By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterBaylor Missions Fair includes a variety of events aimed to get students involved in and connected to various programs and organizations to serve those around them.Monday’s Chapel services had missions-oriented speeches and videos, and following the service, students were invited to explore informational booths outside Waco Hall. These booths moved to the Ferrell Center after Monday’s Vertical Ministries service, and free food was given to attendees. Today, the missions organizations will be connecting with students at Dr Pepper Hour. The missions fair is a part of Missions EDU, a group created at Baylor to educate…
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By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer, Video by Nate Smith | Broadcast Reporter BeaRing the Night, a new tradition beginning at Baylor, involves students leaving their Baylor Rings in boxes within the Bear Habitat on campus with Joy and Lady the night before the official ring ceremony. Jan Dodd, associate director of alumni traditions, imagined and helped develop this new tradition. She said that part of her inspiration was learning about other universities’ ring traditions, and about how schools with live mascots have done something similar. Dodd said that all official Baylor Rings purchased during ring week will be included…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterBaylor’s upcoming “If You’re Breathing, You’re Biased” lecture will tackle the issue of unconscious bias, and how that can affect decisions made in various communities we may belong to, like classrooms and the workplace. The event is being held by Baylor’s Equity Office from 1 to 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in Human Resources Office 200 (Clifton Robinson Tower), and will “take a look at defining bias, identifying personal and potential biases and consider the effect of biases in the workplace as well as within the Baylor community,” according to the Equity Office.Woodbury, Minn., sophomore Runo Egi…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterWe’ve all been there — you parked late at night, didn’t get a very close space, and likely spent some time searching for your car the next time you needed to go off campus. Or, maybe you commute and park at the Ferrell Center to take a shuttle over to campus. The shuttle may have left a few minutes early and you missed it, or maybe it came after its scheduled arrival and you had to walk into class late.Many Baylor students feel this struggle regardless of their living situation, as no parking option is…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer, Video by BrenShavia Jordan | Broadcast Reporter Baylor students were able to speak to a variety of potential employers at Wednesday’s Career Day, the largest career fair in Baylor’s history. Baylor’s Career Day was hosted in three on-campus locations from 3-7 p.m. The event hosted 175 top employers, over 600 recruiters, hiring managers and Baylor alumni who engaged with students. Employers relating to business and liberal arts majors were located in Foster Campus for Business and Innovation. STEM and health sciences major careers were in Cashion Academic Center and government and non-profit related majors…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterBaylor’s new HelpDesk+ is now open in the garden level of Moody Memorial Library to assist students with technology help and providing services and information. Prior to HelpDesk+ opening this semester, Baylor’s IT support was primarily offered online. There were also physical on-campus options, such as ITS and a desk called Tech Point, but the services were spread out over different locations, and employees often had to refer students to other offices.This new HelpDesk+ “combines the resources of the phone-based ITS Help Desk with hardware repair, AirBear answers, audiovisual technology and laptop checkouts and creative…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterBaylor’s web page about the College of Arts and Sciences’ new unified core curriculum was recently updated online with information about new core requirements. On Sept. 4, College of Arts and Sciences students received an email containing a link to the page, which is now complete with course lists and FAQ’s. The significance of designating this core as ‘unified’ is that all four degrees (B.A., B.F.A., B.S. and B.S.A.S.) now follow the same core curriculum. “Now, we’re able to say that there are particular skills and knowledge that’s shared and that says that when you…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer A new addition was recently added to the Bill Daniel Student Center (SUB)— as of yesterday, an Amazon Hub Locker is operational for students to pick up their online packages. Baylor’s new Amazon locker is located just inside the SUB entrance closest to the bear habitat. Amazon lockers are “secure, self-service kiosks where you can pick up Amazon.com packages at a time and place that is convenient for you,” and are now available for student use.Dallas freshman Nathan Denman said he uses Amazon frequently because he prefers online shopping to taking the time to…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterMany students know they have the ability to start a club at Baylor based on their interests, but the process of chartering these organizations may not be as obvious. Baylor outlines that students should begin with five basic steps when wanting to begin their own club. The first task is to meet with the Department of Student Activities and for the applicant to review Student Activities policies.Clubs must have at least one full-time faculty or staff member acting as their adviser. The next step is to complete and submit a charter application. The fall priority…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterA group of students formed a circle on the floor and waited patiently for their turn to pet one of the Pet Partners dogs that visited the Beauchamp Addiction Recovery Center (BARC) Thursday. Some of the students appeared more stressed than others, but all seemed to become calm in the presence of the therapy dogs.San Antonio freshman Kaitlyn Dutton experienced the benefits of therapy dogs for the first time at this event, and she said she enjoyed it.“I feel a lot of stress every day— at least at some points of the day there’s a…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterBaylor students have mixed reactions to the news that Baylor University Police Department (BUPD) will no longer offer nighttime campus escorts. “The escort program is no longer in play,” Mark Childers, associate vice president of Baylor’s Department of Public Safety, said. BUPD has offered personal escorts in some form for over seven years, allowing students to call the station, state their location and be picked up as soon as an officer can arrive. Brownsville sophomore Sophia Garza utilized BUPD’s escort service and expressed feeling unsafe upon hearing about the termination of the program. “I don’t…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterBaylor Kickoff Weekend, a new event-filled celebration of the school year’s first football game, took place from Thursday to Saturday and encouraged students to stay on campus and partake in the festivities. This is the first year that Kickoff Weekend has been put on by Chamber of Commerce, replacing the previous Traditions Rally event normally occurring at the same time. The weekend began with freshmen and seniors signing the Baylor Line and a Class of 2023 group photo. All freshmen were encouraged to wear their Baylor Line jerseys to the event. Athens senior True Head,…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer Baylor held its annual Mosaic Mixer at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the SUB Bowl and offered free food to the first 500 students who attended with their Baylor IDs.A variety of cultural organizations were recruiting at the event, including the NAACP, Black Student Union, Korean Student Association, Greek organizations and more.Hewitt sophomore Bo Ryung Lee, a member of the Korean Student Association, said she was excited to recruit new members for her club at the mixer.“It’s a really nice way to get to know people and there’s so many different types of people; if…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer Baylor has many well-regarded traditions, but not all of them are as old as Homecoming. Baylor freshmen had the opportunity to leave their mark on the literal ‘Baylor Line’ by signing it for the first time in 2018 on the Friday before the first football game of the season. This year’s freshmen and senior classes had the same opportunity Thursday at McLane Plaza through Baylor Kickoff Weekend. Athens senior True Head, the Baylor Kickoff Weekend chair, is organizing the event with Baylor Chamber of Commerce. Head said he hopes for the event to be…
By Meredith Howard | Staff WriterEmployers love to see internships on applications, but many job-seekers don’t have time to dedicate to unpaid work.I had the means to quit my part-time job to pursue an internship this summer, and I really enjoyed it. However, not everyone has the opportunity to have the same experience.I was actually offered paid freelance work when I finished my internship with a business journal in my hometown, but I likely wouldn’t have gotten an offer to get paid if I hadn’t completed the internship.The problem with this system is that unpaid internships are only available to…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer Dealing with homesickness when starting college can be hard for anyone, but out-of-state students have a particularly taxing distance to overcome. Students from different parts of the country each have their own personal ways to cope with being far from home.Hudsonville, Mich., freshman Camryn Koperski said Welcome Week activities helped her to feel adjusted to her new environment after only being on campus for a few days.“Everyone refers to it as the ‘Baylor family,’ and I think that’s actually a very accurate way to describe the feel of the campus because everyone is very…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer Students in the College of Arts and Sciences will now be required to attend 12 Cultural Event Experiences (CEEs) in categories like theater and art in order to graduate as part of a change in the core curriculum.The goal of these events is to “expose students to a wide variety of fine arts and cultural events on the Baylor campus and with Baylor-sponsored programs,” according to Baylor’s 2019 Arts and Sciences core curriculum.This initiative is part of an entirely restructured core for Arts and Sciences students. They are still required to take at least…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer Every August, student and faculty volunteers at Baylor welcome over 3,000 freshmen by moving their belongings into their dorm rooms. This tradition, now known as Move 2 BU, has only officially existed since 2004. Before Move 2 BU was an official event, students had help moving in but didn’t have their cars unloaded for them like they currently do. Kim Scott, interim associate vice president of student life, has been the move-in project coordinator for all 15 years that Baylor has held Move 2 BU. Scott attended Baylor in the 1980s and her move-in…
By Meredith Howard | Staff Writer Two Texas laws regarding sexual assault on college campuses will take effect in September—House Bill 1735 and Senate Bill 212. House Bill 1735 requires a college to provide a policy to its student body and faculty about sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking and dating violence. The policy must include definitions of prohibited behavior, sanctions for violations, protocol for reporting and an explanation of an alleged victim’s rights, plus additional information outlined in the bill. The law takes effect on Sept. 1 unless a vote passes that would speed up the integration process. Laura Johnson,…
