Baylor News
As NASA’s newest flagship space telescope begins its mission millions of miles above Earth, a Baylor professor and his students will have a hand in deciphering the data it sends back.
Known simply as “tabling,” the practice gives student organizations a chance to stop students between classes, start conversations and promote everything from upcoming events to membership opportunities. But does tabling actually increase awareness of organizations?
One outfit is spreading through the student section, covering students in school spirit from shoulders to shins: green-and-gold-striped overalls.
“I’m going to Disney World,” is what’s shouted after almost every Super Bowl by the best player on the winning team. Instead, what they should be saying is “I’m going to Disneyland.”
Waco News
The Waco Police Department responded to a shooting that killed 18-year-old Damon Morgan Jr. of Waco Sunday.
Dr. Sheryl Victorian makes history as the first female and Black Waco PD police chief.
Baylor plans for a “normal” semester as vaccination efforts increase.
As the CDC moved the social distancing requirement for K-12 schools from six feet to three feet, Waco ISD has decided to maintain 6-foot distancing to finish out the school year.
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
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.

