Election Day is just around the corner, and Baylor students registered to vote in McLennan County can head to the polls to choose a U.S. representative in Texas’ 17th Congressional District: Pete Sessions and Casey Shepard.
In an age of constant content flowing straight to pockets, misinformation is inevitable. Between rumors of mental instability and artificial intelligence deepfakes, voters must be cautious about what they believe ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
A flu shot clinic will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 27 in rooms 201 and 202 of the Bill Daniel Student Union Building. From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 28, a mobile clinic will also be in the lobby of the Sid Richardson Building.
For some Baylor students, the midterm election comes down to rent and grocery costs. For others, it is a question of human dignity, the integrity of elected officials or the role religion should play in government. The issues overlap, but students do not always agree on which deserve the most attention. Baylor students revealed different priorities shaping how they approach the ballot, from immigration policy and economic security to political corruption and religious values.
The competition, in which students propose startup ideas rooted in the world’s favorite two-letter acronym, saw pitches across a wide spectrum of industries. Students presented search engine optimization businesses, disaster response ventures and even a technology that turned video of ocean waves into random cryptographic sequences.
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After returning to Waco, junior guard Isaac Williams is ready to lead a revamped Baylor roster. With seven new transfers and championship aspirations, the Bears look to build chemistry and take the next step.
Senior guard Taliah Scott has always been a newcomer, playing for three teams in her first three years of college. Now that she has returned to Baylor, Scott looks to step up to lead the Bears.
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Gas prices have been high for over half a year and do not seem to be going down soon, so students are finding creative solutions save money.
The way Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron in Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” weave in and out of each other’s lives during their college years, as they each struggle through the growing pains of life, encapsulates beautifully how it feels to transition into adulthood.
Tips make up a majority of a waiter’s income. We should be kind to our service workers and tip them. This causes around 5.5 million United States workers to miss out on the income that they rely on.
What happened to our simple-minded foolishness? Where our biggest problem was our parents telling us to turn the T.V off because we had to go to bed or so we didn’t “rot our brains.”
Baylor’s Baptist affiliation seems to spark questions and opinions whenever anything remotely political happens in the community – and reasonably so. In order to respectfully challenge the university’s approach to contentious topics, however, we need to understand what the true mission of a Christian college student should be.
From endorsing candidates to encouraging voter participation, celebrities have become a part of American politics. While their platform can bring light to issues, their fame does not equal expertise. Celebrities can speak out, but the public should think for themselves.
There is an important question we should be addressing, one that keeps most of us up at night: the daunting question of “is this really what I want to be doing for the rest of my life?”
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