An 84-year-old woman in Seattle has quickly become a face of the national Occupy Wall Street movement after she was hit with pepper spray during a march.
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A day of demonstrations by students and anti-Wall Street activists was disrupted Tuesday when a campus police officer shot a man with a gun about a half-mile from the main protest site at the University of California, Berkeley.
Crackdowns against the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the county reached the epicenter of the movement Tuesday, when police rousted protesters from a Manhattan park and a judge ruled that their free speech rights do not extend to pitching a tent and setting up camp for months at a time.
The expeditions of the United States to Japan in the mid-1850s created an increasing appreciation of Japanese culture and arts in the U.S. and the West, which would spark the artistic movement known in the art world today as Japonisme.
In the first meeting of the two teams since the 2009 NIT semifinals, No. 11 Baylor (3-0) used a second-half push to surge past the San Diego State Aztecs (3-1) by a score of 77-67 Tuesday at the Ferrell Center.
A federal judge has refused to grant an order sought by Occupy Dallas demonstrators to prevent the city from closing their campsite.
Police arrested 13 protesters in Alabama’s capital Tuesday as they demonstrated against the state’s strict new law regarding illegal immigrants.
Just as superior technology has emerged in recent times, superior methods of corporate espionage have evolved to match. Cyber spying eliminates the need for spies to gather information in the flesh. But how do corporations judge the ethicality of such actions?
Waste generated by on-campus organization meetings might be reduced thanks to the Green Meeting Certification program launched Nov. 9 by the department of sustainability.
Baylor and the School of Social Work received a $3.6 million endowment for the Global Mission Leadership program Thursday.
Baylor ranked nationally for overall pass rate of the 2010 Certified Public Accountant exam as shown by results released by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy in October.
On Monday, the Supreme Court promised an extraordinarily thorough springtime review of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul: more than five hours of argument, unprecedented in modern times. It will come in time for a ruling which could affect millions of Americans just before the presidential election.
Senior year of high school wraps up between a backpack full of memories and a graduation cap. But for seniors, somewhere between taking the SAT and hearing the bassoons in “Pomp and Circumstance,” a package arrived at the door — and a decision had to be made.
It can be hard fitting in at a university where many of the people you meet believe you’re going to burn in hell.
When meeting fellow Baylor students, the question “Where do you go to church?” often comes up as frequently as questions about hometowns and majors.
Greek life is a large part of the Baylor student’s experience. According to the department of student activities, 25 percent of Baylor students participate in Greek life. With more than 40 different sororities and fraternities to choose from, students are free to find a group that they relate to best. The rest of the student body interacts regularly with this community through the countless activities the different groups put on, whether the events are for service or entertainment.
Baylor has more than 15 official student organizations dedicated specifically to service, numerous fraternities and sororities that require members to volunteer, and various other opportunities for students to get out into the community and lend a helping hand. However, not all students choose to actively volunteer in the community.
With people doing the Bernie, Dougie and learning how to wobble, it might be hard to believe that the Baylor dance ban was lifted only 15 years ago.
When others hear of students going to Baylor, the first question asked is often, “Are you going to be a doctor?” But what many fail to realize is that the university has much more to offer and Baylor students go into a variety of fields besides pre-med.
Of 3,259 first-time freshmen who set foot on campus in the fall 2010 semester, 476 opted not to return for their sophomore year, according to Baylor’s Office of Institutional Research and Testing. While some assume students leave because their scholarship packages fail to keep up with rising tuition costs, data compiled by the office of the provost indicate people leave for a variety of reasons, some of which supersede or exacerbate financial difficulties.
With the help of modern technology, many student relationships are held together across long distances with date nights being replaced by phone calls or Skype sessions.
Some students feel that the standard of equality and normalcy at Baylor stops at sexual orientation.
Life can be drastically different at Baylor depending on your relationship status.
Robert Griffin III threw three touchdown passes in a furious fourth-quarter comeback and Baylor escaped with a 31-30 victory Saturday when Kansas failed on a two-point conversion in overtime.
Two boilers on campus providing heat and hot water to the buildings stopped working at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The Student Senate shot down a bill Thursday whose sponsors argued statements made at a university-sponsored event were out of line with university policy.
More than a decade of compiled research highlighting the lives and legacies of Baylor’s fallen soldiers has been published and released in book form.
Two Air Force ROTC cadets have found a new way to honor fallen Baylor alumni.
The Obama administration said Thursday it is delaying a decision on a massive oil pipeline until it can study new potential routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska, a move that likely puts off final action on the pipeline until after the 2012 election.
Gov. Tom Corbett asked Penn State students on Thursday to refrain from the violence that wracked their college town after football coach Joe Paterno was fired, saying the nation is watching their behavior.
