The daughter of a Kansas commune leader charged in the 2003 death of a group member says her father could not have hurt the woman, even for money, because she had done so much for him and become “a part of him.”
Baylor student publications have been honored with 38 national awards in the last year.
Sometimes a video game is more than just a video game. “Tetris” opened the public’s eyes to the dangerous yet rewarding task of bricklaying. “Star Fox 64” showed people that frogs make absolutely useless fighter pilots. “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial” proved that even a reviled, unwanted game can find a nice home in a New Mexico landfill. Then there’s “Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour.” It’s pretty fun as well.
It may be impossible for an author to achieve more acclaim than Toni Morrison, now 81, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. Her work is “characterized by visionary force and poetic import,” the Nobel Committee wrote, and we’ll get more of it May 8, when her 10th novel is published. “Home” is the story of an angry African-American veteran of the Korean War who returns unhappily to the Georgia community where he was raised.
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It’s one thing to have a strong opinion on a certain issue. It’s another to sacrifice something to further that cause.
In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which was supposed to provide a one-time amnesty (and legal U.S. citizenship) to over 3 million illegal immigrants. It was taken to be a largely humanitarian gesture.
President Ken Starr will give an update on the new strategic plan, new football stadium plans, progress on the Endowed…
Anyone with a Facebook account spent much of last evening watching their Facebook news feed blowup with reposts of the “Kony 2012” film made by Invisible Children.
Follow the Baylor Lariat on Twitter @bulariat for live tweets on the men and women’s basketball championship tournament in Kansas…
If you think Rush Limbaugh is fatally wounded, think again. By way of explanation, let me tell you how a certain subset of my readers will react to this column.
Learn what students think about Spring Break, as well as what they plan to do, who they wish they could go with, and their craziest stories about its past offerings.
No one adopting a puppy expects it to die after two weeks, but that is exactly what happened to several Baylor students.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and the Baylor Police Department urge students to avoid going to Mexico for spring break because of the increased violence in the country.
One Baylor freshman will play his trombone at an international competition in Paris this summer.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Baylor Activities Council are teaming up to present the second annual Salsa Fest from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, which will feature a salsa-tasting contest, free food and live entertainment from a local cover band.
The Baylor Lady Bears bounced back from a rough weekend in Orlando to sweep its doubleheader with Louisiana Tech 3-1 and 3-1.
Baylor football left the Alamadome field victorious on Dec. 30, 2011. The team returned the field Tuesday for the first time since to begin spring practice.
Baylor released its new adizero uniforms Tuesday for the Big 12 Championships. Here are some of your tweets.
Are virtual sports more enticing to video gamers than actual athletics? Are the graphical elements in those games the reason for that?
Baylor Law School beat out Baylor Law School in a recent American Association for Justice Regional Student Trial Advocacy Competition. The law school sent two teams to the regional competition last Thursday to Sunday in Dallas, where they both knocked out 14 other teams to make it to the final round and ended up competing against each other for the title of regional champion.
Tracey Gold and Alan Thicke, who played Kirk Cameron’s sister and father on the 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains,” have joined the chorus of performers taking exception to their castmate’s anti-gay comments.
Baylor’s bullpen lost control late in Tuesday night’s game against TCU, and the Bears fell, 9-4. Junior Colt Browder took the loss after allowing two costly walks that helped the Horned Frogs grab an eighth-inning lead they would not lose.
If you’re a student at Western Kentucky University, you criticize your school using social media and the university doesn’t like it, tough luck.
There comes a point in every teenager’s life when everything, simply put, sucks. School, friends, parents and everything else seems to have a deliberate and vicious agenda against your happiness. Problems – emotional, physical and intellectual – abound as we try to figure out who we are.
In the Lariat’s editorial “Police Shouldn’t Pepper Spray Peaceful Protesters” published last Thursday, the author reflected a poor knowledge of the true facts surrounding the event at UC Davis, instead repeating the false rhetoric so widely circulated by the Occupy Movement.
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Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival announced Tuesday its updated comic lineup, with additions including Dana…