Baylor News
The new emphasis on protein intake and continued popularity of gym culture have led to food companies hopping on the train of creating “protein” versions of their existing products. While there is a difference in protein intake between the two versions of the same product, the actual nutritional value remains mostly the same, regardless of what marketing departments try to tell you.
As the sound of screaming girls fill a giant arena, parents shake their heads and self-proclaimed grownups laugh. These crazed fangirls only have a certain portrait painted of them: one of ditsy, head-in-the-clouds ridiculousness. Yet, this group of loud, passionate teenyboppers has more sway than you could ever imagine.
After 122 years of tradition, Baylor Round Table has removed its gender restrictions, expanding who can join one of Baylor’s oldest organizations.
Celina junior Reuben Samuels and Frisco senior Marisa Young, the two Focus editors, said “Journeying Through Life” demonstrates how much someone can learn by listening.
Waco News
Need a ride to the polls? Baylor’s commitment to 100% voter participation now includes a free shuttle service to get students excited about voting early.
By Vivian Roach | Staff WriterIncumbent candidates and partisan gerrymandering lead to uncontested races in…
McLennan County Judge Scott Felton said he wants to give bars a chance to survive, but will close them again if COVID-19 cases go up.
Students studying past and present elections learn about what strategies candidates employ in their campaigns. At the center of it all is social media.
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.

