Vitek’s Bar-B-Q is a family-owned restaurant and has been a Waco favorite since 1915. The location, quality, service and prices have been known to attract Baylor students and locals for decades.
Located on 1600 Speight Ave., the menu ranges from $3 to $11 at most.
Hot flashes can be dealt with in a “cool” way.
The Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory at Baylor and its national associates are researching how to use hypnotherapy and “cool” mental imagery to treat menopausal women who are experiencing hot flashes.
Dr. Gary Elkins, professor of psychology and director of the Doctor of Psychology graduate program at Baylor, said by focusing on a mnemonic mental image associated with cooler temperatures, on average, women were able to reduce their hot flashes by approximately 70 percent.
Baylor’s School of Social Work Texas Hunger Initiative partnered with the United States Department of Agriculture, hosting 200 attendees during the first day of Together at the Table: Southwest Regional Hunger Summit to raise awareness in the community. The summit continues through today on the second floor of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
The Lariat sat down with Dr. Sergiy Kudelia, assistant professor of political science, on Tuesday to provide some insight on how the two presidential candidates will implement American foreign policy and act in international relations. Dr. Kudelia teaches two classes specializing in politics in Russia and social movements in non-democratic regimes. He is a member of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS), which is a global network of social scientists who conduct policy relevant research on the former Soviet Union.
After a year without a central office, the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership finally has a place to call home.
The institute, which runs the Robbins Master of Business Administration Health Care Program, received funding from Bill and Mary Jo Robbins, two Baylor alumni from Houston, in order to renovate a classroom on the third floor of Hankamer into an office suite. The Robbins Institute suite, which was completed over the summer, includes offices for faculty and administrators of the institute as well as a student study area.
The Lariat recently asked you a question based on a pressing political isssue- what does our pizza say about our president.
When asked, 44.4 percent of you said you preferred pepperoni. Sausage lovers were 11.1 percent of the responses. Twenty two percent preferred plain cheese, and 5.6 percent preferred either vegetables or canadian bacon.
Who would’ve thought that stealing a pile of newspapers would be a bad thing?
Some people would say, “Hey, you’ve got a hankering for learning about the world!”
Others would say, “You’ve got a problem.”
The story of Malala Yousufzai has since captured the attention of the international media. Should she recover, an event that seems likely as doctors treating her in Britain have released hopeful statements about her prognosis, the Taliban has vowed to finish her off.
The Baylor Bears volleyball team defeated TCU in an epic, hard-fought match that lasted all five sets. The Bears won 23-25, 25-19, 25-19, 25-18, 15-13 to earn their second Big 12 conference victory.
“We just did not have our ‘A’ game tonight,” head coach Jim Barnes said. “We were really struggling in every facet of the game but we were fighting through it is what I liked. We were fighting and our defense and our blocking picked up just in time to turn the match around. Especially the blocking. I thought [Adri] Nora did a great job hustling and getting blocks. We made enough digs there at the end to get the win.”
The No. 20 Baylor women’s soccer team will take on I-35 rival the University of Texas Longhorns at 7 p.m. Friday at home. The Bears are 11-1-4 on the season with a 2-0-3 conference record, but will look for their first home conference win since September 28.
The Longhorns struggled early in the season starting just 3-6. Since then,
Baylor women’s tennis will compete in the USTA/ITA Regional Championship beginning on Friday at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco.
The winner of the Regional Championship, which will be awarded on Tuesday, will gain a bid to the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championship in New York, N.Y. in November.
A five-run first inning gave the National Professional Fastpitch All Star team a winning start over the Baylor softball team Tuesday at Getterman Stadium. Despite the Lady Bears’ efforts, the game ultimately resulted in a score of 8-0.
West Virginia: 12 of 15, 80 percent
TCU: 14 of 19, 73.68 percent
Big 12 Conference: 26 of 34, 76 percent
So far in Big 12 Conference games the Baylor defense has allowed its opponents to convert on third downs more than 76 percent of the time (26 of 34).
On Tuesday, Baylor Athletics and Baylor University Director of Athletics Ian McCaw debuted a new strategic five-year plan that details goals for the entire department.
Primarily, the new strategic plan has five central focuses: student-athlete experience; athletic excellence; culture of integrity; resource development and stewardship; and branding and engagement.
The National Barrel Horse Association competition will take place Friday at the Extraco Show Pavillion, 4601 Bosque Blvd. For more information, visit extracoeventscenter.com.
The Waco Civic Theatre presents “All Hallowed,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Waco Civic Theatre, 1517 Lake Air Drive. Tickets are $18 on Friday and $13 for every subsequent showing.
An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of favoring a “one-point plan” to help the rich and leveling offensive criticism about the recent deadly terrorist attack in Libya Tuesday night in a debate crackling with energy and emotion just three weeks before the election.
Romney pushed back hard, saying the middle class “has been crushed over the last four years,” that 23 million Americans are struggling to find work and that the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya was part of an unraveling of the administration’s foreign policy.
The Rev. Clint Dobson was sitting in his church office writing a sermon when a convicted felon began scouring the neighborhood for a car to steal.
The felon honed in on the church, where investigators say he suffocated the young pastor and severely beat his secretary before fleeing in one of their cars.
The Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a racially-tinged power struggle inside its own ranks, ruling Tuesday that Bernette Johnson should be the state’s first black chief justice.
Johnson’s years of appointed and elected service on the high court give her the seniority to succeed Chief Justice Catherine “Kitty” Kimball early next year, the court said in a unanimous ruling. Justice Jeffrey Victory, who is white, argued Johnson’s appointed service shouldn’t count and he deserved to be chief justice.
Hey, mom and dad: Halloween’s not really all that scary — except when it comes to traffic safety.
Despite warnings about tainted candy, candle fires and even child abductions, real Halloween headlines are rarely about any of those things. Instead, tragedies related to the holiday typically involve trick-or-treaters hit by cars. Fortunately even those accidents are relatively few in number.
Police have launched a rare investigation of the Texas child protection agency after a 22-month-old girl died and her mother claimed her military husband’s deployment overseas left her too stressed to care for their three children.
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A student helped flip the switch for sustainable energy at a local high school.
Live Oak Classical School located at 500 Clay Ave. in Waco had a dedication for their new solar panels on Tuesday.
The solar panels, which were installed before the school year started, were paid for by a grant Woodway freshman D.J. Achterhof applied for last year.
The daughter of one of the world’s most sought-after drug lords has been charged with trying to enter the United States on someone else’s passport, U.S. officials said, becoming the latest family member to become ensnared in U.S. courts.
Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, 31, was arrested Friday at San Diego’s San Ysidro port of entry.
Texas Hunger Initiative, a program of Baylor’s School of Social Work, is partnering with the United States Department of Agriculture to host the Together at the Table: Southwest Regional Hunger Summit, which will stretch from today to Thursday.
Everybody knows the three certainties of life — death, taxes and speed traps.
But it has become apparent that a fourth certainty must be added to that list.
I am speaking, of course, of the certainty of more “Taken” movies in our future.
While voice acting may be a niche form of acting in the real world, it thrives on the internet with such websites as the Voice Acting Alliance and the Voice Acting Club.
On the Voice Acting Alliance website, users can become a member of an interactive community where not everyone has to be talented with their voice. There are writers, actors, producers and musicians with a common goal to have fun while doing what they love. When you become a member, you can choose to audition for original audio or visual productions, or projects that are associated with a pre-existing medium of art, often called fan productions.
