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Hankamer School of Business’ Dr. Andrea Dixon, associate professor of marketing, is in the company of some of the best business academicians in the world after the publishing of “The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management.”

Baylor student publications won big this past weekend at the 2011 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association conference, where the Baylor Lariat, Round Up yearbook and Focus magazine came home with 72 awards combined.

Student Government will hold a town hall meeting Wednesday during which students can participate in a Q&A session with President Ken Starr, Dr. Kevin Jackson, vice president for student life, and Houston senior Michael Wright, student body president. The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. in Draper 116.

This generation of college students has been called spoiled and selfish, tuned out to the problems of the rest of the world. More than 10,500 attendees at last weekend’s Passion Conference in Fort Worth Convention Center set out to change that perception.

Baylor Information Technology Services will offer various technology training seminars beginning Wednesday and ending on April 13. The seminars are geared toward faculty and staff who have trouble using the technology required for their job or for those who want to remain on the forefront of newly available technology.

Passing notes was once among the most common ways teenagers flirted with each other. But these days, nothing quite says “I really LIKE you” like a teen sending her hopeful beau a cellphone text message containing a lurid photo of herself.

Amazon and other online retailers could soon see their exemption from collecting the Texas state sales tax evaporate if a bill in the Texas House of Representatives becomes law.

Clinton Dobson, pastor of NorthPointe Church and George W. Truett Theological Seminary graduate, was murdered on March 3 in his church office. Rather than let tragedy have the final say, Dobson’s family has partnered with his friends at George W. Truett Theological Seminary to create the Clint Dobson Memorial Fund, a scholarship that will serve future seminary students and celebrate Dobson’s life.

For centuries, people have expressed their relationship with the divine through the written word. Whether the purpose of the writing is to praise, critique or study, faith and literature often go hand in hand. This upcoming fall semester at Baylor, the English department is once again offering ENG 3370: Religion in Literature, a class that examines poetry and religion in 19th century Britain.

Vitamins are known for protecting the body as an antioxidant, providing the body with necessary nutrients and maintaining proper cell development. That means it’s all right to take more vitamins than the body needs, right? Wrong.

T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital Management, joined President Ken Starr Wednesday as the first guest in the president’s new series On Topic, geared toward addressing current issues in America.