Despite Waco’s cultural diversity, gaining equality remains a challenge for some groups that live here. Even today, there is disparity in the treatment of the hearing community and the deaf community, often stemming from misunderstanding or ignorance.

It’s not very often that a professor throws a beach ball into a sea of students in Kayser Auditorium in order to illustrate a point during the first lecture of their freshman year. But Dr. Thomas Hanks is no ordinary professor.

To think that a Baylor professor that has been teaching for 20 years failed out of college on his first try is remarkable. Dr. Larry Lehr, senior lecturer of environmental science, provides Baylor students with the knowledge and information needed so they do not have the same fate as him.

“I always feel lonely as an international student,” Liu said. “But when you go to the activities they host, you see a lot of international students from different places and even from the same country as you … and you feel belonging here.”

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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.

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