Gateway to India, an annual culture show featuring presentations of the music, dances and traditions of India, will be held from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday in Waco Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
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With the proliferation of e-readers and digital textbooks, the way we view books is changing.
Today, another type of book will appear on Baylor’s campus. Community members will have the opportunity to view a set of artist’s books crafted by a traveling husband-and-wife team.
Two recent graduates have carried their Baylor school spirit into a new business. Sic’em Delivery offers a service specially designed for the college lifestyle.
Sic’em Delivery takes orders for food or other goods from around the campus area and brings them to students’ front doors.
Don’t think of it as losing an Arby’s. Think of it as gaining a 7-Eleven.
The world’s largest convenience retailer, with close to 49,500 stores around the world, will open a store across from Robinson Tower, an area once occupied by an Arby’s. Now it’s a pile of rubble.
Alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago will celebrate Baylor pride and tradition with their graduating class at the upcoming Heritage Club event.
Heritage Club, a homecoming event sponsored by the Baylor Alumni Association, is in its 37th year.
The head of the Senate Education Committee broke into tears Thursday as he promised to fight for dramatically expanded “school choice” in Texas.
But Sen. Dan Patrick also announced he was softening his high-profile bill to allow an unlimited number of charter schools to operate statewide, instead taking a more gradual, tiered approach to their expansion.
School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.
Tension in a suburban New York school district is rooted in an unusual dynamic: The families who send their children to public schools are mostly Hispanic and African-American. The school board is almost entirely made up of ultra-Orthodox Jews who send their children to private schools and are bent on keeping taxes low.
The Baylor baseball team opens up Big 12 Conference play on the road in a three-game weekend series against the No. 20 Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Bears will take on the Cowboys on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater.
The track and field team is hosting its first home meet of the season in the Baylor Quad Invitational today, an all-day outdoor event at the Hart-Patterson Track & Field Complex.
The invitational meet will start at 11 a.m. with running events commencing at 1:30 p.m. The meet concludes at 5:20 this evening with the 4×400-meter relays.
The No. 15 Baylor Lady Bear softball team will begin conference play against No. 9 Texas at 2 p.m. Saturday at Getterman Stadium. Baylor finished its non-conference play with a 26-5 record.
After defeating Long Beach State 112-66 Wednesday in the first round of the NIT, the No. 2 seed Baylor will host the No. 3 seed Arizona State Sun Devils at 7 p.m. tonight at the Ferrell Center.
The path for a consecutive National Title begins at 6:30 p.m. Sunday as the No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears play No. 16 Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers in the Ferrell Center in the first game of the NCAA Tournament.
In a place full of lions, tigers and bears, visitors to the Cameron Park Zoo will learn to live safer lives, as the zoo hosts its Poison Safety Safari. Together with the Central Texas Poison Control Center at Scott & White Healthcare, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Cameron Park Zoo will have games and presentations for kids and their families, teaching everyone about poison safety. This will be the first time that the Cameron Park Zoo has hosted this event since 2003.
Today the bells in the belfry of Pat Neff Hall will ring to signal the approach of Holy Week.
Lynnette Geary, resident carillonneur (pronounced care-uh-lahn-oo-er), will give the carillon recital beginning at 5 p.m.
Ed Graf was given life in prison 25 years ago for killing his two stepsons by locking them in a backyard shed and setting it on fire.
Two investigators used photos of the shed’s remains to persuade jurors that Graf had started the fire intentionally.
To Julie LaStrape, March Madness is not a college basketball tournament. It’s a time of year that is so insanely busy, it can drive you mad.
LaStrape is one of the main organizers of the annual Global Business Forum, which brings speakers from areas such as academics, business and public policy to explore issues facing the world economy.
We all wish we were a little bit different.
Be it taller, shorter, thinner, bigger, smaller or whatever, there is always something that could be changed for the better. For China, wishing you were smarter could be a thing of the past.
In 1979, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. Part of the agreement included aid for Egypt from the United States. Since that time, the U.S. has aided Egypt with about $2 billion per year.
Civil unions for gay couples got the governor’s signature in Colorado on Thursday, punctuating a dramatic turnaround in a state where voters banned same-sex marriage in 2006 and restricted protections for gays two decades ago.
Michael Dell is about to find out if other bidders think his company is worth more than he does.
The answer could come Friday, which marks the end of a 45-day period that Dell Inc.’s board of directors settled on to allow for offers that might top a Feb. 5 agreement to sell the personal computer maker to CEO Michael Dell and a group of investors for $24.4 billion.
Hundreds of kids are waiting for a big brother or sister. Sign up to volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waco at www.bbbstx.org and make a difference.
Create a personal spending plan with the help of Student Financial Services at 6 p.m. today in the Beckham Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center. This event is free and open to all students.
The bedtime saying “Don’t let the bedbugs bite” is more than a child’s tale. These creepy-crawlies are bed hogs too stubborn to leave without a fight or bite.
College campuses can be hosts to bedbugs, especially when students travel internationally, said Don Bagby, director of facilities management.
Baylor relocated two students to a hotel Tuesday for three nights after bedbugs were found in their South Russell Residence Hall room.
Four adjacent rooms were also inspected by Ecolab and no bedbugs were found.
Dr. Lori Baker, assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor, identifies remains of undocumented immigrants crossing the border and reunites them with their families as director of the Reuniting Families program.
The River of the Arms of God has never been tamed, said Dr. Kenna Archer.
In her speech Tuesday to an audience of more than 100 professors, students and Wacoans in Bennett Auditorium, Archer described Texas’ relationship to the Brazos River as a battle between man and nature, a battle that Texans have historically lost.
An Army psychiatrist will not be allowed to plead guilty to any charges in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Maj. Nidal Hasan’s attorneys previously said he was ready to plead guilty to the 13 counts of premeditated murder he faces in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation, but Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea to charges that carry the death penalty.