Registration time at Baylor can be a frantic rush to find CRN numbers, work out a schedule and email professors in order to be placed in a closed-class section.

The stress and worry for students that they won’t get the classes they need can cause them to engage in practices to beat the system – like holding classes.

Students who hold classes register for classes they don’t intend to take to create a space in the class for friends with later registration dates.

Even Bruiser gets to register early.

More than 6,245 undergraduate students are eligible to register before their classification’s normal registration date as members of early registration priority groups.

That number is close to half of the 12,918 total undergraduate students enrolled at Baylor for the 2012-2013 academic year.

In celebration of Thanksgiving, Baylor’s class of 2014 is giving back to the community.

The junior class has partnered with three local eateries, U-Swirl, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and 3 Spoons Yogurt, to help raise funds for the Animal Birth Control Clinic in response to the overcrowding issue the Waco Humane Society is facing.

Carrie Kuehl, the director of the ABC Clinic, said the junior class chose the clinic for its nonprofit organization project.

Contrary to other published reports, Baylor is not purchasing credits from a mitigation bank because of a bird habitat that would be displaced by the new stadium construction.

Rather, Baylor will purchase credits from the mitigation bank, which is a preserved area of land approved by the Army Core of Engineers that cannot be developed, because of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers statutory authorities that regulate navigable waters and protect water environments.