The Waco Hippodrome hosted Baylor Film & Digital Media’s 16th annual Black Glasses Film Festival Monday.
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NEW YORK — A prestigious award from the Brooklyn Museum honors women who have made outstanding contributions in their fields.
The crazy ones “…they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.”
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NEW YORK — The prize dubbed the Heisman Trophy for singers is going to a Georgia native with an earth-shattering voice — and an earthy style.
LONDON — The family of Amy Winehouse has criticized a documentary about the late singer that is due to have its premiere at next month’s Cannes Film Festival.
Memorial Dining Hall will close completely for renovations at 8 p.m. Friday after dinner. It will reopen in Fall 2015 as 1845 Memorial. There will be a party from 4-7 p.m. Friday so students can say their goodbyes to the old Memorial and see the concept of 1845 Memorial. Students can take pictures with the Memorial staff team at a photo booth and sing karaoke with a DJ. For more information, contact Tyson-Stefanie@aramark.com.
Uproar Records is holding its Summer Send-Off event at 7 p.m. Thursday at Common Grounds. There will be performances by Trannie Stevens, Luke Hicks, T. Ryan and Before 94. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door or online at www.cgwaco.com. For more information, contact Taylor_Bullard@baylor.edu.
Pi Beta Phi is hosting a tournament, Dodge the Arrow, to raise funds for Read>Lead>Achieve. The dodgeball tournament will be held from 6-11 p.m. Friday in Russell Gym. There will be three divisions: guys, girls and co-ed. Teams can have five to seven players. The cost is $5 per player and includes a T-shirt. For more information, or for the link to sign up, contact Cara_Duniven@baylor.edu.
There will be no classes Monday or Tuesday as they are the study days before finals start. Finals will take place May 6-11. For the official finals schedule, visit the Office of the Registrar website at www.baylor.edu/registrar.
Phi Iota Alpha is holding an informational meeting on its scholarship pageant at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Cowden Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center. Female students who are interested in receiving scholarship money should plan to attend. For more information, contact Rolando_Hinojosa@baylor.edu..
BALTIMORE — Rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos Monday, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands mourned the man who died from a severe spinal injury he suffered in police custody.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Two versions of the unstable mind of James Holmes were presented to a jury Monday as lawyers revealed many more details about his conversion from a promising grad student to a gunman capable of opening fire on hundreds of unsuspecting moviegoers at a “Batman” premiere.
DALLAS — A band of tornadoes that swept across parts of rural Texas over the weekend flattened buildings, tore the roofs off other structures and forced people to rush for shelter, the National Weather Service said Monday.
Teams among the Waco community met on S. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, across the street from Baylor’s McLane Stadium, to participate in Relay For Life. Relay For Life raises money to find the cure for cancer as well as allowing family members and friends to celebrate their loved ones who have survived cancer and those who have lost their lives in the battle against cancer.
The Bears were all smiles after capturing the team’s eighth Big 12 tournament title Sunday afternoon. Baylor blanked No. 16 Texas Tech 4-0 at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center to cap off a successful run in the conference championships.
No. 16 Baylor softball captured a series win over Iowa State last weekend as the team blanked ISU twice at Getterman Stadium.
With the win on court six, No. 1 Oklahoma edged No. 2 Baylor men’s tennis 4-3 at the Hurd Tennis Center to take the tournament title.
In response to a shortage of drugs used in lethal injection, several states that wish to executions as punishment are looking at alternatives — one being the gas chamber.
Shoppers burst into Target stores to grab all they could — some for their own collections and others to sell online. This caused some outrage by those who also wanted to go home with something. But it didn’t cause as many issues as the fact that Lilly Pulitzer chose to collaborate with Target.
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The Lady Bears won their first-ever Big 12 conference title in the Big 12 Conference Championship at The Dominion Country Club in San Antonio on Sunday. Baylor finished the championship with 12-stroke lead.
The Bears won the program’s first national championship Saturday at the NCATA National Championship team finals hosted by Fairmont State University in Fairmont, W. Va.
Just one block away from The View, another apartment complex is proposed to go up in place of the abandoned H-E-B. Austin-based developer American Campus Communities would build on the newly designated planned unit development land. The project is estimated to cost $40 million.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated Nepal on Saturday has impacted people worldwide, and the international community is banding together to aid in relief efforts.
This isn’t “Fixer Upper,” but Baylor students are helping Mission Waco fix up The Clothesline, Mission Waco’s resale shop.
By Cody Soto Sports Writer Women’s tennis over TCU 4-0 Another day, another trophy. No. 8 Baylor women’s tennis blanked Texas Tech 4-0 Sunday afternoon at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center for the team’s second consecutive and eighth overall Big 12 tournament title. “I’m just so thrilled for our upperclassman: Ema, Kiah, Blair. They’ve experienced this before, but they had to lead the way this year,” head coach Joey Scrivano said. “Our rookies were fantastic our entire regular season and now in this post-season tournament. I’m just so excited for them.” The match was moved to the indoor facility after…
Both Baylor men’s and women’s tennis faced conference rival TCU in the Big 12 Tennis Championships semifinal round, but the Bears pulled away with two victories to advance to the final day of the tournament tomorrow.
