{"id":17406,"date":"2015-11-03T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=17406"},"modified":"2015-11-10T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T14:51:06","slug":"baylor-student-newspaper-celebrates-its-115th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/11\/baylor-student-newspaper-celebrates-its-115th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor student newspaper celebrates its 115th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17408\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lariat115-nov15.jpg\" alt=\"The Varsity Lariat\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lariat115-nov15.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lariat115-nov15-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year was 1900. Baylor was just 55 years old; even its earliest\u00a0graduates were still around to visit their alma mater. The university was still relatively new\u00a0to Waco, and newer still to\u00a0the increasingly popular sport of \u201cfoot ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the university grew, students, faculty and alumni wanted\u00a0reliable campus news. Thus, on Nov. 8, 1900, <em>The Varsity Lariat<\/em> was born. <strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/jonangel\/docs\/11081900small\/1?e=2049320\/30715442\" target=\"_blank\">You can read that first issue in its entirety here<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Replacing <em>The Baylor Weekly Leaf<\/em>, whose editor is credited with \u201ctaking the initiative\u201d of reporting Baylor news, the <em>Lariat<\/em> was at its outset dedicated to being \u201ca true index of the life and progress of Baylor.\u201d The very first issue included much of the content you\u2019ll still find in today\u2019s paper: results from a\u00a0recent football game (an 11-0 Baylor win over\u00a0Austin College), information on student organizations\u00a0(including\u00a0Glee Club and Orchestra), and advertisements for Waco businesses (men\u2019s suits at Sanger Bros. started at just $12.50).<\/p>\n<p>The dedication and initiative of the paper\u2019s founding staff has carried on over the years. Six\u00a0times in the last eight years (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 &amp; 2014), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/baylorlariat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Baylor Lariat<\/a><\/em> has been named the best student newspaper in Texas by the Houston Press Club, and in 2010, the\u00a0Associated Press Managing Editors of Texas named the <em>Lariat<\/em> the Collegiate Newspaper of the Year. &#8220;Where other student newspapers rely heavily &#8212; too heavily &#8212; on covering\u00a0the latest speakers on campus and the latest pronouncements from the\u00a0administration, this fine [<em>Lariat<\/em>] staff goes after real news with gusto,&#8221;\u00a0said the Houston Press Club in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Lariat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year was 1900. Baylor was just 55 years old; even its earliest\u00a0graduates were still around to visit their alma mater. The university was still relatively new\u00a0to Waco, and newer still to\u00a0the increasingly popular sport of \u201cfoot ball.\u201d As the university grew, students, faculty and alumni wanted\u00a0reliable campus news. Thus, on Nov. 8, 1900, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}