Year: 2011

Junior Lady Bear star Brittney Griner is off to Europe. The players who are participating in the 2011 USA Basketball Women’s National Team European training camp and exhibition games were announced Monday. Griner will join Baylor alum Sophia Young, who currently plays for the San Antonio Silver Stars WNBA team.

Covered in paint, the National Collegiate Paintball Association of Baylor brought home a major win from its recent season opener that it hopes will bolster its presence on campus.

The Baylor Graduate School, which features more than 100 graduate programs, is hoping to raise awareness on campus about its various programs and benefits this year through media involvement. A new position has been created to facilitate this movement.

Baylor men’s tennis earned both the singles and doubles titles in the 11th annual Baylor-HEB Invitational at the Hurd Tennis Center this past weekend.

Miami University’s Department of Comparative Religion caused a stir in Ohio last week with their proposal to invite a member of the Westboro Baptist Church to speak. It was, however, the College of Arts and Science that made national headlines when a decision was reached to drop the plans altogether.

Yep, it’s about that time again. That dreaded point in the semester when things start to really pick up. When everything seems to happen at once. When you realize you’ve committed yourself to a few too many extracurricular activities. Papers are due, midterms are around the corner and projects can no longer be procrastinated. Add a social life to all that and you’ve got the recipe for another stressful semester.

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Don’t miss Baylor’s production of the zany Broadway musical, “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” winner of six Tony Awards from 7:30 to 10 p.m. today in the Jones Theatre in Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center.

Join in on the fun of the annual Baylor Alpha Chi Omega Paint Crush, but be warned… it’s gonna get messy.

A strong 28-0 start by Baylor in Saturday’s game looked to be a blowout. Although Baylor did win big, the Bears made some mistakes that allowed Rice to close the gap to 56-31.

The Hankamer School of Business’ undergraduate entrepreneurship program has been ranked No. 3 in the nation, down one spot from last year, in a survey done by The Princeton Review for Entrepreneur Magazine.

Shawn Line is a country, blues and bluegrass musician who has worked on countless projects, including his band Firewater Sermon. Based out of San Marcos, Line is a fixture of the Austin-San Marcos music scene and can often be seen performing in that area. The Lariat was able to interview him for this edition of our “Q&A” segment.

The Baylor soccer team is off to its best start since the 1996 inaugural season, when it raced out to a 10-1-1 start.