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A Baylor student who lived at The Outpost apartments is the subject of an ongoing investigation of what appears to be the construction of a bomb at the student’s apartment on Oct. 16.

Despite Waco’s cultural diversity, gaining equality remains a challenge for some groups that live here. Even today, there is disparity in the treatment of the hearing community and the deaf community, often stemming from misunderstanding or ignorance.

To think that a Baylor professor that has been teaching for 20 years failed out of college on his first try is remarkable. Dr. Larry Lehr, senior lecturer of environmental science, provides Baylor students with the knowledge and information needed so they do not have the same fate as him.

Baylor dining halls provide a wide variety of choices for faculty and students each day, and with the food service provider, Aramark, Baylor has been able to increase the amount of healthy options and quality meals in the dining halls.

Despite the smaller number of available slots for the class of 2016 due to recent deferments, potential applicants to the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine should not expect a stricter application process.

Starting this month, four Baylor students will be mentoring at the Juvenile Probation Center as an optional fourth semester of the Science of Society Engaged Learning Group.

Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing has received accreditation for its new nurse-midwifery program by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education’s Board of Review.

Most students’ spring break plans include sunbathing, relaxing and escaping from the classroom. But for eight family and consumer science students, spring break will be an application of what they’ve learned in the classroom as the childhood development team travels to Belize for an academic mission.

Progress is important to Dr. Lewis Lummer, lecturer of communication sciences and disorders, and he has plans to bring it about, if only others will listen.

Baylor students discussed how perceptions of skin color have created dissension within the African-American community Wednesday. Baylor’s collegiate chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted the first Light Skin vs. Dark Skin forum in Morrison Hall.

San Antonio junior Cheniese Armstrong wants to be an early childhood interventionist for deaf children — a worker in a Texas program, Early Childhood Intervention Services, that helps provide services for infants and children who have developmental delays or disabilities.

Want to tick John Scioli off? Call one of those mahogany-paneled, manicure-offering, $60-shave-and-a-haircut men’s salons a barbershop.

After miscalculating the anticipated student acceptance rate, the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine is now asking 80 students in the class of 2015 to defer their medical education until next year.

The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce is invested in small business development as much as it is in downtown revitalization and marketing initiatives. The chamber actively supports private and government sponsored business development firms.

Practicing Christians of non-Baptist faiths can now make up one quarter of the Baylor Board of Regents, as decided by a vote to amend the university’s bylaws at Friday’s meeting.