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It’s been a long time coming, but spring break is finally here. After nearly three years of battling with break cancellations due to the...
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Sarah Maninger
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
Two years ago, the world shut down. Here’s where we are today.
Keys, wallet, phone, mask — for over a year those were the words people muttered quietly to themselves before leaving the house. Now,...
Chandler Maynard
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
VIDEO: Students react to relaxed campus mask policy
VNN’s Camden Morris talks to students about the mask-optional policy Belmont University’s COVID-19 Task Force put into place on February...
Sarah Maninger
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
Belmont announces end of campus mask mandate
Belmont University’s mask mandate comes to end Wednesday morning. An email sent to students Tuesday night confirmed indoor masking will...
Anna Jackson
- Feb 4, 2022
- 3 min
OPINION: Masks are a must, not a maybe
As an omicron tidal wave wallops Belmont, COVID-19 case numbers are surging at the university like never before. We knew this would...
Anna Jackson
- Feb 4, 2022
- 2 min
Quarantined students denied online class access amid rising case numbers
Students are sick, and what’s more, they’re sick of missing class. As the rapid spread of omicron hikes case numbers to new heights at...
Sarah Maninger
- Jan 31, 2022
- 2 min
Belmont’s COVID-19 numbers rise again as Nashville’s plateau
Belmont set another record this week, but not one it should be proud of. For the second Monday in a row, the university surpassed its...
Sarah Maninger
- Jan 24, 2022
- 2 min
Belmont tallies record-high COVID-19 case numbers
Omicron arrived at Belmont in full force this week bringing at least 107 positive COVID-19 cases, an all-time high for the pandemic. The...
Sarah Maninger
- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
Where to find COVID-19 tests on and off campus as omicron surges
It’s the hot commodity stores can’t keep on shelves — at-home COVID-19 tests. In Nashville, CVS, Walgreens and other retailers have empty...
Anna Jackson
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
Back to school, back to Zoom: Belmont to start spring classes online, citing spread of omicron
Belmont’s campus and classes will once again go virtual for the first two weeks of the upcoming semester due to the rapid rise of the...
Sarah Maninger
- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
Students gather to protest Belmont’s lack of COVID quarantine housing
“What do we want? COVID housing! When do we want it? Now!” Voices protesting Belmont’s COVID-19 policies, led by sophomores Natalie...
Sarah Maninger
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
‘Mask violations abound’: Belmont faculty member challenges university COVID-19 protocol
The Belmont community is abuzz with reactions to a Nashville Scene article submitted by an anonymous Belmont professor condemning the...
Connor Daryani
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
Students take their shot at Belmont Health Services’ pop-up vaccine clinic
The lines at Tuesday’s vaccine clinic were far shorter than those at the grand opening of the campus Chick-fil-A last week, despite...
Sarah Maninger
- Sep 4, 2021
- 3 min
OPINION: Belmont must join other US universities in mandating the COVID-19 vaccine
Belmont needs to do better. The release of the university’s COVID-19 vaccination rates Tuesday showed only 63% of students received...
Sarah Maninger
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
The state of COVID-19 at Belmont University
For the third semester in a row, Belmont University is taking precautions against COVID-19, and students returning to classes Wednesday...
Kendall Crawford
- Mar 26, 2021
- 5 min
What we’ve lost: Reflecting on a year of COVID-19
Teacora Sherrill no longer sees the pandemic in terms of numbers. It’s hard to escape them – the number of hospitalizations, the number...
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