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Starr calls Baylor Nation to support $100 million student scholarship initiative

…ot for scholarships, I never would have been able to attend Baylor; my back-up plans included a local community college and another university about 90 miles down I-35. Thankfully, I was offered scholarships to BU, and I am today a proud Baylor Bear. And I’m not the only one; click here to read more stories from Baylor students and alumni about how scholarships and the Baylor experience they afforded have impacted not only individual lives but the…

Ceremony Friday highlights week of events around Starr’s inauguration

…ntributing editor Stuart Taylor. (The symposium will also be streamed live online.) Breakout sessions will follow during the lunch hour, as Baylor law professor David Guinn, JD ’63, BA ’97, and attorney David Guinn Jr., BA ’88, JD ’89, discuss “Packing Heat and the Second Amendment,” while Baylor law professor Michelle Saenz-Rodriguez looks at “Immigration in America — Who’s Really in Charge.” (The topics of both breakout sessions and the symposiu…

From David Crowder’s ‘Rise Up’ to the Baylor fight song of 70 years ago

…x College Sports; if you don’t have that channel, there’s always the Baylor-ISP Sports Network. After listening to David Crowder’s rockin’ new “Rise Up” anthem all week (thanks for the free download, David!), we thought we’d go old school today for Parents Weekend (no offense, parents). Before “Old Fite” came along (you can download that, too), there was “Bear Down Baylor Bears,” which made its debut on a national NBC radio broadcast in 1940. Desp…

Zipcars on Baylor campus offer an alternative for students without cars

During the spring of my sophomore year, the motor in my 11-year-old Chevy Blazer died as I drove down I-35 and had to be replaced. The major overhaul took a week, during which time I had to scramble and rely on friends for rides to work, the store, etc. (Thanks again, Tim!) An option like the Zipcar would have made my life far easier back then. A new program this fall, the Zipcars now available on the Baylor campus allow faculty, students and sta…

More tickets to be released for Homecoming Pigskin performances

…the Homecoming football game vs. Kansas State and your Homecoming hoodie, t-shirt and other gear online at the same site.) After the second wave of tickets are all sold, that’s it! So make your plans now to see the best of All University Sing during Homecoming 2010 (Oct. 21-23). As a teaser, here’s a glimpse at what you’ll see at Pigskin this year. (Of course, as with most live acts, no YouTube video can capture the performance perfectly — you’ll…

Baylor fans use Twitter to ‘sic ’em’ from all over the globe

…sponses flooded in. Here are just a few of our favorite tweets: “listening online from Boise, Idaho. Sic em! Fly fishing until kickoff!” (@andykuchera) “green and gold in Oxford, MS. Sic em > hotty toddy” (@adam_vaughn) “The District of Columbia is rocking its @baylorproud as we have a screen now dedicated and tuned on to the game feed on in the White House!” (@adamrenz) “I’m @baylorproud in Big Orange Country today! No burnt orange to be found. S…

Four Bears on watch lists for national football honors entering 2010

…en annually to the top receiver in the country. Wright was also named first-team all-Big 12 by Athlon and Blue Ribbon. After just two years, he is already among the Bears’ all-time leaders in career receptions (tied for eighth) and receiving yards (12th). Senior Danny Watkins made the watch list for the Rotary Lombardi Award, which recognizes the top lineman in college football. The native of British Columbia was already the No. 4 pick in this yea…

Baylor receives high marks in new rankings from multiple sources

…lor ranks fifth, behind those two plus Rice (17) and SMU (56). TCU (99), UT-Dallas (143) and Texas Tech (159) round out the state’s tier-one national universities, as categorized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Two of the individual programs ranked this year remained in the nation’s top 20. (U.S.News does not rank every program every year.) Baylor’s undergraduate engineering program moved up to No. 11 among schools whic…

Early Move-In volunteers help international students settle in at Baylor

…onal students for a few days before school starts. And the extra attention doesn’t end there. President Ken Starr will host a dinner later this month at the Bobo Spiritual Life Center to welcome the furthest-traveling Bears to campus, and the Center for International Education will coordinate events throughout the semester that bring international and American students together for sporting events, trips to other cities and more. Sic ’em, internat…

Homecoming, Parents Weekend tickets on sale now!

…lable next month after students are back on campus, but why wait? Insure you’ve got seats to the performance(s) you wish to see now! Visit www.baylor.edu/homecoming/buy and/or www.baylor.edu/parentsweekend/buy to place your order. Get your tickets now! Sic ’em, Bears!…