Baylor News
Beyond the races for U.S. Senate and governor, Texas voters will decide who fills several statewide offices this November — positions that oversee everything from the state’s finances to its oil and gas industry.
Over their nearly 50-year friendship, Baylor film professors Dr. Corey Carbonara and Dr. Michael Korpi have always sat on the cutting edge of media technology. One of their latest projects is no different, developing into a business with nearly $10 million in investor funding, over 140 patents and — if things play out right — a revolution in the way the world sees color.
After the announcement by the UNEP that the planet will pass the global temperature rising limit set by the Paris Agreement, the internet turned around to declare that we’re all going to die. This mindset results in inaction and self-fulfilling prophecies, instead of actually encouraging people to help save what we can.
Junior wide receiver Dre’lon Miller headed back to Texas after two seasons under Deion Sanders at Colorado. He looked back on his time with his former team ahead of Baylor’s matchup with the Buffs.
Waco News
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.
Residents of the Row finally moved in after construction delays postponed the move-in date by almost a month. Final inspections were completed Tuesday and tenants began unloading their cars and moving into their units around 3 p.m. Wednesday.
With flu season underway, Dr. Sharon Stern, medical director at the Baylor Health Center, shared what students, faculty and staff should know about this semester’s outbreak.
Waco High School was put on lockdown and evacuated Tuesday afternoon to the BASE Extraco Events Center after an active shooter was falsely reported on campus. Waco Police tweeted at 2:21 p.m. that the department was aware of the situation and on the scene. Eighteen minutes later, Waco PD sent out another tweet saying there is no indication of an active shooter, but the department was still clearing the building to ensure the safety of students and staff.
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.
