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Fellowship Among Cultures, Ethnicities and Shades will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Houston Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual Salsa Fest will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Traditions Plaza and the Bill Daneil Student Center Bowl.
Drop off school-supply donations to boxes in the Bill Daniel Student Center, Baylor Sciences Building, Neil Morris Hall or the libraries. Everything donated will be given to La Vega Primary School by Gamma Alpha Omega. Donations should be made by April 30.
Interested in volunteering with Baylor Habitat for Humanity? Come to the interest meeting at 6 p.m. today in Bennett Auditorium. There will be a spring break build from Saturday to March 12 — sign-ups for four-hour shifts will be at the meeting.
Dr. Edward Burger, the 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award winner, will return to Baylor in July as vice provost for strategic educational initiatives.
Baylor’s NCAA tournament hopes are hanging by a thread. It’s just a thread, but after Saturday, the Bears are still alive.
After 14 straight wins by the Baylor Lady Bears, the streak was snapped in a pitchers’ dual Sunday against the University of Houston Cougars, falling 1-0.
Texas has doubled its amount of electronic waste recycling since 2009 by recycling more than 24 million pounds of e-waste in 2010, according to Texas Campaign for the Environment’s 2010 e-waste Recycling reports.
Passion, history and culture combine for an exciting production of Anna in the Tropics, opening at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Jones Theatre.
Apple announced a new version of its popular MacBook line of computers that will soon be available to students and introduced a new input/output technology developed by Intel called Thunderbolt.
On Friday several alumni of the Waco State Home joined author Sherry Matthews and shared their often-heartbreaking stories about growing up in the facility, as chronicled in Matthews’ new book.
George W. Truett Theological Seminary will present the Parchman Endowed Lectures at 9:30 a.m. today, Wednesday and Thursday in the Paul W. Powell Chapel.
The point guards duked it out to the final buzzer as No. 3 Baylor’s Odyssey Sims notched 37 points to get the better of senior Danielle Robinson and No. 16/15 Oklahoma 82-81 Sunday afternoon in Norman.
Football’s path to consecutive postseason appearances started Monday as the Bears returned to the Highers Athletics Complex for the first of 15 spring workouts. As normal, energy and emotions ran high among players itching to get back on the field.
Pushed to the brink of defeat, the 11th-ranked Baylor men’s tennis team battled back to defeat a tough Mississippi State team 4-3 at Baylor Tennis Center on Sunday.
If you were watching the Oscars on Sunday night, the narrative of “The King’s Speech” beating “The Social Network” played out on several levels. The Tom Hooper film won in four major categories – best picture, director and actor, as well as in one of the two screenplay categories – the first time since “The Silence of the Lambs” 19 years ago that a single movie walked away with that quartet of prizes.
As Baylor begins to look forward to a time after Baylor 2012, it is beginning to further plan the future direction of the university. Student government will help produce the goals of this new strategic plan by collecting student opinions and passing on the reports to the strategic themes committee, which analyzes the responses to determine major themes.
Major League Baseball’s spring training has started, and St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, arguably the best baseball player in the United States, has all the analysts talking once again. But it’s not about his home runs or off-the-field humanitarian acts — the most heated topic of debate questions whether Pujols is worth the $30 million per year he wants for the next 10 years.
Cultural identity is just one of many issues that have posed challenging for Deaf people in America. The issue does not present itself within the Deaf community; rather, it lies in the interface between the Deaf and Hearing cultures. The ignorance of the American society at large has rejected the idea that the Deaf people have their own culture because their language is simply a manual replication of the English language.
Sudoku solution: 3/1/11
Crossword solution: 3/1/11
Baylor’s own Craig and Kay Waldrop teach students a valuable skill: how to dance
From Mar. 9 to 12, visit the Baylor Lariat website, as well as twitter.com/bulariat, for updates as the men’s and women’s basketball teams aim for automatic bids to the NCAA tournament.
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Students can discuss “The Black Dove’s Mark: The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Archives And Nineteenth-Century Literary History” with Dr. Marjorie Stone at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall.
Kappa Alpha Theta’s annual Denim Dash is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday in Kappa Alpha Theta’s chapter room in The Stacy Riddle Forum. Fashion boutiques will have clothes on sale and part of the profits will go to Court Appointed Special Advocates.
Musicians performed a requiem for Gillian Sherwood in dedication to her memory and contributions to the Oklahoma State University community.
Oklahoma had the Lady Bears hanging on by the skin of their teeth as they overcame a six-point halftime deficit.. No. 3 Baylor was led by No. 0 freshman Odyssey Sims’ 37 points on nine of 12 three-pointers.
On Sing’s final night, curtain’s close brought many wins, including the overall title to Pi Beta Phi