The Baylor/SMU football game was a great start to the season. The excitement in the stadium began when the largest freshman class created a flood of yellow across the field. With 638 total yards of offense and a fumble recovery TD and two interceptions on defense, the Bears definitely showed that we are going to have another great year.

Behind the scenes, however, there was a different story.

Recently circulated by military organizations and conservative critics is the claim that President Barack Obama is seeking to “restrict military voting rights.”

As Republicans wrap up their convention activities in Tampa, Flo., Democrats converge on Charlotte, SC prepared to conduct official business of approving the party platform and nominating Barack Obama and Joe Biden for re-election.

Baylor cafeterias need more Oreos.

OK, so maybe that’s not the healthiest option to help prevent college weight gain.

Baylor has four cafeterias in dormitories.

Penland Food Court offers the mall food court type of feel with plenty of options and late hours but not too high healthwise.

RFoC at Memorial brings some home cooking to campus.

For most students at Baylor, we have 126,227,704 seconds — or four years — in college.

Only 126,227,704 seconds to figure out exactly what we want to do and get the education so other people will let us do what we want to do.

That’s not very much time. We have to take X and Y and Z and ABCDEFG on top of that and that leaves very little time to really think about anything else.

Fellow students, I must admit that the second week of school has been painful, for many reasons, as I’m sure most of you will agree.

Not only has the excitement and spontaneity of summer become a fading star in our memories, the fall looms before us like a solemn mountain in the distance, threatening us with all the hazy unknowns in our futures.