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Month: July 2011
Baylor receiver Josh Gordon has been suspended indefinitely from the football program for violation of team rules.
Instead of rebuilding, the Bears are reloading for 2011-2012.
Like his fellow classmates, nobody is forcing freshman forward Perry Jones III to return to Baylor for another semester. But chances are good he’s the only student at the university turning down millions of dollars to do so.
Coming off a school-record 34 wins and just three losses, the Lady Bears had a 2010-11 season to remember.
The English have a word for Robert Darden’s feelings once he was notified he had won: Gobsmacked.
Life in the projects is a daily struggle for consistency, proper nutrition and overcoming negative influences. During that struggle, art often falls through the cracks.
Adam Buckley, a Sigma Zeta Chi pledge, sits blindfolded in the back of a van. He learns that the final fraternity initiation requires a convenience store robbery. Minutes later, a fellow pledge is shot.
It’s not very often that a professor throws a beach ball into a sea of students in Kayser Auditorium in order to illustrate a point during the first lecture of their freshman year.
A Holocaust memorial sculpture that is tucked away in Moody Memorial Library may be put on prominent display once again. Behind the piece is a story of heroism — a story of remembrance.
In an age when supermarkets overpower local growers in the race to supply consumers with affordable produce, it seems that gardening has been neglected.
A small, local business is depending on Baylor students to grow.
The cool atmosphere, spacious outdoor seating and friendly wait staff are only a few of the reasons why students stop into Shorty’s Pizza Shack, located in the shopping center at 12th Street and Bagby Avenue.
It can be intimidating to campaign for a position, but former student body president Michael Wright believes that somewhere within the student government, there’s a seat waiting with your name on it.
At 5 feet, 91 pounds, freshman hurdler and sprinter Tiffani McReynolds and her tiny frame reel in curious glances at every track meet. But the back of her extra-small jersey burns in the minds of her opponents as she shoots out of the block past the rest of the pack.
Baylor is well on its way to achieving its 2013 goal of raising $100 million in scholarship funds.
The Baylor Bookworms. The name doesn’t exactly inspire fear, but in 1914 the founders of Baylor were considering making the bookworm the school’s mascot.
Unexpectedly during conversations, rumors surface. Whispers of a secret series of underground tunnels that connect every building on campus penetrate the air. Some people insist they exist, while others place the tunnels in the same category as Santa Claus.
After Baylor football’s spring scrimmage, head coach Art Briles admitted the play-calling was “vanilla” and not truly indicative of the Bears’ full offensive or defensive arsenal.
After many sleepless nights on the sixth floor of Collins Residence Hall, I, a freshman at Baylor, had come to the conclusion that I would never miss the farm as much as I did at that moment.
How do I even begin putting the pieces together?
It’s one of the most important lessons I’ve learned so far in college — to put down my books, step back from my studies and realize that there is so much more to college than its academic aspect; there is so much living to be done in these four years.
Two Baylor professors helped uncover a secret that now has the scientific community abuzz: Central Texas was home to what are now the oldest known human inhabitants on the American continents.
He surprised her with rose petals. Candles lit. Chairs arranged to watch the sunset.
Adjusting to a new lifestyle and developing a daily routine can be challenging for incoming freshmen.
Busy college schedules mean that eating sometimes comes secondary to studying or other activities.
For those students who choose to enroll in summer classes or those that simply choose to remain in Waco for the summer, several overlooked activities can fill the void of free time.
Members of the Baylor community have been bursting the “Baylor Bubble” for the past 25 years during Steppin’ Out, a day of service in the Waco community that occurs once a semester.
Noisy neighbors, blaring televisions and the roommate’s barking dog are enough to make the ideal study environment hard to come by.
One of the ways Baylor meets the spiritual needs of students is by assigning chaplains, who are also George W. Truett Seminary students, to each residence hall.
