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The Hankamer School of Business received $3 million this June in two donations, further advancing the President’s Scholarship Initiative.

Ken Starr’s guest column urging unity and caution in all actions.

The English have a word for Robert Darden’s feelings once he was notified he had won: Gobsmacked.

Life in the projects is a daily struggle for consistency, proper nutrition and overcoming negative influences. During that struggle, art often falls through the cracks.

It’s not very often that a professor throws a beach ball into a sea of students in Kayser Auditorium in order to illustrate a point during the first lecture of their freshman year.

A Holocaust memorial sculpture that is tucked away in Moody Memorial Library may be put on prominent display once again. Behind the piece is a story of heroism — a story of remembrance.

In an age when supermarkets overpower local growers in the race to supply consumers with affordable produce, it seems that gardening has been neglected.

A small, local business is depending on Baylor students to grow.

It can be intimidating to campaign for a position, but former student body president Michael Wright believes that somewhere within the student government, there’s a seat waiting with your name on it.

Baylor is well on its way to achieving its 2013 goal of raising $100 million in scholarship funds.

The Baylor Bookworms. The name doesn’t exactly inspire fear, but in 1914 the founders of Baylor were considering making the bookworm the school’s mascot.

Unexpectedly during conversations, rumors surface. Whispers of a secret series of underground tunnels that connect every building on campus penetrate the air. Some people insist they exist, while others place the tunnels in the same category as Santa Claus.

Two Baylor professors helped uncover a secret that now has the scientific community abuzz: Central Texas was home to what are now the oldest known human inhabitants on the American continents.

He surprised her with rose petals. Candles lit. Chairs arranged to watch the sunset.

Adjusting to a new lifestyle and developing a daily routine can be challenging for incoming freshmen.

Busy college schedules mean that eating sometimes comes secondary to studying or other activities.

For those students who choose to enroll in summer classes or those that simply choose to remain in Waco for the summer, several overlooked activities can fill the void of free time.

Members of the Baylor community have been bursting the “Baylor Bubble” for the past 25 years during Steppin’ Out, a day of service in the Waco community that occurs once a semester.

Noisy neighbors, blaring televisions and the roommate’s barking dog are enough to make the ideal study environment hard to come by.

One of the ways Baylor meets the spiritual needs of students is by assigning chaplains, who are also George W. Truett Seminary students, to each residence hall.

As an increasing number of students enter college with their own computers, they have found a growing need for technology supplies.

In the fall of 1909, Baylor alumni received a surprising invitation from their alma mater. A postcard signed by three professors asked the graduates to return to campus to “renew former associations and friendships, and catch the Baylor spirit again.” With that postcard, Baylor Homecoming was born.

The John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship’s undergraduate program at Baylor was ranked second nationally by the Princeton Review in September 2010, moving up two spots from its 2009 fourth place ranking. The University of Houston’s undergraduate program was the only one to rank higher than Baylor’s.

From playing with orphans in Kenya, to viewing a cultural dance in Cairo, or walking along the Great Wall in China, learning a language can provide new opportunities and adventures.

You’d be hard pressed to find a more heartbreaking end to a season than Baylor did in Monday night’s regional title game against Cal.

Baylor had opportunities to score and punch its ticket to an NCAA tournament super regional on Sunday night, but those chances went unrealized as the Bears fell to California, 8-0.

Harassing phone calls to a Central Texas police department have been blamed on an unknown person whose stunt tied up administrative lines but not 911 emergency service.

Baylor couldn’t beat UT starter Taylor Jungmann and lost, 6-1.

The Cowboys’ explosive 6th inning was too much for the Bears as they fell, 6-2.

The Baylor Board of Regents met last week and made several developments toward Baylor’s future. At Friday’s meeting, the board approved next year’s $428.6 million operating budget, agreed to establish the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership in the Hankamer School of Business and welcomed new members as others finished their terms.