Whether they’re young or old, people typically want their birthdays to have one thing in common: They want it to be about them. But one Baylor student wants something a little different this year.
Browsing: News
General campus news of Baylor University for the Lariat
As the end of Lent approaches, Christians all over the world are preparing themselves for the celebration of Easter.
Four students will represent Baylor at the American Collegiate Intramural Sports Fitness National Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 30 and hope to bring home the win this time around.
With Texas Equalization Grant funding in peril in the state Legislature, President Ken Starr called on the Baylor family last week to contact legislators in hopes of saving the program.
For those brave enough to spend four weeks without the English language, Baylor in China has proven to be a rewarding program.
Pastel-colored eggs, oversized chocolate bunnies, people dressed in their colorful Sunday best for church: These are all images of what most would consider a typical American Easter celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
For the 27,000 students on free and reduced lunch at schools in McLennan County, finding balanced meals throughout the summer can prove challenging.
The word addiction brings to mind images of people popping prescription pills, injecting, inhaling or smoking dangerous substances. Most people don’t realize an addiction can be just as dangerous with a seemingly innocuous substance vital to a person’s survival: food.
If you find yourself passing out cupcakes to friends and only getting silence in return, you might have used salted butter.
Students who eat kosher can expect trouble in finding kosher meat markets or dining areas in small cities such as Waco.
It’s just before 5:30 p.m. As volunteers prepare food for serving, a line of men, women and children form outside the door. The people in the line outside are carrying handbags and backpacks, or they are hiding empty hands in their pockets.
For some people in Waco, food is not an easy thing to find. The United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service defines food insecurity as a reduction in the quality, availability or desirability of food or a disruption in eating patterns and reduced food intake.
As Americans wage war on obesity, a restaurant chain that challenges its customers to “eat fresh” has become the largest food chain in the world.
Seventeen miles north of Baylor, in West, is a little piece of old-world Europe. Czech Stop, a combination bakery and deli, provides travelers and Central Texas residents alike with authentic Czech kolaches, sandwiches and sweets. Czech Stop is highly successful, serving close to 600 customers on busy days, but things were not always so good.
Common Grounds, located on Eighth Street in Waco, is known for its dizzying selection of specialty drinks. Plain black coffee isn’t one of them.
While Baylor students waste countless dining hall meals, Waco families go to bed hungry.
Busy college schedules mean that eating sometimes comes secondary to studying or other activities.
Students enrolled in the culinary arts program at Texas State Technical College are skilled. Need proof? One meal at the school’s restaurant will have your taste buds convinced.
Three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching will visit Baylor this fall, each giving two lectures in their respective departments as well as their official Cherry Award lecture.
Two candidates running to represent District 4 in the Waco City Council elections discussed economic development and education Monday in a forum hosted at the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce building.
In celebration of Earth Week, Baylor sustainability has dedicated the first three days of this week to educating the university about leading a sustainable life.
A Baylor senior has earned a highly coveted position working for the French Ministry of Education as part of the Teaching Assistant Program in France.
One of the most highly anticipated games of the year is available today – despite the best efforts of gamers to have it released earlier by playing an alternate reality game over the weekend.
With the popularity of Zumba exercise classes, Baylor Fitness hoped to attract many faculty, students and others from the Waco community to participate in Zumba exercise and raise money for Japan at the same time.
A runoff Tuesday will determine both the student body president and internal vice president elections.
The English have a word for Robert Darden’s feelings once he was notified he had won: Gobsmacked.
Outnumbered and outgunned, the members of the Air Force ROTC professional officer course fought valiantly but were ultimately defeated Wednesday at Powerplay Paintball in Waco.
In an age when supermarkets overpower local growers in the race to supply consumers with affordable produce, it seems that gardening has been neglected.
In an age when supermarkets overpower local growers in the race to supply consumers with affordable produce, it seems that gardening has been neglected.
Every year, millions of children all over the world lose their parents, either from disease, hunger, disaster or abandonment. In the book of James 1:27, one of the hallmarks of “pure and undefiled” religion is to care for the orphans and to take up their cause.
