Student Life
Belmont has over 80 student organizations. These include Student Government, Program Board, Greek Life, as well as other special interest organizations.
The largest student organization on campus is Service Corps, which focuses on volunteer work inside the Music Industry and is open only to students enrolled in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.
Belmont's Greek community consists of four sororities and four fraternities. The sororities are Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Sigma Theta, and Phi Mu. A fifth sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, was added in the fall of 2011. The fraternities include Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Beta Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, and Phi Delta Theta. Approximately 10% of the student body is Greek. Belmont Panhellenic is the second largest student organization on campus with over 300 members. There is also an interest group for Kappa Alpha Psi.
Belmont has a large Music program, and a variety of musical ensembles exist on the campus. There are currently 13 vocal ensembles and 22 instrumental ensembles. In addition, there is a student-run, co-ed a cappella group called The Beltones. Belmont is also home to two Greek-lettered music fraternities, Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Belmont operates four private television stations called BTV (local Comcast stations for its residents), as well as one student newspaper called The Vision, published monthly.
Students may also become involved through special interest organizations including, but not limited to Bolting Belmont Bruins running club, Service Corps, the Psychology Club and The M.O.B. (Motivational Organization of Belmont) which supports athletics. Students are encouraged to get involved. If a club does not exist for a student's interests, they are encouraged to start one, though not all student-proposed groups are officially chartered right away. In the 2009 and 2010 academic years, the university decided not to charter Belmont Bridge Builders (whose purpose would have been to explore various LGBT issues and Christian faith), and a university dialogue group was started instead. However, the Bridge Builders group was finally approved in the spring of 2011.
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