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From Pain to Pineapples: How Denitia Blount pioneered Oh My Juice

[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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House Games: An inside look at Baylor’s Quidditch team

Campus, Profiles / By Carson Kent

Yes, Quidditch, the sport from the book and movie series Harry Potter. Club sports provide a route for athletic students to engage in the Baylor community in competition with each other and schools from around the country. The clubs range from familiar to foreign sports. But one club team on Baylor’s campus shines in its

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Quality Over Quantity

2 Comments / Profiles / By Andi Risk

Strolling down Austin Avenue, you can’t help but notice the neon sign that reads “cookies” and the sweet smell that quickly follows. Hanna Austin, a second semester junior at Baylor University, opened shop last summer when her original cookie recipe took Waco by storm. Bittersweet was founded from the quest to create the perfect chocolate

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The Real Fixer Upper: How Matt Rhule Resurrected Baylor Football

Profiles, Sports / By Cole Niles

Waco, Texas is known for a few things: A massive cult siege in the 1990’s, a wildly popular home improvement show on HGTV, and Baylor University. Driving around Waco, you see little to do with the first, and a lot to do with the second two. “Fixer Upper” is a show in which the undeniably

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Trust The Net: How Julie Copenhaver quit her job to photograph the world

Profiles / By Shelby Pipken

In 2017, Julie Copenhaver quit her stable job working at Baylor and decided to travel the world. She purchased a storage shed and packed up her life in Waco, the place she had called home since college, and traded in her life for a dream many would find daunting. The seed was planted at a

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New Podcast Introduces Grads To A Baylor They Never Knew

Profiles / By Sophia Alejandro

At the whiteboard, Jon is demanding answers. Six months ago, he came up with an idea: to tell the untold stories of Baylor, using a podcast. In the time that followed, Jonathon Platt, currently a journalism graduate student at Baylor, developed a team for this pursuit. I joined Behind The Bear in February 2017 as

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