Author: Baylor Lariat

Join One Book, One Waco for a community panel book discussion of “Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six Man Football Team” at 7 p.m. tonight at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame

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Career services offers walk-in assistance for resume review from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays in the Sid Richardson Building room 116.

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College recruiters will be on campus this fall to interview students for full-time positions in their organizations. Sign up for interviews in your Hireabear account.

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It started out as a chore, an unwelcome, early Saturday morning event they knew nothing about.

The Baylor men’s basketball team arrived at the Ferrell Center at 7 a.m., where they were given fatigues and boots and told to board a school bus.

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Junior Cory Jefferson, a.k.a. Two Sleeves, stepped off the bus Saturday morning with a different physical appearance than his teammates: He was smiling.

“I know how things go in the military, so I’m exited just to be here.”

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The Baylor basketball team ended their weekend in Fort Hood with a redeployment ceremony where soldiers returned home from Afghanistan and were reunited with their families.
“Words cannot describe the emotion, especially for those of us that have kids and thinking about not seeing your family and kids for a year. That’ll get anyone teary-eyed,” head coach Scott Drew said. “They put on a great show and you can tell how much it touched these guys.”

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A memorial will be held at 4:30 p.m Thursday for Dr. Susan Colón, who passed away this summer after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year.

The memorial will take place in the Alexander Reading Room of Alexander Residence Hall.

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Big names in music are coming to the Baylor campus.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Common Grounds welcomes back Sondre Lerche, a Norwegian singer-songwriter whose talents range from a “jazz band leader, a punk howler, a would-be Springsteen [and] a transatlantic teen idol.”

“To say I’m formally trained is giving me more credit,” Lerche said in a biography available via his official website. “I still to this day cannot read music.”

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“I first heard her at an open-mic at Common Grounds, but when I first saw her I was like, ‘This girl is a creative genius.’ I have to meet her and play music with her,” said Andrew Hulett, member of Waco-based band Lomelda.

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Democrats argue it was a step “forward” for our country, promising the benefits of fewer uninsured Americans. Republicans, on the other hand, view the act as a step “back”, sacrificing personal liberty while driving up the cost of health insurance for all Americans. According to Mayor Mike Bloomberg of New York City (a figurehead of the No Labels movement), there is an easy solution to reconciling our differing political beliefs.

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Voting is a right that, as Americans, we are fortunately blessed with.

It stands to reason, therefore, that everyone should have equal opportunity to register to vote, right? Wrong. The Baylor Democrats, and other student political organizations, have been out on the front lines every election year trying to register people to vote, and they have met with success.

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Explore the relations of Gotham City and the Roman Empire along with the similarities between Batman and St. Augustine in a lecture by Jean Bethke Elshtain from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday in D110 Baylor Sciences Building.

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The film and digital media department presents “Sironia” as a part of the Fall 2012 Film Series. A Q&A with a member of the production team will follow the movie, which will take place from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday in Castellaw 101.

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Attend a CPR certification class from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday in 308 McLane Student Life Center room 308. The course costs $25 and the certificate is valid for two years upon completion of the course.

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“To vote or not to vote?”

That is not the question – what has been called into question is the ability of campus partisan groups to hold voter registration drives. This year they cannot, al­though they have been allowed in years past.

As the Oct. 9 deadline for vot­er registration approaches, Stu­dent Activities officials have asked partisan student organizations to put voter-registration efforts on hold until the officials fine-tune their policy.

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Rockwall senior Nick Pokorny’s building a better Baylor bowling alley legislation passed at Thursday evening’s student senate meeting, but it left a few spares standing in its wake.

The proposed legislation passed with the vote of 33 senators, but there were eight senators who could not be convinced that Pokorny’s idea to rebuild and upgrade the bowling lanes lost last spring was practical.

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Chick-fil-A is once again in the public relations fryer.

The controversy flared up this week when a Chicago poli¬tician said the company was no longer giving to groups that op¬pose same-sex marriage, angering Christian conservatives who sup¬ported Chick-fil-A this summer when its president reaffirmed his opposition to gay marriage. Civil rights groups hailed the turn¬about, yet the company never confirmed it and instead released two public statements, neither of which made Chick-fil-A’s position any clearer.

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Baylor students have a new way to write research papers, and it doesn’t involve late nights or Red Bull.

The research paper planner, a new online tool provided by Baylor libraries, offers students a way to plan research projects and papers. By inserting the due date into a textbox on the plan¬ner’s website, students are given a 13-step timeline on how to finish their paper by a certain deadline.

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If you want to eat like a 20th century 1960s family, you’ll now have a chance. “The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Sixties Cookbook” brings back all those family favorites that you might only have seen on television or the Thanksgiving table.

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What was seen as a cupcake before conference play five years ago could turn into a tough pill to swallow as the Bears play their first road game of the season against a team playing for the first time at home after shocking the nation: the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

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