…Kentucky on Sunday in the Elite Eight. [AVAILABLE: Baylor 2012 Sweet 16 t-shirts and other Bears and Lady Bears gear from the Baylor Bookstore] In the women’s bracket, the No. 1-seeded Lady Bears won their first-round match-up versus UC-Santa Barbara on Sunday, 81-40, and now will face No. 9 seed Florida Tuesday night (6 p.m. CT, ESPN2) for the right to move on to the Sweet 16. Sic ’em, Baylor basketball!…
…nge program. In the past decade, the number of international opportunities available to Baylor students has nearly doubled, from 50 in 2001 to around 100 the last several years. Participation in study abroad programs has fluctuated with the economy, but overall is up 35 percent from 2001 to 2010 and peaked at 1,053 students in 2007. And that doesn’t even include the hundreds of students who have gone overseas on university-sponsored mission trips….
…uggles, relationship issues, and all the other ups and downs that 18- to 22-year-olds can experience. Today, each of Baylor’s 12 residence halls includes a resident chaplain who is given a stipend and an apartment in the hall. In turn, the seminary students serve that hall’s students in a role somewhere between pastor, parent, friend and older sibling. That may mean leading Bible studies, talking faith over coffee, or helping students deal with tr…
…or women’s basketball team. The Lady Bears defeated Texas Tuesday night, 80-59, to improve to 28-0 on the season and clinch the 2011-12 Big 12 championship outright. The title comes after Baylor won both the Big 12 regular season and tournament championships last year en route to the Elite Eight. [The official 2012 Lady Bears Big 12 Champs t-shirt, seen at right, is now available from the Baylor Bookstore.] The numbers are incredible. Entering ton…
…rrett Browning and Robert Browning, owned and housed at Wellesley, are now available for viewing online (along with some 800+ other Browning letters owned by BU) through Baylor Libraries’ digital collection. An Associated Press story on the project was carried by more than 400 media outlets worldwide, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post (with a great video), CBS News, ABC News, NPR, CBC-TV (Canada), Th…
…erform the national anthem before Saturday’s game vs. Texas A&M. The record-tying crowd of 10,627 got two shows for the price of one, enjoying Adkins’ excellent rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before watching the Lady Bears pound A&M 71-48 and send the Aggies back to College Station for the final time having lost nine of their last 10 games to Baylor. Adkins said after the game that he hopes to catch the Lady Bears again at the Big 12 Tour…
…ated crowd of 20,000 students and Waco residents watched as it took two-and-a-half hours to put out the flame; it would be another year before the heavily damaged building was rebuilt. [SEE: The original Baylor Lariat account of the fire || Texas Collection photos of the fire and its aftermath] Chapel services never returned to Carroll Library, moving first to a temporary construction and then to the newly built Waco Hall when it opened in 1930. I…
…ed his third CD, A Beautiful Life, under the artist name Tidewater. The one-man band recorded a 10-song album in 2010 and followed it up with a three-song EP last year and now this new three-song release. (Read about Baylor’s impact on Allen — including his switching majors from music to film and digital media — in this Lariat article.) And now this week, Josh Grider, BA ’02, released the result of his winning the first-ever “Live at Billy Bob’s”…
…aculty/staff, parents and friends of the university — are encouraged to go online and share any final thoughts on the plan between now and the end of March. [READ & RESPOND: Click here to review the draft of Baylor’s new strategic plan and to share feedback before the March 31 deadline.] Baylor administrators, led by Provost Elizabeth Davis, BBA ’84, will review any feedback received and make last-minute tweaks to the plan in time to present it to…
…’01, has released her debut album, “Unshakeable.” A six-song EP, it is now available for download on iTunes and for purchase at lauracookseymusic.com. Cooksey’s songs range from the upbeat, pop-style “By Faith,” to the familiar worship track “Hosanna,” to the title anthem “Unshakeable.” Since graduating from Baylor’s School of Music, Cooksey has performed background vocals for Christian artists like Nicole C. Mullen, Natalie Grant and Mandisa and…
