, crackers, and anything boxed up by
Nabisco and Snackwells fall into this
COMMENTARY
Hale White
category of highly processed foods with
high amounts of sugars and no fiber.Eat
some real food and don’t be afraid of
fat. A fat free dietcan result in poor
skin, poor energy levels, compromised
hormonal profiles, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
• Special K. “Replace 2 of your 3 meals
with bird-size portions of this processed
corn with 4 drops of skim milk and
you’ll lose 10lbs in 3 days!” I know…
I’ve seen the ad. Big tip #1 … Never
take nutritional advice from a multi-billion-dollar food manufacturer. Again,
there’s nothing inherently healthy about
this food and it has no magic fat burning
properties. Avoid it and opt for old
fashioned oatmeal with a little bit of
honey.
• Soy (tofu etc…). Say it with me now,
“&^%#* soy.” The scientific communi-
ty is slowly starting to agree and evidence is mounting against this overhyped nutrient, or anti-nutrient. Soy
first appeared in cheap dog food. Then it
was used as feed for farm animals, until
they found out it was harmful to them.
Soy puts vegetarians at serious risk of
mineral deficiencies.
Soy depresses thyroid function, contains heavy doses of phytates, aluminum, enzyme inhibitors, haemaggluttin, and enough phytoestrogens to qualify as birth control. It’s funny that men
starting needing “male enhancement”
prescriptions about the time soy hit its
all time boom. Maybe it’s just coincidence. But I won’t risk it.
As for the women, this food is equally bad for you too. Some doctors are
reporting that women eating the current
recommendation of “25g of soy per
day” are complaining of fatigue, depression, hair loss, poor skin, heavier menstrual flow, increased cramping, and
diminished sex drive. These same
women are tested positive for hypothyroidism. Soy pretty much causes everything it’s supposed to prevent for you
girls. On a final note, never give your
babies soy formula!
Here are some other foods to consider avoiding if you’re trying to lose
weight or just trying to improve health:
most yogurts; vegetable, canola, or soybean oils (please email me if you disagree with this); granola bars; Nutrigrain bars;baked/mashed potatoes; soy
milk; rice cakes; pork products; Splenda.
Hale White is a senior majoring in
exercise science. Contact him at halewhite@bellsouth.net.
The Belmont Vision, February 25, 2005
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SPORTS
After resetting both personal and school records in scoring
and tying the Atlantic Sun record for most three-points in
a game, Jenny Conkle earned her first A-Sun Player- of-theWeek honors of her career for the week of Feb. 21.
B e l m o n t U n i v e r s i t y • N a s h v i l l e , Te n n e s s e e
A-Sun slots
undecided
in final days
By Darren Lowry
STAFF WRITER
With the Atlantic Sun
Tournament only six days away,
one thing is certain. The winless
Campbell Camels will not be in it.
“This has been by far the most
evenly-matched conference I’ve
ever coached in,” said head coach
Rick Byrd, who is in his 24th season as a coach.
With two games left in the season, 10 teams, including Belmont,
are still competing for the eight
spots in the A-Sun tournament.
At press time, Gardner-Webb,
12-6, led the conference. Belmont
and UCF both have 11-7 records,
while three teams are 10-8 and
three are 9-9. Stetson, 8-10,
remains a long shot, and Campbell,
at 0-18, is out of the running.
Gardner-Webb, Belmont and
UCF have all clinched a spot in the
tournament, but the regular season
championship is to be determined.
Normally at this point in the
season, most teams are jockeying
for position in their division, hoping to qualify for a higher seed to
avoid playing a tougher team in the
playoffs.
“This year, the seeding of the
teams won’t even matter,” Byrd
said. “I think that the number eight
seed has almost as good of a
chance as advancing as the number
one seed. Whoever finishes ninth
will have beaten some of the highly ranked teams this season.”
Sophomore guard Brian Collins
says that there is no one team
Belmont is worried about facing.
“We have to adjust our style
and play differently against some
of the teams, but it doesn’t matter
who we play,” Collins said.“Each
game in the tournament is big,
because you can get knocked out
in one game.”
Junior forward Dan Oliver says
that he would look forward to
playing either Jacksonville or
Gardner-Webb just one more time.
Both teams swept the Bruins in the
regular season, but neither team
looked unbeatable.
Gardner-Webb defeated
Belmont by four points in the first
game, and needed overtime to beat
the Bruins Feb. 17. Jacksonville
also swept the season series with
Belmont, but won both games by
just a combined three points.
“It’s very hard to beat a team
three times in a year,” Oliver said.
The tournament will be held on
March 3-5 at the Curb Events
Center for the second straight year.
Oliver says that he thinks that
home court will help the team this
year.
“Any advantage you can get
over other teams in the playoffs is
huge. Playing at home should
make us more comfortable, more
free,” Oliver said.
Even with the tournament
quickly approaching, the team isn’t
looking past their final two games.
“We’re looking forward to
working hard in our last two regular season games, and looking to
continue that in the tournament,”
Oliver said.
“We have to take everything up
a notch,” Collins said.
The Bruins take on the Troy
State Trojans at Curb on Saturday
at 2:00 in their final regular season
home game.
CSS will air live coverage of
the latter two of four quarterfinal
games of the A-Sun tournament
March 3, and both semi-final
matches March 4. ESPN2 will televise the championship game March
5 live at 1 p.m.
Baseball begins
PHOTO BY AMY JOHNSON
Senior Brad Dobner hurls the ball in Belmont's 9-0 win against Tennessee Tech Feb 15. The Bruins are
now 3-1 on the season. This weekend, they will take on the boys from the Big East when they face the
University of Connecticut today at 3 p.m. and Boston College tomorrow at 11 a.m. Both games will be
played at Greer Stadium.
Belmont’s Collins, Dolese battle in VU scrum
By Katie Harp
MANAGING EDITOR
A football player comes out of the huddle
and approaches the line of scrimmage.He
bends forward, quads tight, shoulders aimed
at the enemy he is staring down.Sweat pours
down his face. A battle is coming. Quickly.
As he hears plays called out and the fans’
cheers, and he’s a split second from contact
with the man he’s facing, he realizes one
important thing: He is not wearing pads.
Welcome to the sport of rugby.
Belmont sophomores Loren Collins and
Roger Dolese are playing their initial rugby
season for Vanderbilt University’s club team.
“I looked online and found the Nashville
team, and it turns out, Vanderbilt practices
on the same field,” Collins said.
Dolese met some members of the
Nashville rugby team. He told them he knew
Collins was playing, and they invited him.
“One of the benefits to rugby is everybody gets to play. They encourage everybody to play. If there is somebody that
doesn’t get to play, they’ll put together a Bside or a C-side or a D-side,” Dolese said.
While rugby may not be a popular sport
in the United States, “what American football is to Americans is what rugby is to the
rest of the world,” Dolese said.
Rugby is a physical sport. It pits two
teams, each comprised of 15 players. As in
football and soccer, a team can reach the Ingoal (goal line) by running, passing or kicking the ball. The teams face off in similar
positions as a football team. The line of
scrimmage is called the scrum. To score a
goal, a player has to kick the ball over the
opponent’s goal post or get the ball in the
opponent’s In-goal.
There is touch form of rugby similar to
flag football, but most people play tackle.
There are no substitutions in the two 40minute halves; players play until they are
exhausted.
“Once you sub out you can only come
back in for blood,” Dolese said.
Rugby is a sport known for injuries, how-
ever Collins has a plan to avoid a major
injury: “Run faster than the other guys.”
The friendships made through rugby is
what attracted Dolese to the sport.
“What’s so great about it is everybody
feels exhausted together and we all hang out
afterwards,” Dolese said.
Rugby is not a varsity collegiate sport in
the United States. Vanderbilt competes in the
Mid-South Conference.
Games are on Saturday, and VU practices
Tuesdays and Thursdays.Optional conditioning is on Wednesday.
Even though Collins and Dolese are playing rugby for Vanderbilt, they hope to one
day start a club team at Belmont.
The Belmont Vision, February 25, 2004
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pop.list
CD watch
Hot tips to help you find the best in music, TV, film, books,
food and other cool things to keep you
entertained on and off campus
The King of Queens – The Complete Third Season
The Shield – The Complete Third Season
Just released:
Feb. 22
Ben Lee – Awake Is the New Sleep (New West Records)
Chely Wright – Metropolitan Hotel (Dualtone)
Josh Rouse – Nashville (Rykodisc)
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King (Discipline
Us)
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
Layzie Boone & Bizzy Bone – Bone Brothers (Koch
Records)
Omarion – O (Sony)
Steve Vai – Real Illusions: Reflections
(Red Int/Red Ink)
Thievery Corporation – Cosmic Game
(Esl Music)
Tori Amos – The Beekeeper (Sony)
Upcoming releases:
March 1
Amos Lee – Amos Lees (Blue Note
Records)
Doves – Some Cities (Capital)
Ivy – In the Clear (Nettwerk Records)
Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams
(Universal)
Jamie O’Neal – Brave (Capital)
Jennifer Lopez – REBIRTH (Sony)
Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution
(Sony)
Kathleen Edwards – Back to Me (Zoe
Records)
Larry Sparks – 40 (Rebel Records)
Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (Universal)
March 8
50 Cent – Massacre (Aftermath)
Craig Morgan – My Kind of Livin (Broken Bow)
Deana Carter – Story of My Life (Vanguard)
Kasabian – Kasabian (Rca)
DVD watch
I Huckabees
If only we all could pay existential detectives to find, for us,
the meaning of our own lives. Hire a pair of private eyes
known for bizarre methods and, instead of simply solving the
uncanny series of coincidences with a doorman, Albert
Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) is faced with what lies at
the core of his past and present reality. A seemingly straightforward investigation turns into a not-quite-professional battle for the correct philosophical answers to life’s major uncertainties. Taking the serious idea of searching for life’s truth
and twisting it until it became funny, writer/director David O.
Russell drew from several different strains of philosophy to
engage a mêlée among value and uselessness, interconnectedness and individualism, and conventional success.
I Huckabees is where Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin pair
up to answer life’s greatest questions and fill one more space
on your DVD rack.
Just released:
Feb. 22
Heat
I Huckabees
Leave Her to Heaven
Love’s Enduring Promise
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
South Park – The Complete Fifth Season
By April Watkins, staff writer
City life
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Upcoming releases:
March 1
Bringing Up Baby
Flight of the Phoenix
My Own Private Idaho
Stage Door
Super Bowl XXXIX
To Be Or Not to Be
Wonder Woman – The Complete Second Season
Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and
Liberators – An exhibition highlighting photographs and
stories of Holocaust survivors. Feb. 25 – April 24.
Panel Discussion: Carrying the Story. 2 p.m., March 13.
Free. Holocaust survivors and liberators, whose photographs
are in the exhibition, share their powerful stories. Panelists
include survivors Eva Rosenfeld and Menachem Limor, and
liberator Jimmy Gentry.
March 8
21 Jump Street – The Complete Second Season
Green Acres – The Complete Second Season
Ladder 49
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Tennessee Performing Arts Center
The Nashville Symphony Presents:
Carmina Burana. Feb. 25, 26. $23-61
The Chieftains. March 4, 5. $23-70
The Lost Elephant. March 5. $20
Chopin and Mozart. March 11-12. $23-61
Movie watch
Tennessee Repertory Theatre Presents:
Noises Off. Feb. 26, 27; March 1-6, 10-12. $15-21
Opening Feb. 25
Cursed
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Man of the House
Up And Down
Hot tickets
Opening March 4
Be Cool
Dear Frankie
Duma
Gunner Palace
The Best of Youth
The Jacket
The Pacifier
Walk On Water
Opening March 11
A Sound of Thunder
Hostage
Millions
Robots
The Upside of Anger
Independent Film
Opening Feb. 28 through March 3
Hearts and Minds at the Belcourt Theatre.
It has been said that the war in Iraq is the ‘Vietnam of our
generation.’ During our stay at Belmont, embedded journalists in Iraq have committed themselves to telling us about the
war through their reporting; however, to gain access to all
sides of the story is not an easy task. Peter Davis’s 1974
documentary, Hearts and Minds is a work that allows you to
see the other sides to war, evoking feelings in the hearts and
minds of Americans that were never laid to rest after
Vietnam, as these feelings are comparable to the feeling of
reluctance of American troops in Iraq. With the war in Iraq,
Davis’s work becomes timeless, as parallels between the foreign policy events are very lucid. In 1974 a writer for
Newsweek, Shana Alexander, said, “[in Hearts and Minds]
we see the war on film as we seemed never able to see it in
real life…Weeping child and weeping parent, football coach
and company commander, Buddhist monk, Saigon whore,
Defense Secretary, cheerleader, general, infant, President –
Hearts and Minds forces one to look war in its human face.”
There is no doubt that this documentary is clearly Davis’
point of view, as being outraged about war, but it is safe to
say that even for those in the documentary that are pro-war,
this film is a call to conscience.
Avial w/ Lucero. 9:30 p.m., Feb. 25. Mercy Lounge. $10
Big/Gun. 9:30 p.m., Feb. 26. Mercy Lounge. $7
Cross Canadian Ragweed. 8 p.m., March 2. Exit/In. $12
Cryptopsy & Cattle Decapitation. 9 p.m., Feb. 26. Exit/In.
$15
Elvis Costello and the Imposters. 7:30 p.m., March 9. Ryman
Auditorium. $27.50-49.50
Hayseed Dixie. 9:30 p.m., March 5. Mercy Lounge. $10
Jill Scott. 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28. Ryman Auditorium. $30-50
Low Millions w/ Blue
Merle. 8 p.m., March
13. 3rd & Lindsley.
$8
Rachael Yamagata. 8
p.m., March 6. 3rd &
Lindsley. $10
Roadrunner Roadrage.
6 p.m., March 14.
Exit/In. $8
Styx. 7:30 p.m., March 8. Ryman Auditorium. $29.50-49.50
Tift Merritt w/ Troy Johnson. 9:30 p.m., March 4. Exit/In. $5
Umphrey’s McGee. 8 p.m., March 7. Exit/In. $12
Vanessa Carlton. 6 p.m., March. 10. Exit/In. $15
Will Hoge & Marc Broussard. 8 p.m., March 3. Exit/In. $14
Chow, baby
Dragon Garden
In Park Place on West End Avenue, stationed in the
corner parcel and slightly out of sight, is a hidden treasure where you can get what is quite possibly the best
Chinese food in Nashville. Skip over Ted’s Montana
Grill, walk past Maggie Moo’s and enter the quaint carryout establishment, Dragon Garden. With a luncheon
special, you get 30 choices for the main dish served
with fried rice and an egg roll, all for under $5. The
menu is endless, and the combination platters are a sure
bet for great eating – I personally recommend the
sesame chicken. Call ahead at 329-2019 or order when
you get there; either way you will get your food fast,
and it will be easy on the pocket and more than pleasing to your taste buds. Dragon Garden, at 2817 West
End Ave., is open Monday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-10:30
p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m.; and
Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
The Belmont Vision, February 25, 2005
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A&E
Billboard’s Top Five Country Singles
1) Bless The Broken Road, Rascal Flatts
2) You're My Better Half, Keith Urban
3) Mud On The Tires, Brad Paisley
4) Nothin' To Lose, Josh Gracin
5) Monday Morning Church, Alan Jackson
B e l m o n t U n i v e r s i t y • N a s h v i l l e , Te n n e s s e e
Mix a little bit of a ah,ah,ah
By Kasey Anderson
STAFF WRITER
It all started in the late 1960s in New
York City. Jamaican immigrants, most
notably DJ Kool Herc, the “godfather of
hip-hop,” started spinning in the parks of
South Bronx. With turntables and
mixer,they transformed dub music, replayed
isolated percussion breaks into a danceable
rhythm. Dub music evolved and hip-hop
was born.
Four decades later, it’s at Belmont.
Dance classes will be held in the group fitness room, second floor Beaman, 3-4:30
p.m. Fridays.
Elizabeth Martin, a senior majoring in
music business and French, will lead the
hip-hop class. Martin has taken tap, jazz and
ballet in her North Carolina hometown since
she was 5.
Hip-hop dance has been shaped by many
events throughout history and traces its roots
to the earliest forms of African dance. James
Brown started the soul movement with a
passion and energy he put into performing
his dance that spurred George Clinton and
the funk movement, which sparked hiphop’s revolution.
Hip-hop music and dance have spread to
a cultural movement redefining urban
youth.
If Martin pursues a dancing career, she
plans to limit it to the Christian industry.
“I’m truly sick of the nasty hip-hop culture that exists in the entertainment world
today,” Martin said. “I want to show stu-
dents that hip-hop dancing can be a form of
worship and doesn’t have to be vulgar.”
Martin will mix up the music in class.
“I love warming up to Herbie Hancock
and other great rhythmic jazz artists like
Soulive, but most of the music will be mainstream hip-hop,” Martin said. “No profanity
though.”
But there’s more than hip-hop.Three different trained instructors, all with 15 to 20
years’ dancing experience, will each teach
different dances. Angie Bryant will teach
funk (street, club, video moves) and Scott
Hutchenson will teach Latin (swing and
salsa moves).
Bryant, adviser for Belmont’s dance
team, has taught dance classes at Belmont,
local fitness clubs, community centers,
church groups and inner-city youth groups.
“Being a certified aerobics instructor, I
simply view dance as another venue to promote physical activity,” Bryant said.
“If there’s one person that I know of that
has a wide background of different kinds of
dance, it’s Angie,” Brenna Lacey, junior
vocal performance major said. “Angie is full
of energy and I have no doubt she will come
up with something totally new every week
that will make people want to go. I know I
want to go.”
There are no sign-ups for the dance
classes and all skill levels are welcomed.
The moves will be broken down and repeated enough times that by the end of class, in
the words of Bryant, everyone will be
“working it.”
PHOTOS BY AMY JOHNSON
Urbanizing Belmont
Blaze and Knowledge, perennial Belmont favorites, won this year's Urban Showcase.
Outstanding performances also came from, Albert J., above left; Latisha Baskerville, center; and
Raffeal Sears, right. The winners of all this year's showcases will perform at Best of the Best, 79 p.m., Saturday, April 9, in Curb Arena. ADDITIONAL PHOTO, PAGE 1.
ASCAP highlights BU talent
By Amelia Consedine
STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY REBECCA CRINEAN
Special guest Brett James and Belmont students B. Thornberry, Lindsey Liekweg, Seth Jones, and
Rob Blackledge performed at the third Writers Showcase at the Curb Cafe' on Feb. 16.
Belmont’s range of talent continues to
have opportunity to shine as it did Feb. 16
in the Curb Café in one of its series of
writer’s nights this semester.
Seth Jones, Lindsey Liekweg and Rob
Blackledge held their own performing
alongside ASCAP writer Brett James, who
applauded each writer’s work.
James, who has demoed thousands of
songs in 12 years as a songwriter, encouraged the performers as well as the audience to keep writing as much as possible.
“You cannot predict which one is going
to be the hit,” James said.
James performed his hit songs “When
the Sun Goes Down” and closed out the
night with “I Have Been Blessed” which
he sang in relation to his career, family
and life in general.
Each performer complemented the others with their laid-back style of musical
emotion put into their songs.
Liekweg, accompanied by B
Thornberry, with whom she performs in
their band Shortest Way Home, humored
the crowd and even earned their participation with her song “MRS” which had
snappy comedic lyrics about a girl who
dropped a load of money on college simply to find a husband.
Blackledge’s powerful voice didn’t
overpower his musical abilities on the
piano with his featured songs like
“Beautiful Mistake,” while Jones captured
the audience with his soothing passionate
sound.
More writers’ nights this semester,
sponsored by ASCAP, will be Wednesday,
March 1 and Wednesday, March 22. Both
are at 6 p.m. in the Curb Café.