President Barack Obama sharply challenged Mitt Romney on foreign policy in their final campaign debate Monday night, accusing him of “wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.” The Republican coolly responded, “Attacking me is not an agenda” for dealing with a dangerous world.
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Baylor and Texas came into Saturday night’s game in a minor state of panic. Both teams started the year strong, but each has lost its last two games. The Bears fell to the Longhorns 50-56, 106 points and 1,132 points later.
Senior quarterback Nick Florence finished the game 30-of-41 with 352 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
“I was really proud of the team and how they fought,” head coach Art Briles said. “We challenged them this week to be tough physically and mentally, to have a tough man’s mentality.”
Attorneys representing around 600 school districts argued Monday that Texas’ school financing system is so “hopelessly broken” that it violates the state Constitution while keeping students from being prepared for the well-paying jobs of tomorrow.
The state countered that, even though the system is flawed, it’s nowhere near a crisis point.
Six lawsuits have been filed on behalf of about two-thirds of school districts, which educate about 75 percent of the state’s roughly 5 million students. They have been rolled into a single case, which opened before state District Judge John Dietz in Austin. The trial is expected to last into January.
Being absent from your chores back home is no excuse to be absent from voting in the 2012 presidential election.
Students who are away from the county they are registered in can still vote in the presidential election by receiving an absentee ballot.
Citizens may also utilize absentee voting if they are sick or disabled, are 65 years old or older on Election Day or are incarcerated.
Leaders from the Republican and Democratic parties of McLennan County will gather tonight for a public discussion of the upcoming election at 8 p.m. in the Brooks Flats Lobby.
The event, “The Choice: A Conversation,” is sponsored by Brooks Flats, Kokernot, Arbors, Fairmont and Gables residential communities.
The session is free and open to faculty, staff and students.
By Daniel Hill Sports Writer The Baylor football team is at a pivotal moment in its season. A three game losing streak and zero conference wins have left the team searching for its identity. A frustrating 56-50 loss at the hands of the Texas Longhorns on Saturday has left the team scrambling for answers. With a 3-3 record and six games remaining, it’s safe to say that Baylor is searching for confidence. “I mean we are just trying to fight on every down and get better, watch the film and learn from our mistakes,” senior defensive tackle Gary Mason said.…
The Indiana Fever made it their mission to get Tamika Catchings a WNBA championship.
Catchings had won three Olympic gold medals and an NCAA championship at Tennessee in 1998, but never one in the WNBA.
She scored 25 points to help the Indiana Fever win their first WNBA title with an 87-78 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday night.
The No. 20 Baylor women’s soccer team certainly found a flair for the dramatic over the weekend after two nail-biting victories over conference foes Texas and Iowa State.
Friday’s victory over the Texas Longhorns came in double overtime, but not after some late-game drama. Senior forward Dana Larsen scored what appeared to be a game-winning goal in the 80th minute of the game.
Larsen fired a shot from about 30 yards away. The ball landed in front of Longhorn freshman goalkeeper Abby Smith. It appeared as though Smith would make a routine save, but the ball took an odd bounce and went over Smith’s head and into the goal.
Layne Lynch, the only returning Uproar Artist from the 2011-2012 school year, is determined to hit the ground running this year.
“I was really shocked and also just really grateful,” Lynch said. “I felt really cool and really honored. I want to do this with my life, so I was really excited to be certain that I could use this year to focus to the best of my abilities on music.”
Lynch is unsure of what exactly would classify her genre.
Few Baylor students have frequented the family-owned café in Hewitt, The Mix Gifts and Café, but a new expansion that includes a coffee shop and food truck on Speight will be hard to miss.
The food truck, Street Eats, is currently open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday on the corner of Speight and 14th Street, and will continue the tradition of the Hewitt café’s famous French style quiches, sandwiches, soups and homemade desserts.
National Geographic Society has chronicled scientific expeditions, explorations, archaeology, wildlife and world cultures for more than 100 years, amassing a collection of 11.5 million photos and original illustrations.
A small selection of that massive archive — 240 pieces spanning from the late 1800s to the present — will be sold at Christie’s in December at an auction expected to bring about $3 million, the first time any of the institution’s collection has been sold.
You don’t have to be a math major to realize the impact of these numbers.
According to The Alumni Factor, an organization that ranks universities based on alumni success and input, Baylor alumni rank as the ninth most conservative in the nation among colleges.
The Alumni Factor is also the name of the organization’s new book and website.
A 20-year-old black woman told police she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car in northeastern Louisiana.
Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Lt. Julie Lewis says Sharmeka Moffitt was found with burns on more than half of her body when police responded to her 911 call Sunday night.
Moffitt was in critical condition Monday at a hospital. Lewis said the FBI is investigating the attack as a possible hate crime, but that no arrests had been made as of late Monday.
By Danny Huizinga You may have heard the statement, “A women makes 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.” Unfortunately, this may be one of the most misleading statistics ever used to allege discrimination — and yet it is constantly repeated by the government, politicians and journalists. Even the Baylor Lariat editorial did so last week. Let’s take a brief look at the numbers and analyze the studies that came up with this statistic. What do the studies by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) measure? They measure the “pay gap”…
The only reason we drink bottled water now is this: We’re college students.
We don’t have clean cups to drink from.
But thanks to the City of Waco, if we were ever to wash our dishes (not likely), we could drink safe, clean, taste- and smell-free tap water.
Both Baylor and Texas came into Saturday night’s game in a minor state of panic. Both teams started the year strong, but each has lost its last two games. 106 points and 1,132 points later, the Bears fell to the Longhorns 50-56.
Associated Press SAN MARCOS — Texas State University on Thursday became the latest in a string of universities across the nation to experience a bomb scare. School officials sent an emergency alert to students and staff by email and text about 9:40 a.m. urging them to avoid the admissions building near downtown San Marcos. Two nearby dorm buildings — the Tower and San Jacinto residence halls — were evacuated at about 10 a.m. to create an 800-square-foot safety perimeter at the request of the Austin Police Department’s bomb squad, which assisted Texas State officials along with the FBI, said university…
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Secure your senior photo in the yearbook by taking your portrait. Pictures will be taken from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Ferrell Center Stone room, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the CUB. Register online ouryear.com and use school code “417.”
The Common Grounds / Taqueria El Crucero taco truck was closed down last Thursday, although Common Grounds owner Blake Baston said the truck is currently looking for a new location to reopen.
A tweet posted to the Common Grounds Twitter feed Monday at 3:08 p.m. apologized to the campus and announced the closing of the truck.
Baylor’s 1909 celebration was likely the first collegiate homecoming event in the United States a distinction that has earned Baylor a spot in an upcoming Smithsonian exhibit.
The exhibit, called “Hometown Teams,” is part of a series of traveling exhibits called “Museum on Main Street,” which will tour small towns across the U.S. from 2014 – 2021.
Residents of Baylor’s campus should shower early Friday if they want hot water.
A planned steam outage will occur from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, affecting multiple locations on campus. The outage will affect domestic hot water and building heat during the installation but will not affect all of campus. Buildings include the Bill Daniel Student Center, Neill Morris Hall, Collins Residence Hall, Mary Gibbs-Jones Family and Consumer Sciences Building, the former AFROTC building, Kokernot Residence Hall, Brooks College and Martin Residence Hall.
A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said.
Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code that allowed agriculture to thrive while oil was extracted.
Proud Texans have long welcomed the industry because of the cash it brings to sustain agriculture, but also see its presence as part of their patriotic duty to help wean the United States off “foreign” oil. So the answer to companies that wanted to build pipelines has usually been simple: Yes.
Iowa State at Oklahoma State
This matchup comes down to offense versus defense. Iowa State’s defense has been spectacular so far this season, and Oklahoma State’s spread offense always seems to put up points. OSU quarterback J.W. Walsh is questionable for the game, and head coach Mike Gundy has been keeping Walsh’s health under wraps. The Cowboys should be fine whether Walsh or Wes Lunt are handling the quarterback duties. For the Cyclones, Jared Barnett has proven to be a winner. This should be a tightly contested game with an interesting contrast of styles between the two teams. Iowa State defense should top Oklahoma State’s offense.
The Derivatives, chosen for representation by Uproar Records this year, will blow up the stage with their unique full band atmosphere.
Composed of Spring junior Tyler Reno on rhythm guitar and vocals, Plano senior Reece Beall on drums, Missouri City senior Jake Barr on saxophone, Fair Oaks Ranch senior Trey Hampton on keys, Waco freshman David Rosenbaum on bass, and managed by Edina, Minn., junior Nash Peterson, delivers a unique sound that distinguishes them from other Uproar artists.
