One by one, five Republican candidates for president took the stage Tuesday in the state that holds the first presidential contest to pitch themselves as the strongest to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama on voters’ top issue: jobs.
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A countywide burn ban and the most severe period of drought and wildfires in recent memory won’t prevent Baylor Chamber of Commerce from putting on the traditional Homecoming bonfire this Friday on Fountain Mall.
In the current trying economic times, Baylor has continued to offer many financial aid opportunities. As a result of this and other criteria, the university has been named a “Best Value in Private Colleges” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine for 2011-2012.
Winona Nawara, 84, sits outside in a white lawn chair facing the street. She doesn’t like the cold, so she keeps snug in a pair of cherry-red pants, a warm cream sweatshirt and an even warmer smile.
Baylor will travel to play the new member of the Big 12 conference, West Virginia University.
A group of six Baylor students presented original research about Native Americans from a rock shelter at the Texas Archaeological Society’s annual meeting Friday through Sunday in Dallas.
It’s called service-oriented computing: intelligent software that performs automatic searches based on the material you browse on the Web. Baylor’s Department of Computer Science will host a presentation Wednesday detailing the technicalities of this new software.
A jury was chosen Monday for the trial of a former bishop of a polygamist group accused of marrying an underage girl to group leader Warren Jeffs.
Why anyone would volunteer to make themselves feel sick is beyond comprehension, but Penland found three male students that were willing to try for their Man v. Food competition.
The Big East said Friday it has been notified that West Virginia is leaving the conference and joining the Big 12.
Student Senate held a meeting Thursday night in 403 Cashion Academic Center in which members voted to postpone voting on a bill that has caused controversy since its introduced.
Attendees of this year’s third annual Jubilee Music Street Festival are in for new activities and potentially “record-breaking” s’mores Saturday at the corner of N. 15th Street and Colcord Avenue.
More than 30 Baylor students will swarm the playground at the Piper Center for Family Studies and Child Development in Waco Saturday, and director Barbara Crosby couldn’t be happier about it. The center serves as a lab for family and consumer sciences department majors.
Dr. Ronald Amundson of the University of California at Berkeley discussed how human activities are impacting soil in a lecture titled “The Fate of Soils and Landscapes in the 21st Century” Thursday afternoon in the Baylor Sciences Building.
A Baylor student was arrested on Wednesday and charged with sexual assault stemming from an incident that occurred on Oct. 2.
Hoping to bring conservative values back to his district, 2005 Baylor alumnus Jeff Leach is running for the Texas House of Representatives in District 67, which includes Plano, Allen and Richardson.
Susan G. Baker, political wife-turned-crusader, author of the autobiography “Passing It On” and co-founder of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, spoke Wednesday about marketing for non-profit organizations and the tragedy of homelessness. Baker was the wife of politician James A. Baker III, who served as the Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.
The fifth annual Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture will begin today, focusing on the topic of higher education and the exploration and communication of wisdom through learning.
People looking to increase their overall well-being and happiness should try to find the right balance between being too busy and not busy enough, according to research done by a Baylor professor.
The Honors Residential College brought a Jewish scholar to campus Wednesday to give a lecture on how the 12th-century philosopher Maimonides helped incorporate philosophy into the Jewish theological tradition.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has “no doubt” that President Barack Obama is an American citizen, staking out a definitive position on the matter after spending several days stoking widely debunked claims that the Democrat was born overseas.
Students hungry for healthy food can stock up on specialty items in a local Waco store.
The display of police force in Oakland, Calif., and Atlanta has unnerved some anti-Wall Street protesters crusading against corporate greed.
An eerie algae bloom that has painted chunks of Texas’ coast a reddish brown and yellow-green in some places has forced state health officials to ban oyster harvesting before the season officially begins.
Recognizing college students and recent graduates are facing rising tuition prices and burdensome student loan debt, President Barack Obama announced a plan that seeks to lessen the burden of paying back student loans.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he opposes his state allowing specialty license plates featuring the Confederate flag — despite his past defense of the historical value of Confederacy symbols.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas approved a final measure Tuesday to slash its cooperative program funding for Baylor undergraduate programs by more than half, while simultaneously increasing funding for every other associated Baptist university across the state.
Ever since Baylor alumnus Michael Hull was young, he has wanted to be a politician. He is now working toward making this wish a reality by running for Congress.
Students can fall back and relax Thursday at the first Fall Festival hosted by Student Foundation.
