“What do we want? COVID housing! When do we want it? Now!” Voices protesting Belmont’s COVID-19 policies, led by sophomores Natalie Schilling and Caroline Shutley, filled the streets Wednesday as a group of students marched up 15th Avenue to the steps of the Janet Ayers Academic Center. Schilling and Shutley organized the protest seeking enforcement of Belmont’s campus-wide indoor mask-wearing as well as the reinstatement of on-campus quarantine housing for students who test

Against a celebratory backdrop of student and administration collaboration, approximately 20 student demonstrators gathered at the South Lawn Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Wednesday morning to protest former resident assistant Danny Zydel’s firing and broader issues permeating the university. “We want transparency,” said freshman protester Sam Britt. The demonstrators were largely comprised of Zydel’s former freshmen residents from Patton Hall. Before the event began, they assemble

This week, PinPoint Evangelism demonstrates on Belmont’s campus, and we’ve got a thing or two to say about it. Plus, news on another Belmont Law convo and an Insider’s View guest with a long-winded bio. Then, sports correspondent Katie Greene’s report on the baseball team will have you quacking up. It’s The Week at Belmont! #baseball #Protest #TheWeekatBelmont #TWAB

For the second time this semester, Belmont Boulevard has become the scene of an off-campus group protest. This time, however the intent was for a more spiritual cause. The two men, one likely Kerrigan Skelly, founder of PinPoint Evangelism, began preaching to the students at approximately 11 a.m. Tuesday morning. Their message, transmitted over a loud speaker, and tall sign caused a large group of students, exceeding 75 at one point, to gather outside of the Curb Cafe. Metro

A small group of protesters rallied on Belmont Boulevard and at the temporary law school Friday morning against Belmont’s hiring of Alberto Gonzales as a law professor. These nine protesters, one of whom claimed to be a Belmont student, were appalled by the university’s actions to hire Gonzales, a former U.S. Attorney General during the Bush administration in October. The demonstrators, members of the Tennessee chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, claimed Gonzales was “one