Month: November 2011

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Its that time again Baylor’s annual Pigskin revue will feature top acts from All-University Sing in Spring 2011. The event…

A countywide burn ban and the most severe period of drought and wildfires in recent memory won’t prevent Baylor Chamber of Commerce from putting on the traditional Homecoming bonfire this Friday on Fountain Mall.

It’s not every day that you see a Pikachu strolling around campus, but Halloween only comes around once a year and some students at Baylor really wanted to make the most of it. One of these students was Waco senior Ben Dvorak, who became Pikachu for a day. In this very special edition of Baylor’s Best-Dressed Bear, Dvorak, as Pikachu, will be answering our questions about fashion and life, including how he avoids fashion faux pas.

It’s called service-oriented computing: intelligent software that performs automatic searches based on the material you browse on the Web. Baylor’s Department of Computer Science will host a presentation Wednesday detailing the technicalities of this new software.

More than 120 people celebrated Halloween this weekend by attending The Dark Mirror, a horror film festival hosted by Matt Cardin, horror writer and McLennan Community College Writing Center Instructor, and Dr. Jim Kendrick, associate professor of Baylor’s film and digital media.

In the book “WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency,” Micah L. Sifry chronicles the history of the modern transparency movement, pointing out that it has had proponents and detractors on both sides of the aisle. That’s despite the fact that pretty much everyone can agree that a more transparent government is something that would benefit all members of society.

It has come to the attention of the Noble NoZe Brotherhood that an article that ran in last month’s installment of the award -winning Rope was racially insensitive. This was not our intent, but regardless The Brotherhood would like to apologize to the Baylor community.