Brittney Griner might go down as the best women’s basketball player of all time.
Her incredible combination of size and skill have made her the most recognizable face in women’s college basketball. This will soon be the case when she enters the WNBA Draft. She will probably be the WNBA’s Michael Jordan. Or, rather, its Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
There has been a disturbing rumor flying around Baylor.
The rumor often crops up as a justification for a nonsensical or incongruous building project. The question “Why did Baylor do that again?” is raised and an inevitable but uninformed answer is, “Oh, we’re trying to get into the Ivy League.”
We’re going to ignore the abject ridiculousness of this statement for a minute to provide some context.
You get accepted to Baylor.
You move in during Welcome Week.
You’re away from home for the first time, alone in a new environment without your parents and no idea what do to about your laundry. Who do you call?
Your Community Leader, (CL) is there to welcome you and provide guidance.
PubFigcomicHaving a personal opinion is okay.
Having a personal opinion about the policy of a president —agree or disagree— is also okay.
Having a personal opinion that prays for the death of President Obama, as appalling as it may be, is also protected under the First Amendment.
However, Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) recently circulated an email saying “Pray for Obama,” to all of his republican colleagues that cites Psalm 109:8.
Psalm 109:8 begins: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Chapel: As undergraduates, we’ve all been through it.
Every undergraduate at Baylor is required to attend Chapel in some form, although the requirements vary. Chapel, a time of worship every Monday and Wednesday, is one of the oldest and most valued Baylor traditions. It has been a part of student life for more than 160 years.
Although Chapel is a valued tradition, it is taking up time that many students can’t easily sacrifice. It’s also taking money. There is a class fee of $65 for attending Chapel.
Trying to swipe a friend through in the dining halls is a fairly common experience. Perhaps, if you are a student who has a meal plan, you’ve tried it yourself.
Perhaps you’ve been told no.
What’s in a name? Does defining a concept or person with a single word really capture its essence?
Until recently, no, especially words like “outrage,” “victim” and, until recently, “rape.”
However, on Jan. 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made a historic change in the national definition of rape that expands recognition to victims of a horrible crime that had previously been ignored.
It is shocking how many mass shootings have occurred in the past year. The shootings listed below caught the attention of the media and the nation, inspiring discussion on regulating the sale of firearms in America:
There’s an old saw that gets repeated with some frequency around Baylor.
It goes, “There’s nothing to do that’s fun around Waco.”
Well, to some extent that’s true. Encouraging growth downtown has been the goal of various organizations in Waco for nearly 50 years.
As a society, we are moving more toward universal acceptance, but a new trend might come as a shock to some people. The fact of the matter is that fewer and fewer guys want to get married.
It used to be that men would grow up, go to school, get a job, get married and have kids.
The family would raise their boys, if they had any, to do the same, and the cycle would continue.
We see them everywhere.
Calling to us from coffee shops and convenient stores, the platform of beverages, powders and pills entice us to “go faster,” “be stronger” and “last longer.”
To students — all, for the most part legally adults and able to make their own decisions — buckling under the weight of full-time classes and jobs they seem like a godsend. And as our country gets busier and busier, we are constantly surprised when the long-term affects of these “godsends” finally surface.
Growing up, we would be lying if we said we never thought about dribbling down the court, counting down from 10 and shooting as we made a buzzer sound.
After the ball would go through the net, the “and the crowd goes wild” was inevitable.
If basketball wasn’t it, then it was scoring the game-winning touchdown or hitting a walk-off grand slam or something else.
As Thanksgiving season ends abruptly like it does every year, we are all reminded of the harsh consumerism that inevitably surrounds the Christmas season. But Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, right?
Wrong.
Thanksgiving is the best time of the year. The meaning of Thanksgiving has not changed. Being thankful is in the forefront of people’s minds as they joyfully join their family for a feast. Every American can celebrate because we all have things we’re thankful for.
For Christians, Christmas is supposed to be about remembering and celebrating the birth of Christ. Unfortunately, Christmas is now about spending money. The meaning has been bastardized, and few think about the birth of Christ as they marvel at their new video games.
In the aftermath of the election a lot of speculation has come from all sides as to exactly why the election wasn’t as close as it could have been.
And it wasn’t.
All the polls had Romney and Obama in a dead heat. Many politicos and analysts were predicting the various ways that they would tie.
And then they didn’t.
You know, December 21, 2012 (as predicted by the Mayan calendar)?
Only a few weeks from now?
It’s fast approaching.
To smoke it or eat it?
This is the question that law -abiding citizens of Washington and Colorado face now that both states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana for people over the age of 21.
The laws passed by voters last week allow of-age citizens to possess or buy up to one ounce of marijuana at any given time.
The Breast Milk Baby has hit U.S. shelves.
One of the newest innovations in the baby-doll world, the Breast Milk Baby was released Friday by the Spanish toy company Berjuan Toys.
The doll cries and burps like any other doll, but there’s one feature that sets it apart.
If someone doesn’t like a particular circumstance, he is told, “It is what it is,” and that’s the end of it.
In sports, “it is what it is” describes the numbers on the scoreboard after the game. You win or you lose and afterward. It is what it is.
In the world of journalism, that black and white statement begins to gray beyond wins and losses.
The night of Oct. 29, students received a text from the university.
It said that an armed man was being sought by police near campus. Later reports from the police said that shots were fired in the incident.
On Nov. 4, 2008, the United States elected its first African -American president, Barack Obama.
Tuesday, after a tight race against Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, Obama was reelected to a second term as commander in chief.
There’s nothing like the sound of a good drum line to get you in the spirit of homecoming.
Even the most jaded of seniors and alumni find themselves drawn to the sound of the referee’s echoing shouts in the stadium, to the smell of funnel cake and corn dogs, to the sound of an unknown cover band singing in the night and to the giant pile of wood reeking of gasoline in the middle of Fountain Mall.
We were there. We all saw it. The colossal pillar of fire that is the long-lived symbol of Baylor homecoming.
It’s hard to believe that anyone in this day and age would say something like “let’s lynch the scientists.”
Unfortunately, the sentiments once reserved for medieval peasants’ feelings towards the local “wizard” when he told a bad fortune are resurfacing in the modern world.
Let us imagine, for a moment, a hypothetical situation.
Many labs at Baylor began as courses of serious study, giving students hands-on experience to complement their class work. Now, however, many labs need serious restructuring.
Why? Well, from our research, many students say that lab degradation can be blamed on a combination of things.
There are plenty of places in the world where people are oppressed and don’t get any say in their own government. To a much lesser extent, one of these places is the United States of America. In America each person gets one vote for each political position in their district. That means that the people they vote for should reflect the will of the majority, but that vote gets watered down by a system of electors, representatives and gerrymandering and eventually dumped in a big tub with all the other votes. This means that each individual vote means a lot less than the aggregate.
On average, a person spends up to eight hours a month on Facebook, whether it’s connecting with old friends, feeding your chickens on Farmville or — let’s be real — Facebook stalking.
If you haven’t already noticed, your timelines on Facebook are beginning to appear like MySpace back in the day or the silly emails that were forwarded to your Hotmail account with lEtTeRs ThAt LoOkEd LiKe ThIs.
This election cycle has been a rough one.
Voters have been subjected to such a barrage of hateful rhetoric and misinformation that it’s a wonder that we can still remember what party each candidate is running for.
College is expensive; we all know this.
For many of us, our parents strive to do all that they can to make our scholastic dreams come true by taking out loans. A recent investigative report published by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education found that a government loan called the Parent PLUS loan has seemed to harm more than it helped — not only the students’ financial stability but that of the parents’ as well.
Affirmative action has always been a controversial issue since it’s inception in 1961 by John Kennedy. The goal was to counter the effects of a history of discrimination by eliminating the discrimination of minorities in college admissions on the grounds of gender, religion, ethnicity, handicap and yes — race. This not only applies to college campuses, but to the workplace as well.
The only reason we drink bottled water now is this: We’re college students.
We don’t have clean cups to drink from.
But thanks to the City of Waco, if we were ever to wash our dishes (not likely), we could drink safe, clean, taste- and smell-free tap water.
The story of Malala Yousufzai has since captured the attention of the international media. Should she recover, an event that seems likely as doctors treating her in Britain have released hopeful statements about her prognosis, the Taliban has vowed to finish her off.
