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Feature www.belmontvision.com The student newspaper of Belmont University Vol. 56, No. 15 May 1, 2007 Miss USA returns! After becoming only the second Miss Tennessee to go on to earn the title of Miss USA, Belmont’s own Rachel Smith found time between a Letterman appearance and ribbon cuttings to greet old Belmont friends and faculty at a Curb Café special event, complete with red carpet. p. 2 A&E A family calls for justice Eric Volz, a Nashville native and stepson of former Belmont associate dean of students Dane Anthony, is currently serv- ing 30 years in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder that his family and thousands of others say he didn’t commit. Meanwhile, his story garners national attention and outcry in the press in support of an appeal to his case. p. 12 Sports Displace Me Belmont students joined thousands of other Americans across the country at one of 15 “Displace Me” sites, theis one in Hendersonville, on Saturday, April 28. Participants, each carrying only a water bottle and a box of saltine crackers, spent the day and night mimicking life in a Ugandan refugee camp. They made huts out of cardboard boxes and deco- rated them. The event was part of the nationwide Invisible Marathon Man Children movement, which aims to promote aware- Despite the impending weight of final exams ness about the civil war in Uganda and urge the and commencement gown fitting, Vision senior U.S. government to help stop the conflict. The writer Eric Detweiler found time to run in his event culminated a week of awareness at Belmont first-ever marathon, The Music City Marathon which included a screening of the documentary on April 28.
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