It’s a new year. Things are changing.
We’re changing, too.
The Lariat itself has been around for a long time, but most of our current staff have not. As a college newspaper, we have a very high turnover rate. Staff members graduate and move on, find jobs. Some staff members only remain for a semester before moving on. New semesters can see a staff with few returning members. For example, the staff five years ago was very different from the staff now.
Picture this: As you sit on the couch, watching daytime television and eating cereal, you begin to wonder how this…
Lance Armstrong wasn’t a particular hero of mine. I never found his sport or his image fully captivating, or his answers “riveting,” as Oprah said in an interview.
However, he’s much more interesting now his dirty laundry has been aired and is continuing to be aired all over network television. Though I am uninterested in the sport of cycling, I do respect it, and I respect the man.
Before I go into how the flu has changed me, I should probably give you some background information.
I am not usually a germaphobe. I have no problem sharing drinks or eating with my hands, and I probably do not change my bed sheets often enough.
My pile of laundry grows like bamboo, and the countertops of my apartment have never been touched by a disinfecting wipe.
As a staunch supporter of the Hollywood left and liberals in general, I am disappointed in some of their behavior toward director Kathryn Bigelow because of her amazing film “Zero Dark Thirty.”
By Alexa Brackin Guns have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My family…
As our economy recovers from the bursting of the housing bubble, some warn another is looming on the horizon.
The phrase “higher-education bubble” was first popularized by Glenn Reynolds, a distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee. In his book, “The Higher-Education Bubble,” he defines the term:
“Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever.”
“Beware lads the ‘Gold Rush’ is on.”
This was the warning for men on campus in a 1936 publication of the Lariat, preserved in an old Round Up yearbook, when a band of Baylor ladies formed the Golddiggers Club.
Yes. I said Golddiggers, as in women who care more about a man’s bank account than they do about the man.
When I was a girl of 14, I was in an accident that left me unable to speak for some time. I learned two things from this experience:
1.) Teenagers are cruel.
2.) The written word is immeasurably powerful.
I was effectively mute, unable to express opinions, give directions or talk about my feelings.
Bing Crosby would be appalled.
With singer Carol Richards, the great crooner once popularized a song, “Silver Bells,” about the joy of Christmas shopping. “Strings of street lights,” it went, “even stop lights, blink a bright and red and green as the shoppers rush home with their treasures.”
Of course, that was in 1950, a more genteel era when men still wore hats and women still wore gloves. These days, one would be well-advised to wear Kevlar.
You may ask what famous quotations have to do with anything. Well, that’s just elementary, my dear Watson.
There’s a lot to be said about the use of quotations in our everyday lives.
Finally, an end to the BCS system. May it rest in peace.
Playoffs have crowned a champion and marked an end to seasons from sports like baseball to curling.
Until a solution was formed in June, college football was the exception. It took commissioners less than three hours to deliberate the decision to have a playoff system. That’s how bad our current system is.
This is huge for college football. The result is a manageable, logical and long overdue playoff system that fans have waited on for years.
It may sound shocking to say that I’m thankful for the “1 percent.” But I am. One of many wise things I learned from my parents is to always be thankful for the blessings you have, because you never know when they will be taken away.
It’s easy to succumb to the temptation of demonizing rich people simply because they have more money, better seats for the football game and nicer cars. We are all guilty of it at some point.
The media does it when they talk about Mitt Romney as a “vampire capitalist,” while claiming his millions in charitable donations were “ungenerous” because they mostly went to the Mormon church.
The Occupy movement does it when they implore us to “eat the rich.”
The biker: capable of achieving speeds of 20-plus mph, capable of going from max speed to pain in less than one second, susceptible to blunt force trauma.
The pedestrian: capable of achieving top speeds of 12 to 15 mph, incapable of looking 360 degrees simultaneously, incapable of hearing inaudible bikes, incapable of taking flight or teleporting, capable of going from max speed to pain in less than one second, susceptible to blunt force trauma.
Just last week, Americans went out in droves and exercised their right to vote.
While many people were pleased that Barack Obama was re-elected for his second term in office, others were less than ecstatic and expressed their disappointment.
And by “expressed their disappointment,” I mean debasing the President by using racial slurs.
I am not here to tell you God’s will.
The temptation to do so is powerful, in light of the news out of a hospital in the United Kingdom: Malala has received a miracle.
You remember Malala Yousafzai, of course.
I think almost every reader will agree with me when they say they hated reading Facebook after the election results. Gloating, name-calling, and absurd statements about “moving to Canada” seemed to take over everyone’s mind for a few days.
There has been a lot of grumbling as of late.
Grumbling from a lot of people about Baylor football. From fans and commentators, from students and alumni even, nobody seems too pleased with the performance of our football team.
And why should they be?
Thank goodness that’s over.
The presidential campaign of 2012 did not in fact last long enough to be measured in geologic time, but poll-scarred and ad-weary voters can, perhaps, be forgiven for feeling as if it did.
Barack Obama and his supporters will be, understandably, jubilant that his lease on that Pennsylvania Avenue mansion has been extended for four more years. But Tuesday night’s vote is also noteworthy for a reason only tangentially related to the fortunes of the incumbent president.
Well, I sure got that one wrong.
Four years ago, on the eve of the last presidential election, I wrote in this space of how the country has spent much of the last three decades “re-litigating” the 1960s, arguing over the changes wrought in that decade.
Late last week, I contacted the “Political Science Young Guns,” a self-described nickname for three young professors in the political science department at Baylor.
“And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” — Richard Mourdock, GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Life is sacred.
Both Republican challenger Mitt Romney and incumbent president Barack Obama agree the deficit needs to be addressed, but it is Romney and not Obama who has repeatedly failed to prove himself as someone who is serious about tackling the issue.
Some facets of Romney’s tax reformation plan include cutting taxes by 20 percent across the board, considerably reducing marginal tax rates, repealing the inheritance tax, and reaffirming the low tax rates on capital gains.
According to the Tax Policy Center, Romney’s plan would cost $4.8 trillion over ten years.
Everyone wants to be right.
As Election Day draws nearer, political campaigns and commentators begin talking more and more about recent poll data, attempting to interpret the results to indicate their candidate is winning. As a result, favorable poll numbers are often exaggerated and unfavorable results are “explained away”.
The “Freshman 15” is the least of our worries, fellow classmates.
Sure, we may pack on some extra weight our freshman year. But that’s not the main problem at hand — that’s easily reversible.
The real problem is thinking we’re invincible to all the health implications that arise from eating whatever we want, when we want. And here’s the truth: We’re not. I hate to say it, but four years of not taking care of our bodies can’t possibly end well.
PETA, known for its outlandish protests in an effort to protect animals from abuse, have returned to attack video games over the past year and a half, and it’s growing to an uncontrollable level.
Around this time last semester, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched a smear campaign against Nintendo and its trademark franchise, Mario Bros. With the release of “Super Mario 3D Land,” the animal rights group erected a website in response to the release, with a game of its own: “Mario Kills Tanooki” is a flash game that PETA created where you play as a skinned Tanooki (racoon-dog) chasing after a carnivorous Mario flying with the help of the Tanooki tail.
That, of course, is the infelicitous phrase Mitt Romney used in last week’s second presidential debate when he was asked how he would address paycheck inequity between the sexes. Romney responded with a homily about how, as the newly elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he became concerned that the only job applications that crossed his desk seemed to be from men.
By Danny Huizinga You may have heard the statement, “A women makes 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.”…
Who would’ve thought that stealing a pile of newspapers would be a bad thing?
Some people would say, “Hey, you’ve got a hankering for learning about the world!”
Others would say, “You’ve got a problem.”
What is real may not be real, so how do we know what’s real?
Some people think of neuroscientists as scientists who sit in a laboratory and just poke and prod brains all the time, but I feel like sometimes people forget the more humanities driven aspect of the major.
Baylor’s neuroscience program is part of the neuroscience and psychology department. The classes we take as neuroscience majors are cross-listed as psychology classes and psychology majors are required to take at least one of those classes as part of their major.
