The Heart of Texas Veterans Coalition is hosting a free crafting event from 1-5 p.m. Saturday to make Valentines for local ill and disabled veterans. The event will take place at Veterans One Stop at 2220 Austin Ave. To join the day of crafts, RSVP to vetzconnect@gmail.com or 254-744-4162.
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Submit your FAFSA by March 1 to be given priority consideration for financial aid. Those received after this date will be considered for aid based on the availability of remaining funds. Visit www.fafsa.ed.gov to apply.
Mentoring underprivileged kids in the Waco area proves rewarding and beneficial for professors and possibly Baylor students.
Byron Johnson, Co-Director and ISR Distinguished Professor, of Social Sciences, received the Lone Star Big Brother award on Jan. 30 for his service with Waco’s Big Brother Big Sister program.
A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it more difficult to use unmanned aerial drones in Texas.
Terrill Republican Lance Gooden wants to make it illegal to use a drone to monitor private property without express permission or a search warrant.
CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones Thursday under close questioning at a protest-disrupted confirmation hearing. On a second controversial topic, he said that after years of reading classified intelligence reports, he still does not know if waterboarding has yielded useful information.
The scholarship hunting process for tuition valued at more than $43,000 a year can be a daunting task for students.
The first place Baylor students can look for scholarships is the student financial services site, www.baylor.edu/sfs.
Do the names Bessie Coleman, Constance Baker Motley, Maggie Lena Walker and Mary Church Terrell ring a bell?
How about Rosa Parks?
They’re all trailblazers in the civil rights movement, according to University of Houston history professor Dr. Linda Reed, who presented a lecture last night at Bennett Auditorium.
Weeks after New York enacted the nation’s toughest gun laws, California lawmakers said Thursday they want their state to do even more in response to recent mass shootings, particularly the Connecticut school massacre.
Democrats who control the state Legislature revealed 10 proposals that they said would make California the most restrictive state for possessing firearms.
Student Government debated a bill at length Thursday that calls Baylor’s administration to action to make $10,000 worth of improvements to the Bear Trail.
The bill’s author, Arlington sophomore Dominic Edwards, explained to the Student Senate that the bill calls for the administration to install two stretching structures at the start of the Bear Trail, additional water fountains along the trial, as well as additional lighting and signage showing the correct path to follow.
Senior sprinter Zwede Hewitt, standing 6 feet 1 inch tall, looks like a typical collegiate track star. However, his past and future prove otherwise.
In 2008, Hewitt arrived where many athletes only dream of being. He was representing his country, Trinidad and Tobago, at the Olympics.
After a last second overtime loss to No. 22 Oklahoma State on Wednesday night, the Baylor Bears have now lost three consecutive games. This marks the longest losing streak of the season.
The Bears have an opportunity to get back on track against Texas Tech at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Ferrell Center.
The No. 22 Baylor Softball team began its season with the 12th annual Getterman Classic on Thursday with a 5-0 win over Illinois State. Under head coach Glenn Moore, Baylor is now 11-2 in opening games and 11-0 when opening its season at home.
Junior left-handed pitcher Whitney Canion earned the win. This was her first game back from a knee injury suffered last season.
When thinking of Mardi Gras, colorful artwork and jazz music, Waco is not usually the first place that comes to mind.
A Mardi Gras Celebration of Art will host its Super Friday Event art show from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Today at the Legacy Café on Austin Avenue. The event allows students to show their creative works while raising money for the Heart of Texas Autism Network.
The time for interfaith and multicultural worship has come for those attending Gospel Fest this Saturday.
Gospel Fest 2013, hosted by Baylor’s Heavenly Voices gospel choir, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Waco Hall.
This year’s theme is “Still Standing.” The acts include gospel choirs from all over Waco and the Central Texas area, such as Acts Church, the University of North Texas gospel choir, the Waco Community Choir, The Levites from Austin and many more.
Looking for a reason to spend more time on Facebook? CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his crew of social-software gurus are convinced their new Graph Search function is just what you need.
Zuckerberg has touted Graph Search as a “third pillar” of the popular social networking service as important to the Facebook experience as Timeline or News Feed. For many Facebook users, however, the new feature will take some getting used to.
A specter is haunting Baylor — the specter of unemployment.
It looms like a great shadow on the edge of every Baylor student’s thoughts.
What happens if I can’t find a job after graduation?
How will I pay my student loans off?
I had a checklist of things I thought I wanted from my love relationships. They were qualities like neatness, intelligence and a taste for adventure. With my current love, I got two out of three. I had to compromise on the neatness. I guess that’s what I get for meeting this individual on the Internet. The picture I saw posted on the website was accurate, but I have to confess that until that moment, I never thought the love of my life would be so short, or so hairy. But she is. Her name is Willie. Willie is a 10-year-old…
You remember that serious conversation we were going to have about guns? Here’s how serious it has turned out to be. Recently, President Obama described himself in an interview with The New Republic as an avid skeet shooter. Conservatives scoffed at the claim, whereupon the White House promptly whipped out photographic proof. It was a meaningless exchange, except insofar as it suggests the White House implicitly accepts the dubious formulation, held by some gun advocates, that if one has no personal experience with guns, one cannot speak about guns. By extension of that logic, Rick Santorum can never say another…
Dr. Linda Reed, associate professor of history at the University of Houston, will present the lecture “Women Movers and Shakers in the Civil Rights Movement” at 3:30 p.m. today in Bennett Auditorium to celebrate Black History Month. The event, which is sponsored by the History Dept., is free and open to the public.
Baylor Law School ranked 24th in the Top 25 Law Schools in the nation, according to GraduatePrograms.com.
The rankings, released Tuesday, came as a result of student ratings and reviews from more than 4,000 graduate students and recent graduates from over 150 accredited law schools across the United States. The rankings use a 10-star system, with one star being the lowest and 10 stars being the best.
Baylor’s school colors are gold and green, and it takes the green part very seriously.
As part of one of Baylor’s efforts to become more ecologically friendly, two water bottle refill stations, called EZH20 are now on campus. One can be found in the Bill Daniel Student Center and the other is on the garden level of the Moody Memorial Library. The potential for additional installations in the future depends on the student demand on campus.
Of the 88 flu cases the Baylor Health Center has seen since August, 83 of them have been this semester.
As of Wednesday, the Baylor Health Center has seen 10,174 patients since the beginning of the fall semester.
According to clinic records, the influenza virus is the most likely virus to crop up on campus and can have negative effects on coursework.
Dr. Sharon Stern, the medical director at the health center located on the second floor of the McLane Student Life Center, said the clinic is normally well equipped to handle the virus without seeking help from outside sources.
In celebration of Black History Month, the multicultural affairs dept. is hosting the Black Heritage Banquet.
Jasmine Guy will speak at the banquet, which is organized by the Association of Black Students in conjunction with the multicultural affairs dept.
The banquet will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday on the fifth floor of Cashion Academic Center. Tickets can be purchased at the Bill Daniel Student Center until 5 p.m. today. It is $10 for students and $20 general admission. Baylor groups can also reserve a table for the event for $90.
WASHINGTON — Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.
“Our financial condition is urgent,” declared Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe. But Congress has voted in the past to bar the idea of eliminating Saturday delivery, and his announcement immediately drew protests from some lawmakers. The plan, which is to take effect in August, also brought vigorous objections from farmers, the letter carriers’ union and others.
Baylor’s recruiting class has drawn some national attention. ESPN ranked Baylor’s recruiting class at No. 28 in the country, just behind Oklahoma State and Oregon. There are only three Big 12 schools ahead of Baylor on the list: No. 15 Texas, No. 16 Oklahoma, and No. 27 Oklahoma State.
The Bears’ most highly touted recruit this year is wide receiver Robbie Rhodes. As a senior at Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Rhodes racked up 20 touchdowns, including 15 through the air. During his three years on varsity, Rhodes tallied 2,500 receiving yards and 751 rushing yards.
IRVING, Texas — Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, it’s likely to anger major constituencies and worsen schisms within Scouting.
The delay, which the Scouts attributed to “the complexity of this issue,” was announced Wednesday after closed-door deliberations by the BSA’s national executive board. Under consideration was a proposal to ease the longstanding ban on gays by allowing sponsors of local troops to decide for themselves on the membership of gay Scouts and adult leaders.
Wacoans will have a chance to speak with Texas legislators about hot-button topics before the end of the 83rd legislative session in May.
The Texas Tribune’s Hot Seat series will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 22 in the Stone Room at the Ferrell Center. The series will focus on topics from the legislative session—including public education and healthcare—and it will feature Texas Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson, Texas Rep. Kyle Kacal and Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell.
IRVINE, Calif. — Police said Wednesday night they are looking for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in the shootings of a Cal State Fullerton basketball coach and her fiancé, and they say the man is armed and dangerous.
Former LAPD officer and U.S. Navy reservist Christopher Jordan Dorner is a suspect in the killings of Monica Quan, 28, and Keith Lawrence, 27, who were found shot to death in their car at a parking structure Sunday night, Irvine police Chief David L. Maggard said at a news conference.
