From its spotty fledgling years, ties to tragedy and the two world wars, the classic tradition that Baylor has shared with the nation began as a chance for students and alumni to combat the hardships of their day.
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This homecoming season, we are reminded of our ties to our Baylor community. Whether professors and advisers, or roommates and friends, the Baylor Bears seem to be especially tight-knit this time of year.
The Waco Fire Department was dispatched to 1915 South 10th Street at 3:51 p.m. after receiving a report of smoke in a home. Bergerson said the first arriving unit encountered heavy smoke, prompting officials to upgrade the call and request additional resources for an apartment fire.
The Baylor Board of Regents met to discuss university spending and fundraising during its regular fall meeting Friday for the first time since the Board approved a $982.2 million operating budget for 2026-2027 in May.
Radicalism is on the rise on both the left and the right, with the DSA winning major primary elections and the right growing more extreme. Our country needs political moderation now more than ever.
While many students walk past the Moody Makerspace without realizing everything it has to offer, the Maker Club is working to change that.
Interim head coach Joe Klanderman has pointed to energy as the key for Baylor’s success. The Bears brought it Friday night, rolling over UCF 41-9.
Baylor filed a lawsuit Friday alleging offensive lineman Sean Thompkins breached the buyout agreement in his Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deal he made with the school in December 2025, per a report from KWTX.
Best known as a fan-favorite carpenter on Chip and Joanna Gaines’ long-running series “Fixer Upper,” Waco resident Clint Harp is trading his toolbox for a pair of running shoes. On Nov. 1, Harp will run and bike 100 miles from Waco to Austin to raise money for immigrant rights organizations.
Halloween is a unique time to lean into that spooky, scary feeling, and I don’t feel like we do that often or well enough. More emphasis should be placed on things like haunted houses, horror movies and scary decorations, and less on just playing dress up or going out to get candy.
Generation Z is incredibly intelligent, yet many Baylor students are letting their access to education go to waste and no one is saying anything about it. Baylor students seem concerningly comfortable with staying politically passive, educationally unaware and culturally illusioned.
As the pumpkins make their way onto porches and candies of every color, shape and size find their way into bowls, I begin to wonder what faces and masks might be haunting houses this Halloween. After some pondering, here are my 2026 Halloween costume predictions.
From fog-filled tents to jump scares, FIJI’s Fright Night takes months of planning and a team of people to bring the haunted house to life.
The outage began around 11:30 a.m. and power was fully restored by approximately 12:40 p.m., according to Baylor spokesperson Lori Fogleman. The squirrel tripped multiple downstream interrupters, cutting power to buildings across campus.
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee in the Texas gubernatorial race, took the stage at The Backyard Bar Stage and Grill in Waco on Tuesday to rally hundreds of supporters ahead of Election Day.
If you have no time for anything else, just take 20 minutes today and sit outdoors. If you have a porch or a balcony at home, sit there. If you do not, find a bench on campus and sit there for a bit before you head home. Your mind, mood and lungs will thank you.
For some Baylor students, “Twilight” is more than a vampire romance. It is a childhood favorite, a source of endless debate and now, for a group of students, the foundation of a new campus community.
Baylor Athletics announced Sunday that head coach Dave Aranda was let go from the program, effective immediately. The announcement prompted mixed reactions among students, with some welcoming a leadership change and others expressing sympathy for Aranda.
If you hear a knock on your door and see a ball flying past your threshold, it’s safe to assume the culprits are Mansfield freshman Hudson Fletcher and his friends. Fletcher has been doing dorm tours on TikTok since August, showing up by surprise or request at students’ dorms.
Baylor fired head coach Dave Aranda Sunday morning following the Bears’ first loss to Kansas in 20 years. Defensive coordinator Joe Klanderman will become interim head coach.
While preceded by inflatables and followed by fireworks, The Fray’s performance itself was what pumped up and lit up the audience Friday night at Silobration.
The accessibility of violence, intentional and unintentional alike, should make us wonder: are Americans supposed to revel in bloodshed, let alone see it at this scale? Better yet, how many times have we heard stories where the violence doesn’t end with the initial crime?
Mt. Joy took the stage, opening with a few minutes of acoustic music. Warm, sunshine-esque orange lights silhouetted the band as it eased into “Lemon Tree.” The quieter opening did not last long. As the song swelled toward its climax, lead singer Matt Quinn shouted, “What’s up, Waco?” and the pavilion erupted.
Dr. Ricardo Álvarez-Pimentel, an assistant professor of history, died Oct. 15 after battling cancer. He was 36 years old.
President Donald Trump’s rally supporting Attorney General Ken Paxton in Waco, scheduled for Tuesday, has been moved to Corpus Christi, according to an email from the Republican National Committee.
What happened to our simple-minded foolishness? Where our biggest problem was our parents telling us to turn the T.V off because we had to go to bed or so we didn’t “rot our brains.”
Mt. Joy and Ax and The Hatchetmen will bring indie rock 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Foster Pavilion.
Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, Texas Republicans and Democrats alike have had to navigate through October surprises of their own, ranging from sensational cheap shots to shifting policy positions.
For some Baylor students, the midterm election comes down to rent and grocery costs. For others, it is a question of human dignity, the integrity of elected officials or the role religion should play in government. The issues overlap, but students do not always agree on which deserve the most attention. Baylor students revealed different priorities shaping how they approach the ballot, from immigration policy and economic security to political corruption and religious values.
Baylor’s Baptist affiliation seems to spark questions and opinions whenever anything remotely political happens in the community – and reasonably so. In order to respectfully challenge the university’s approach to contentious topics, however, we need to understand what the true mission of a Christian college student should be.
