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Support Heisman winner RG3 and the Bears at the Alamo Bowl!

Finally, Waco has a place for residents to buy fresh, farm-grown products from a variety of local vendors close to campus. After its grand opening last Saturday, the Waco Downtown Farmers Market had a great response from locals and college students.

If my graduating class votes to give our senior class gift to a new football stadium, I will do my very best to delay graduation.

All bets are off in this year’s GOP nomination because of the lack of viable candidates.

Money and ego are beginning to erode the competitive nature that fuels what most Americans sit down to watch on Saturdays: college football.

If I could travel back in time, I would definitely go back to the ’90s. I miss wearing scrunchies, watching awesome Saturday morning cartoons, playing outside until the streetlights came on and hopping around with my Skip It for hours on end.

It is always fun to see journalists get arrested for no particular reason unless, of course, you happen to be a reasonable person who likes enjoying liberty in America. If that is the case, you should probably be a little upset whenever this happens.

Think back to this past summer for a minute. I know it’s hard to do with the weather finally starting to get chilly here in Waco, but reflect on those sunny days. The time spent lounging by the pool. The time when Google+ was supposed to be the Facebook killer.

Whoever said the camera doesn’t lie was lying. The camera indeed lied, and the media lied with it. Or rather, the guy playing around in Photoshop did the lying.

In case you missed it, several Baylor athletics teams helped keep the university in the national spotlight throughout last week.

After a day set aside to show thanks and count blessings, thousands make their way to the stores to grab that shiny, new item they must have at all costs, all in the name of savings.

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles voted 8-0 last Thursday to reject personalized license plates featuring the Confederate flag.

I’m going to do something I haven’t done since elementary school, maybe junior high at the latest.

Moral clarity is one of the most seductive traits of social conservatism. Those of us outside that ideology may struggle to untie the Gordian knot of complex moral issues, wrestle over consciences in hopes of compromise and construct arguments in tenuous terms of, “If this, then that, but if the other thing, then …”

Last weekend, Penn State University played its first football game in 46 years without Joe Paterno serving as head coach. Paterno was fired after a child sex abuse investigation involving one of his assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky, began last week.

Recent allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s molestation of eight preteen boys over more than 15 years and the university’s athletic department condoning the abuse by omission have brought public attention to the epidemic of child sexual abuse.

With the “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” only hours away from its grand opening, teenage girls and women at the age where they should know better are going a little crazy.

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. You hear that, America? That’s the sound of the “Occupy” movement’s 15 minutes of fame running out.

In yesterday’s issue of the Lariat, a columnist wrote that people ought to be more forgiving of Gov. Rick Perry’s mistake in the recent debate. He suggested the elimination of three U.S. government departments but could not remember the third, eventually admitting he forgot and saying, “Oops.”

Baylor is a Baptist college. With that comes a target on the university’s back at which bloggers and anonymous commenters can throw cheap shots. When inaccurate reporting leads to slandering of the Baylor name, however, the attacks can no longer be written off as members of a hungry media grabbing at air in hopes it is their next meal ticket.

Some students’ dreams came true Wednesday night.

We leave the house without putting on deodorant, take a shower and forget to use shampoo or, in my case, come dangerously close to putting handsoap on the toothbrush instead of toothpaste.

Just kidding. Nobody can tell any of that information just from looking at a person, and from behind this keyboard I don’t even have that advantage. Unless I know you personally, I don’t know a lot about you. You’d say the same about the thousands of people you’ve never met who are also reading this.

A Central Texas firearm safety instructor from Mason has stepped into the line of fire with his controversial viewpoints on who can learn how to use a handgun.

Lately, my personality has been working against me.

Wednesday evening, we hosted a remarkable event on the Baylor University campus. Former U.S secretary of state Dr. Condoleezza Rice held a packed house at Waco Hall in rapt attention as she spoke with great candor and insight about her experiences as our nation’s chief diplomat. Dr. Rice described the life experiences that influenced her personal and professional journey, and offered her perspectives on critical issues in the areas of world affairs and current U.S. foreign policy.

The Lariat has received letters and comments regarding the proposed Student Senate bill to be voted on today, and we agree with those who oppose it.

Reading about Daniel’s Cervera’s proposal to the Baylor Senate made me think back to all the advocacy and adverse actions that we Chicanos had to embrace in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s to force changes in the educational system in America so that Cervera and his family could enjoy a good education.

The controversial Student Senate bill proposed in response to the Hispanic Civil Rights Forum and to be voted on this Thursday, Nov. 7, has caused much dialogue.

Are you a big Public Enemy fan? What about Odd Future? If you are, you might have found something to love on Fun Fun Fun Fest’s Blue Stage this year.