Author: Ana Ruiz Brictson

Give the laugh track more credit, for it has shown more positive outcomes than negative impacts on viewers.

After a week of its $1.90 challenge, Compassion International at Baylor has seen students joining its club, showing interest in volunteering and raising awareness for poverty.

Throughout the years, Baylor has had notable alumni. Here are some facts about several of them.

According to clinical associate professor Dr. Benjamin Ryan, in terms of the endemic phase, the virus is in a more steady state. He said the spread of the omicron variant was a step toward the pandemic becoming an endemic.

“I’m not asking people to not see it and look past it,” San Antonio sophomore Noah Cook said. “I’m asking people to see it and be OK with it. It’s a part of me that I can’t change.”

After a big surge of influenza cases was registered before spring break, there are six cases of the flu confirmed this week at Baylor.

Student members for Compassion International encourage others to participate in their #1day190 challenge beginning March 21.

On Wednesday morning, two workers fell approximately 35 feet from the Mark and Paula Hurd Welcome Center construction.

After two years of not being able to plan the traditional trip, on March 5 Phi Kappa Chi will be returning to Tennessee for its mission trip.

I sincerely hope that for everyone going back home, this break is actually a break and not an overwhelming load of emotions and situations you hopefully didn’t have to go through this semester.

Baylor’s Enrolled Student Survey gives students an opportunity to share their perspective on certain areas of Baylor University.

On Wednesday, the total attendance for Spring Career Day was 1,892 students who came prepared to meet employers looking to hire Baylor students.

On Tuesday, the Center for Global Engagement hosted the spring study abroad fair during Dr Pepper Hour, having 23 tables set up for faculty-led study abroad programs.

Baylor’s Board of Regents had its retreat meeting on Friday, making decisions regarding project costs, recognition of faculty contributions and students joining the board.

Baylor’s Career Center will be hosting its Spring Career Day from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 23 at Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation.

All-University Sing has maintained significant traditions throughout its 69 years of production. Alumni shared some of the differences they have noticed across time.

As of Feb. 21, students, staff and faculty will no longer be required to wear masks inside of labs and classrooms.

At Baylor, as of Tuesday, in the last seven days, there have been eight cases with a total of 223 tests taken. This shows a positivity rate of 4.5%.

When Sadler was in kindergarten, she struggled to hear her teacher, causing her grades to be low. She said she was told by an audiologist and ENT that she was hard of hearing — more specifically, she was deaf in her left ear.

Baylor’s Information Technology Services (ITS) released a new platform that provides to-the-minute status updates for students, staff and faculty about the technology infrastructure and systems that power the university.

At the beginning of the spring semester, Baylor students were made aware by their professors that Baylor’s attendance policy has been brought back to its normal accountability. Now, students are expected to meet each of their professors’ required attendance points in order to reach academic success.

The Baylor community and Waco citizens are currently under a winter storm watch. Winter weather conditions are expected to impact the Waco area, affecting mainly travel conditions.

The artist for Baylor’s first Black graduates statue will be announced on Feb. 3. in an announcement sent by President Linda Livingstone to students, faculty and staff.

As a Latina, moving to a new country for college has expanded my panorama of diversity and has allowed me to reach the conclusion that race representation matters both in the media and in real life.

As of Monday, unvaccinated students, staff and faculty will no longer be required to test on a weekly basis.

Nursing students went outside of the requirements for their community clinical to create a cookbook for a group of women in a homeless shelter.

With a peak of Omicron cases in the United States at the beginning of 2022, statistics show that in certain areas of the country, COVID-19 cases are declining, while in other states, they continue to be critical.

On Tuesday, the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing located in Dallas had to start the first two days of the spring semester after a transformer exploded that morning and had the entire building run out of power.

Baylor’s Student Government Senate Executive Council (SEC) will be working on a number of projects to help improve academics and organization for students, staff and faculty.

McCollum Endowed Chair in data science and professor of computer science Dr. Henry Han is one of two professors hired for Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science who has collaborated and participated in several research projects.