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Baylor Student Government hosted the fourth annual “Blinded” event in Barfield Drawing Room on Tuesday in a continued effort to encourage discussion between students on controversial topics.

A new social marketing website launched by a Baylor alumnus has the capability to collect dues, connect college students, sell merchandise and give nonprofit organizations the opportunity to change the world.

Dr. Elizabeth Davis, executive vice president and provost, visited Faculty Senate at its meeting Tuesday night and engaged in a discussion centered on the line of communication from the provost through to the deans, to the department chairs, and then to the faculty.

If you have a craving for egg rolls and orange chicken, go to Panda Express at 2448 W. Loop 340 today for a chance to satisfy that craving and help send Baylor accounting students on a mission trip to Uganda.

A new committee will sift through strategic planning input to determine prevalent themes and priorities to be included in Baylor’s next strategic plan.

After the cancellation of the 2010 STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) Job Fair due to jobs cut by the economic recession, recruiters from more than 15 companies are returning to Baylor for this year’s job fair.

He bleeds green and gold, but not just for Baylor. Santana Dotson, retired defensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers and former Baylor student, served as keynote speaker for the 24th Annual Black Heritage Banquet Thursday.

As tensions and political unrest began to rise in Egypt over the past two weeks, two Baylor students studying there found themselves caught between recommendations that they leave and their own desires to stay in a country they had grown to love.

With winter comes cold temperatures, multi-layers and congestion, and that’s just in the parking garages. Though the parking problem persists all year round, leaving students with limited options for parking, Matt Penney, director of parking and transportation services, explained at the Student Senate meeting over how his department is working to fix the current parking situation at Baylor.

A series of rotating power outages swept across Central Texas Wednesday after the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) called for utility companies to begin temporary power outages. Electricity usage soared across the state as temperatures remained below freezing, leaving utility companies unable to meet the demand. The main Baylor campus remained largely unaffected from the electrical outages.

The two Baylor students participating in a study abroad program at American University in Cairo have left Egypt because of its political unrest and are now waiting to see how the situation unfolds before making further plans.

At a university where every student is required to take two semesters of Chapel, it is no surprise that the study of religion and faith works itself into many different facets of study.

Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science has created a program with the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor that will allow engineering students to earn two Bachelor of Science degrees in five years.

Just two months before his December graduation, Shelby Burford completely dropped his post-graduation plans. He had intended to start a dessert and coffee shop in downtown Waco and had already created a business plan for the project, but as he prayed about his future, Burford felt called to find work and join a church plan called Mosaic in Seattle.

Traveling home for the holidays: It’s a common concept, especially for Baylor students. The trip is inconvenient at most, but not impossible. But when home is more than 8,000 miles away, there’s no returning for the holidays.