Baylor News
Hundreds of students, alumni and faculty members showed up to support Sam Henderson, Baylor theater and film lecturer, as he debuted his short film “BREAK” at the Austin Film Festival.
“We want to prepare students to think about the work they do in the classroom as a mission to go out and be good citizens, be good people [and] address some of the inequities that they see in their communities,” Pittman said.
Women in Weightlifting is a chapter of Girl Gains — a national collegiate organization founded in 2020 at San Diego State University for all fitness levels.
The Bears Medical Student Association (BMSA) will travel to the Rio Grande Valley this winter to shadow and support medical clinics.
Waco News
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.
