What’s in a name? Does defining a concept or person with a single word really capture its essence?
Until recently, no, especially words like “outrage,” “victim” and, until recently, “rape.”
However, on Jan. 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made a historic change in the national definition of rape that expands recognition to victims of a horrible crime that had previously been ignored.
By Alexa Brackin Guns have been a part of my life for as long as…
As our economy recovers from the bursting of the housing bubble, some warn another is looming on the horizon.
The phrase “higher-education bubble” was first popularized by Glenn Reynolds, a distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee. In his book, “The Higher-Education Bubble,” he defines the term:
“Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever.”
It is shocking how many mass shootings have occurred in the past year. The shootings listed below caught the attention of the media and the nation, inspiring discussion on regulating the sale of firearms in America:
There’s an old saw that gets repeated with some frequency around Baylor.
It goes, “There’s nothing to do that’s fun around Waco.”
Well, to some extent that’s true. Encouraging growth downtown has been the goal of various organizations in Waco for nearly 50 years.
“Beware lads the ‘Gold Rush’ is on.”
This was the warning for men on campus in a 1936 publication of the Lariat, preserved in an old Round Up yearbook, when a band of Baylor ladies formed the Golddiggers Club.
Yes. I said Golddiggers, as in women who care more about a man’s bank account than they do about the man.
When I was a girl of 14, I was in an accident that left me unable to speak for some time. I learned two things from this experience:
1.) Teenagers are cruel.
2.) The written word is immeasurably powerful.
I was effectively mute, unable to express opinions, give directions or talk about my feelings.
As a society, we are moving more toward universal acceptance, but a new trend might come as a shock to some people. The fact of the matter is that fewer and fewer guys want to get married.
It used to be that men would grow up, go to school, get a job, get married and have kids.
The family would raise their boys, if they had any, to do the same, and the cycle would continue.
