It was a glorious, picture-perfect night for Willie Nelson’s triumphant return to Baylor University. Not that Willie has ever really been away. He may have resettled in Austin, but his roots and heart are still in the blackland prairie soil of Central Texas — nourished in the rich loam of countless honky-tonks and SPJST halls. […]
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When LGBTQ+ students organized a support group called Baylor Freedom in 2002, Baylor University responded by reaffirming its student sexual conduct policy. Later the same year, the university released its first official public statement on human sexuality – a statement that continues to affect the culture and administration today. “The question is what’s right, not
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Editor’s Note: For now over 75 years, The Baylor Line has been publishing vivid storytelling from across the Baylor Family. I don’t think our archives full of deep, inspirational features should live solely on shelves, so we are bringing them back to life in BL Classics. In this September-October 1991 article, alumni spanning the decades recall
Football Traffic Ahh… the most fun and frustrating part of the fall… football! Baylor football season means tradition, tailgates, and a whole bunch of traffic. Today, the season kicks off at 7 p.m. against Auburn. A Friday night game comes with a few complications, namely traffic. This impacts current students as well as classes will
New Baylor Bears on the Block As we enter the school year and the weather hits its peak heat – we welcome in BU’29. This summer at Line Camp, the newest bears on the block learned a song that represents blessing for their future at Baylor – declaring it as their class anthem. Current students
Welcome to ‘Episode 13’ of The Baylor Line’s flagship podcast, The Green Room. In this episode, host Jonathon Platt and Lisa Hanna, Head of Public Affairs and Policy Communications at Delta Air Lines, trace a career that began in uncertainty and evolved into a life of purpose and impact. By her senior year of college, Lisa
Carroll “CD” Dawson, former Baylor men’s basketball player and coach and Houston Rockets general manager, died on September 9 at 86 years old, leaving behind a decades-long legacy in men’s basketball. “The Rockets family mourns the loss of beloved former coach and general manager Carroll Dawson, affectionately known as CD,” the Rockets said in a
Truly, it’s lonely on campus. “Across the university, students, faculty, and staff report low attendance, low traffic, and low morale, even as Baylor’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been much more thorough and careful than other universities. This is a difficult time for everyone – especially for an administration working hard to balance personal
There is a story of Michael Phelps in which a sports journalist was asking him why he just seemed to be staring off in space before this race. The reporter asked, “Are you rehearsing how you are going to finish?” Phelps said, “No. I’m rehearsing every single stroke.” High performers know the importance of this
Baylor University is where I learned to be Black. In 2012, I found myself in the six percent of Black students in a sea of more than 15,000. Having avoided a reckoning with my own skin prior to setting foot on campus as a freshman, I was almost immediately blindsided by my own identity. Blackness
