Author: Cameron Stuart

By Cameron Stuart | ReporterLOS ANGELES — The UCLA Bruins showcased why they are the No. 1 ranked team in college baseball by knocking Baylor out of the tournament, taking an 11-6 victory at Jackie Robinson Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The final score does not accurately represent the back-and-forth nature of the game, however. The Bruins jumped out to an early lead with a two-run homer by senior outfielder Jake Pries off Bears sophomore starter Tyler Thomas. Facing a 2-0 deficit, the Bears struck back with three runs in the second inning after back-to-back doubles led to another two-run homer,…

By Cameron Stuart | Reporter LOS ANGELES — After scoring three total runs in their previous three games, Baylor kept their 2019 season alive in emphatic fashion with a 24-6 victory over the Omaha Mavericks on Saturday. The hit parade started in the first inning when senior center fielder Richard Cunningham doubled just before junior catcher Shea Langeliers hit a two-run homer to put the Bears on the board. Needless to say, Langeliers was just gearing up for take off. The Gold Glove-winning backstop would follow up his home run in the first with a solo shot in the third…

Getting an invitation to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

By Cameron Stuart | Reporter The Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park, Kan., donated $15 million toward Baylor’s restoration of Tidwell Bible Building, President Linda Livingstone and a Sunderland board member announced at a press conference on Thursday. The $15 million gift from the Sunderland Foundation leaves the university just $5 million short of its $20 million goal for the renovation, according to a press release. The renovations will include more flexible classrooms, a more flexible infrastructure enabling technology-enhanced learning and more consolidated administrative and faculty offices. The new building will retain the Tidwell name but will now house the Sunderland…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director Every music fan has that one band — the one band that changes everything for them. They make everything right and can pull you through any mood or adversity you hit. They transcend significant others, schoolwork, career stress and all the other matters that seem trivial when the opening riffs of their songs play. Like a character fastened firmly in a Shakespearean tragedy, my band is Oasis. Oasis is, with little doubt, the greatest rock band to pick up guitars since The Beatles broke up, yet the Manchester outfit has about as good a…

By Cameron Stuart | Reporter 1845 at Memorial not only provides food all day for students with meal plans, but they also provide a release from the stress of everyday rigors through the music pumping through their speakers. The playlists come from an amalgamation of songs and CD’s the staff brings in. From there, they burn it into one CD to play the songs students hear playing in the dining hall. Production manager Toni Thomas thinks it helps team morale within the staff. “It definitely improves morale and the atmosphere of the dining hall,” Thomas said. “It bumps motivation a…

Baylor won its third national championship over the weekend

Cameron Stuart | Reporter In the early 1960s, it seemed like the United States was going through a time of peace. It soon were under siege, however, by a sound and culture that would change the American landscape forever. It became known as the British Invasion. The music and the haircuts were so revolutionary that not only did it change rock ’n’ roll, but it got Americans on the British bandwagon again for the first time since the turn of the 17th century. Almost three decades later, the next wave of British music swept up the rest of the world,…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorWhether it be James Dean, John Lennon or Nelson Mandela, each generation has a voice and a face that they can point to and say: They spoke for us. For 1990s America, adolescents pushed back the blonde locks from their eyes and pointed to a man from suburban Seattle who was a prisoner to fame and didn’t even live to see half the decade. Nonetheless, the ’90s needed Kurt Cobain like humans need oxygen.While the 1980s were a booming time for the music industry, singers and bands that ruled the pop charts usually lacked one…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorIn the 1990s, it was tough to turn your head and not see a plastering of black culture, be it on your TV screen, in the movie theaters, in the retail stores or hearing it through a car radio passing by.Did the decade still have its fair share of race relations issues? Of course. From Rodney King to O.J. Simpson, there were issues that were still there in America, but there was now an undeniable platform for black people across the country. Unlike during race issues of the 1960s and ’70s, people could now hear…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorDr. Jane Damron, a senior lecturer in the department of communication, was awarded the 2019 Collins Outstanding Professor Award last week after receiving the most votes from Baylor’s senior class. As this year’s winner, Damron will be awarded a cash prize of $10,000, special recognition at the spring commencement, and be able to give a lecture of her choice in an event free to the university April 25. Before Damron’s victory this year, the department of communications’ last winner was Dr. Blair Browning in 2012. “I remember Blair Browning winning the award, and he is…

Cameron Stuart | Radio Director World-renowned pianist Helge Antoni is in the midst of a two-week trip to Baylor, where he will lecture to students and play a show open to the public at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Roxy Grove Hall. Antoni’s lectures this week have been to students of the Baylor School of Music, the Honors College and children from the Vanguard College Preparatory School. The young demographic, especially college students, is what he wants his music to appeal to most, Antoni said. “University and education is about being presented different things,” Antoni said. “I just want to plant…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorAlmost two and a half years after a hit-and-run accident killed former Baylor student David Grotberg, his legacy lives on strongly at the school he only attended for 14 months. 51-year old Tammy Blankenship Harlan was arrested Tuesday and charged with failure to stop and render aid in the accident that resulted in Grotberg’s death. Waco police were tipped off to Harlan by an anonymous letter and she was released Tuesday night after making a $20,000 bond. Police were able to obtain her cell phone records to locate her to the area where Grotberg was…

By Cameron Stuart | Reporter Waco Police arrested Tammy Blankenship Harlan, 51, on Tuesday, and she has been charged with failure to stop and render aid in the hit-and-run accident that killed former Baylor student David Grotberg in October 2016. David Grotberg’s father, Clark Grotberg, praised the Waco Police Department on behalf of his family for their efforts in the case. “We just want to thank the Waco Police,” Clark Grotberg said. “They have done such hard work on behalf of our son.” David Grotberg’s friend, Katy senior Jamie Wheeler, echoed a similar sentiment. “All I have to say at…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director Baylor student tour guides removed issues of the Baylor Lariat newspaper on Feb. 9 from newsstands at Penland Crossroads and the Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, according to eyewitness accounts that have been confirmed by the university. Wexford, Pa., senior Ben Christie was eating lunch with friends at Penland Crossroads on Feb. 9 when a student tour guide took their copy of the Feb. 8 issue of the Lariat with a front page story titled “Fifth alleged rape reported.” “The girl who took the newspaper from our table, she told us her boss…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director In honor of Black History Month, Dr. Clayborne Carson, author and professor of History at Stanford University, came to Baylor to discuss the inside life and global vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Kayser Auditorium on Thursday. Carson, who is also the director of the King Papers Project which is the preservation King’s personal writings, spoke for nearly 90 minutes, mainly about how King’s accomplishments. According to Carson, most of the accomplishments, can be attributed to the support of his wife, Coretta Scott King. Carson has studied Martin Luther King’s papers for…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director While it is wise never to judge a song by its cover, sometimes the cover does more justice to the song than the original artist can accomplish. In this list, you will not find the greatest covers ever, just the greatest ones you probably haven’t listened to. Don’t expect Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” or Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” as those covers are far more popular than their original versions and are therefore far too mainstream for the intentions of this list. 5. Jolene by the White Stripes Originally by: Dolly Parton It…

Dr. Andrew Roberts revered Winston Churchill as the last great leader in the western world when he visited McLennan Community College on Wednesday in front of a nearly sold out crowd to talk about his book, “Churchill: Walking with Destiny”, thanks in no small part to the man who interviewed him after the presentation, former Baylor President Ken Starr. Roberts, who is a visiting professor at the War Studies Department of King’s College, London, has written 13 books and has been traveling all over Texas promoting his Churchill biography this week. Roberts estimates that this is the 1,010th biography on…

Cameron Stuart | Radio Director Disclaimer: These are not my top five favorite songs, but rather the ones I consider to be the best ever comprised on the basis of lyrics, music, social consciousness and resonance. 5. Don’t Look Back In Anger (written by Noel Gallagher/performed by Oasis) 1996 Next Best Song by Oasis: “Wonderwall” (1995) Best Lyric: “Stand up beside the fireplace/take that looks from off your face/ you ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out” Known more in the United States for their smash hit “Wonderwall,” British outfit Oasis followed up that success with an even better song…

By Cameron Stuart | Reporter Baylor Student Government is hosting its first ever campus-wide Mental Health Awareness Week from Feb. 11 to Feb. 15, highlighting mental health issues that students face. In years past, the Baylor Counseling Center has hosted mental health awareness events in February and student government hosted a Mental Health Awareness Day around the time of final exams in May. This year, the two organizations, with the help of several others around Baylor, teamed up to make the event an entire week. Sarah Bhimani, the director of administration in the executive branch of student government, is one…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorPresident Donald Trump doubled down on his claim to bring U.S. troops home from Afghanistan and Syria on CBS’s “Facing the Nation” program on Sunday, backing up a claim he made via Twitter on Friday, saying it is time for the troops to “start coming home.” U.S. troops have been occupying Afghanistan since Oct. 2001, just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks and became directly involved in the Syrian Civil War since April of 2017 — three months into Trump’s presidential tenure. St. Louis senior and former Air Force ROTC member Griffen Henderson cites…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director President Donald Trump gave the annual State of the Union address in Washington Tuesday, a speech delayed nearly a month due to his government shutdown that ended on Jan. 25, addressing topics ranging from bipartisanship to abortion to national security. The State of the Union as we know it has only been around since 1947, according to the U.S. House of Representatives. Andrew Clayton, part-time lecturer of political science, said he saw the speech as a chance to show Trump’s desire to unify the nation. “The beginning and the end of the speech was…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director Another NFL season has gone by and the song remains the same: Tom Brady is the greatest human being ever created by sperm. I add “by sperm” in deference to my Baptist counterparts at Baylor, but I must say, serving a four-game suspension for a phantom cheating scandal is the closest thing we have seen to someone dying for other people’s sins. Narrowly beating out contestants such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and my own father, Brady’s status as the greatest human being should seldom be questioned. Since he has climbed the hills…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorBaylor students awoke to a campus-wide email from Student Life last Tuesday, with a mental health survey attached imploring students to provide feedback on the campus’ mental health resources.The survey, which was comprised of six multiple choice and short answer questions, was drafted by Savage, Minn sophomore student senator Carleigh Allan.“I wrote the survey to gauge what students know and don’t know what is available to them,” Allan said. “I can guess all I want about what the students need, but hearing from them is obviously the best feedback.”The survey is part of an initiative…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorBaylor alumnus and former Texas congressman Alan Steelman will be the keynote speaker for Baylor Wellness’ FitWell Expo this Saturday, teaching students about safe solutions to mental health issues through his new career as a yogi and from his best-selling book “Yoga on the Yellow Brick Road.” The speech Steelman will give on Saturday will focus on his book as well as safe practices for students to attain better mental health, avoiding self-medications like drugs and alcohol. The speech will be nestled in between morning and afternoon health and exercise sessions between 11 a.m. and…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio DirectorBaylor alumnus and former Texas congressman Alan Steelman will be the keynote speaker for Baylor Wellness’ FitWell Expo this Saturday, teaching students about safe solutions to mental health issues through his new career as a yogi and from his best-selling book “Yoga on the Yellow Brick Road.” The speech Steelman will give on Saturday will focus on his book as well as safe practices for students to attain better mental health, avoiding self-medications like drugs and alcohol. The speech will be nestled in between morning and afternoon health and exercise sessions between 11 a.m. and…

By Cameron Stuart | Radio Director Tuesday night saw four accomplished Major League Baseball players get the phone call they’ve waited and worked for their entire life. When the Baseball Hall of Fame announced its newest inductees, some names were notably absent. Amid massive cheating scandals, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds once again didn’t get 75 percent of the votes necessary for induction. Another man also didn’t get the necessary vote tally to make “The Hall,” but it was not because of performance-enhancing drugs, being a bad teammate or a deadbeat dad. Curt Schilling isn’t being put in the Hall…

As the government shutdown hits its 33rd day, government employees around the country are getting empty paychecks after weeks of work. This shutdown is the longest in U.S. history, surpassing a 21-day shutdown under President Bill Clinton from December 1995-January 1996. The shutdown began on Dec. 22 when President Trump and the U.S. Congress could not agree on a bill to allocate funding towards the federal government in 2019. Much of the reason for the split between the two parties on the funding came from President Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for a wall covering the U.S. and Mexico border.…