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Nov
19
2009

Law students win moot court competition for fourth straight year

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Academics, Honors, Student life

Jennifer Salim and Wes LeRouaxIf practice makes perfect, then Baylor Law students are clearly well on their way to starting excellent careers.

For the fourth straight year (and the seventh time in 12 years), a team of Baylor Law School students won first place at the annual Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition. The team of Jennifer Salim and Wes LeRouax (pictured) claimed top honors at the event, in which students take place in simulated court proceedings.

In addition to winning the event, Salim and LeRouax were each recognized among the competition’s top speakers, finishing second and third, respectively. Their brief also won second place honors. Two other Baylor teams also performed well, with one pair reaching the semifinals and another reaching the quarterfinals.

Sic ’em, Baylor Law!

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Nov
17
2009

Current shuttle mission carries Baylor into space

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Alumni, Just for Fun, Student life

Col. Charles HobaughIt’s not unusual for Baylor administrators to receive requests from parents. It is unusual when that request is for a Baylor item that the parent — in this case, Col. Charles Hobaugh, commander of space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-129 mission — can take into space.

Hobaugh (pictured) is the father of Baylor junior Stephanie Hobaugh, who naturally missed classes yesterday to watch the shuttle’s launch from Cape Canaveral. Hobaugh’s wife contacted Baylor in August on her husband’s behalf to see if he could take anything into space to represent his daughter’s school. The University naturally provided a Baylor flag that will be returned after the mission and likely displayed in Baylor’s visitor’s center.

This isn’t the first time Baylor has been represented in space, either. Last fall, the shuttle crew awoke one morning to the song “You Are Here” by Dutton, a band comprised largely of Baylor alumni.

Sic ’em, space shuttle astronauts!

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Nov
16
2009

Freshman defeated rare cancer to join sisters at Baylor

Posted by admin in Alumni, Just for Fun, Student life

Cody NovakIn February, the Dallas Morning News profiled high school senior Cody Novak as his basketball team prepared for the state semifinals. Novak, however, was sidelined in the midst of fighting a rare, aggressive form of cancer that developed into a grapefruit-sized tumor on his thigh and threatened to take not only his basketball career, but his life.

Nine months later, Cody — now a freshman business major at Baylor — is, amazingly, cancer-free. Multiple rounds of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation, coupled with the Novak family’s faith and sense of humor, helped Cody regain his health in time to join his sisters (senior Casey and sophomore Courtney) at Baylor this fall.

Cody’s mother Kristi, BS ‘81, says the goal of following his sisters to Baylor was an incentive for Cody throughout the nasty treatments. Now he’s got bigger plans: “When I first got diagnosed, I got this huge realm of peace. I realized there’s a reason for this, and you need to use this as a platform. My dad always told me a smile could make a difference in someone’s day.”

Sic ’em, Cody and the Novak family!

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Nov
11
2009

Former Kazakhstan orphan thankful to be a Baylor freshman

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Student life

Angela WeberIn 2002, Anzhela Anatolevna Tesluk was an 11-year-old orphan in Kazakhstan, with no family and no hope for the future. Today, following a series of obstacles that could have easily derailed her dreams and life, she’s a freshman at Baylor thankful for the opportunity she’s enjoying.

After her mother’s death seven years ago, Anzhela spent four years in an orphanage before being adopted by a North Carolina family. There, she adoped an American name — Angela Weber — but things never really worked with her adopted family, who she says struggled to accept who she was. Weber eventually was sent to the Texas Baptist Children’s Home in Round Rock and then to a Montana ranch for Russian adoptees before finally setting out on her own through a Job Corps training program. She earned her GED, and with help from a Round Rock family who took her in and a scholarship from the Children at Heart Foundation, she was able to enroll at Baylor this fall. (KWTX-TV relays her story in this video feature.)

A freshman majoring in international studies, Weber may one day return to Kazakhstan to help others who have the same needs she once did. For now, though, she’s happy to be right where she is — here at Baylor. “Every morning when I walk to class, I look up at all the beautiful buildings and thank God that I made it here,” she says.

Sic ’em, Angela!

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Nov
4
2009

Foreign language leads to love for Baylor couple

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Alumni, Just for Fun, Student life

Philipp Rossback and Kimberly LoydFrench is often referred to as “the language of love,” but for Baylor graduates Philipp Rossbach and Kimberly Loyd, it was a German class at Baylor that sparked their romance.

As students, Philipp (BBA ‘05, MAc ‘05) and Kimberly (BS ‘06) met in the German lounge on the second floor of Old Main in September 2002. Kimberly was taking German classes and needed a tutor; Philipp, a native speaker, fit the bill.

Fast forward to September 2009… During a campus visit, the couple stopped by that same room where their relationship began seven years earlier; a few minutes later, Philipp proposed to Kimberly just outside Old Main. Happily, she said yes! The couple, now living in Dallas, will be married next July.

Sic ’em, Philipp and Kimberly!

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Oct
30
2009

Blood drive honors nursing school’s 100th birthday

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Academics, Student life

100 Pints For 100 Years

As part of the 100th birthday celebration for Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing, pre-nursing students in the National Student Nurses’ Association partnered with Alpha Phi Omega in a blood drive earlier this month. Their goal: to raise 100 pints of blood in honor of the nursing school’s 100-year history.

Faculty, staff, students and other volunteers came through in a big way; together, the effort collected 614 pints of blood — six times the group’s goal! What a tremendous boost to local blood banks — a great gift to the Waco community.

Sic ’em, Baylor student nurses!

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Oct
27
2009

A look back at Homecoming 2009

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Alumni, Photo Galleries, Student life

Homecoming 2009Hopefully you were among the thousands of Baylor alums who were able to make it back this weekend for the University’s 100th annual Homecoming. Campus (and, indeed, all of Waco) swarmed with activity as Bears past, present and future enjoyed all the usual events, from Pigskin to Bonfire to the Homecoming Parade to the football game, with plenty of other gatherings sprinkled in between.

We’ve rounded up a slideshow of our favorite photos from Homecoming 2009; if that’s not enough, the Waco Tribune-Herald has even more photos for you here, here, here and here. And you’ll definitely want to watch Baylor Photography’s two-minute time-lapse recap of the weekend here.

Sic ’em, Baylor Bears of all generations!

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Oct
21
2009

Behind-the-scenes efforts make Homecoming an annual success

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Alumni, Student life

Homecoming bonfireAs we approach Baylor Homecoming’s 100th anniversary, it would be easy to assume that an event as long-running as this just happens each year, without thinking about all the work that goes on behind the scenes to provide alumni, students and others the first-class events and activities that take place each fall — most notably the Pep Rally/Bonfire and the Homecoming Parade (still the nation’s oldest and longest — watch online if you can’t make it out). But someone has to be working to prepare for the thousands of alumni who will descend on campus this weekend, and for these centerpiece activities and more, that someone is the students who make up Baylor’s Chamber of Commerce.

As a student, all I knew about Chamber was that they took care of Baylor’s live bear mascots, but that’s just the beginning. Chamber heads up almost the entire Homecoming weekend, a responsibility they have been tasked with since the mid 1930s. During Homecoming, Chamber organizes not only the bonfire and parade but also Freshman Mass Meeting, the selection of the Homecoming Queen and the float building and judging process.

As if that weren’t enough, each year Chamber also organizes the thousands of freshmen and transfers in the Baylor Line, heads up both Parents Weekend and Winter Premiere for thousands more parents and prospective students, hosts Diadeloso for students and local alumni, and of course, runs the Bear Mascot Program, caring for Lady and Joy. Chamber members do all these things and more while maintaining success in the classroom.

Without much recognition, the 40 or so students who make up Chamber work industriously to make countless Baylor events special for all those involved.  “Anything for Baylor;” that’s Chamber’s motto, and the members live by it.

Sic ’em, Baylor Chamber!

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Oct
19
2009

Homecoming a chance to see what has been built upon Baylor’s foundations

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Alumni, Just for Fun, Student life

Samuel Palmer Brooks was president of Baylor in 1909, when Baylor held the first collegiate Homecoming. Twenty-two years later, he finished writing his Message to the Class of 1931 but passed away before he could share it at graduation. Now known as the Immortal Message, the same man who asked alumni 100 years ago to “lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again” urged the graduating seniors:

“Because of what Baylor has meant to you in the past, because of what she will mean to you in the future, oh, my students, have a care for her. Build upon the foundations here the great school of which I have dreamed, so that she may touch and mold the lives of future generations and help to fit them for life here and hereafter.”

One of the goals of Baylor Line Camp is to pass on to incoming freshmen Baylor’s traditions and heritage; this summer, the class of 2013 learned about part of that history — Brooks’ message — through this video, created by Line Camp’s student leaders.

During Homecoming, past alumni get to see how the torch they passed on in previous years continues to be carried by today’s students. Hope you can make it to Waco this weekend for Baylor’s 100th anniversary Homecoming!

Sic ’em, Bears!

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Oct
16
2009

Student’s work recognized by Menlo Park research institute

Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in Academics, Honors, Research, Student life

Video screenshotsApple introduced the computer mouse to the masses in 1984 with the introduction of the Macintosh computer, but the invention was first demonstrated nearly 20 years earlier at a conference in San Francisco by its inventor, Dr. Douglas Engelbart. His presentation — which also introduced such features as hyperlinks, e-mail and video conferencing — has come to be known as “the Mother of All Demos.”

Today, the Doug Engelbart Institute (DEI) continues to bring together researchers “to explore how we can dramatically boost our ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale collectively.” Baylor sophomore Philip Heinrich, a University Scholar from Kansas, was recently recognized by the DEI for a project he put together as a freshman last spring on Engelbart’s famous presentation for a class at Baylor.

Heinrich took audio from the speech and created animated video to match, using the video to briefly demonstrate the progress of computer screen interfaces since 1968 and to emphasize not just the technology presented but also Engelbart’s vision of collaborative progress through technology. The DEI was impressed enough to feature Heinrich’s work on their website this summer, even creating a new section of the site to feature student works in line with the institute’s mission.

Sic ’em, Philip!

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