By Elisabeth George | Reporter The Union Board will host the latest Sundown Sessions on Thursday, April 23 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. The second event since they have moved online, the Session will be hosting a virtual coloring party. Sarah Patterson, the student board graduate assistant, said the goal of the events was to bring students together. “Our motto for Union Board is to make the SUB feel like home. While none of us can be in the SUB, we’re trying to make the home feel a little more like the SUB, and that’s why we’re doing all of…
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By Elisabeth George | Reporter While social distancing is keeping people physically apart from friends and family, Baylor students found ways to keep connected and interact with their loved ones from afar. Round Rock, senior Alex Medina said she had been using the Netflix Party chrome extension for a while before the quarantine started. The chrome extension is available to download for free, and does not have a limit as to how many people can join and watch. “You have to have a Netflix account… and you log on and just play [the movie] at the same time. We would…
By Elisabeth George | Reporter Baylor professors have been working to find ways to balance their work and personal lives while under stay-at-home orders during quarantine. Dance and choreography professor, Meredith Sutton, said that the first week after spring break was the busiest she had been in a long time. Sutton is teaching four classes this semester, including jazz and ballet. “Things started getting really crazy that Thursday of spring break … My first thought was, ‘I can’t possibly work, I teach dance. How the heck am I supposed to do that,’” Sutton said. “And then I realized, ‘oh, hold…
By Elisabeth George | ReporterThe Office of the President announced earlier this month that all international mission trips and study abroad programs would be canceled this summer, but the University will, “explor[e] alternative opportunities and experiences for students as well as the possibility of opening up additional course sections over the summer months”. However, the effects have been far more immediate for current study abroad students and professors. Waco junior Timothy Watson was studying at the State University of Economics in St. Petersburg. He is currently self-isolation for 14 days at his home in Waco. Watson said he will continue…
By Elisabeth George | ReporterIn commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, the History department and Baylor Law School put on an improvised mock trial in Bennett Auditorium Thursday afternoon.Dr. Julie Sweet, history professor at Baylor, organized the performance along with Baylor Law professors Gerald Powell and Abner McCall.The performance was an improvised, unscripted, mock trial based on real events that happened in 1770. In her opening statements, Sweet explained that while only men were permitted to be in court at that time, both men and women would be participating in the trial.The clerk read the indictment to…
By Elisabeth George | ReporterIn the middle of “cuffing season,” Valentine’s Day and the good old Ring by Spring pressure, singleness can feel a bit overwhelming. As soon as that graduation date starts approaching and people start asking about your future plans, the conversation inevitably turns to your dating status. The pressure is especially heightened in culturally Christian circles. There’s a heavy push against divorce while simultaneously pushing 21-year-olds to find and marry their soul mates before they head off into the “adult world.”But what if you don’t have that special someone? My response is, to paraphrase Ru Paul, if…
By Elisabeth George | Reporter, Video by Grace Smith | Broadcast Reporter The Baylor College of Arts and Sciences hosted Col. Walter M. “Sparky” Matthews Wednesday night for a lecture on the United States Space Force and the future of medicine in space. Matthews, a 1992 Baylor graduate, is the Surgeon General of the newly formed United States Space Force (USSF), a military service branch with the purpose of equipping, training and organizing space forces to protect as well as provide space capabilities to the U.S. and allied interests in space. Matthews is an aerospace medicine specialist and a command…
By Elisabeth George | ReporterThe Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion hosted Dr. Dale Ahlquist on Monday night, who presented a lecture in Kayser Auditorium titled “G.K. Chesterton — The Laughing Prophet.”Ahlquist is the president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a Catholic lay apostolate, the publisher of Gilbert Magazine and the author of five books. Ahlquist is also a senior fellow of the Chesterton Library at London and creator and host of the series “G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense” on the global Catholic television network EWTN.Ahquist began the lecture by introducing the works and a short…
By Elisabeth George | ReporterThe Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America (TIAA) held a lecture on Wednesday for Baylor employees titled “Inside Money.”TIAA provides financial products and services to support individuals in academic, medical, government, cultural and nonprofit fields.Lori Cathey, a Director of Financial Consulting for the organization, led the lecture. Cathey’s presentation covered the basics of cash flow, budgeting, debt, savings and retirement planning.Part of Cathey’s advice was based on awareness and organization.“Get organized. This is a great time of year, whether it’s your New Year’s resolution or you’re just trying to gather all your tax statements, but it’s…
By Elisabeth George | Reporter The first event in a weekly World Cinema Series was held on Tuesday evening, showing the Spanish film, “Techo Y Comida” in the Bennett Auditorium by Spanish lecturer Julio Aguilar.Hosted by the Modern Languages and Cultures department, they plan to hold a movie showing every Tuesday in one of the foreign languages represented in the department.Rosario Colchero-Dorado, Spanish lecturer at Baylor and the event’s organizer said the event has been held for about eight years.“The idea is to show the students that the foreign languages they are studying are alive and show a different perspective…
By Elisabeth George | ReporterDr. Peter Mansoor, retired army colonel and former CNN military analyst, gave a lecture Monday night titled, “The Muddled Middle East: what is its identity and how do we navigate it?”Mansoor served in Iraq and helped edit a counterinsurgency manual that influenced the conduct of the Iraq War. He now teaches at The Ohio State University. Counterinsurgency is defined by the Department of State as “comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes.”Held in McClinton Auditorium, Mansoor discussed the current political situation within the Middle East and…