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“We are more than computers made out of meat. We have a soul, we have a spirit and we have a mind,” Marks said.

Gooch said the two-party political system has been in place since the Civil War, with third parties pushing the Democratic and Republican Parties in different directions, but otherwise playing minor roles. He said he predicts third parties will never gain enough power to break the two-party system — at least not in the near future.

At the end of a hall in the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative is the Point of Need Innovation Center. Inside the 5,000 square foot space are an array of massive machines, tools made out of moon soil and researchers set on changing the way manufacturing happens.

Before the debris settled from the damage of Hurricane Helene, Floridians are being urged to evacuate in preparation for Hurricane Milton, which is expected to bring even more destruction than its predecessor.

Nguyen said that Orientation and Line Camp is important to Baylor’s overall community, since it allows new students to ease their nerves about either going to college for the first time or starting at Baylor.

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“Get out your clay or your chainsaw. Make an herb garden of someone you believe should be tributed. My book is my tribute to these women,” Wiesner Hanks said.

“Apologetics is not some discipline that a bunch of academics developed,” Oliphint said. “It’s actually a Bible word, and if the Lord uses a word, it’s incumbent upon us as his followers to see what he means by it.”

“The world that we create for ourselves and others matters,” Robinson said. “The truth that children need to hear is that knowing history, understanding the stories we tell and the narratives we create impacts all of us.”

Gibson, who was wanted in connection with the murder of 39-year-old Winfred Talley Jr., was apprehended in Arlington, Texas. He now faces murder charges and is being held at the Tarrant County Jail pending extradition to McLennan County.

Kennedy and Babajanof-Rustrian both said it is important for the Baylor community to pray right now, as these impacted communities are processing the loss of their homes and towns.

New renovations in the Makerspace allow each activity to be done in a bigger, separate section, with a student staff member always on duty. Mikulencak said she hopes it entices more students to stop by.

The Student Body Constitution states that fall elections must occur prior to the sixth Friday of the semester, which would be Oct. 4. However, a delay arose due to a previously unfilled vacancy in the electoral commissioner position, Hewitt sophomore and senate public relations chair Naomi Burgess said.

“Don’t even worry about failing,” he said. “Don’t even worry about the logistics, right? You start first. You bully yourself into starting, and then you figure everything else out as it comes.”

“At this time during the preliminary investigation; it is believed that an equipment failure during the normal production process introduced water into the furnace of molten metal, resulting in a steam explosion,” Soto said.

“Campus safety is a comprehensive effort across the university, so we don’t employ security measures only based on this report. We do it because it’s the right thing to do and a reflection of our caring campus community,” Fogleman said.

“A lot of international students have been saying that they feel like they don’t have a community here,” Zhou said. “I don’t think international students feel like they were receiving the support, and they didn’t know that there was a Center of Global Engagement department on campus.”

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Other than diversity, Baylor was recognized in seven different categories this year: job satisfaction and support, mission and pride, faculty and staff wellbeing, compensation and benefits, supervisor effectiveness, confidence in senior leadership and professional development.

The government’s role should be to protect the rights of all citizens, regardless of their religious or philosophical beliefs. This will let each person follow their conscience freely, whether that leads them to embrace the Christian faith, another religion or no religion at all. Enforcing religious beliefs through law undermines the freedom of conscience that is essential to our faith.

“The Student Emergency Fund is not meant to be used as an additional scholarship application for when students are seeking more overall financial aid,” Miller said. “However, when those emergency moments happen that need to be covered, the Student Emergency Fund may be a viable resource.”

“We ask that students converse with other Baylor students who come from different backgrounds, so that everyone can better understand how systemic inequalities and identities come to fruition,” Serrato said.

“The big challenge that all of us have right now is that we’re getting inundated with information all the time,” Rachel Velasco, community engagement coordinator for KWBU, said. “How can you know who wants you to hear that message? There’s always a reason that a message is being given to you.”

Baylor FitWell launched the Punch Pass on Sept. 9 as a way to draw more students into being active through fitness classes.

“Students are clearly answering to the demand the world has in need for health professionals, and you certainly see that in the way that they gravitate towards those schools,” Brickhouse said.

“It’s such a robust, multi-pronged kind of approach to community development and helping students be successful,” Engblom said. “It helps [students] feel like Baylor is their home away from home.”

The U.S. News annual best colleges report was released last Tuesday, ranking Baylor among the best in the nation for undergraduate education and first-year experience.

“We’re very excited about the success of our academic programs over the last year. We’re even more excited about what’s to come under Baylor in Deeds,” Brickhouse said.

Dr. Dave Bridge, an associate professor of political science who teaches a course on campaigns and elections, said he thinks celebrity endorsements don’t really tend to persuade voters who are set in their thinking — unless that celebrity is Taylor Swift.