Guys talk about sports and girls talk about boys. Some things about college culture are the same wherever you go – even 7,000 miles away. “College students make some incredible cross-cultural missionaries. You could take a college student and drop them on a campus almost anywhere and the country’s culture might be different but it’s …
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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGnvjqpQvo[/embedyt] Video by Olivia Bragg It’s not every day that two American black bears have a university-wide birthday party. Lady and Joy turned 18 and 19 this week, the same weekend as the university they mascot for turned 175. And to celebrate, Baylor threw a party with ice cream, photo ops and free shirts. …
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxLF2XAAeWQ[/embedyt] Video and photo by Olivia Bragg. I don’t like Christmas music. My friends tease me about it, but I only like three songs: “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by Penny and Sparrow, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey and “Baby It’s Cold Outside” by Michael Bublé and Idina …
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Photos and video by Olivia Bragg [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqd0qOmTp34[/embedyt] [envira-gallery id=”10156″] Besides Christmas on 5th finally falling on the 5th of December, this annual event hosted on Baylor’s campus was a continuation of tradition. Christmas on 5th is more than an excuse for couples to walk around campus under the string lights. It’s a platform for …
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When Jim Bryson got fired from his marketing research job two years after he graduated Baylor (’83), he didn’t know what he’d do. But he couldn’t have guessed that 33 years later, he would be married with four kids – three adopted from Russia and one that doctors told him would be impossible. Or that …
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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mnrHozz2g[/embedyt] Sometimes God helps the stupid. Denitia Blount’s business is more than a local Waco juice store. It’s a ministry. Oh My Juice (OMJ) was birthed out of a car crash, pain and sickness. Following a back-fusion surgery, a minor accident threw Blount into pain every day for five years. “I never experienced …
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Photos by Olivia Bragg and Andi Risk It’s not often that you find Waldo and Nemo in the same place. Or Brooklyn and Bailey separated. Or find the secret service standing stoically in the student section. But for Baylor’s game against West Virginia, it wasn’t hard to find lots of things – including clever costumes …
I just want Mickey D’s. Brothers-turned-bandmates Caleb and Will Chapman aren’t exempt from feeling “hangry” – even if they are onstage in front of a packed audience at Common Grounds. Nashville-based indie/rock band Colony House has come a long way since their first show outside Tennessee. Caleb and Will reminisce when half a decade ago, …
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Baylor didn’t need 400,000 roaring fans. It just needed 13 students. A few things happened in 1969. Apollo 11 sent Neil Armstrong to the moon. Almost half a million concert groupies sang their hearts out at Woodstock in New York. And more relevantly, Kent State University students rioted the Vietnam War, resulting in unrest on …
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[envira-gallery id=”9503″] Maybe it was meeting his roommate’s ex-girlfriend, who would later be his wife. Or maybe it was his slew of campus jobs – from Penland cafeteria aid to business school teaching assistant. Or maybe it was finally having a kid start and finish at his favorite school. But Alumnus Todd Bragg (’84) loves Baylor. …
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