The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after a more than decade-long campaign to keep weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, warlords, organized crime figures and human rights violators.
Loud cheers erupted in the assembly chamber as the electronic board flashed the final vote: 154 in favor, 3 against and 23 abstentions.
Brittney Griner has been in a class by herself all season. Now she’s part of a select group.
Baylor’s 6-foot-8 star senior was a unanimous selection to The Associated Press’ All-America team Tuesday.
Yu Darvish was one out from a perfect game when Marwin Gonzalez grounded a clean single through the pitcher’s legs, and the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 7-0 on Tuesday night.
The celebrated right-hander from Japan struck out 14 and appeared to be in complete control before Gonzalez smacked the first pitch up the middle. Darvish was unable to get his glove down in time and the ball skittered into center field well beyond a desperate dive by shortstop Elvis Andrus.
Baylor has another claim to fame after Monday night’s blind audition episode of “The Voice.”
Lorena sophomore Holly Tucker has come a long way from performing at such venues as the local farmer’s market to wowing the thousands that tuned in to watch NBC’s “The Voice” with her performance. Tucker is currently in Los Angeles, Calif., preparing for the next stage of the competition.
On La Salle Avenue, a Baylor student can easily find a place to get their car repaired or stop off at the local Dairy Queen for ice cream. Just out of sight, however, on a quick turn off of La Salle down South Fifth Street, a wealth of Waco, Baylor and Texas history lies under an expanse of oak trees. Oakwood Cemetery has been the final resting place for prominent figures in local and state history for decades and has weathered the test of time.
Eric Metaxas, host of Breakpoint broadcasts, New York Times bestselling author and noted Christian speaker, will visit Baylor today.
The Baylor Institute of Religion is hosting “An Evening with Eric Metaxas” at 7 p.m. in the Powell Chapel, where Metaxas will discuss his career, work and best-selling biography, “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.”
In its second annual Changing Hope and Awareness Week, Kappa Delta Kappa sorority hopes to educate the community about child abuse and prevention.
CHILD, which stands for Changing Hope Into Lasting Difference, is a week dedicated to Kappa Delta’s main philanthropy: child abuse prevention.
The Baylor Lariat, Round Up yearbook and Focus magazine are accepting applications for all positions for the 2013-2014 school year.
Student Publications director Paul Carr said the hours a student will work will depend upon the position for which the applicant is hired.
The airline Samoa Air is introducing a new flight-pricing program today. Passengers are to pay based on their combined personal weight and luggage weight in kilos.
Chris Langton, the head of the airline, has been quoted on several different news sources, including Australia’s ABC Radio, that this program is “the fairest way of traveling.” “He also said: “Airlines don’t run on seats, they run on weight.”
We have all heard the horror stories of an advisement gone badly: graduation postponed because of misadvisement; students getting flustered during registration because they were advised to take a course without having the proper prerequisites; simply not getting to register on time because advisers are not available, or better yet, out of the country indefinitely.
The Baylor Bears defeated the BYU Cougars 76-70 Tuesday in the semifinal round of the NIT in Madison Square Garden. No. 2 seed Baylor and No. 3 seed BYU were in a closely contested game until Baylor’s senior superstar guard Pierre Jackson decided to go off for 15 second-half points to push the Bears into the NIT championship game.
The state’s top education official said Tuesday he plans to order Texas to begin rating schools based on letter grades A through F starting next year — without waiting for high-profile bills proposing to do the same thing to work their way through the Legislature.
Jim Riches pulled his son’s mangled body out of the rubble at the World Trade Center, but the phone calls still filtered in years afterward. The city kept finding more pieces of his son.
“They’ll call you and they’ll tell you, ‘We found a shin bone,'” Riches said. “Or: ‘We found an arm bone.’ We held them all together and then we put them in the cemetery.”
McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara on Tuesday asked county leaders to approve the purchase of 19 AR-15-style rifles to better arm sheriff’s deputies, saying they face a “very grave” threat from heavily armed criminals.
History repeated itself as the No. 5 Louisville Cardinals defeated the No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears 82-81, making this the second time Baylor lost to Louisville in a Sweet Sixteen game. Despite a last-minute rally, Baylor could not over come the largest deficit it has faced all year.
Gov. Rick Perry is arranging for state funds to temporarily pay for air traffic controllers at 13 Texas airports, including TSTC Waco, which are set to lose funding related to federal automatic spending cuts.
The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced plans to close 149 airport towers at small and mid-sized airports around the country beginning April 7 as part of automatic budget cuts related to the sequester, a set of across-the-board government spending cuts enacted after lawmakers in Washington, D.C., couldn’t agree to a compromise solution.
Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, a person with knowledge of the talks said Saturday.
The No. 16 Baylor softball team (29-7, 3-2 Big 12) swept the series against Iowa State (14-19, 0-3 Big 12) with a 7-5 win Saturday at Getterman Stadium. The Lady Bears trailed throughout the game but broke away in the sixth inning by scoring three runs.
It was day to remember for senior center fielder Kathy Shelton and junior left-handed pitcher Whitney Canion who both broke school records to lead Baylor to a sweep over Iowa State during Friday’s double-header.
“Two storied players right there that Baylor fans will remember for a long time and to be able to set those records on the same day is pretty special,” head coach Glenn Moore said.
A Baylor fraternity reached out to students and the Waco community to help raise money for one of its own. Delta Sigma Pi hosted a fundraiser Tuesday and Wednesday to help Baylor graduate, Kelsey Warren. Warren was involved in a bad car accident on March 14. The fundraiser was hosted for Warren and her family to help out with travel and accommodation expenses. Warren’s parents live and work in Hanford, Calif.
The 22nd-ranked Baylor men’s tennis team showed another strong outing in a 5-0 victory over the 34th-ranked Memphis Tigers.
“The scoreboard says 5-0, but it was tough out there,” head coach Matt Knoll said. “We had to fight hard, and I give Memphis a lot of credit for battling.”
The annual Baylor Art Student Exhibition opens today in The Martin Museum of Art, galleries one and two. The showcase…
Baylor Law School students and faculty have teamed up with Veterans One Stop, a veterans support facility in Waco, to offer free legal aid.
Veterans One Stop is a coalition of various organizations and agencies that offers aid to veterans and their spouses, said Maggie McCarthy, the coordinator of Veterans Coalition for the Heart of Texas, who is in charge of finding and bringing such organizations together.
This year Delta Epsilon Psi raised $8,000 for diabetes research.
The fraternity presented a check to a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation representative at a lecture, “Juvenile Diabetes: Its Impact and the Race for a Cure,” held Wednesday night in the Baines Room in the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Concealed handgun licenses may become more affordable thanks to a bill filed by Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson.
Anderson filed House Bill 2759 on March 7 with the intent of capping the CHL application cost at $95. The proposed cost would be $45 less than the $140 Texas citizens currently pay. The bill would prevent the current renewal fee of $70 to increase.
The Baylor Bears defeated the Providence Friars in the quarterfinals of the NIT 79-68 on Wednesday night to move on to the semifinals on Tuesday in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
“When you’ve got a lot on the line like a chance to go to New York and play in a Final Four-type atmosphere at Madison Square Garden, you know that you don’t have to motivate as a coach,” head coach Scott Drew said. “Our guys were extremely excited all day long for this game and Providence really played well in that first half, and we couldn’t stop them and in the second half I thought we did a much better job defensively. The big thing was that we took care of the ball all game with 19 assists and only five turnovers. Pierre Jackson had 13 assists and zero turnovers. I think everybody wants a point guard who can play a game like that and he was outstanding.”
