Baylor student publications have been honored with 38 national awards in the last year.

Sometimes a video game is more than just a video game. “Tetris” opened the public’s eyes to the dangerous yet rewarding task of bricklaying. “Star Fox 64” showed people that frogs make absolutely useless fighter pilots. “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial” proved that even a reviled, unwanted game can find a nice home in a New Mexico landfill. Then there’s “Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour.” It’s pretty fun as well.

It may be impossible for an author to achieve more acclaim than Toni Morrison, now 81, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. Her work is “characterized by visionary force and poetic import,” the Nobel Committee wrote, and we’ll get more of it May 8, when her 10th novel is published. “Home” is the story of an angry African-American veteran of the Korean War who returns unhappily to the Georgia community where he was raised.