The No. 6 Baylor women’s tennis team has gotten off to a hot start in the 2015 dual-match season, and the Lady Bears exhibited their current state of dominance with four-straight shutouts on Friday and Sunday to continue their unbeaten season at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center.
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Several nationally recognized organists came to participate in the 21st annual Midwinter Organ Conference, which began Sunday.
Jason Roberts, associate director of music and organist at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City, will give a performance to accompany Buster Keaton’s silent film “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” in Jones Concert Hall.
Promising to help America’s middle class, President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a record $4 trillion budget that would hammer corporate profits overseas and raise taxes on the wealthy while boosting tax credits for families and the working poor.
Two years after Chris Kyle’s death, and days before the man accused of killing him goes to trial, the retired Navy SEAL depicted in the blockbuster movie “American Sniper” received a state day Monday in his honor.
No. 19 Baylor men’s basketball made a statement last Saturday as it met conference rival Texas for its first meeting this season. Behind an impactful performance from senior guard Kenny Chery, the Bears rolled over the Longhorns 83-60 at the Ferrell Center for their fourth conference win.
The stakes keep stacking higher for the No. 3 Lady Bears. Baylor set itself apart from this season’s Big 12 Conference women’s basketball teams over the weekend. The Lady Bears are the only undefeated team remaining in the Big 12 after reaching a 9-0 league record with a 66-58 win over Kansas on Sunday at the Ferrell Center.
An interest meeting for the Green and Gold Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Beckham Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center. The Green and Gold Pageant Committee puts on the pageant to recognize the talents of Baylor students in leadership and philanthropy. The meeting is open to all undergraduate students. For additional information, contact Lexi_Dowell@baylor.edu or Aziza_Lewally@baylor.edu.
More than 50 representatives from various student organizations will be at Dr Pepper hour, 3-4 p.m. today in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Student Union Building to meet those seeking to get involved on campus.
Tickets are now available in the Bill Daniel Student Center Ticket Office for All-University Sing. Ticket prices range from $22 to $26. Students get a $2 discount with their ID. For additional information, contact bdsctickets@baylor.edu. You can also buy tickets online at www.baylor.edu/studentactivities/ticketoffice.
The Martin Museum of Art is holding a print-a-Valentine workshop from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday. Participants will choose a design and experience the printmaking process to make their own Valentine card. The event is free. The Museum of Art is located in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. For more information, visit www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum.
President Barack Obama wants to create a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe.
The proposal in the president’s budget released Monday comes after outbreaks of illnesses linked to chicken, eggs, peanuts and cantaloupe in recent years. More than a dozen federal agencies oversee food safety, and consumer advocates have long called for bringing all those functions together in a single home.
By Cody Soto Sports Writer No. 6 Baylor women’s tennis finished off its weekend with another doubleheader, this time taking down No. 25 Tulsa 4-0 and in-state team Incarnate Word 7-0 at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center on Sunday. “It was a great opportunity to play a lot of tennis,” head coach Joey Scrivano said. “Our underclassmen, most importantly, got a lot of practice and go to work on areas of the game that they needed to. It was very successful not only on the scoreboard but also from a development standpoint.” The Lady Bears were challenged in two out…
By Jeffrey Swindoll Sports Writer The No. 3 Lady Bears climbed to 9-0 in the Big 12 Conference after a gritty 66-58 win over the Kansas Jayhawks on Sunday at the Ferrell Center. Baylor extended its impressive win streak to 19 games in a row. The game was strewn with controversial officiating, inconsistent free-throw shooting and plenty of turnovers for both sides. The rowdy crowd at the Ferrell Center was loud and evidently frustrated with the referees after 43 fouls were called on Sunday. “This was a very difficult game to coach,” Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey said. “I thought…
by Cody Soto Sports Writer No. 20 Baylor men’s basketball showed no mercy to No. 19 Texas as the Bears fired away from the field to take a big 83-60 win at the Ferrell Center Saturday afternoon. Baylor (16-5, 4-4 Big 12) shot 30-for-62 from the field for a 48.4 shooting percentage and limited the Longhorns to a 38.6 shooting percentage, including only 5-for-26 from three-point range. The Bears hit 12-of-22 shots from beyond the arc, shooting 54.5 percent. Senior guard Kenny Chery had a stellar performance with 23 points on 9-for-12 from the field and add four rebounds and…
The university’s Office of Sustainability helped break another record in university sustainability, a trend that has continued since 2006.
A new restaurant called the Mix Café, located at 1700 S. Fifth St., has teamed up with the Baylor Entrepreneurship Program and is hiring students.
Reubin Turner City Editor Many knew it was only a matter of time, but it’s finally happened – the social mediafication of investing. Several millennials along the West Coast are using unconventional methods that involve social media and apps to enter a market that 20-somethings have been afraid to do with lingering memories of the Great Recession. The fact that social media is a tool this generation is well-versed in suggests the medium is here to stay. Because social mediafication encourages novices to invest by learning together and sharing advice from investors of all skill levels, this will have…
In keeping with longstanding tradition, the Recording Academy has arranged several May-December duets for the Feb. 8 ceremony, organizers announced Wednesday, including planned performances by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.
The Texas executive branch must prove its worth and the Lariat editorial board has some suggestions on how to make the most out of its time in higher office
You’re sitting in a class, the professor is giving a lecture, and then he pauses to direct a question to the class. There’s silence. Then more silence. Then it becomes an awkward silence. Eventually the professor moves on, but it’ll happen again.
Ladd came within hours of execution in 2003, before a federal court agreed to hear evidence about juvenile records that suggested he was mentally impaired.
After the Boko Haram terrorist group killed as many as 2000 people in Baga, Nigeria, Baylor students from the region expressed their concerns about this group’s operations in their home country.
Women working in information technologies still represent a minority, but do have opportunity to expand due to today’s tech-savvy culture, according to one Baylor professor’s study.
The Baylor Lariat sports desk looks at the upcoming Super Bowl and recaps Baylor men’s basketball’s key win over then-No. 19 Oklahoma. The women maintained their grip on the Big 12 and Josh Gordon once again is in trouble with the NFL. Follow us on Twitter @ShehanJeyarajah @BUCodySoto @JeffreySwindoll @BULariatSports
Prosecutors on Tuesday promised a thorough investigation and asked angry protesters for patience after police shot and killed a 17-year-old girl who authorities said struck an officer with a stolen car.
An administrative judge cleared the way Tuesday for Texas education officials to revoke the charter of a Dallas school co-founded by Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.
The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling, even as it moved to restrict drilling indefinitely in environmentally-sensitive areas off Alaska.
A Texas judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a felony abuse-of-power case against former Gov. Rick Perry on constitutional grounds, ruling that criminal charges against the possible 2016 presidential candidate should stand.