Christmas often prompts strangers to give without need for compensation or recognition. Two Baylor employees have shared in this spirit anonymously for the past 10 years.

More than 9,000 miles separate Waco from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but Baylor engineers are shortening the educational gap between Baylor and universities in Vietnam.

Described by her colleagues as smart, funny and laid back, Dr. Phyllis Tippit brings experience and knowledge to the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. Tippit, who has a doctorate in geology and is a dissertation away from having a doctorate in Old Testament, teaches everything from literature and media to science and religion for the BIC.

Rumors circulated via e-mail in 2004 that Congress planned to reinstate the military draft by 2005, without the possibility of using college as an exemption.