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Asian Students Association is hosting its eighth annual AsianFest Culture Show and banquet on Friday and Saturday.
The event, which showcases multicultural acts from across the university, is aimed at celebrating Asian culture.
Baylor will experience international politics firsthand this weekend.
Baylor’s Model Organization of American States (MOAS) will participate this week in the 16th annual Ambassador Eugene Scassa Model Organization of American States competition that will be held for the first time at Baylor. The free event will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and is open to the public.
At Baylor, the fall signals the clashing of helmets on the gridiron, cooler weather and for ProSales students, the launch of sales competition season.
By Curtis Schroeder Guest contributor At Baylor University, the fall signals the clashing of helmets on the gridiron, cooler weather…
The Spiritual Life department will hold two prayer services this week in the Foyer of Meditation in the Armstrong Browning Library in addition to a prayer service which took place Monday.
Beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday, students will have the opportunity to rest, worship and pray at this free event designed for young adults. The events are facilitated by Brother Emmanuel of the Taize community.
The Baylor Board of Regents added two new doctoral programs to the university’s School of Music and a joint master’s degree in divinity and business administration on Saturday at the board’s annual Homecoming meeting.
Former U.S. congressman Chet Edwards, W.R. Poage Distinguished Chair for Public Service, made an appearance Monday to speak to students about the ins and outs of political ads and their effectiveness in elections.
The Baylor Round Table is hosting the International Thankgiving Dinner at 6:30 p.m. today in the Mayborn Museum.
The International Thanksgiving Dinner is held for international students and their families to share a Thanksgiving meal as guests of President Ken and first lady Alice Starr and experience the American tradition of Thanksgiving.
Future preachers from Baylor Truett Seminary will have the chance to preach before an assembled pulpit in preparation to lead their future congregations.
The Baylor University Board of Regents met today for its annual Homecoming meeting. During the meeting, the addition of two new doctoral programs to the university’s School of Music and a joint master’s degree in divinity and business administration were approved. University stadium founders and recipients of last night’s 2012-2013 Baylor Meritorious Awards were also honored.
Dr. James Roberts’ new book analyzes the ways people relate to their pocketbooks.
Roberts, professor of marketing at Baylor, has been observing consumer behavior for years.
“It’s who I am,” he said. “I’m a social scientist.”
With the temporary absence of the Common Grounds taco truck comes another mobile food distributor.
La Lola Loca is a food truck of Latin cuisine that will be opening on the Baylor Campus today.
Students looking for the latest Baylor news and beyond, now need to look no further than their pocket.
The Baylor Lariat has recently released a free app on numerous platforms that brings news and headlines directly to readers’ iPhones, iPads and iPods and will soon be available on any device running the Android operating system.
Many people try to be environmentally conscious and one Baylor alumnus is striving to help people do just that.
Justin McBride, who graduated in 2009 with a double major in biology and biochemistry, started dasjj.com in April. Dasjj.com is a website that specializes in selling notebooks and pens made from recycled materials.
Eight international graduate and undergraduate students are waiting on approval to form an organization that will help equip international and domestic Baylor students to interact in unfamiliar cultures as they study and work abroad.
Baylor graduate Dr. Nirund Jivasantikarn and his son Ekapon Jivasantikarn are traveling to various universities to recruit graduating seniors to teach English in Thailand for 10 months from June to March with a two-week break in October.
The Jivasantikarns will host an information session on the teaching program at 4 p.m. Monday in 203 Cashion Academic Center in the Hankamer School of Business.
Fill your empty shoeboxes for children.
Every year, the freshman class does a project to benefit the community through service and ministry.
This year, Kingwood freshman class and president Jay Fields and the other class officers chose Operation Christmas Child for their class project.
The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to bring gifts and the gospel to children who would not normally receive a present on Christmas.
The final exam policies for the Baylor student body may be getting a face-lift following Thursday evening’s Student Senate meeting.
The Final Exam Policy legislation written by Rockwall sophomore Brock Sterry was passed by his fellow senators with no opposition. The proposed policy put forth in the legislation would revise the current policy so that students with more than two finals within a 24-hour period would be able to appeal to a professor or dean to have one of the exams moved.
Because of the collaborative efforts of the Texas Collection and the Baylor Electronic Library, anyone can take a stroll down Baylor’s historic line.
In celebration of homecoming, the Texas Collection will showcase six to seven pages from The Baylor Lariat and a number of special pages of the Round Up yearbook focusing on past homecomings at Baylor.
The display will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Friday and Saturday after the homecoming parade, which lasts from 8 to 11 a.m. and will end in front of Carroll Library where the Texas Collection is housed.
John Wilson, director of the Texas Collection, said the display will include old football programs and information about the Baylor homecoming traditions that were observed in the past.
University libraries are a few of the many campus-wide organizations set to host homecoming events this Saturday in an effort to welcome back Baylor alumni. The Armstrong Browning Library, the Texas Collection and the W.R. Poage Legislative Library have all planned special exhibits and activities designed to celebrate Baylor alumni and the history of the University.
Baylor should expect to experience a blast from the past.
The Baylor Chamber of Commerce will be hosting Friday Night Flashback from 6 to 10 p.m. today and Saturday in the Bill Daniel Student Center.
The event will combine the past with the present, The Friday Night Flashback coordinator for Homecoming 2012 Emily Smith said.
Delta Epsilon Psi fraternity is hosting its sixth annual “Who’s Got Game” charity basketball tournament Nov. 9-11 in Russell Gym and the McLane Student Life Center.
There are two events students can compete in, a 3-versus-3 basketball tournament and a free-throw contest. Both events offer men’s and women’s games.
The cost for the basketball tournament is $10 per person with a maximum of five people on each team. Students can register on the Delta Epsilon Psi “Who’s Got Game” website, https://www.depsizeta.org. Registration comes with a free T-shirt.
This year will be a trial year to see how the student body, as an unorganized section, fills in the gaps of the Bear Pit. With the advantage of getting prime seats, the most enthusiastic basketball fans will get the chance to be close to the action, cheering on both the men’s and women’s teams.
Baylor students living in New York as a part of the Baylor Communication in New York program said the wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy were nothing — compared to the disruption in the public transportation system.
Dr. Alan Jacobs, currently the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., has accepted an offer to become a new distinguished professor of literature at Baylor. Beginning next fall, Jacobs will lecture for the Honors Program, a program located under the umbrella of the Honors College designed to supplement the university’s undergraduate honors degree.
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Money collected by Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing during the Communities Foundation of Texas’ North Texas Giving Day on Sept. 13 to fund existing scholarships could be awarded as early as this semester or next with disbursement occurring in the following semesters.
During Giving Day, a one-day event in which charitable donations to nonprofit organizations are partially matched by the Communities Foundation of Texas, more than $35,000 was collected for the school.
The Louise Herrington School of Nursing, located on the Baylor University Medical Center campus near downtown Dallas, prepares baccalaureate and graduate level nurses for their career, all within a Christian community. No scholarships have been awarded yet, although most of the money raised will go straight to endowed scholarships.
Baylor’s Chapter of the International Justice Mission and the Baylor University Wells Project will sponsor an event that will bring famed international organization Invisible Children to campus.
Dr. Kenneth L. Hall, former president emeritus of Buckner International, has been named the new senior vice president for university development and strategic initiatives.
Hall’s new position will entail working with the President Ken Starr’s leadership team on strategic initiatives, such as Pro Futuris, and other university developments, such as new university projects on campus. Hall will begin his new duties on Jan. 1.
