“We’re sort of drowned in this large space, which is a beautiful space, but it’s very overwhelming for people sometimes, especially prospective students,” Wolfe said. “But then you get to go in these columns before your tour … And now this building, as the face of Baylor, entertains you.”
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“We tied everything together… by talking about how we really need to focus on our strengths, how we can take the things that bring us the most joy and… let that flow into our classrooms and what we do in the classrooms,” Clark-Goff said.
“I’m a firm believer, and I think many are, of [having] a good process and then [trusting] the process, and I think we have a really good process here,” Villegas said. “So I think in trusting the process, the good process that we have, I think, what will emerge are the things that people genuinely care about.”
“I think that Baylor bringing Primera to lead a chapel service is another sign of Baylor bringing awareness and trying to create an agenda for what it means for a university in Texas to have such a small percentage of Latino and Latina faculty,” Cardoza-Orlandi said. “I think that Baylor has become aware that should not be the case.”
Riley said that while medications for ADHD do improve academic importance, in a society where academic performance is highly correlated with professional success and self-esteem, he chooses to see the strengths of those with ADHD.
An all-day pop-up thrift store will take place Nov. 1 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fountain Mall as Baylor’s chapter of the International Justice Mission hosts Threads, their annual fundraiser. All the money raised will be donated to IJM’s mission, and $5000 funds an entire rescue mission from beginning to end.
The ultimate goal is to ensure that students, faculty and staff feel like they belong and have a trusted community, Cain-Darough said. If they don’t feel that sense of belonging, they have no reason to stay, and the same is true for everyone on the Baylor campus.
Bozarth said the Pet Partners of Central Texas organization is as involved in the community as they can be, and she sees a positive effect when her therapy dog, Bentley, interacts with Baylor students. She said students will often smile and enjoy the dog’s company, but they are often under the impression the animal cannot be petted.
“We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t enjoy helping students,” Schuetz said. “You’re going to reach that point where you’re going to have something that you’re working on where you’re going to need our help, and we’re here. And we’re willing to help.”
“We are able to tell the truth about our history, where we come from, and where we might be going,” Garrett said. “And it feels to me like Professor Reddie coming this fall could be a really important piece of Baylor’s continuing to reckon with our slaveholding past with racism and with the idea of repair and how we might move forward together.”
“There’s just one race, the human race. And that race is multiple, diverse, varied and concrete, yet one,” Copeland said.
Quinene joined Baylor from UT Health San Antonio’s Master of Physician Assistant Studies program, where she served as the Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator since 2015. Her experience and expertise spread far and wide as a licensed physician assistant with experience in various fields, including traumatic brain injury.
After almost four hours of deliberation Monday afternoon, the jury has yet to reach a verdict in the Title IX and negligence trial brought by former Baylor student Dolores Lozano against the university.
“It’s going to be an incredibly fun event. It’ll be incredibly unique, and I also feel like it’s fantastic for students to attend and support the Ronald McDonald House Charities, just because it’s really important, at least to me, to keep those families together,” Hoyt said.
“Last week and the week before, there were eight [flu cases] … so it’s only a 2% positivity rate,” Dr. Sharon Stern, Health Services medical director, said. “We have a trickle of cases right now, we’re not overwhelmed with numbers of flu.”
Burleson said that in a time of intercession for those involved in a conflict, one must lay down one’s own burden and be willing to be burdened for others, and the prayer was an opportunity for the Baylor community to take on the burden of the Israeli and Palestinian people.
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Jurors heard from former Baylor football player Devin Chafin Wednesday as the husband and father of two denied allegations that he ever physically assaulted his ex-girlfriend, former Baylor student Dolores Lozano. Chafin was not present in the courtroom, and his testimony was played via a previously recorded video deposition.
Five faculty members spoke in a Baylor-hosted discussion on Israel and Palestine Wednesday to help students, faculty and staff “learn and understand the political, historical, and religious context to the war now being waged,” according to the Office of the President.
“One of the aspects that I think I’m personally most excited for is a trophy. So the winner of the game will be getting a trophy. And this is to be a traveling trophy that goes back and forth between the two institutions, whoever wins that year,” Davis said.
Former Baylor student Dolores Lozano took the stand Tuesday to detail three alleged incidents of physical assault by her ex-boyfriend, former Baylor football player Devin Chafin. More than nine years later, she said she still suffers from PTSD, depression and anxiety related to the domestic violence.
“Tenderness is not just something we embody for others; it is something that we embody for ourselves, especially as we attempt to live, thrive, and work for justice under the siege of terror,” Walker-Barnes said.
“The people in administration have a great sense of the big picture and the broader environment, right? But in order to adjust and adapt and steer the university proverbial ship in the right direction, they need line of sight information,” Chevis said. “Unless we speak into that … unless they hear from us about what we’re experiencing, they may make decisions that they think are in the best interest of Baylor, but that aren’t going to play out well.”
Testimony began Monday in the Title IX and negligence lawsuit filed by former Baylor student Dolores Lozano against the university, former head football coach Art Briles and former athletic director Ian McCaw. Much of the testimony centered on the history of Baylor’s sexual assault scandal and Title IX policies.
“You know, it’s not every day that we get a chance to rededicate a street,” Cooper III said. “And our prayer is that of the hundreds of people who will drive this way, pass by this sign, will look up and say, ‘Who was this man?'”
The idea first came from a partnership called the Big 12 Food Pantry Alliance, which seeks to fight food insecurity among the colleges in the Big 12 Conference. Texas Tech mostly accepted monetary donations, and Baylor’s food pantry received major support from students.
“I think that that’s really the idea is the hope is that this attention on the FAFSA field makes the FAFSA feel more like a partner and achieving your degree instead of a roadblock and achieving your degree, and that’s really what we’re trying to do,” Anderson said.
Death tolls continue to rise in Israel and Palestine after Hamas — the governing Palestinian body in the Gaza Strip — launched a surprise attack on Israel Saturday. In retaliation, Israel sent air strikes to the Gaza Strip Monday.
Jury selection will take place Friday in a Title IX and negligence lawsuit filed by a former Baylor student against the university, former head football coach Art Briles and former athletic director Ian McCaw. Following jury selection, the case will be tried in Waco’s U.S. District Court starting Oct. 16.
Coming all the way from Yale University, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience Dr. Francesca Penner joined the department this fall and is bringing research about parent-child relationships and mental health to Baylor.
