More than 884 million people lack clean drinking water, and Baylor joined forces with college campuses across the nation to decrease that number through the Wells Project challenge 10 Days.

Central Texas bands O, Loveland and The Light Parade will headline a benefit concert from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the backyard of Common Grounds to raise funds for the Waco Arts Initiative, a local organization that brings art to children in low-income communities.

In Baylor’s second year to participate in the National Team Selling Competition at Indiana University, two Baylor teams placed fourth and fifth out of 21 teams.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States, the film “West Side Story” was released, Abner McCall assumed the presidency of Baylor and the university’s journalism department gained a new professor whose teaching would leave a mark that has lasted decades.

Pat Dougherty, executive editor of the Anchorage Daily News and 1974 Baylor graduate, led a political discussion Thursday in the Castellaw Communications Center, focusing on the newspaper’s coverage of former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin and the current state and future of the newspaper industry.