Baylor graduate Dr. Nirund Jivasantikarn and his son Ekapon Jivasantikarn are traveling to various universities to recruit graduating seniors to teach English in Thailand for 10 months from June to March with a two-week break in October.
The Jivasantikarns will host an information session on the teaching program at 4 p.m. Monday in 203 Cashion Academic Center in the Hankamer School of Business.
Fill your empty shoeboxes for children.
Every year, the freshman class does a project to benefit the community through service and ministry.
This year, Kingwood freshman class and president Jay Fields and the other class officers chose Operation Christmas Child for their class project.
The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to bring gifts and the gospel to children who would not normally receive a present on Christmas.
The final exam policies for the Baylor student body may be getting a face-lift following Thursday evening’s Student Senate meeting.
The Final Exam Policy legislation written by Rockwall sophomore Brock Sterry was passed by his fellow senators with no opposition. The proposed policy put forth in the legislation would revise the current policy so that students with more than two finals within a 24-hour period would be able to appeal to a professor or dean to have one of the exams moved.
Because of the collaborative efforts of the Texas Collection and the Baylor Electronic Library, anyone can take a stroll down Baylor’s historic line.
In celebration of homecoming, the Texas Collection will showcase six to seven pages from The Baylor Lariat and a number of special pages of the Round Up yearbook focusing on past homecomings at Baylor.
The display will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Friday and Saturday after the homecoming parade, which lasts from 8 to 11 a.m. and will end in front of Carroll Library where the Texas Collection is housed.
John Wilson, director of the Texas Collection, said the display will include old football programs and information about the Baylor homecoming traditions that were observed in the past.
University libraries are a few of the many campus-wide organizations set to host homecoming events this Saturday in an effort to welcome back Baylor alumni. The Armstrong Browning Library, the Texas Collection and the W.R. Poage Legislative Library have all planned special exhibits and activities designed to celebrate Baylor alumni and the history of the University.
Baylor should expect to experience a blast from the past.
The Baylor Chamber of Commerce will be hosting Friday Night Flashback from 6 to 10 p.m. today and Saturday in the Bill Daniel Student Center.
The event will combine the past with the present, The Friday Night Flashback coordinator for Homecoming 2012 Emily Smith said.
Delta Epsilon Psi fraternity is hosting its sixth annual “Who’s Got Game” charity basketball tournament Nov. 9-11 in Russell Gym and the McLane Student Life Center.
There are two events students can compete in, a 3-versus-3 basketball tournament and a free-throw contest. Both events offer men’s and women’s games.
The cost for the basketball tournament is $10 per person with a maximum of five people on each team. Students can register on the Delta Epsilon Psi “Who’s Got Game” website, https://www.depsizeta.org. Registration comes with a free T-shirt.
At 5 p.m. today the bells in the belfry of Pat Neff Hall will knell as part of the homecoming festivities.
Lynnette Geary, resident carillonneur (pronounced CARE-uh-lahn-oo-er), and one of her students, junior from Spring, Texas, Jonathan Castillo, will perform the annual homecoming carillon recital.
Geary said she’s lost track of how many years she’s been performing this recital now, but she’d guess at least 16.
Pianist Helge Antoni, an Exclusive Steinway Artist from Malmö, Sweden, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Roxy Grove Auditorium.
The recital, Inspiración Latina, will feature the music of composers Scarlatti, Albeniz, Turina, de Falla, Villa-Lobos, Ginastera and Piazzolla.
IT’S ADVENTURE TIME.
The Emmy-nominated series featured on Cartoon Network is returning for a fifth season after its shocking cliffhanger season finale, which aired Oct. 22.
But why would college students enjoy this supposed kids show?
The answer lies within the show’s context.
The student-organized ensemble Renew Music Group will offer audience members a different experience not typically heard in the School of Music at its upcoming concert.
“This sort of thing hasn’t really happened at Baylor in a long time,” said Mark Utley, Fredricksberg senior and percussionist in the group.
The concert will take place at 10 p.m. Nov. 6 in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.
Seven games into the season, the Baylor Bears (3-4, 0-4) are still looking for their first Big 12 Conference win.
Luckily, the football schedule brings the Kansas Jayhawks (1-7, 0-5) to Waco for homecoming. The Jayhawks, like Baylor, are also looking for their first Big 12 Conference win.
The Bears are in a rut, but with five games left to play, there’s still plenty of time for the Bears to find their identity and play their best football down the stretch.
Sure, Baylor has had a tough time in conference to date, but there’s still plenty of football to be played this season.
Chardonae Fuqua’
Height: 6-0
Freshman forward Chardonae Fuqua’ brings an athletic edge to the already loaded Baylor squad. A native of Birmingham, Ala., Fuqua’ excelled in track and field, winning three state championships in the high jump, as well as leading her basketball squad to two state championships.
She chose Baylor over LSU and Georgia because of its friendly atmosphere and the dedicated basketball program.
The word “defense” has become taboo around Waco because of the Bears’ football woes. But the football teams’s defense isn’t the only squad under the microscope. The No. 18 Baylor basketball team is undergoing some fundamental changes on the defensive side of the floor.
After bringing home major national awards last season one after the other, senior post Brittney Griner is back in the green and gold for her final season as a Lady Bear. Averaging 23.2 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.2 blocks a game, Griner has both dominated and changed the game of women’s basketball. Even though Griner is a force of nature on the hardwood, she doesn’t stop improving her game.
Baylor fell to the eventual National Champion, Kentucky, last year in the Elite Eight 82-70. A big reason for Kentucky’s success was its 6-foot-10-inch freshman Anthony Davis.
Davis torched the Bears that game for 18 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks. Baylor had no answer for the Associated Press Player of the Year and eventual first overall pick in the NBA Draft.
So what did Baylor head coach Scott Drew do about it? He went to Arlington and got an Anthony Davis of his own, minus the unibrow. This one goes by the name of Isaiah Austin.
This year will be a trial year to see how the student body, as an unorganized section, fills in the gaps of the Bear Pit. With the advantage of getting prime seats, the most enthusiastic basketball fans will get the chance to be close to the action, cheering on both the men’s and women’s teams.
Like many of you I am a frequent visitor to the beach.
I fell in love with Texas beaches in 1955. I was 6 years old when I built my first sand castle on Stewart Beach. I built my last one with Tori, my 6 year-old granddaughter, just a few weeks ago. Public beach access is very important to me. I want Tori to be able to enjoy our coast as much as I have. Every visitor to the coast should have that same opportunity.
“And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” — Richard Mourdock, GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Life is sacred.
It’s hard to believe that anyone in this day and age would say something like “let’s lynch the scientists.”
Unfortunately, the sentiments once reserved for medieval peasants’ feelings towards the local “wizard” when he told a bad fortune are resurfacing in the modern world.
Let us imagine, for a moment, a hypothetical situation.
Planned Parenthood will continue to receive funds from a joint Texas and federal program providing health care to low-income women, despite the state’s promise to exclude its clinics by Nov. 1 because they are affiliated with abortion providers.
A grand jury will consider the case of two Guatemalan immigrants killed when a Texas state trooper in a helicopter opened fire to stop a tarp-covered truck that authorities thought was ferrying drugs near the Mexico border, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
The Baylor-Waco partnership is still going strong.
Waco Independent School District, the City of Waco and Baylor University are collaborating with other local organizations to create a new community-wide position that will tackle poverty in Waco: the chief administrative officer for community and family outreach.
The University of Texas at Austin in 2014 will limit automatic admission of freshmen to the top 7 percent of high school graduating classes.
Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams offers details in a Nov. 1 letter to high school administrators. UT in September notified the Texas Education Agency of its plans.
Baylor students living in New York as a part of the Baylor Communication in New York program said the wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy were nothing — compared to the disruption in the public transportation system.
Dr. Alan Jacobs, currently the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., has accepted an offer to become a new distinguished professor of literature at Baylor. Beginning next fall, Jacobs will lecture for the Honors Program, a program located under the umbrella of the Honors College designed to supplement the university’s undergraduate honors degree.
The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 74 people in the United States.
Power outages now stand at more than 5.6 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8.5 million.
