Baylor’s campus was put on lockdown at 11:50 a.m. on Thursday due to a shelter-in-place alert after a threat on campus. Most students were notified about the lockdown, but multiple students mentioned not receiving the message, and Line Camp attendees did not have their phones.
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Baylor University lifted a one-hour shelter in place alert following a campus-wide shutdown where multiple police agencies pursued three robbery suspects who fled from 8th Street and Bagby Avenue after a traffic stop Thursday afternoon.
Nguyen said that Orientation and Line Camp is important to Baylor’s overall community, since it allows new students to ease their nerves about either going to college for the first time or starting at Baylor.
Daniel Haddad, associate director for orientation programs, said ongoing construction at Draper Academic Building impacted the available spaces for the sessions. Therefore, the second day of orientation will take place exclusively in the Welcome Center.
There were good parts of Line Camp, such as the friends I made and the knowledge I left with. It also helped familiarize me with the campus and nearby areas. However, between the emotional rollercoaster and the sleep deprivation, it was overbearing and a bit peculiar at times.
By the time you get to college, you’ve already heard all the typical advice like ‘don’t bring your whole wardrobe’ or ‘don’t skip class.’ But as the years go on, there are plenty of lessons you learn along the way. Here’s what members of the Editorial Board wish we had known about college.
After incoming freshmen are notified of their acceptance to Baylor, they have until May 1 to submit their deposit. The Golden Wave Band uses the few weeks between the deposit deadline and the start of freshman advising in early June to reach out to any committed freshmen who may have band experience in their background.
In this piece, I begin my ranking of Baylor football’s biggest rivals among the Big 12 conference.
Baylor students were able to meet athletes and get autographs from their favorite players in the annual Meet the Bears event.
With the real world snarling and licking its chops like Fluffy the three-headed dog and eyeing the fresh meat that is Chris Derrett, I feel it’s my duty to take a not-so-introspective, not-super-serious look at my Baylor career.
Many school traditions start freshman year at Baylor, such as Line Camp, Welcome Week, learning the stories of the Immortal Ten and running the Baylor Line with a line jersey and slime cap. Some traditions, however, start long before students even think about applying to college. Some Baylor students are born into Baylor families.
This summer Baylor will offer a specialty line camp specifically designed with Honors College members in mind. The new line camp, which is similar to the already established engineering and computer science specialty camp, will overlap with regular summer line camp sessions but will split the honors session students from the rest of the line camp participants.
Baylor New Student Programs will offer an Honors Program Line Camp session for the first time this summer. Emily Sandvall, assistant director for new student programs, is working with the Honors Program to coordinate the specialty line camp session.