Baylor News
Before students can understand international conflict, they have to learn to see the world through someone else’s eyes. That’s the philosophy Baylor diplomat in residence Joanne Cummings brings to her classroom.
The McBride Center of International Business is taking applications for its new Embedded Development through Global Engagement program this spring. Students can earn three credit hours in a class centered on a trip to one of three destinations, two of which are new; they include Munich, Germany, Lisbon, Portugal and Mongolia.
Chartered in 1990, Kappa Chi Alpha is a faith-based, non-Panhellenic sorority that combines traditional Greek life activities and service to the Waco community. Without a national association, KXA focuses it outreach on local organizations.
St. Peter, a ministry of the Diocese of Austin, opened in 1999 and launched a $10 million campaign late last month to build a new 450-seat chapel. The facility will connect to the current student center on 9th Street and, along with the new chapel, will update the current church offices and add a new narthex.
Waco News
Congressman Pete Sessions and businessman Ross Perot Jr. spoke Thursday at the Baylor Club for the Waco Chamber’s State of the Nation Luncheon. Both emphasized Texas’s importance, economic growth, and a bright future.
Baylor and Waco’s rich histories are not without their tales of ghoulish intrigue. Here are five stories whose subjects have not yet been laid to rest.
While goatmen and witches sound like something out of a fairy tale, they play a distinct role in Waco’s history. Haunted lore has endured for generations and remains part of the city’s identity today, and the Waco History podcast shares it.
For centuries, tales have been murmured of the star-crossed indigenous lovers whose tragic and forbidden love affair led to their joint suicides off the cliffs in Cameron Park so they could be together for eternity.
State News
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, with the execution scheduled for 1 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Central Texas military installation, roughly an hour from Baylor’s campus.
INTERNATIONAL
The Iran war is now in its 46th day. Iran responded by restricting access to Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil, and moving to toll vessels transiting the strait. Waco drivers are already feeling it. The local average hit $3.38 a gallon last week, up 21 cents in seven days and 75 cents year-over-year, according to AAA data.
Gas prices in Texas have surged more than 70 cents per gallon since the U.S. went to war with Iran three weeks ago. The near-total shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has driven oil prices up more than 40%, pushing the national average to its highest point since 2023 and sending diesel past $5 for the first time in three years.
The largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East in decades unfolded as American and Israeli forces struck Iran Saturday, killing its supreme leader and triggering retaliatory strikes from the Gulf to Israel. The White House said the campaign is aimed at dismantling Iran’s military and toppling its government.
Dr. Joshua Alley, assistant professor of political science, said part of the Trump administration’s interest in Greenland has to do with America’s national security strategy.
