According to the organization’s Connect page, volunteers made literacy kits for preschoolers in need to help millions of children from low-income backgrounds who don’t have the tools necessary to learn to read. Each literacy kit included a set of 26 flashcards with the letters of the alphabet and a thoughtful note.
After receiving funding to partner with the Waco Police Department, the Heart of Texas Behavioral Health Network is addressing the need for emergency mental health resources by putting behavioral health specialists in immediate contact with those in need.
“We encourage all members of our community to participate in our democratic process by casting their ballot on Election Day,” Farmer-Neal said in an email. “It’s one of our most important rights and privileges as Americans.”
There are a number of locations around Waco that are accessible for students and potential weekend plans, like Baylor’s Mayborn Museum or the Waco Downtown Farmers Market.
“Before this year, LASH tended to focus more on diversity within us — Hispanics, ourselves — that was our main focus,” Robles said. “It wasn’t until this year when we added the DEI chair that we were able to start taking a different route.”
From Truman to Trump and Reagan to Obama, Baylor and Waco have played host to some of the nation’s most powerful political figures. Governors, justices and presidents alike have stepped into the green and gold spotlight — each leaving a mark on campus history.
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Baylor cruised past Rice for a three-set sweep.
It only took a few seconds into the start of the first quarter for the tone to be set for the rest of the afternoon Saturday at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas — in a game with struggling defenses for both teams.
The Bears’ win streak over the Mustangs now stretches 14 games.
On the tail of a 2-0 victory over No. 17 Mississippi State, Baylor soccer stays unbeaten in 2025, holding Texas to 13 total shots in the Bears’ fourth consecutive clean sheet.
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The Bears’ win streak over the Mustangs now stretches 14 games.
https://youtu.be/344v7QObBxw?feature=sharedBy Braden Murray | Executive Producer, Irma Peña | Managing Editor This week we recap…
For many college students, the demands of classes and the pressure to fit in can feel overwhelming. But here in Waco, Baylor students are turning to The Table.
More than 500 attended the luncheon hosted by the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. In a room of some of Central Texas’s biggest donors and sponsors, Abbott shared some of the highlights from his February State of the State Address and the 89th Legislative Session. Abbott announced legislative wins on issues like housing affordability, small business success and education reform to an applauding audience.
On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., three professors gathered together to discuss the impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway production, “Hamilton,” in celebration of the show’s 10-year anniversary.
Baylor alumnus and former Lariat staff member, Shehan Jeyarajah, got his start covering games in McLane Stadium. Now, he works for CBS, but still credits his foundations and training to Baylor and The Lariat.
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Up and down the brick sidewalk, performative male students strutted their stuff for the crowd of over 100 students, bearing wired headphones on their heads, carabiners clipped onto the loops of their baggy jeans and guitars and tote bags slung over their shoulders.
Baylor’s men’s club soccer team is already very competitive, putting in two-hour practices three times a week and playing big named schools, but without the scholarships.
The SAT and ACT have many drawbacks that may actually leave good candidates outside the gates of our great university.
Lil Nas X is a person people look up to and respect. His influence can sway many people’s perceptions and opinions. So by glorifying Satan with the “Satan Shoes” and by directing a hateful message towards Christians, he is causing many others to feel intolerance towards Christians as well.
My dad reminisces about a time when young men and women would move away from home, not to follow an unshakable four-year plan, but to explore all that an institution of higher learning had to offer.
Let’s raise our voices and name the new field house after the two people that established Baylor as a basketball school and cemented Baylor’s name on the top of NCAA brackets for years to come. Scott Drew and Kim Mulkey have given their all to this great school, now let us show them what they mean to us.
Another week in the United States when mass shootings were in the headlines has come and gone. By now, the media has moved on to other subjects, and most of us probably haven’t lost much sleep over the prominence of gun violence.