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Doing is everyone what to conform to tendency the have people.

The sentence above breaks a social norm by being written in reverse.

According to a study by Dr. Kyle Irwin, assistant professor in the department of sociology, and Dr. Christine Horne, associate professor at Washington State University, people tend to look unfavorably upon and even socially punish people who break social norms even if they are benefiting society overall.

Moody Memorial Library is now the first of any facility on campus to have private rooms for breast-feeding.

The two rooms on the second floor of the library include a chair, side table, lamp, changing table, clock, trash can and an electrical outlet, according to the Baylor Central Libraries website.The keys to each room are available to be checked out at the main circulation desk and require a Baylor I.D. card. There is no time restriction for the rooms’ usage.

The No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears will face off against TCU for the second time this season in the “Sic’em for the Cure” game at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Ferrell Center.

Fans are encouraged to wear pink in support of breast cancer awaremess.

Student government passed a bill during it’s weekly meeting Thursday to add five more water bottle refill stations to three buildings on campus.

Senior academic affairs chair Cody Orr explained the bill’s specifics in its second reading before the Student Senate.

Two Baylor students have united in a stand against eating disorders.

For the first time in Waco,  their stand will become a walk.

Entrepreneurship may become the next big degree for students to pursue on college campuses.

Alex Wallace, who graduated from Baylor in 2008, has become a major businessman in the success of The Grounds Guys, a full-service commercial leading lawn care company.

Baylor entrepreneurs can pitch their business stories in San Antonio as a part of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards competition.

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization Round-Up Regional Conference in San Antonio gives students from Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma a chance to receive a $10,000 in cash prize and win more than $150,000 in business products and services.

Sanderson Farms notified the city of Palestine and Anderson County today of its intent to build a poultry complex in the region. The announcement immediately followed the completion of the company’s annual stockholders meeting in Laurel, Miss.

Pre-health students will have the chance to meet and talk to influential people at the professional schools they have to gain admissions to.

Alpha Epsilon Delta is hosting its 40th annual Pre-Health Day Saturday. This event was previously known as Pre-Med/Pre-Dent Day.

Rebecca Flavin is a lecturer in the political science department who joined Baylor in 2010. She graduated from Wheeling Jesuit University and earned her master’s from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently working on her doctorate through the University of Notre Dame. She has done research and teaching in constitutional law, and the history of political philosophy and American politics, with emphasis on politics and religion.

This week marks the beginning of All-University Sing, and the students involved have been hard at work preparing to perform in front of thousands of people.

Preparation for Sing involves thousands of hours choreographing, practicing and perfecting, but students involved in Sing must still attend classes and participate in many other activities.

National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre renewed his call Thursday for armed guards in schools and urged gun owners to “stand and fight” for the Second Amendment.

In a speech billed as the NRA response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union call for new gun regulations, LaPierre noted in remarks to the National Wild Turkey Federation in Nashville that the speech didn’t mention school security.

A Baylor student was the first to conduct a research study on the subject of military venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) that considered 10 years of data.

“VTEs had not been looked at in the military population,” said New Braunfels sophomore Tara Hutchison, the student who conducted the research.

This was the first study of military VTEs that took place over such a large time period.

Zack Owen and Jim Cody will celebrate 20 years with Waco 100 as Central Texas’ longest-running No. 1 morning team.

Zack and Jim’s 20th Anniversary Blowout will take place from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the Extraco Events Center off Lake Air Drive and Bosque Boulevard.

After 20 years of sharing news, telling corny jokes and providing McLennan County with a wide variety of country music, local disc jockeys of Waco 100 country radio station Zack Owen and Jim Cody are throwing a party to tell their listeners “thank you” for all the years of tuning in.

Zack & Jim’s 20th Anniversary Blowout will take place at 6 p.m. this Saturday at the Extraco Events Center, featuring a concert including A-list country stars Easton Corbin and Dustin Lynch. The event is free and open to everyone, and floor seats to the concert are $6.

The Baylor Activities Council is accepting applications for the program coordinator position. Applications are available in the Student Activities office…

For those who love nothing more than working on cars, flying down the quarter mile or flinging a roadster around a track as fast as you can, Baylor has the club for you.

Chartered in 2001 by Baylor graduate Jay Jackson, the Baylor High Performance Driving Club, now called the Baylor Driving Club, owns two race cars and has more than 50 active members.

Many proposals have happened on Baylor’s campus. For one couple, a symbol of that special moment has remained under a bridge for the past nine years, written in white chalk.

Matt Waller, who graduated in 2003, met 2005 alumna Jennifer Welch at the Baylor Marina in August 2002. He was in between two-a-day football practices and she was leading a Welcome Week group of transfer students.

The Florida prisoner who stabbed a detective and escaped near Dallas while being transported to Nevada is “a schizophrenic” who vowed not to return to prison, according to authorities and a 911 call released Wednesday.

Alberto Morales, 42, escaped Monday after using a piece from his eyeglasses to stab Miami-Dade Detective Jaime Pardinas, one of two officers transferring the prisoner by car to Nevada.

Doesn’t matter if you’re an alum or not — Baylor loves you anyway.

A luncheon to celebrate Alumni by Choice, devoted fans of Baylor who did not attend Baylor, will take place at 9:30  a.m. Saturday  at Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center located across South University Parks Drive.

Since just after World War II, a portrait of Jesus has hung in a Jackson City Schools building, attracting little discussion and no controversy that anyone seems to recall.

But that changed recently after a complaint, and this small city in mostly rural Appalachian Ohio has now found itself as the latest battleground in a national debate over what displays of religion are constitutional.

Graduate student Jie Tang moved from China to America a year and a half ago. He is working toward a master’s degree in Management and Information Systems (MIS) here at Baylor.

The Lariat sat down with him to find out about his transition from life in China to life in America, and more specifically, his transition to Baylor.

The Baylor Law School will host its eighth annual People’s Law School event from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday.

Participants can register online at Baylor.edu/law/pls. Registration ends at noon on Friday. Check-ins and walk-in registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the lobby of the Baylor Law School.

“You go down. You get shocked and then you walk away,” said Dr. James Henderson, professor of economics.

Heart attacks and strokes continue to be two of the leading causes of death in the United States, according to preliminary data for 2011 on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. In 2010, heart disease accounted for 597,689 deaths and strokes took 129,476.

Dr. Dave Schlueter, Institutional Review Board chair, and Dr. Wade Rowatt, IRB vice chair, will be conducting an IRB seminar…

A Baylor in London summer study abroad program information meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. today in 248 Castellaw.

The manhunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a killing spree converged Tuesday on a mountain cabin where authorities believe he barricaded himself inside, engaged in a shootout that killed a deputy and then never emerged as the home went up in flames.

A single gunshot was heard from within, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press late Tuesday that officials had found a charred body.

A Waco alumnus is giving the oldest hardware and lumber store in Waco a makeover.

Accounting alumnus Larry Dagley and his wife Norma Dagley, an Alumna by Choice, bought the store last year as a venture into the retail market.

President Obama’s state of the Union speech was met with mixed reactions Tuesday night as he laid out his goals for the next four years.

While the president spoke on a range of topics, the President’s statements on economic reform, budget issues and the gun control debate stood out. Among some of the president’s stated goals for the next four years were a $9 federal minimum wage, a $2.5 trillion budget reduction and comprehensive immigration reform. The president’s overall message was upbeat.

A new national survey reveals that Baylor alumni believe Baylor is an excellent school and top in quality education.

Last fall, 609 alumni were asked to describe their experience of Baylor University and their time here, said John Barry, Baylor’s vice president of marketing and communications.