Baylor News
The postwar order is ending in real time. The people running the world are old, and they won’t be around to live with the consequences of the choices they’re making now.
Students might notice the green polo and khaki shorts-clad guides walking around campus with groups of prospective students — but what goes unnoticed are the challenges of being a Baylor tour guide.
Baylor recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month during April, a recognition that goes beyond policies and rules. Baylor’s SAAM revolves around its values as a Christian university.
The annual Browning Day Celebration, themed “This Year’s at the Spring,” celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Armstrong Browning Library and featured poems set to music and performed by students.
Waco News
The Cove, a nonprofit organization that addresses youth homelessness, celebrated its sixth birthday with a fundraiser tailgate Thursday evening at its facility at 524 West Waco Drive. According to The Cove’s press release, the tailgate was a way to celebrate the accomplishment of serving nearly 500 teenagers experiencing homelessness in the Heart of Texas Region.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke stopped in Waco Wednesday to speak on gun control, reproductive rights and immigration to Baylor students and the Waco community.
Tinker Tuesday, hosted by the Mayborn Museum Complex, invites people of all ages to unleash their inner creativity weekly from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas is conducting a review of its relationship agreement with Baylor after postponing it last year due to COVID-19.
Covid-19
“Since July 1st, Baylor’s campus has had nine positives out of 48 tests,” Stern said. “And in the last month alone, we have had seven positives out of 29 tests, which is almost a 25% positivity rate.”
State News
Tensions continued to grow over the summer between political adversaries as Texas state Sen. James Talarico called on Attorney General Ken Paxton to release internal records related to a controversial child sexual abuse case involving former Waco attorney and Baylor Law graduate Adam Hoffman.
