Despite controlling much of the match and out-shooting UCF, No. 16 Baylor soccer couldn’t find the finishing touch Thursday night in Orlando. The Bears fell 2–1 to the Knights in a hard-fought Big 12 battle that marked the first stop of their final road stretch.

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The nation’s capital feels half-awake. The marble monuments still gleam under the fall sun, but the museums that give them voice stand dark and locked. Tourists wander quiet streets where government offices sit empty—a city paused by a shutdown now stretching into its third week.

The airline Samoa Air is introducing a new flight-pricing program today. Passengers are to pay based on their combined personal weight and luggage weight in kilos.

Chris Langton, the head of the airline, has been quoted on several different news sources, including Australia’s ABC Radio, that this program is “the fairest way of traveling.” “He also said: “Airlines don’t run on seats, they run on weight.”

We have all heard the horror stories of an advisement gone badly: graduation postponed because of misadvisement; students getting flustered during registration because they were advised to take a course without having the proper prerequisites; simply not getting to register on time because advisers are not available, or better yet, out of the country indefinitely.

Schools are meant to keep their children safe, but one school district in Maryland has taken this duty too far.

St. Mary’s County school district has proposed a ban for elementary schools on hugs or pushing children on swings between parents and children who are not their own.

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