General campus news of Baylor University for the Lariat
Believe it or not, a little cough or a sneeze can affect you in the long run.
The Baylor Health Center is gearing up for flu season by offering vaccinations now until Oct. 23. Each vaccination will cost $20. Students’ E-bill accounts will be billed while faculty and staff members will have the cost deducted from their payrolls. Vaccinations can also be paid for up front at one of the eight designated locations on campus.
The United States and the U.N.’s new Syria mediator grappled for a new strategy Tuesday toward stopping 18 months of brutal government crackdowns and civil war in the Arab country as President Barack Obama again called for the end of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Confronting global tumult and Muslim anger, President Barack Obama exhorted world leaders Tuesday to stand fast against violence and extremism, arguing that protecting religious rights and free speech must be a universal responsibility and not just an American obligation.
A Palestinian legislator says President Mahmoud Abbas will likely ask the United Nation’s General Assembly to vote on recognizing Palestine in November.
Turns out, the “Hunger Follies” is not just a food fight. But that does not mean students will not get messy.
Freshman Follies, an annual event hosted by Student Foundation, will be held at 6 p.m. today in Fountain Mall.
It’s easy to go into an advising appointment and say that you want to get a fellowship from the EPA to do your honors thesis.
It started out as a chore, an unwelcome, early Saturday morning event they knew nothing about.
The Baylor men’s basketball team arrived at the Ferrell Center at 7 a.m., where they were given fatigues and boots and told to board a school bus.
Junior Cory Jefferson, a.k.a. Two Sleeves, stepped off the bus Saturday morning with a different physical appearance than his teammates: He was smiling.
“I know how things go in the military, so I’m exited just to be here.”
Controlled fires can provide safety lessons students can learn in case of fire-related emergencies.
The Baylor basketball team ended their weekend in Fort Hood with a redeployment ceremony where soldiers returned home from Afghanistan and were reunited with their families.
“Words cannot describe the emotion, especially for those of us that have kids and thinking about not seeing your family and kids for a year. That’ll get anyone teary-eyed,” head coach Scott Drew said. “They put on a great show and you can tell how much it touched these guys.”
A memorial will be held at 4:30 p.m Thursday for Dr. Susan Colón, who passed away this summer after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year.
The memorial will take place in the Alexander Reading Room of Alexander Residence Hall.
Interested in big movies and bigger problems?
The 2008 film “Taken” will be shown at 7 p.m. today in the Bill Daniel Student Center Den. Following the film, Baylor’s International Justice Mission chapter leaders will facilitate a discussion about sex-trade myths presented in the film.
“To vote or not to vote?”
That is not the question – what has been called into question is the ability of campus partisan groups to hold voter registration drives. This year they cannot, although they have been allowed in years past.
As the Oct. 9 deadline for voter registration approaches, Student Activities officials have asked partisan student organizations to put voter-registration efforts on hold until the officials fine-tune their policy.
Rockwall senior Nick Pokorny’s building a better Baylor bowling alley legislation passed at Thursday evening’s student senate meeting, but it left a few spares standing in its wake.
The proposed legislation passed with the vote of 33 senators, but there were eight senators who could not be convinced that Pokorny’s idea to rebuild and upgrade the bowling lanes lost last spring was practical.
Chick-fil-A is once again in the public relations fryer.
The controversy flared up this week when a Chicago poli¬tician said the company was no longer giving to groups that op¬pose same-sex marriage, angering Christian conservatives who sup¬ported Chick-fil-A this summer when its president reaffirmed his opposition to gay marriage. Civil rights groups hailed the turn¬about, yet the company never confirmed it and instead released two public statements, neither of which made Chick-fil-A’s position any clearer.
Baylor students have a new way to write research papers, and it doesn’t involve late nights or Red Bull.
The research paper planner, a new online tool provided by Baylor libraries, offers students a way to plan research projects and papers. By inserting the due date into a textbox on the plan¬ner’s website, students are given a 13-step timeline on how to finish their paper by a certain deadline.
Baylor hits the road for a Friday night nationally televised game versus ULM on ESPN. Baylor is 2-0 after coming off an ugly win against Sam Houston State. This looks to be a tough game, and Baylor fans ought to be slightly nervous since this is the Bears ‘first road game of the season.
It’s not Narnia, but C.S. Lewis is involved.
Dr. C. Stephen Evans, professor of philosophy and humanities, was awarded during the fall the C.S. Lewis Book Prize for his book “Natural Signs and the Knowledge of God: A New Look At Theistic Arguments.”
The C.S. Lewis Book Prize is a $15,000 award from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minn., give to the best recent book in religious philosophy written for a general audience.
Dr. Michael Rota, project director of the St. Thomas Philosophy of Religion project, wrote in an email to the Lariat, that Evans’ book along with 23 other books were nominated by publishers.
An ex-con who confessed to killing five people at a Dallas-area car wash a week after he was fired from his job there 12 years ago was executed Thursday evening.
Robert Wayne Harris, 40, received lethal injection less than two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused appeals to halt his punishment.
Harris expressed love to his brother and three friends who were watching through a window.
By Maegan Rocio Staff Writer Donating blood: It will help more than it will hurt. Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed…
Donna LoSasso, assistant professor at Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing, was elected this summer as a national council member for the National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners. She will assume her two-year position this October.
By Holly Renner Reporter It’s time for families with special needs children to band together once again. The Children’s Special…
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Today, the W. R. Poage Legislative Library’s opens it’s new fall 2012 exhibit entitled “Race for the White House” which displays items from nearly all of them .
The reception will begin at 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Farmers Branch, a Dallas suburb, asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to uphold an ordinance that would ban illegal immigrants from renting homes in the town.
The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to rehear the case after a three-judge panel from the court ruled in march that Farmers Branch’s ordinance is unconstitutional and impermissibly interferes with the federal immigration system.
Cutting down on chemical use in dining halls is a goal Baylor dining services aims to accomplish over the next few weeks.
Brett Perlowski, director of dining services, said the dining services staff will use a new machine called the Orbio 5000-SC for water used to clean floors, carpets and tables.
Police have arrested a suspect in the bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the LSU campus earlier this week but don’t believe he is connected to threats made against three other universities recently.
LSU police captain Corey Lalonde said officers arrested William Bouvay Jr., 42, of Baton Rouge late Tuesday night after an investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies.
Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?
Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.
And experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment’s anonymous owner, noting that the document’s value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.
In all, the survey had 25 responses by the time of publication. All of these identified as students, staff or alumni. Forty percent were dog lovers, 25 percent cat lovers.
Forty percent of people who responded to the survey had ever adopted a pet from the humane society. Of them 17.4 percent had either good or very good experiences with adopting pets from there and 4.3 percent said it was average or poor.
Rocky Bridges has worn a lot of hats, including marketer, assignment manager and photojournalist. Altogether, Bridges has more than 20 years of experience in the television news industry.
And right now, the industry is changing.
