Year: 2011

For many, the underpass where Interstate Highway 35 crosses over South 5th Street in Waco marks just another section of Texas asphalt. But to others, it represents a place of hope, healing and changed lives.

Lightning stopped the game but not the Bears, as they defeated Stephen F. Austin 48-0 after three quarters.

Thousands of people are recovering this week from another successful Austin City Limits three-day music festival. The festival ran from Friday to Sunday and hosted more than 130 bands and 70,000 people.

More than 100 years of Baylor history recorded in the Baylor Lariat are being archived and digitized for reader’s convenience. The Baylor Lariat project is collaboration between the Texas Collection, the Digitization Projects Group and the Baylor Student Publications.

Five experts on American history converged Monday at Baylor to give lectures on the impact of religion on the people and events surrounding the American Civil War. The lectures, part of the Symposium on the Civil War and Religion, were hosted by Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion.

At last Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate, Republican candidate Michelle Bachmann criticized Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order to require the HPV vaccination for girls. It wasn’t Bachmann’s criticism of “Perrycare” during the CNN tea party debate Sept. 14, but the story behind her argument that raised eyebrows

What happens in Vegas won’t be staying in Vegas but coming back to Waco for the rest of the 2011 season. Over the weekend, Baylor volleyball (10-3) won the UNLV Classic while three Bears brought home individual awards.

When students think about taking a psychology class, they might think of studying different psychological disorders or looking at what factors make a person violent or aggressive. This semester, however, two Baylor professors are exploring the positive side of psychology.

It was a weekend of firsts for the Baylor soccer team, which was victorious on Sunday after falling on Friday. In Sunday’s home win versus the Utah Valley Wolverines (3-6) the Bears improved to 7-2-1, and two players scored their first goal of the season.

Ten Muslim students broke the law by shouting down a speech by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Irvine in a carefully drafted and executed plan that flouted repeated calls to behave by campus officials, a prosecutor said Monday.

Over two weeks after Baylor’s epic 50-48 victory over TCU, the Bears finally return to the football field to face Stephen F. Austin at 6 p.m. Saturday in Floyd Casey Stadium.

It takes only a quick Google search to realize that people have created all sorts of funny (and arguably pointless) holidays, but today is special. Today, ladies and gentlemen, is National Guacamole Day.

Baylor graduates Chris and Nate Naramor, Pepperdine graduate Matt Naramor and their father, Dan, prove that success can run in the family. Their company, Graslon, manufactures and sells unique and innovative camera accessories in Chino, Calif.