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The successes of the 2011 football season didn’t need just the football team to rise up, it needed all of us. We are Baylor.

In light of the recent increase in crime around campus, including a Taco Bell drive through incident Wednesday night, Baylor Police are urging students to take extra precautions to stay safe.

University officials have disputed claims made by Dr. Marc Ellis, professor of Jewish studies, that Baylor canceled an invitation to bring a prominent public intellectual to campus.

Baylor students from all academic disciplines can now minor in poverty studies and social justice, a program housed in the School of Social Work.

Four Florida A&M University students have been expelled for their role in what is believed to be a hazing death of a marching band member, the latest blemish for a rich and cherished institution at historically black colleges.

The Historic Waco Foundation has many holiday events lined up this year, and are asking all who want to “share the spirit of the season” to attend. Annually, the foundation puts together an annual Christmas parade, as well as hosts the Christmas on the Brazos decorated house museum tours.

Bringing more than 30 years of experience in the field of nursing and nursing education, Dr. Shelley F. Conroy will fill the position of dean for the Louise Herrington School of Nursing starting Jan. 1. The announcement was made Wednesday.

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer on Thursday dismissed as “completely unfounded” suggestions that the former football coach may consider pleading guilty to charges that he molested at least eight boys.

A historic drought has depleted Texas aquifers to lows rarely seen since 1948, and it could take months — or even years — for the groundwater supplies to fully recharge, scientists who study NASA satellite data said Wednesday.

The incoming freshman class of 2016, and possibly this year’s freshman class of 2015, will be the first students to take the new version of the Medical College Admission Test.

In a survey administered by the Baylor chapter of the NAACP to 406 Baylor students earlier this semester, 82 percent stated they are in an interracial relationship or would consider dating someone of another race.

With the removal of the Big 12 championship game after the exit of Colorado and Nebraska, this final week of games will decide which team earns the automatic BCS bid. Although only six teams are playing this week, all of them have earned bowl bids, making each matchup important for the Big 12 standings and potential bowl positions.

Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.

We all feel it: that ball in the pit of your stomach when you know a big assignment is due, a test is coming up, or a pop quiz might be on the horizon.

Baylor and Waco police are investigating the seventh armed robbery since Oct. 15 in the area surrounding Baylor’s campus. The latest robbery occurred around 10:35 p.m. Monday at Twelfth Street and Baylor Avenue.

For the third time this semester, the who’s who of Baylor student leaders and administrators gathered to dine, mingle, and learn from the successes of a Baylor alumnus.

Herman Cain told aides Tuesday he is assessing whether the latest allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against him “create too much of a cloud” for his Republican presidential candidacy to go forward.