10/31/14: The Baylor Lariat
Month: October 2014
When No. 12 Baylor football goes onto the field at McLane Stadium on Saturday, they will play for several reasons: to win another Big 12 conference game, to stay in the College Playoff race and for Midway High School junior Jacoby Burks.
Baylor Department of Student Activities and Baylor Athletics have plans set to handle parking for the oldest homecoming in the country.
The ayes had it. On Oct. 8, 1914, Baylor students made it known that they were interested in governing themselves with a clear majority by a straw poll. In the same year Baylor became the Bears, students began to represent themselves as a body.
Texas won’t be joining the handful of states announced to have controversial 21-day quarantines for citizens traveling back from West Africa.
Tonya Williams, a Dallas native who has lived in Waco for the past 18 years, attributes her success and well-being today to one of Waco’s oldest non-profit organizations.
With over 165,000 alumni worldwide, Baylor is amping up their social media performance for homecoming events, to ensure that those who cannot attend will be able to indulge in the experience.
In Toloha, Tanzania women walk about five miles to get water for their families. Baylor sophomore Joshua Spear helped found the nonprofit Toloha Partnership to help the village.
Dr. Tyler Cooper, CEO of Cooper Aerobics Center, addressed the crisis of rising healthcare costs and decreasing recipients Thursday on campus.
Baylor’s Campus Kitchens is giving Waco’s less fortunate a chance to participate in the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
A small plane lost power after takeoff and crashed into a flight-training building while trying to return to a Kansas airport Thursday, killing four people, injuring five others and igniting a fire that sent up towering plumes of black smoke that could be seen for miles around Wichita.
A prisoner whose confession helped free a death row inmate in a case that was instrumental to ending capital punishment in Illinois was released Thursday after he recanted, and a prosecutor said there was powerful evidence that the other man was responsible.
The Obama administration’s plan to raise a 15,000-strong rebel army in Syria has run into steep political and military obstacles, raising doubts about a key element of the White House strategy for defeating Islamic State militants in the midst of a civil war.
A survivalist accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other, was captured on Thursday by U.S. marshals in an abandoned airplane hangar, ending a seven-week manhunt that had rattled the nerves of area residents, authorities said.
For making waves in Hollywood, two Baylor graduates received the prestigious Alumni of the Year award Thursday evening.
When the Federal Reserve announced the end of its landmark bond buying program Wednesday, it also signaled the start of something else: The Janet Yellen era.
Three U.S. citizens missing for more than two weeks have been found shot to death in Mexico near the border city of Matamoros, and authorities are questioning a local police unit about possible involvement, the attorney general in northern Tamaulipas state said Thursday.
Voters across the nation are deciding whether to set aside billions of dollars for parks and preservation in what some environmentalists are calling one of the most significant elections for land conservation in American history.
A terminally ill woman who expects to take her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law says she is feeling well enough to possibly postpone the day she had planned to die.
This year almost 100 student and community organizations will participate in the Baylor Homecoming Parade.
Puppies, food trucks and live music are taking over Fifth Street this weekend for a campus-wide Homecoming celebration.
By Madison Miller & Julia Eckardt Reporters After a seven-year hiatus, Waco band ColorBox released its first EP titled “Meet…
At the halfway mark through Baylor football’s 2014 season, questions still linger on how good the Bears can be. In the past three weeks, the perception of the Bears’ standing in the conference and the country has changed substantially, rising and falling.
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Baylor men’s basketball returns to the Ferrell Center on Nov. 14 in its first game for the 2014-2015 season. The Bears bring with them a new team and new attitude, but one thing is constant: they want to make the NCAA tournament.
Moving past the Brittney Griner era was part of the Baylor women’s basketball’s maturation process last season. With the loss of Griner, much of the responsibility, defensively and offensively, was put on Odyssey Sims’ shoulders. Growing out of that dependency on Sims will be inevitable for the Lady Bears in the 2014-15 season.
By Cody Soto Sports Writer Sophomore middle hitter Tola Itiola had never played a sport before the eighth grade, let…
The Baylor volleyball season is like a roller coaster.
It’s been a season of ups and downs for Baylor soccer. The Bears were tested by strong opponents and produced some impressive victories, but struggled with being consistent in Big 12 play. The Bears’ regular season of mixed results ends at 7 p.m. tonight in Morgantown, W.Va. against the conference-leading West Virginia.
Baylor cross country travels to Lawrence, Kan. to compete in the 2014 Big 12 Cross Country Championship on Saturday. While Baylor freshman are running the line for a few yards, the Bears’ cross country team will be running much longer distance with two Big 12 (men’s and women’s) title on the line.