The Baylor soccer team will take on two Texas teams this weekend. The first game will be 7 p.m. today at home against the SMU Mustangs.
The Bears are 6-1-1 on the season and are receiving votes in the polls.
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CHICAGO — The city’s public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district kept talking Thursday, with both sides saying they were drawing closer to a deal to end the nearly weeklong strike.
GOLDEN, Colo. — The White House says the U.S. deplores the content of an amateur film that denigrates Islam, but America’s free speech rights allow such films to air.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration also condemns the violence in several Islamic countries the film has reportedly triggered.
Several new names were added to the roster of student government officials at Thursday’s Student Senate meeting.
Photographs taken by Keith Carter are nowhere near the typical cliché of bright colors and happy faces, but that is what distinguishes Carter from some modern photographers.
“I loved the 19th century photographs, and a lot of times they [the human subjects] had what I call ‘the look’. The exposures were long, they’d never been photographed and they just sort of stared, and I love that look,” Carter said at a gallery exhibit Thursday.
When the sun sets on Parent’s Weekend, students will rise up and show everyone what they can do.
After Dark, the annual campus variety show gives students the opportunity to display their various talents before and audience and judges.
Auditions begin next week
When writing a cookbook for beginners, it’s best to assume complete ignorance.
Mincing may be new to the reader’s vocabulary. Rice may require step-by-step instructions.
A local charity is encouraging Wacoans to experience a night of being homeless and sleep in a box.
It’s part of Mission Waco’s Box City Sleepout, an event happening tonight to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness in the city.
The public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and outspoken hatred of radical Muslims has drawn the attention of civil libertarians, who say he’s a hate monger.
One would find it crazy if they would stop and think about how far humans have come as a civilization.
We came from very meek beginnings. No matter what your personal belief is concerning the evolution of mankind, no one is contending that the first humans walked around eating Raising Canes, talking about the latest Baylor football scores and debating medical ethics on their new iPhones.
Although some think the economy is improving, another crisis has arisen in various cities around the country.
Due to failed negotiations between musicians and management, many symphonies have officially canceled their concerts for the coming year.
A thought: what is the true cost of an honors degree? What are the benefits?
We can’t speak to the post-Baylor effects an honors transcript might grant the hard-working holder (being but students ourselves), but today we’d like to talk about in-house benefits.
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The Martin Museum of Art will host a photography exhibition by Keith Carter from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today in Gallery II of the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. Courtesy of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos, the exhibition presents more than 20 images from Carter’s 2009 monograph published by the University of Texas Press. The event is free and open to the public.
The next meeting of the Baylor University chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America will be at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Castellaw 245. The guest speaker will be Todd Overpeck, marketing manager for Glass Doctor, a franchise with the Dwyer Group. He will be discussing the Dwyer Group’s appearance on the TV show “Undercover Boss” and the company’s code of values in recognition of ethics month.
The American filmmaker whose film, “Innocence of Muslims,” has triggered violence in Libya, says the movie was funded by Israeli donors and aimed to reveal what they saw as the flaws of Islam.
The civil war in Syria is closer to Baylor than the more than 7,000 miles that separate Waco from Damascus.
The animals at the Humane Society of Central Texas won’t be the only ones affected by the change in management.
It’s a match made in Campus Living and Learning heaven for two roommates who were elected to serve as president and vice president of the 2016 freshman class.
Is that little bit of extra money for organic foods actually worth it in the long run?
Stanford University doesn’t think so.
After Baylor defeated SMU on Sept. 2, former Bears wide receiver and current Cleveland Browns player Josh Gordon took to Twitter to explain Baylor football’s secret weapon. He said that Baylor’s “secret weapon” is the strength and conditioning program of Kaz Kazadi.
Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday assailed President Barack Obama anew over his administration’s handling of foreign attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions, saying the president’s team sent “mixed signals to the world” in the face of violence.
Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in Tuesday’s attacks against U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East in which U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
Lost on campus? There’s an app for that.
Cypress senior Kyle Martin, an electrical engineering major, developed an application called “Baylor Campus Navigator” to help guide people through campus. The application is free and available for iPhone users in Apple’s App Store.
Apple showed off the newest iterations of its wildly popular smartphone Wednesday morning in San Francisco, confirming that the iPhone 5 will be larger, lighter and faster while connecting to newer cellular networks.
Auditions for “All Hallowed,” Waco Civic Theatre’s second show of their 2012-2013 season, will take place at the theatre this Sunday and Monday.
Directing the play will be George Boyd, and it is the first theatre that will perform the new play by Bill C. Davis.
