Month: August 2011

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Baylor football officially begins this week as the Bears take on TCU this Friday at Floyd Casey Stadium! The game starts at 7 p.m. Bears are encouraged to wear the green and gold in support of BU football.

The Traditions Rally, an annual event that celebrates the beginning of the Baylor football season on Sept. 01, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Sponsored by Baylor Athletics, Student Activities, the Baylor Activities Council, and Greek Life, the Traditions Rally takes place in the SUB Bowl and Fountain Mall. Free food, live music, and a chance to meet Baylor’s coaches and players make this an event not to miss.

The weekend of the Sept. 23 and 24 will offer students a chance to invite parents to campus in order to experience Baylor life. Sign up parents for a weekend pass and offer your family a chance to see their favorite bear.

The soccer team walked away from Betty Lou May Field Friday night with a win against Cal State Northridge 1-0 at the, making Baylor two for two at home with a season record of 2-0-1.

Residents at Collins Residence Hall were prompted to evacuate the building Friday around 1 p.m. after a dryer motor in the sixth-floor laundry room caught fire.

Students looking to see everything Late Night has to offer will have to explore multiple locations this year. Instead of concentrating the entire night at the Student Life Center as in past years, Baylor will use four locations for Friday night’s festivities.

https://vimeo.com/27998211 The class of 2015 moved into Baylor campus and we were there with the questions.

A university-wide policy mandating minimum attendance requirements for all Baylor students is no more, but most students will still be required to attend 75 percent of their course lectures to receive a passing grade.

Returning students may notice a little more Baylor green around campus as they arrive for classes this August, with the final aesthetic touches of Baylor 2012 coming to reality.

Baylor women’s basketball standout Melissa Jones has hung up her basketball shoes but stepped back on the Ferrell Center court in volleyball shoes.

Following a season filled with injuries and disappointment, Art Briles and the Bears returned for the 2010 season and hoisted Baylor football to a place it had not been in over a decade.

Scott Miller is the author of “The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century” and was a recent guest on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”. The book highlights the conflict between two very different men, one of whom was President of the United States.

After a five-month legislative struggle in Austin in which the Baylor administration was an active lobbying force, steep budgetary cuts to the Tuition Equalization Grant program have hit Baylor graduate students and incoming freshmen the hardest.

Last November, the Texas A&M Aggies were in town for the Battle of the Brazos. Running back Jay Finley had just run for a 69-yard touchdown, increasing the score in Baylor’s favor 30-21.