The Baylor Board of Regents met to discuss university spending and fundraising during its regular fall meeting Friday for the first time since the Board approved a $982.2 million operating budget for 2026-2027 in May.
As political disagreements continue to shape conversations across the country, Baylor’s Department of Intercultural Engagement is creating opportunities for students to discuss differing viewpoints through its Dinner and Discourse events.
Best known as a fan-favorite carpenter on Chip and Joanna Gaines’ long-running series “Fixer Upper,” Waco resident Clint Harp is trading his toolbox for a pair of running shoes. On Nov. 1, Harp will run and bike 100 miles from Waco to Austin to raise money for immigrant rights organizations.
Political debates have long given candidates an opportunity to present their positions and distinguish themselves from their opponents. But as more candidates decline invitations to debate, the traditional campaign forum may be becoming less common.
As students look to expand their academic horizons beyond the Baylor bubble and engage in global learning, many think about the competitive Fulbright Awards. However, the Office of Engaged Learning (OEL) offers support for other competitive programs that provide opportunities to study abroad.
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Baylor football has consistently won on homecoming in the last 15 seasons with the game, emerging victorious 13 times. While it helps rally the fans, it can also be a catalyst for the final stretch.
Baylor is looking to rally its fanbase on homecoming with a win over Iowa State, who is coming off an upset over then-No. 24 Oklahoma State last week.
After helping build Baylor soccer into a Big 12 contender, former Baylor soccer star Hanna Gilmore reflects on the faith, relationships and lessons that shaped her four years in Waco and continue to impact her life.
Interim head coach Joe Klanderman aims to allow Baylor to “play free” as it heads into another matchup against a team coming off an upset.
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Junior quarterback Nate Bennett led Baylor to a 44-3 victory Saturday against Prairie View A&M in his first career start in place of injured junior quarterback DJ Lagway.
ARTS & LIFE
A great playlist combines two things — diversity and vibes. Whether you’re waking up at 5 a.m. to throw candy off the side of a float or enjoying the game from the comfort of your couch, it’s crucial to have the right tunes for homecoming.
The accessibility of violence, intentional and unintentional alike, should make us wonder: are Americans supposed to revel in bloodshed, let alone see it at this scale? Better yet, how many times have we heard stories where the violence doesn’t end with the initial crime?
Narcan should be carried everywhere. There should also be a law to have one ready at every public social gathering place, including bars, clubs, sit-down restaurants, all concerts big and small and even house parties.
The way Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron in Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” weave in and out of each other’s lives during their college years, as they each struggle through the growing pains of life, encapsulates beautifully how it feels to transition into adulthood.
Tips make up a majority of a waiter’s income. We should be kind to our service workers and tip them. This causes around 5.5 million United States workers to miss out on the income that they rely on.
What happened to our simple-minded foolishness? Where our biggest problem was our parents telling us to turn the T.V off because we had to go to bed or so we didn’t “rot our brains.”
Baylor’s Baptist affiliation seems to spark questions and opinions whenever anything remotely political happens in the community – and reasonably so. In order to respectfully challenge the university’s approach to contentious topics, however, we need to understand what the true mission of a Christian college student should be.
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