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.

Most people don’t like to buy textbooks. But since textbooks are essential to college life, why not save the world when you buy them?

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.

Sometimes all someone needs is a listening ear, even if that ear belongs to a stranger from a much younger generation.

Baylor dining halls provide a wide variety of choices for faculty and students each day, and with the food service provider, Aramark, Baylor has been able to increase the amount of healthy options and quality meals in the dining halls.