The Department of Multicultural Affairs is looking for a diverse group of students to serve as mentors to incoming freshmen in the fall. Applications are due today. For additional information or for an application, visit www.baylor.edu/multicultural.
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A response to a survey on Baylor’s sustainability efforts has sparked debate on the hot-topic issue on campus: parking.
Most students’ spring break plans include sunbathing, relaxing and escaping from the classroom. But for eight family and consumer science students, spring break will be an application of what they’ve learned in the classroom as the childhood development team travels to Belize for an academic mission.
Progress is important to Dr. Lewis Lummer, lecturer of communication sciences and disorders, and he has plans to bring it about, if only others will listen.
Baylor students discussed how perceptions of skin color have created dissension within the African-American community Wednesday. Baylor’s collegiate chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted the first Light Skin vs. Dark Skin forum in Morrison Hall.
LOS ANGELES – These days, pop stars’ outlandish get-ups sometimes eclipse their music, making them seem more like sideshow attractions than serious musicians.
A top-five finish to start the spring season is what the Baylor men’s golf team comes back to Waco with, from the UTSA Oak Hills Invitational in San Antonio.
Baylor students applying to Teach for America, a national program that places college graduates in schools in low-income areas, are hoping to make a difference as teachers.
The Baylor track and field team ventured back to College Station on Saturday for the A&M Challenge. The Bears joined forces with Texas A&M and Nebraska to take on three teams each from the SEC, Pac-10 and Conference USA for the A&M Conference Challenge.
The Baylor Board of Regents has recently approved the Baptist Studies Center for Research, which will work to uphold the Baptist heritage by providing various types of resources and research opportunities.
It is no surprise that the American public takes guilty pleasure in celebrity happenings, from their plush lifestyles to their frequent tangles with the law, alcohol, drugs and extramarital affairs. Tabloids and gossip blogs are not bereft of juicy material with big names like Christina Aguilera, Charlie Sheen and the infamous Lindsey Lohan stumbling down the streets of Hollywood this year.
aylor has recently pulled out all the stops in its efforts to create a sustainable and picturesque campus. From the demolition of Ivy Square to the newest plans to fill in the roads surrounding of Fountain Mall, students have been subjected to the forces of the administration who are determined to fulfill the Baylor 2012 imperatives calling for “useful and aesthetically pleasing physical spaces” in order to “create a truly residential campus.”
As much as we would all like to think that romantic relationships spring up out of nowhere and happen simply because two people are “meant to be,” such notions only apply in rare circumstances.
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The Baylor Lady Bears soccer team heads to Houston on Saturday as they begin their first competitive action of the spring season. First up for the Lady Bears will be the Houston Cougars at 11 a.m. followed by a showdown with the Sam Houston State Bearkats at 5 p.m. in the same location. These games cap off an exciting week in which the Lady Bears signed six student athletes from five states to join the team next year.
The Baylor Equestrian Team will try to bounce back from a tough loss against the Texas A&M Aggies as they play host to a doubleheader this Saturday in Waco. First up for the Lady Bears in the Hunter Seat competition will be the Southern Methodist University Mustangs at 10 a.m. followed by a matchup with the Sacred Heart Big Red noon.
The Baylor men and women’s tennis teams will both be in action this weekend trying to continue their spring season success. The Baylor men will be traveling to Dallas to face the SMU Mustangs on Sunday, Feb. 20 at 12 p.m. The Lady Bears will be traveling to Charlottesville, Va., to compete in the ITA Team National Indoor Championship. This tournament will be the Lady Bears toughest of the year as it features 16 of the Nations top 25 teams and nine of the top 10. The third-ranked Baylor women’s tennis team will be hoping to make a championship run through the tournament that lasts begins Friday and ends Monday.
Both teams take the field in Waco this weekend, with baseball opening its season against Oral Roberts at 4 p.m. and softball welcoming New Mexico to Getterman Stadium for a three game series. The Lady Bears battle the Lobos in a doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. Friday and play once more at noon Saturday. Baseball, ranked No. 16 in Baseball America’s preseason poll, plays at 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
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San Antonio junior Cheniese Armstrong wants to be an early childhood interventionist for deaf children — a worker in a Texas program, Early Childhood Intervention Services, that helps provide services for infants and children who have developmental delays or disabilities.
A small, local business is depending on Baylor students to grow.
A recent look at the men with the most Google search results found Jesus Christ losing in popularity to celebrities such as 50 Cent and Bruno Mars.
There is a new player atop Baylor’s career scoring leaderboard. With a left-handed layup in the Bears’ Tuesday night matchup with Wayland Baptist, senior LaceDarius Dunn notched his 2,190th point in a Baylor uniform and cemented his already well-documented place in Baylor basketball history.
Want to tick John Scioli off? Call one of those mahogany-paneled, manicure-offering, $60-shave-and-a-haircut men’s salons a barbershop.
After miscalculating the anticipated student acceptance rate, the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine is now asking 80 students in the class of 2015 to defer their medical education until next year.
A Baylor Graduate of 2009 is taking the transition from student to colleague in stride.
The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce is invested in small business development as much as it is in downtown revitalization and marketing initiatives. The chamber actively supports private and government sponsored business development firms.
Imagine Waco has taken recent steps to revitalize the Greater Downtown Waco area, including plans to make it more sustainable.
