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Kevin Smith – 10/27/05
A few friends of mine have proposed the idea of setting up a “controlled rant blog” on which various authors might contribute article citing thoroughly researched problems with Belmont. It would not be for the purpose of trying to humiliate anyone at Belmont or slander the university itself. Rather, the blog would be set up by people who love Belmont and would rather see it and its students succeed.
As discussions have progressed, the ideas have become more detailed. So far, here’s the thought: one board, multiple categories (from broad to detailed topics), selected authors (to keep integrity of the board as high as possible), open comments (to achieve the economy of community involvement), and as much exposure as possible. It seems to me that word of a well-structured website that’s constantly updated with information voicing the concerns of Belmont students would spread like wild-fire throughout the student community. Perhaps it’s something that can actually be done to address concerns that SGA promises to address.
Belmont students: What are your thoughts?
Posted by
Kevin Smith – 10/19/05
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Kevin Smith – 10/17/05
My problem with this article isn’t so much that it’s actually written, given space on the Internet, published across the globe, or even that it’s completely worthless. My issue lies in this simple graphic at the top: “AP Breaking News”.
No.
It’s not.
Roll ‘em up, time to go home, folks. This annoys me more than the by-the-minute alert gong Fox News blasts at me.
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Kevin Smith – 10/13/05
Steve Jobs just crapped on my heart earlier today, with the release of the papaburger: the iPod video.
And here’s the thing: it’s not so much that it plays videos that really pisses me off somethin’ awful. It’s that I could’ve had an iPod with 30gigs for 20 bucks more than I paid for my nano with 4gigs. That’s it.
I’m tired of having to choose which of my music goes onto my iPod. Off to eBay it goes (scratches and all).
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Kevin Smith – 10/12/05
Well, I’m on Fall Break right now, the family’s all gone to bed, and I’m stuck on a college sleep schedule in a time zone one hour ahead of my norm. I was finally able to look deeper into the issue between Belmont and the Tennessee Baptist Convention. Perhaps I don’t understand the finer intricacies, but it seems to me that a shareholder commanding 3% of a company’s stocks can hardly demand a right to 100% of the trustee positions. But that’s just what the TBC does. They provide about 3% of Belmont’s financing, and are gettin’ all hot and bothered over a proposal issued by Belmont to have 60% Baptist trustees and 40% non-Baptist (but still Christian) trustees on the Board.
The funny thing is a letter to the editor in the Tennessee Baptist Convention’s weekly paper–Baptist & Reflector–bids good riddance to Belmont. As if it’s all Belmont’s loss. As if Belmont misses out on the TBC’s whopping 3% and can’t more than make up for it with contributions from donors that have been reluctant to donate as long as we’re controlled by the TBC. The letter to the editor reads like it’s all to the TBC’s benefit, since of course pulling funding from Belmont would mean increased funding for the two remaining Tennessee Baptist colleges, Carson-Newman and Union. But I suppose the author of this letter, Kevin Shrum, would say that. He’d be thrilled to see more money go to Union. That’ll give him and everyone else on Union’s Board of Trustees more to play with.