With only four more Big 12 games left for Baylor, the matchups occurring around the league will be important for the Big 12 Tournament seeding. The Bears will have to take care of business, but also keep an eye out for other teams.
Year: 2013
Baylor senior guard Odyssey Sims was 2013 World University Games MVP, three-time Wade Watch list candidate and participant in the USA Women’s National Team mini-camp.
The World University Games are equivalent to the Olympics for collegiate athletes and Sims had the opportunity to play for Team USA at this summer’s games in Russia.
When the recorded phone message asked Gene Malish if he supported Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis last week, he pushed the button indicating yes, and he kept pushing buttons until he’d given $500.
Then the 83-year-old saw his credit card statement and realized the money hadn’t gone to the Fort Worth senator’s campaign, but to a group called the Foundation for Justice for All. That led him to do a little searching until he learned on the Internet that the group specializes in robocalls to political progressives about social issues.
Nolan Ryan is leaving the Texas Rangers again, stepping away from his CEO role 20 years after ending his Hall of Fame career as a pitcher.
In what the team had called a retirement, Ryan said Thursday that he is resigning as chief executive of the Rangers in a move effective at the end of this month. He is also selling his ownership stake in the team to co-chairmen Ray Davis and Bob Simpson.
A group of House Republicans planning Senate campaigns next year took different bets on a bill in Congress ending a government shutdown and avoiding a default. For some, a general election loomed large while for others, the vote was a matter of competing for conservative primary voters.
The high-profile vote Wednesday night to end the 16-day partial government shutdown and stave off a national default divided Republicans in the House and Senate and could turn into a noteworthy issue in next year’s midterm elections.
The Carroll Library is offering a unique opportunity for those seeking knowledge of Baylor’s past.
Tom Phillips, a former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and a Baylor alumnus, will deliver a speech at 4 p.m Oct. 23, titled “Texas Law in One Saddlebag, the Holy Bible in the Other: The Life of R.E.B. Baylor.”
Two Baylor law students will try to argue their way to the top in pursuit of protecting civil rights and liberties.
Faith Johnson, San Antonio 2nd year law student, and Kelsey Warren, Decatur 2nd year law student, will compete together in the Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship hosted by the University of Houston Law Center January 22-25, 2014.
The case of a 14-year-old girl who says she was raped by an older boy from her Missouri high school and left passed out on her porch in freezing temperatures is expected to get a fresh start under a special prosecutor.
A special prosecutor will be able to launch his own investigation, interview witnesses and work independently from the local prosecutor who’s faced intense scrutiny for dropping felony charges in the case last year, experts said Thursday.
Mulenga Chella said it was God’s plan for him to go prison.
In 2006, Chella, a master of divinity student at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, was imprisoned in Tanzania, directly north of his home country in Zambia. He spent two years in prison and was released in October 2008.
Baylor’s athletic heritage is preserved, and its future supported by the Baylor “B” Association.
This association is made up of former athletes that lettered at Baylor. While the requirements for lettering vary from sport to sport, a letter signifies that the athlete was recognized for significant contribution on the team.
In October, we wear pink.
Members of the Baylor alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority are hosting the Dig Pink volleyball tournament from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 on the Mclean Student Life Center basketball court.
Baylor volleyball will look to pick up its second win in the Big 12 and its first home conference win in a crucial match against Oklahoma. The Bears currently sit eighth in the Big 12 with a record of 9-12, including a record of 1-4 in conference play.
Oklahoma comes in with a record of 15-4, including 3-2 in the Big 12 with losses against Texas Tech, Iowa State and Kansas State.
The discussion Thursday at the World Food Prize symposium about hunger and poverty in developing nations turned largely from the controversies of global warming and genetically modified crops and focused on governments and their role in solving social ills.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and philanthropist Howard Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, discussed how they and the foundations they’ve created work in African nations and elsewhere to improve lives.
The new virtual tours of Baylor’s campus as seen from the sky is meant to attract new students to the university and captivate those currently enrolled.
The Guided Virtual Tours, which were released just last week, comprise four videos that give tours of Baylor’s campus and tell real stories from the perspective of Baylor students.
Wacoans can strap on their ice skates for the upcoming Winter Wonderland.
After two years without a Christmas parade, the city of Waco, the Waco Downtown Development Corp., the Historic Waco Foundation and the downtown Public Improvement Project are making sure Waco will have a holiday parade and festival.
With classes in full swing and midterms, papers, reports and more piling up, the new program UBreak offers students a way to relax and met new people.
UBreak is a program that is open to all students and provides an opportunity to enjoy free coffee, fruit, juice, Chick-Fil-A chicken minis and also make new friends.
Is it a natural disaster? Is it the apocalypse? Not to worry – it’s SpaceX!
Waco is home to the only development facility of privately owned spacecraft company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX. Once parts for rockets and space craft are engineered and maufactured at other SpaceX locations around the country, Waco is the place they are sent to be tested before they are sent to a different SpaceX location to be launched, said Jeff Van Treuren, the test director at the Waco facility.
Free neutering and spaying services are now available for low-income cat and dog owners who live in the Waco area.
On Oct. 1, the Waco City Council approved Resolution 2013-585, which authorizes the city of Waco to reimburse the Animal Birth Control Clinic up to $100,000 for neutering and spaying services provided to low-income families. The service will cost the city an average of about $55 per animal.
Visitors lined up for Washington’s museums to finally reopen Thursday after a 16-day government shutdown that cost each site money in lost retail sales, theater tickets and concessions.
The Smithsonian museums, National Gallery of Art and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum returned to regular operating hours. Tours resumed at the U.S. Capitol visitor’s center, and barriers were removed at the memorials on the National Mall.
Senate members passed three bills Thursday that include having wi-fi in Baylor Stadium, creating parking spaces for mopeds and scooters and the increasing the number of staff members at Baylor who can help provide students with career opportunities.
The wi-fi bill would include enhancing mobile broadcast and wi-fi coverage during games and events in Baylor Stadium, said said Dallas junior Connor Mighell, campus improvements and affairs chair. The bill supports the Board of Regents’ proposition to install a number of telecommunication networks in the new Baylor Stadium.
The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than some believe, scientists say.
The fossil is the most complete pre-human skull uncovered. With other partial remains previously found at the rural site, it gives researchers the earliest evidence of human ancestors moving out of Africa and spreading north to the rest of the world, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
The question of whether to take the bus or drive yourself to campus might be the most insignificant and simultaneously the most crucial decision that a Baylor student makes.
The Baylor University Shuttle, or BUS, is a system of transportation operated by Waco Transit in coordination with the Baylor Department of Parking and Transportation services.
A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades, according to a new study that details a demographic shift with broad implications for the country.
The analysis by the Southern Education Foundation, the nation’s oldest education philanthropy, is based on the number of students from preschool through 12th grade who were eligible for the federal free and reduced-price meals program in the 2010-11 school year.
International students from 73 countries will showcase their Baylor spirit Saturday at the homecoming parade.
International students and students part of the Global Living and Learning program will come together and carry flags from different countries from all across the world.
It’s October, and that means it’s breast cancer awareness month. Cancer is a horrible disease that scientists will hopefully find a cure for soon, and during breast cancer awareness month, people are called to donate toward research organizations.
Some organizations, however, have turned these pink ribbons into green stacks of cash.
The U.S. national soccer team had the decision resting at its feet on whether or not to guarantee Mexico’s elimination from World Cup qualification.
All it had to do was lose against Panama on Tuesday night. Deep into stoppage time, down 2-1, midfielder Graham Zusi and forward Aron Johannsson scored to give the U.S. a comeback 3-2 win.
In light of this week being midterm week for most students, I find the recent article about three Baylor entrepreneurs who have launched a studying site to be very motivating.
For most students, our main avenue of studying is restricted to taking good notes, talking to peers and also our professors. This innovating idea of an online study interface will really benefit students, especially those who miss class and are unable to take notes. These three students truly found a correlation between studying and technology.
As with any university, there are likely some classes or professors at Baylor that are not conducive to excellent learning.
However, the Oct. 17 Lariat editorial, “Regulated curriculum helps BU,” prescribes a vague solution that could very well do more harm than good.
The Lariat is correct in articulating the importance of professor reviews. Thoughtful, honest feedback can be extremely useful to professors and department heads. But if the goal is to facilitate the best possible learning process, it is illogical to argue that “courses should be regulated for leveled experience.”
By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer Two more Baylor students have been arrested in connection to the high-grade marijuana drug…