By Seth Jones | ReporterThe Baylor School of Music will do its part to kick off the holiday season this week with its Christmas concert, “A Baylor Christmas.” The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Jones Concert Hall.Over 450 students will perform Christmas songs during the concert. Performers include the various choirs on Baylor’s campus, such as Bella Voce, the a cappella choir, the men’s and women’s choirs and the concert choir, as well as an orchestra composed of 80 students. Stephen Heyde, the director of orchestral activities at Baylor, will conduct the Baylor Symphony…
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By Seth Jones | Reporter Mark Twain is a highly regarded icon in American literary history who authored powerful works such as “The Prince and the Pauper,” “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” At 8 p.m. today in Waco Hall, Hal Holbrook will perform his long-running one man show, “Mark Twain Tonight!” which highlights many of Twain’s works in a unique way. Holbrook has been performing the show since 1954 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the performance when it aired on CBS in 1967. Holbrook said he has continued to put on the show because…
I am a white millennial male who attends a conservative, private Christian university. My hometown of Lumberton, Texas, was over 95 percent white as of April 19, 2015, according to statisticalatlas.com. I have little to no idea what it is like to be the subject of discrimination.The only instance of discrimination against myself that I can remember is when I was attending daycare as a 4-year-old. One of my best friends Demetri was black, and one day he told me that I was the “wrong color.” My mom picked me up from school that day, and I was distraught. I…
By Seth Jones | ReporterHotel Indigo in downtown Waco will be hosting an art exhibit at 7 p.m. Saturday featuring the paintings of local artist Mark Kieran. The exhibit will be free and open to the public.Kieran describes his art as a combination of abstract and realism. He uses themes in his paintings to convey certain emotions and ideas, which is one of the main reasons Kieren named the showcase “Transcending the Temporal.”“[This show] is … an attempt to show, through art, a little bit of a different perspective, reality or the human condition or the environment in some ways,”…
By Seth Jones | ReporterDuring his time as a student at Baylor, Hunter Gorman found a true passion that he believed could be a potential career. By the time Gorman graduated from Baylor in the spring of 2016, he had put his entrepreneurship degree to work and started his own business, E2 Creative.E2 Creative is a custom craft shop in Waco, Texas, which makes handcrafted products such as swings, tables, cutting boards, beds and many more. While Gorman started the company in 2014, he said he knew he had a natural attraction to woodwork at a very young age. “The…
By Seth Jones | ReporterWhen a student or faculty member at Baylor University goes to lunch at Memorial Hall’s dining hall, named “1845 at Memorial dining hall,” he or she has many options of what to eat, whether that’s salad, pizza or something sweeter. Out of all of these options, one of the sweetest is Mei Lan Tam’s, more commonly known as Ms. Mei’s, cookie station.Many of the dining hall’s regular visitors are familiar with Lan Tam and make sure they never miss out on her cookies or her even sweeter smile. One of these regulars is Garland freshman Michael…
By Seth Jones | ReporterThe Baylor School of Music will present its free annual Halloween Organ Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Monday in Jones Concert Hall.The concert will feature both undergraduate and graduate students playing songs that they chose to fit the Halloween theme. Graduate student Sam Eatherton, who is currently working on his doctorate in church music and will perform in the concert, said he believes people will realize they’ve heard some of the music before. A few examples he gave were “Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor,” “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and “Dance of the…
By Seth Jones | ReporterThe Baylor Concert Choir,made up of 98 male and female students, and the Baylor Bella Voce choir, composed of 34 female students, came together on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall to perform their fall concert, titled “Our Hope.” The concert was conducted by Dr. Lynne Gackle, director of choral activities for the Baylor School of Music. The two choirs collaborated to perform one show because there was not enough room on the schedule for two separate concerts. However, Gackle said she believes seeing the two choirs in the same concert proves to be…
Seth Jones | ReporterThe Texas Photographic Society is currently displaying its international competition, The TPS 25, at Baylor’s Martin Museum of Art. The Texas Photographic Society is displaying its international competition, The TPS 25, at Baylor’s Martin Museum of Art. The Texas Photographic Society received artist submissions from multiple countries across the globe, but only works from the United States and Canada are showcased in the exhibit. The competition features photographs from 25 different artists as a way for the TPS to celebrate its 25th anniversary of the annual competition. Allison Syltie, director of the Martin Museum of Art, said…
By Seth Jones | Reporter Houston sophomore Thomas Csorba lives a busy life, balancing the full workload of a business major while pursuing a music career. Csorba grew up listening to many renowned singer-songwriter musicians within the folk and Americana genres, including Woody Guthrie, Buddy Holly and Townes Van Zandt, according to Csorba’s website. Csorba said he remembers when Van Zandt’s music began changing the way he viewed that style of music. “[Van Zandt’s music] really shook me because it’s so honest and simple,” Csorba said. “It had a certain power to it.” Under those influences, Csorba decided to release…
By Seth Jones | ReporterAs a part of Baylor’s homecoming celebration, the homecoming parade annually presents a fun and family-friendly atmosphere for those on and off of Baylor’s campus. The Baylor homecoming parade will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday. The first-ever Baylor homecoming parade was conducted in 1909, and much of the community joined in on the celebration. “From the beginning,” a history of the homecoming parade on the Baylor website reads, “the Baylor Homecoming Parade was a first-class extravaganza of color that featured bands, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, student and civic organizations, and a stream of dignitaries.” The…
The presidential election is always an extremely important event which determines our country’s future, and the 2016 race is no exception. As a 21-year-old, this election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is my very first opportunity to vote in a general election. The thought of finally voicing my opinion in our democratic system of government excited me until I saw the candidates. As I generally lean more to the left, I found myself in a tough spot during the nomination process. Bernie Sanders was someone I viewed as a radical and impractical choice, and Secretary Hillary Clinton seemed a…
By Seth Jones | ReporterBen Rector and Jacob Whitesides performed Saturday at Waco Hall as a part of Rector’s tour, “The Biggest Tour I’ve Done So Far.” Waco Hall was almost full, with Baylor students and non-Baylor students alike gathering to see the headline artist, Ben Rector. Even before he took the stage, Rector’s quirky nature and charismatic style were evident as he tweeted at a fan from backstage, announcing that he was busy watching football. That sort of humor and personality is what crowds love about Rector.”He’s just himself up there on stage, which is really admirable,” Boerne freshman…
Video by Morgan Kilgo | Broadcast Reporter and story by Seth Jones | Reporter As students settle into the fall semester, staff members at the Career and Professional Development Center aim to show students as well as alumni the center is not just for students but professionals as well. The center offers mock interviews, career fairs, internships and professionals to talk with students about what the future holds. While current Baylor students may know about the services offered to them through Career and Professional Development, Jarrod Mathis, programming specialist for alumni engagement for the center, said he sees that many…
By Seth Jones | ReporterAs Baylor Theatre begins its string of performances of “Fiddler on the Roof,” Nicholas Carlin has reasons for excitement besides playing the lead role of Tevye. Friendswood junior Nicholas Carlin developed his love for theater early in life, and it was this passion that led him to Baylor. Throughout his childhood, Carlin’s parents ran a community theater that he frequently participated in. He remembers being involved in “Fiddler on the Roof,” from a young age. “I don’t know if the first show I ever did was ‘Fiddler,’ but it was either the first or second,” Carlin…
Kayne West puts on a performance that causes audiences to see him in a different light
By Seth Jones | ReporterClint Harp will be the keynote speaker for the 2016 Central Texas PRSA Professional Development Day today at the Texas Farm Bureau Conference Center in Waco. Harp owns his own carpentry business in Waco, Harp Design Co., and has made regular appearances on HGTV’s hit show “Fixer Upper,” which landed him a special on the DIY Network show “Against the Grain.” Harp encourages Baylor students to attend the conference to learn from him and his experiences as a student and graduate. “There isn’t a cookie-cutter way of doing this thing called life as soon as you…
By Seth Jones | ReporterThe Art Center of Waco opened a new gallery on Tuesday, that features abstract artist Caroline Camden Lewis. Meg Gilbert, director of The Art Center of Waco, says she believes that this is an opportunity for Baylor students and Waco residents to see something that is unique. “This is different from what we’ve shown recently,” Gilbert said. “But it may also be different from what students are seeing on Baylor’s campus.” Lewis has used unconventional methods in many of her paintings, including adding pieces of glass and guitar strings into the paint. In one of her…
Heritage presents an interesting study space for Baylor students.