Cinema owners have long complained about the length of movie trailers. Now they’re clamping down. New guidelines issued Monday by the National Assn. of Theatre Owners call for limiting the length of movie trailers to two minutes. The guidelines, which the trade group said were designed to “maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the industry’s marketing efforts,” also call for restricting marketing time for trailers to 150 days prior to the release date of the film, and 120 days for all other in-theater marketing materials. Two exemptions per distributor per year would be allowed for both trailer length and marketing lead time.
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Hammers, nails and electric saws sounded as nearly 30 Habitat for Humanity volunteers and community leaders gathered for the first Harvest House Wall Raising Saturday morning at 408 Boyd Lane in Waco.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An attorney for a condemned Ohio inmate whose slow, gasping execution with a new drug combination renewed questions about the death penalty was temporarily suspended last week while officials investigated whether he had coached the condemned man to fake symptoms of suffocation.
When it comes to youth sports, the coach’s job extends beyond the field of play. Coaches are supposed to teach their team valuable life skills such as teamwork, selflessness and responsibility. These life lessons are apparently lost on Alan Beck. You can imagine the dramatic scene: bottom of the 9th, two outs, bases loaded. It’s a tense situation. With pressure mounting, one California Little Leaguer rose to the occasion and drove in the game-winning run. The runner that scored the winning run, in traditional celebratory fashion for the sport of baseball, took off his helmet as he was rounding third…
With hair teased bigger than Texas, earrings so large they have to be held on with glue and not one, but two pairs of fake eyelashes weighing down my eyelids, you probably would have judged me to be exactly what I looked like, a hopeful Texas beauty queen.
By Rae Jefferson Staff Writer The Baylor Alumni Association has appointed a committee to solidify the association’s future in the wake of Baylor cutting ties with the group. “A special committee of the board of directors will begin meeting immediately to chart a course for the future of the Association,” said BAA President George Cowden III in a statement released by the BAA. “We then hope to engage the Board of Regents in an open, transparent dialogue about constructive, mutually beneficial result for our members and the University.” In an email to the Lariat, the BAA Executive Committee said the…
In an overtime thriller, two of the Big 12’s top teams, and two of the league’s best point guards faced off in another road test for the No. 12 Lady Bears.
By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer For three straight games, Baylor has faced a must-win situation against a hot team. For three straight games, the Bears have come up short. No. 24 Baylor (13-6, 1-5) will now likely fall out of the top 25 after a 74-60 blowout at the hands of Texas (16-4, 5-2). Texas came hot outa of the gates to start the first half. The Longhorns jumped out to a quick 8-2 lead, including a powerful dunk from sophomore center Cameron Ridley. Baylor would turn over the ball four times in the first four minutes. Sophomore center Isaiah…
The Glennis McCrary Music Building, which frequently houses the sweet harmonies of vocal and instrumental performances, welcomes a new sound this week – the snores of music students.
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Former Baylor football player Tevin Sherard Elliott, 22, was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison and fined $10,000 for each of his two sexual assaults committed against a Baylor student in 2012.
The blustery winds Thursday forced a temporary change of plans for construction at the McLane Stadium building site. The last steel truss was scheduled for installation Thursday with a “topping out ceremony” complete with catered lunch, a raffle, a few words from Director of Athletics Ian McCaw and a tree. President Ken Starr and Brian Nicholson, who is the Associate Vice President for Facility, Planning and Construction, were among university administrators in attendance.
Firefighters contained a house fire at 7:38 p.m. Thursday at the 800 block of S. Seventh Street and Ross Avenue. Firefighters contained the fire within five to 10 minutes after arriving on scene. Assistant Chief with the Waco Fire Department Patrick Kerwin said the residents of the house, two adults and an infant, were not at home at the time of the fire.
Two male Baylor students were taken to the Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center Thursday afternoon to be treated for hypothermia, after falling into the waters of Lake Waco when their sailboat capsized.
Alicia Chang Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A decade after landing on Mars, the rover Opportunity is still chugging along. Sure, it has some wear and tear. One of its six wheels and two instruments stopped working long ago. It has an arthritic joint. Its flash memory occasionally suffers a senior moment. But these problems are considered minor for a journey that was supposed to be just a three-month adventure. “No one ever expected this — that after 10 years a Mars exploration rover would continue to operate and operate productively,” project manager John Callas said Thursday. NASA has scrutinized…
Terry Tang Associated Press PHOENIX — A passenger on a Greyhound bus traveling through Arizona “went berserk” and attacked the driver early Thursday, causing the bus to swerve violently and go off the highway before other passengers subdued him, witnesses and authorities said. People were thrown from their seats after the California man, who reportedly was hallucinating, screamed “Everybody’s going to die,” pummeled the driver and grabbed the steering wheel. More than half of the roughly 40 passengers were hurt, including three who were airlifted to a Phoenix hospital. “Everybody is jumping and flying and screaming,” passenger Susana Ordinola, 48,…
International students from five continents have found a temporary home at Common Grounds. Though they met as a group for the first time less than two weeks ago, more than 25 students from around the world gathered Wednesday to support one of their group and his acoustic session.
By Abigail Loop Reporter Dallas junior Makenzie Hagestad seems to have made the most of her past relationship troubles. In her first book, “A Guide to Your Girlfriend: A Personalized Map to Your Boyfriend,” Hagestad includes what she has learned from her experiences in the dating game to help couples everywhere have a better relationship. Made up of different interactive, fill-in-the-blank sections, the book offers better communication skills to both boyfriends and girlfriends to improve thier understanding of each other. The book came out Nov. 7. Q: What inspired you to write this book? A: I originally wrote it last…
Bearsforphans, an organization that has been in the works since April 2013, will hold its long-awaited first meeting at 5:31 p.m. on Feb. 11. Gummy bears may be involved.
By Jeffrey Swindoll Sports Writer After the No. 12 Lady Bears trounced the Kansas State Wildcats on Wednesday night 71-48, the concerns surrounding Baylor’s inexperience and sloppy form against the Kansas Jayhawks was silenced, for now. The win against Kansas State kept Baylor (15-3, 5-1) on track for contention in the Big 12 title race, but now the Bears face the co-leader of the conference, the No. 8 Oklahoma State Cowgirls (17-1, 6-1) on Sunday in a showdown featuring two of the Big 12’s best teams. “You’re going to see two teams just really battle, but kind of different defensively,”…
By Kenneth Cline and Ryan Hannegan Reporters With the success of the 2013 football season, as well as the flashy uniforms, Baylor has grabbed national attention. Although Baylor’s customary colors are green and gold, fans are starting to become accustomed to bolder and more intimidating colors, such as black or chrome. For good or bad, the splashy new uniforms have caused quite a stir. Evidence of this can be dated back to Nov. 7, when the Baylor football team played the Oklahoma Sooners in what was hyped up as a “Blackout.” The week prior to the game, all fans were…
By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer In the past, Baylor basketball has been a team that has relied on one or a small group of stars for much of its production. This season, that has changed with the dynamic depth of the 2013-14 Baylor Bears. Over the past five seasons, Baylor has had 13 players who played 30 minutes or more per game, an average of 2.6 per season. This year’s team does not have an individual player who has reached that mark. This year, eight players on Baylor’s 2013-14 team average 17 or more minutes per game. The Bears on…
How do you think the court should act? Take our survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WhatShouldTheCourtDo Results will be published next week. In hospitals, when it comes to life or death situations, the complexities of medical and moral ethics come into play. On Nov. 26, 2013, Marlise Munoz collapsed in her home as a result of what doctors believe was a pulmonary embolism. In other words, a blood clot, or some other foreign matter, blocked her pulmonary artery. She was rushed to the hospital where her husband Erick Munoz said the doctors said she was brain-dead. The Munozes were both paramedics and Mr.…
By Greg DeVries Editor-in-Chief Nowadays, it seems like everybody hates the government. Congress’ approval rating is now at just 13 percent according to the latest Gallup poll and the president has taken heat from both the press and the American people regarding an alarming number of scandals. The executive and legislative branches get all of the hate, but there is a third branch that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It doesn’t take a political science major to know that I am referring to the judicial branch. While words like “Congress” and “Senate” now seem to have negative connotations, the…
Baylor former football player Tevin Elliot was found guilty today of two counts of sexual assault.
Elliot had been charged with sexually assaulting a former Baylor student in 2012, and was suspended from the team indefinitely in August 2012.
