Stepping foot on Belmont’s campus as a freshman, Ruby was nervous. She knew Belmont was a Christian university in Tennessee — having grown up in the Bible Belt, Ruby didn’t know if the community would be welcoming to transgender students like herself, she said. Ruby, who goes by a chosen name and requested her last name not be shared to protect her privacy, began her transition from male to female in high school. She made the decision to come to Belmont knowing she might find

Students living in Patton Hall got a rude awakening early Wednesday morning after an electrical malfunction set off the building’s fire alarms. A pipe in the fire sprinkler system burst behind the washers and dryers in the Patton laundry room around 12:10 a.m. The flooding resulted in an electrical short in the dryers, causing the dryers to smoke and trigger the fire alarms, according to an email sent out by Patton’s resident director Bryan Miller. The laundry room is located

Editor’s Note: The Vision removed the original article from its website Tuesday due to factual errors in the story. Belmont does hire non-Christian students in a variety of student worker positions. Student workers–including RAs– are not required to respond to the university’s mission, values and vision statement. The Vision apologizes for the error and recognizes its obligation to correct the mistake in order to present full and accurate stories to its readers. Below is an u