Baylor students reacted with surprise and cautious optimism Wednesday after Democratic candidates James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa won Texas’ Senate and gubernatorial races, respectively, marking a major shift in the state’s political landscape.
As Baylor celebrates the many traditions of its annual homecoming, the Black community on campus has found a unique way of expressing itself and its culture: the Royal and Pure Homecoming Stroll-Off.
As a giant inflatable globe floats through the streets of Waco and across Baylor’s campus, students from around the world have the unique experience of witnessing the nation’s oldest and largest collegiate homecoming parade, a testament to how far Baylor has truly flung its green and gold.
Baylor Homecoming is just around the corner, and for many students on campus, this time brings nostalgia and bittersweet happiness as seniors prepare for their final homecoming as undergraduate students.
Alice Curtis, 96, has experienced a lifetime of Baylor Homecomings. She was there in 1949 for the last season in the wooden grandstands of the Waco Municipal Stadium. She was there in 1974, when Grant Teaff led the turnaround that became the Miracle on the Brazos. She was there in 2010, the season in which Robert Griffin III took home Baylor’s first and only Heisman Trophy.
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Released in September, “Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue and Resilience” is based on a true story close to Todd Smith’s own life. It follows the life of a black woman named Josie, who was taken in by Smith’s great-grandparents after she was abandoned at birth in the small town of D’Lo, Mississippi, in 1906.
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Football has been at the center of homecoming since 1909, but Baylor Athletics made the most of the weekend all around, winning six games in five sports.
Sophomore outside hitter Ksenia Rakhmanchik lit up Kansas State Sunday afternoon, recording the most kills in a Big 12 match this season with 32.
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The local Bitty and Beau’s Coffee Shop is closing, but a new coffee shop will take its place.
Generation Z is incredibly intelligent, yet many Baylor students are letting their access to education go to waste and no one is saying anything about it. Baylor students seem concerningly comfortable with staying politically passive, educationally unaware and culturally illusioned.
Broadly, language teachers have been working to justify our profession and its importance to American students for decades. Since GoogleTranslate officially launched almost exactly 20 years ago, in April 2006, we have faced the same obstacles which all amount to the same question: why do we need to learn languages if computers can do it for us, especially when “everyone in the world speaks English”?
Democracy is designed to be boring sometimes, and that’s OK. The idea that every election from the past ten years, if not longer, would risk the end of our democracy isn’t true. Our democracy is slow moving, but strong. While every election isn’t the “most important ever,” the slow impact and build up from each election is worth our time, even without the threats of the end of the world.
One of the struggles of having so many fun events to attend is not knowing how to dress for all of them, and with the steep price of clothing, buying something new every time is not a feasible option for many students. This is why I was converted into being a fan of renting clothing.
One of the struggles of having so many fun events to attend is not knowing how to dress for all of them, and with the steep price of clothing, buying something new every time is not a feasible option for many students. This is why I was converted into being a fan of renting clothing.
As a proud preacher of the superiority of this sweet treat, I come to spread the milkshake gospel by ranking my top five Waco milkshake choices.
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