When Matt Rhule arrived in Waco last December as Baylor’s new head football coach, the program was, to put it charitably, under siege thanks to a sexual-assault scandal. Rhule rolled up his sleeves and got to work, focusing on offering players some much-needed stability and on offering members of the Baylor Family hope for the […]
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Before I begin this column and talk about my hope, I must acknowledge the strong women who have come forward about their experiences with sexual assault at Baylor and at other universities and have persevered even when they might have lost hope. They are examples of inner toughness and courage. Their strength inspires my hope.
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The Baylor Line Foundation announced today that it has awarded $2,000 Legacy Scholarships to 45 Baylor students and incoming freshmen – all of them the children and grandchildren of Baylor alumni. “The review committee was very impressed with the caliber of the applicants and wished we could have awarded many more,” said BLF Executive Director
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Despite pouring rain on a chilly November day, more than 1,200 Baylor students and staff lined up outside Moody Library and patiently waited their turn to fill bags with 47,000 pounds of watermelon, grapefruit, eggs, breads, pastries, and other foods. Most left drenched but loaded down with food that would refill empty refrigerators in dorm
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Giancarlo Guerrero ’91 was part of a pipeline of music students who came to Baylor from Costa Rica in the 1980s through the efforts of the late Dr. Larry Vanlandingham (professor emeritus of Percussion) and donors from the Baylor School of Music. As music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony — and his guest
Despite pouring rain on a chilly November day, more than 1,200 Baylor students and staff lined up outside Moody Library and patiently waited their turn to fill bags with 47,000 pounds of watermelon, grapefruit, eggs, breads, pastries, and other foods. Most left drenched but loaded down with food that would refill empty refrigerators in off-campus
As a Baylor freshman who started taking in the Summer semester right after his 1993 graduation from high school, Randy Evans lived off-campus and found himself cooking for his roommates. As he attended classes, the VCR in his apartment worked overtime recording cooking shows at a time when there was no Food Network. His show
President John F. Kennedy, who was born 100 years ago in May, laid the foundation for the Peace Corps with an impromptu, post-midnight presidential campaign speech at the University of Michigan in October 1960, when he challenged students to consider spending at least part of their lives helping the poor overseas. “Americans across the political
Baptist Enrollment at Baylor for the 2016-17 school year slipped below 30 percent for the first time since the university began tracking the statistic. Baptist enrollment for the current school year was 4,832 )28.8 percent), the fourth straight year the number was below 5,000 despite an overall increase in enrollment numbers to 16,959, according to
Michael Stegemoller, the chair of the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate department, will be taking over Bill Petty’s wildly popular Entrepreneurial Finance course following Petty’s retirement in May. The Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was scheduled to be part of the Great Classes feature that starts on page 42, had been Dr. Petty’s sincere 1990. Over
