Some of the tents put up on campus this semester offer ample space free for students to use. Too bad nobody seems to know this.
Author: Megan Lockhart
Baylor Spiritual Life’s second Season of Prayer event brought students together to pray during a tumultuous election season and year.
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterGov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 30 that the state and federal government will partner to provide free COVID-19 testing in locations across McLennan County beginning Oct. 7. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the State of Texas have set aside 40,000 COVID-19 tests for “surge testing” at three locations: Waco ISD Stadium, McLennan Community College and the Waco Convention Center. “Increasing access to testing across McLennan County is essential to mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in this community,” Abbott said in a press release Wednesday. “As we continue to combat this virus, I…
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterIn my experience on campus thus far, everyone is trying to hold in any form of a cough, whether it be choking on water or just clearing your throat in order to keep people around them from panicking.Sitting in the perfectly quiet third floor of Moody Library, I reach to grab a sip of my water bottle. But in an event that occurs more often than I care to admit, it slips down my trachea, forcing me into an involuntary coughing attack. I finish dying and look around to find a sea of horrified faces staring…
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterWith more classes online this semester, Baylor professors and students have experienced the widely documented phenomenon “Zoom fatigue,” as many feel isolated and drained by both the lack of personal connection and longer hours of sitting at their screens. “Zoom fatigue” is the worn out feeling that develops from increased virtual learning. Those who experience this phenomenon report feeling more exhausted and drained at the end of the day from interacting over Zoom or other virtual classroom platforms. “The platforms naturally put us in a position that is unnatural. A combination of having prolonged eye contact…
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterThrough last spring’s semester and into the fall, students experienced challenges regarding off-campus apartment leases due to COVID-19 as many were forced to leave for home while continuing to pay rent. Houston alumna Amber Lee Royal graduated in the spring amid the most critical months of COVID-19 when the City of Waco enacted the shelter-in-place order and the university sent students home. Royal recalls experiencing the full struggle of apartment lease issues at URSA.“The main struggle that I faced was no discounted rent when I was stuck quarantined at home and could not even go back…
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterI speak for many when I say that in general, I don’t enjoy things half as much when I am forced to do them. I prefer to act out of my own freewill.However, the Creative Arts Experience (CAE) that was added in Baylor’s 2019 graduation plan creates a great opportunity for students to experience unique events they wouldn’t normally attend.CAE, formerly known as the Cultural Events Experience, is a graduation requirement for Baylor students that includes attending art, culture, theater and history events going on around campus.Initially, I was not thrilled about CAE. I thought I…
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterThe Creative Arts Experience is introducing online options and limited venue size to its events in response to COVID-19 regulations.The CAE program was introduced in the form of Cultural Events Experience in the 2019 graduation plan for the College of Arts and Sciences.The CAE’s mission is to focus more on the art aspect of the core requirement as it was “intended for the fine arts, specifically art, music, theatre, film, and literature, with the additional focus of these arts as seen through the lens of world cultures,” its website said; CAE was “conceived and promoted by…
By Megan Lockhart | ReporterFollowing the recent outbreaks of COVID-19 cases last week in the Collins and Martin residence halls, daily testing in the two buildings has continued throughout this week as positive case numbers are counted. Dr. Jim Marsh, the dean for student health and wellness and executive director for Counseling Services at Baylor University confirmed that further testing data taken from both Martin and Collins was submitted as clinical this week. “Because of the residence hall and the congregate living in close corners, if someone is positive we don’t want them to wait two days to find out…
The Waco community watches as a local business prospers, establishing fresh roots in a big city while still maintaining its charming small town touch.
The Waco community watches as a local business prospers, establishing fresh roots in a big city while still maintaining its charming small town touch.