Senior leadership decided this summer to convert the Hitch and Massey Performing Arts Center parking lot on 17th Avenue into a visitors-only lot this summer–thus closing its 43 spots to the students and faculty the lot once served. And many of them are not happy about it. “It’s a slap in the face to staff in particular,” said art professor Jim Meaders. Meaders teaches in the Leu Center for Visual Arts, one of the buildings affected by this decision; the others include the MPA

A little less than a year into their experiment, students from the Nashville colony of the Kappa Sigma fraternity have decided to close the doors of their branch. The decision came from the colony’s executive council following a meeting between Belmont officials and representatives from the national office on Dec. 2. “We are no longer going to continue operations as a colony or a confirmed charter,”  said Mike Crecca, the former grandmaster of ceremonies of the colony. The co