Freshman year is here. You are settled into your dorm. You have found your classes. The world is at your fingertips. For some of you, this may be your first time in Texas. You are away from what is familiar and have entered into a new, unfamiliar journey. For others, attending Baylor may have been spoken over you from the time you could walk. In a world where it can become easy to rush to the next chapter, enjoy this season that you are in. As a freshman, there is no better time to explore and begin creating your Baylor…
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By Bridget Sjoberg | News Editor As a new school year begins, it’s common to experience a variety of different changes—teachers, classes, activities and possibly roommates or housing. For freshmen, almost everything will be an adjustment from what they were previously used to. A new school year is a fresh start and leaves us each with an important choice to make—will we allow challenging new changes to help us grow and learn, or will we decide that something is bad before we give it a real chance? When we choose the latter, our situation can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If…
In the last show of the semester, our anchors cover the best ways to leave your home secure before winter break, Baylor’s Christmas on 5th celebration and the men’s basketball team’s big win over South Dakota State.
Story by Bridget Sjoberg | Staff Writer, Video by Emma Whitaker | Broadcast ReporterAs a university composed of primarily 18-to-22-year-old students, Baylor has a community interested in social media, particularly through the use of photography. The Baylor University Instagram account recently reached 100,000 followers, and often reposts photos taken by students at the university. A student with a particular interest in photography is Southlake sophomore Katy Smith, who said she appreciates how Baylor has attracted a population looking to pursue photography or showcase their photos via social media. “I’ve met so many other photographers at Baylor,” Smith said. “There’s such…
By Kennedy Dendy | Broadcast Intern With 26 years of experience in the leather industry, Jay Kelly, Baylor football alumnus, decided to mix his background in leatherwork with his love for Baylor. “I had been getting a lot of requests for Baylor boots, and a lot of requests for non-Baylor boots, and making boots for my kids’ wedding parties and things like that,” Kelly said. “One of my sons, Colt, said ‘Dad, you ought to make this a business.’ Here we are. I got licensed by Baylor three months ago, and I’m starting to produce and manufacture cowboy boots with…
World Hunger Relief, or “The Farm” as it affectionately called, is a farm located 10 minutes from downtown Waco. The Farm looks to alleviate hunger in Waco and the world. Joel Scott, Director of Development and Outreach at World Hunger Relief, explains how the organization practices sustainable agriculture and community development.
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Meredith Aldis | Broadcast Intern Jimmy Bendeck, a Baylor men’s tennis player, competed in the University Games this past summer and represented Honduras. Bendeck said his favorite memory from the entire event was from the opening ceremony. “When we first got out of the bus, there was a bunch of fans waiting and cheering for us and they all had these Corgi dogs. They were all cheering with the Corgi dogs and holding them and there was like two hundred. I was just like, ‘What is going on?'” But I loved it because I love dogs,” Bendeck said. Even though…
By The Associated Press The Austin City Limits music festival is offering refunds to anyone uncomfortable with attending following the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas. Spokeswoman Sandee Fenton said in an email Tuesday that the three-day outdoor festival will give refunds to fans “who no longer wish to attend.” The festival opens Friday and packs Austin, Texas’ downtown with about 75,000 people each day. The offer comes a few days after a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Austin City Limits is one of the largest music festivals in…
By Meredith Aldis | Broadcast Intern Baylor tennis player, Jessica Hinojosa, represented her home country of Mexico this summer at the University Games and nearly lost the back-draw championship. “I don’t know the feeling of being at the Olympics, but I think it’s a pretty close feeling to that,” Hinojosa said. “Representing your country at such a big event. It’s amazing.” She lost her first match against a player from Kazakhstan after battling for three and a half hours in the 113 degree heat. However, after playing in the back draw tournament, she made her way to the finals. She…
Video and story by Elisabeth Tharp | Broadcast Reporter Baylor students in chapel got a great surprise today, and it came to them all the way from Korea. The Korean Children’s Choir tours different countries all around the world bringing with them the word of the Lord. The choir is combined of kids from 3rd grade to 7th grade. “When they finish high school they will come to Baylor University,” said chairman of Far East Broadcasting Co., Korea Dr. Billy Kim. “That is why we are here and telling students about the Lord Jesus Christ.” Dr. Kim also said “They…
On this Halloween themed show, Thomas and Jakob recap Cowboys vs. Eagles, play a Halloween themed NFL game, breakdown Baylor vs. UT and look ahead to the college football playoffs.
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Four Baylor Interdisciplinary Core students won $1,000 for World Hunger Relief through the BIC Social World Philanthropy Project Wednesday.
By Jessica Babb Broadcast Managing Editor Working with Athletigen, a sports genetics organization, the Athletic Performance department is working toward being able to tailor an athlete’s workout based on the genetic makeup of their DNA.
By Jessica Babb Broadcast Managing Editor Campaigns for student body president are heating up, and candidates are on the campaign trail. If elected, Port Barre, Louisiana Junior Lindsey Bacque hopes to create a culture of unity on campus with a three-point plan. “The first of which is enhancing the Baylor Alumni Network, the second of which is something we have been working a lot on this year is increasing affordability and access for all students and finally that culture of unity on campus,” Bacque said. This past year, Bacque has been serving as the Student Government Internal Vice President,…
By Carlye Thornton The sun is shining, and Texas is gleaming with early signs of a long, hot summer. It must be time to load up the van with your best pals and head down to where it gets weird. South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Festival is in full swing in Austin, but soon we’ll be feeling the blues of the fun that came and went too soon. You need to have a blast to push through these last few weeks of the semester. Here’s how: First and foremost, get on Twitter and follow @SXSW, all your favorite…
By Emily Adams Arlington senior Brittany Bonner’s great balancing act isn’t what won her the Baylor Concerto Competition in January. The music education major, who juggles volunteering and leadership roles with a full practice schedule, took the winning title at the competition with her performance of David Mullikin’s “Concerto for Oboe.” The Baylor University Concerto Competition is considered by many music students as the most prestigious competition on campus, drawing top instrumentalists from the woodwind, brass, piano and string divisions of the School of Music. On Jan. 13, music students competed to be one of eight finalists among 24 solo…
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By Kalli Damschen Lariat Reporter They say that inspiration hits you when you least expect it. For Dr. Michael Thomas, this came about 25 years ago in a vision of a fighter plane soaring across the western Mediterranean sky while listening to praise music. As of earlier this month, the professor finally saw the manifestation of this vision in his fictional debut, “Pax Romana: The Rise of Seren.” Thomas is a professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. He has written a number of academic papers and articles. Thomas also wrote “Coming of Age in Franco’s Spain,” a nonfiction…
Wacoans gathered this weekend to participate in festivities held downtown in celebration of Martin Luther King day.
Waco is anticipating a new student housing development to replace the H-E-B on Speight Avenue that was taken down this week.
Student body president Pearson Brown discusses what student governments plans for the upcoming semester and what they have achieved so far.
The beloved, now former, H-E-B on Speight Avenue and 11th Street was torn down over the past week after more than a year of vacancy. Clint Peters, Waco’s planing director, said American campus Communities is planning to build a new student housing development that will begin construction within the next couple of months on the grounds of the old H-E-B. The construction will last around one year. The development is one of many new luxury complexes going up around Waco, similar to The View, The Domain and Oso Verde. “The development is a four-story, urban-scale, high-end student housing complex with…