Our hyperconnected online culture lends itself to the older concept of cyberbullying in a new way.
So, you’re going home for Thanksgiving break. If you were at Baylor last year, going home for Thanksgiving was weird — we literally got up and left for the rest of the semester. If you’ve been here since before 2020, you didn’t even have a whole week off for Thanksgiving. This break is noticeably different than any other Thanksgiving break we’ve ever had, and it’s OK to feel indifferent about it.
While the intentions behind the Campus Guardian program are good, there is one thing that would make the majority of the student body far more comfortable on campus: a program where students can request an escort home due to the uneasiness of being alone at night.
Yesterday, an article was published about Mexican food in Waco but then proceeded to mention a handful of places well within the Baylor bubble. Articles like this continue to further the stereotype that Waco has nothing to offer Baylor students, when even a cursory Google search would have pulled up an incredible number of local Mexican places.
All too often, you hear about students who are overextended, stressed and overall discontent with their experience, but do any of us do anything about it? I have the solution: Stop doing things you don’t like doing. Your decision will probably save you time, money and mental health.
Flexibility is something that people love, and podcasts can be paused or rewinded at someone’s own pace. Listening to a podcast at any time and place allows listeners to not have to set aside time to listen; it can be whenever they want to listen.
Students first learn about Dr Pepper Hour during Line Camp or orientation. However, after the first month of freshman year, students may have forgotten about the event.
Studies show between 22% and 30% of college students are at any given time in their first year of grieving the death of a family member or friend. At Baylor, with an undergraduate population of 15,191 students, that means between 3,342 and 4,557 undergraduates are currently in their initial stage of bereavement. With such a significant portion of college students wading through the trenches of grief, it is difficult to fathom how there could be such a profound lack of resources for them.
