Browsing: Ken Starr

It was a dream trip, a $100 dream trip, television commentators said during Baylor’s NCAA tournament game against Xavier. The journey didn’t end in storybook fashion, but the general consensus among Baylor students who traveled to Atlanta was loud and clear: Baylor did the right thing.

Army ROTC defeated Air Force ROTC Wednesday to win the President’s Cup, a highly coveted trophy awarded to the winner of a series of grueling competitive events.

I want to thank the Lariat’s Rob Bradfield for his well-written opinion piece in yesterday’s paper. While it was principally composed of misinformation, unfounded accusations and the sort of tinfoil hat theories generally reserved for Dan Brown novels, it does raise questions about some important issues.

The President’s Scholarship Initiative has reached $43 million and is on track to reach its goal of $100 million by May 2013, Ali Abercrombie, assistant vice president and campaign director, said.

Baylor officials released on Dec. 12 the first public draft of the university’s next strategic plan, which will carry the university beyond the Baylor 2012 vision while reaffirming many of the expiring plan’s goals for university development.

For the third time this semester, the who’s who of Baylor student leaders and administrators gathered to dine, mingle, and learn from the successes of a Baylor alumnus.

Members of the Baylor community poured into a packed Waco Hall on Wednesday to hear former U.S. secretary of state Dr. Condoleezza Rice discuss U.S. foreign policy issues and her new book with Baylor President Ken Starr.

Former United States secretary of state and national security adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice will join Baylor President Ken Starr at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Waco Hall to talk about her new book and discuss her time working in President George W. Bush’s administration.

Chris August and Sidewalk Prophets will perform at 7:30 today on Fountain Mall as a part of Baylor’s Homecoming worship service, but their performances will also be the conclusion of another celebration, the 60th anniversary of Word Records, a company started by a Baylor student.

In the book “WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency,” Micah L. Sifry chronicles the history of the modern transparency movement, pointing out that it has had proponents and detractors on both sides of the aisle. That’s despite the fact that pretty much everyone can agree that a more transparent government is something that would benefit all members of society.

A group of distinguished panelists gathered today at the Shelia and Walter Umphrey Law Center and discussed access to information by both the media and general public and transparency within the government.

In addition to Baylor’s newest physicist Dr. Marlan Scully this week, the university announced a new partnership with influential social theorist Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, who will give her first lecture today as a Baylor faculty member and visiting distinguished professor of religion and public life.

Trannie Stevens always had her eye on partnering with Uproar Records. Now, she grew up in Waco, and the freshman has watched the student-run record label on Baylor’s campus since its early beginnings a few years ago.

Baylor President Ken Starr will sign an agreement today to approve the creation of a program allowing a small group of students to jointly enroll at Baylor and McLennan Community College with the opportunity to graduate with a Baylor degree.

The Baptist General Convention of Texas executive board voted Tuesday to recommend a budget proposal that would slash undergraduate funding for Baylor by 51.7 percent while also approving a renegotiated special agreement between the two institutions.

Three-hundred seventy two foreign nationals, 246 victims on four planes, 2,606 casualties in the North and South towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. These are the casualties of Sept. 11 that will never be forgotten, and Friday’s “Tribute to Fallen Heroes” honored everyone of them.