Belmont’s first ever completely online philanthropy campaign beat out its own goal of $50,000 in just one week. The 2015 Bruins4Bruins Annual Giving Campaign ran March 8-14 and raised a total of $67,596. The money will go to Belmont’s Annual Fund. which the university uses to pay for academic programs, student competitions and research, special speakers on campus and upgrades for library and research facilities, according to the Bruins4Bruins website. Because it was geared pr

As part of Belmont’s Up ‘Til Dawn child cancer awareness week, the Beaman Tuesday night felt less like a student center and more like a scene reminiscent of “8 Mile.” But instead of losing themselves in the music, students were selfless as they rapped to end childhood cancer during the “Rap it Up: Rapping Up the Battle with Childhood Cancer” event. The event, which served the dual purpose of promoting both Up ‘Til Dawn and Belmont’s hip-hop community, also helped raise funds

Kappa Alpha Theta raised $768 Friday for the Theta Foundation with the women fraternity’s first-ever pie event, Pay to Pie an Eta Phi. It was relatively self-explanatory–participants paid a dollar to do nothing more than shove an aluminum pan full of whipped cream into a member’s face. And it worked 768 times over. “This is the first time Theta has thrown this kind of event. We were really excited to see what it would bring, but we had no idea the event would get that much at