Year: 2011

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Baylor Parents Weekend is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The school of music will kick off the festivities with a concert at 5 p.m. Friday in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.

The Bears will play the third football game of the season from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday at Floyd Casey Stadium against Rice University. Will we go 4-0?

After an intense audition and selection process, Baylor’s Uproar Records label has signed five artists for the upcoming year. The artists will all have the opportunity to have their music recorded professionally through Uproar Records.

Baylor students are being given the unique opportunity to practice ancient languages and complete advanced research on rare manuscripts, ultimately leading to the publication of important, unknown texts.

This week, students can learn how to keep their heart healthy and find out if their cardiovascular health needs improvement.

Baylor is mostly known for its offensive threat, led by Heisman-candidate quarterback Robert Griffin III.

Drive down Interstate 35 heading southbound and you will see an interesting new billboard. It’s in the ugliest strangest color too: maroon.

Downtown Waco has expanded, adding another newcomer to its quickly developing roster of restaurants and entertainment. Legacy Café and Art Gallery, located across the street from the Waco Hippodrome Theater at 723 Austin Ave., is a multipurpose venue. The walls of the two-room restaurant and coffee shop are lined with the paintings of local artists, positioned so customers can view them without pressure or time constraints as they enjoy a meal or a cup of coffee.

A drunken father turned sobered Christian. Two sons that hate him. One son grows up to be a high school physics teacher struggling to provide a better life for his wife and two young daughters. The second son is back from Iraq and steadily becoming the spitting image of his father with an empty bottle in his hand.

After two years of inactivity, two Baylor students are trying to bring the National Association of Hispanic Journalists back to campus.

Do you still think you have what it takes to be Baylor’s Best Dressed Bear? Even after seeing how well the Uproar Records artists can dress?

For the second year in a row, Emmy-winning musician Mark Wood took the stage Saturday afternoon at Waco Cultural Arts Festival, held in Indian Spring Park in downtown Waco.

Some students didn’t feel “Oso Safe” when the university sent out a text message Thursday referring to a “Shots Fired Presentation” and “Live Burn” scheduled to happen that afternoon.

The legal team of a man scheduled to die today made his final appeal on the basis of witnesses changing testimony and the lack of DNA evidence connecting him to the crime he is accused of committing: the killing of an off-duty police officer.

Israel or Palestine? This has been a recurring question on the international docket and is one that has returned to center stage this month.

Palestinian plans to submit an application of membership to the U.N. Security Council at this month’s United Nations General Assembly have resurrected the never really dormant 60-year feud.

Most people I know have made a quick decision about the conflict, a conflict that is so far from any immediate impact in the daily life of a Wacoan.

Honestly, it’s not as cut-and-dry as just Israelis or Palestinians, Jews or Arabs. It never is.

Israeli guerilla forces took land by force that was later annexed into the state of Israel in the late 40s, but all is fair in war, right? If the Palestinians couldn’t defend their land, they should lose it, right?

Let’s flip the coin.

Palestinians were quickly marginalized and taken advantage of by the newly declared state of Israel. We’re supposed to protect the weak, right?

If Palestinians had a state, wouldn’t the radical actions just be wartime acts?

Israeli settlers are just radicalized land grabbers with government backing, right?

As with any small-scale argument, there are valid points to both sides. There are also vile acts committed by both sides. In fact, there are so many factions within both Israel and Palestine that to reduce the conflict to two unified enemies is a grave misrepresentation of reality.

There are so many ways to approach the Israel/Palestinian conflict. So many individual acts that have impacted both communities as a whole. They all should be addressed somehow, and no crime should go unpunished.

I cannot choose a side.

I have met teenage Palestinian boys who hate the Israeli police because they have seen their families dealt with at gunpoint.

I have seen Israeli buses scarred by the fires of bus bombs.

I have no idea the implications of a Palestinian bid of recognition to the United Nations.

Will their appeals to international organizations to hold Israel accountable for alleged crimes carry weight?

Will international recognition of Palestine as a state force peace talks toward a viable solution?

The future has yet to be written.

Whatever the outcome and implications of this month’s vote, there is ground-level hope.

I have also met an Arab teenager who hangs out with Arabs and Jews. His says his family can’t understand why he loves his Israeli friends.

I have met an old Jewish woman in east Jerusalem who teaches Hebrew to Arabs in the Old City and is fearless in her relations with anyone.

There are real people, Israelis and Palestinians, who want to live in peace, and they interact with one another on a daily basis.

Bottom line, there is hope for a peaceable interactive community in the little strip of land called Israel/Palestine.

David McLain is a senior journalism major from The Colony and is a staff writer for the Lariat.

Experience Austin City Limits through the lens of Jed Dean. Featuring artists such as Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, and Kanye West, the Austin City Limits Music Festival is sure to make some noise. Enjoy the show.

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Baylor’s Young Conservatives of Texas is hosting an event called “Save The Easy-Bake Oven” from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today in the Vara Martin Daniel Plaza to raise awareness about the consequences of the incandescent light bulb ban.

The Martin Museum of Art will feature a gallery talk by Ann Ekstrom from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Ekstrom’s…

James Davison Hunter, the Labrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia, will give…

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During times of economic frustration, political change and visible controversy surrounding issues such as the rights of gays and lesbians, researchers from Baylor set out to further explore how religion affects the views and beliefs of Americans in the 21st century.