Students might notice the green polo and khaki shorts-clad guides walking around campus with groups of prospective students — but what goes unnoticed are the challenges of being a Baylor tour guide.
Baylor recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month during April, a recognition that goes beyond policies and rules. Baylor’s SAAM revolves around its values as a Christian university.
The annual Browning Day Celebration, themed “This Year’s at the Spring,” celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Armstrong Browning Library and featured poems set to music and performed by students.
Before Baylor’s stop on the Turning Point USA tour, which started 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, volunteers in white Turning Point USA shirts with black text reading “Freedom” lined the aisles while pop songs and red, white and blue lights filled the room.
Just hours before the event was a final change: thousands of general admission tickets were voided to accommodate a Baylor-only policy that the university claims had always been in place.
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The Baylor Line’s claim to fame has always been that it is a “tradition like no other.” College football fans gave Baylor another reason to make that claim, as the Line was named the best walk-out tradition in college football after receiving the most votes in USA Today Sports’ 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards
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The fall sports slate continues to rev up as Baylor soccer and volleyball catch fire early in the season and football enters its first game week.
No. 21 Baylor Volleyball took care of business this weekend going 3-0 at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic to open the year undefeated.
After two early goals from both teams, the Bears scored two unanswered in the second half to beat Pepperdine 3-1. The win marks the second in a row for the Bears and the fourth nonconference win of the season.
After dropping a game to No. 21 Texas State, the Bears headed down to Austin on a rainy day, leading to a delayed kickoff. The Bears were able to storm back with two unanswered goals to outlast Texas 2-1 Thursday night.
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All Are Neighbors, held in the Cashion Academic Center, drew 270 ticketed attendees, totaling 352 people, including VIP guests and speakers, nearly filling all available seats. The event was created in response to TPUSA’s presence on campus, but speakers and organizers consistently emphasized that the gathering was not merely reactive. Instead, it functioned as a faith-centered call to action, rooted in Christian teaching and expressed through civic engagement.
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ARTS & LIFE
With the first week of classes almost out of the way, it’s time to put down the syllabi and take a breather. Here are some local events to try out before your classwork gets too crazy.
Now that the winter months have passed and the sun is consistently shining, there are so many opportunities to be outside and enjoy the fresh air. One of my favorite ways to enjoy the nice weather has been taking walks outside. Walking has consistently improved my mood, eased my anxieties and provided a fun way to exercise.
In a world where so much of our happiness has become tied to circumstances, success and other people, the way we choose to see our lives may be more powerful than anything happening around us.
Next month, TPUSA’s “This is the Turning Point Tour” will arrive on Baylor’s campus. What does it mean for Baylor — not simply as a university, but as a Christian academic community — to host an organization so closely associated with ideological aggravation?
Baylor students are sandwiched between two factors that compress the value of their education. On one side, a tightening job market is bringing prospects for young graduates back down to COVID-19 lows. On the other side, disproportionate price increases in the already fast-growing industry of higher education continue to push the cost of a degree toward hard-to-believe figures.
Voters have demanded one thing: change. From Trump to Talarico, the antiestablishment wave has reshaped both parties. This November in Texas, with outsider candidates on both sides of the ballot, the future of American politics is on the line.
In a campus culture rooted in outward displays of faith, it can be easy to feel like faith needs to be loud and performative to be seen as genuine.

