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One of public television's most popular programs, "The McLaughlin Group," talked presidential politics Sept. 25 before a full house at Waco Hall.

Baylor University will hold a fall luncheon honoring the retired professors and administrators Tuesday, Sept. 26, on the fifth floor of the Cashion Building.

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, author of "Holy Hunger," will speak at 10 and 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, during Baylor University's Chapel at Waco Hall on campus.

The funeral for Baylor senior Viet Ha, who died Saturday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in front of Brooks Hall, will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Waco Hall.

DALLAS -- Using scalpels for the "ribbon-slicing" ceremony, Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing celebrated its recent completion of a $5 million facility expansion and renovation of the Harry W. Bass Academic Center during a dedication ceremony today at its Dallas campus.

One of the nations's leading experts on Mexican-American women's history will deliver the Baylor University Institute for Oral History's 30th Anniversary Lecture at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, in lecture hall 149 of the Lewis Art Building.

Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing will celebrate the school's recent completion of a $5 million facility expansion and renovation of the Harry W. Bass Academic Center during a dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at its Dallas campus, 3700 Worth St.

Baylor University's Board of Regents at its September meeting today set tuition and fees for the 2001-2002 academic year and adopted a resolution of support for the Baptist General Convention of Texas and its leadership.

Herbert M. Baum, chairman, president and CEO of The Dial Corporation, will discuss business management and marketing issues in a "global world" during a presentation at Baylor University on Sept. 28.

WACO, Texas -- What's in store for the Texas and national economy in 2001? Speakers will address this question at the annual Economic Forecast Conference sponsored by Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business and Waco Chamber of Commerce in the Brazos Room of Waco Convention Center on Thursday, Oct. 12.

The second of three concerts in the Baylor University Dean's Inaugural Concert Series will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday in Jones Concert Hall. Michael Haithcock, professor of conducting and director of bands, will conduct the wind ensemble, and the featured soloist will be baritone John Van Cura, professor of vocal studies.

More than 700 Boy Scouts, scoutmasters and merit badge counselors will be on the Baylor University campus on Saturday, Sept. 16, and again on Saturday, Sept. 30, for the Heart O' Texas Council Merit Badge College.

The Baylor Chamber of Commerce will hold a pep rally for the Baylor football, volleyball and soccer teams at 6:30 p.m. on Fifth Street between Penland and Martin Halls.

Baylor University President Dr. Robert B. Sloan Jr. will present 46 certificates to individuals being honored as "Alumni By Choice" during a breakfast at 7 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 16, in Kronzer Hall of the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center, 1212 S. University Parks Dr.

Baylor University's School of Music piano faculty members, Dr. Michael Ard and Dr. James Williams, will present a concert at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, in Roxy Grove Hall. This concert, titled "The Versatile Piano," also will feature soprano Kristen Sharpley and tenor Karim Sulayman.

Classical guitarist Christopher Parkening will present the first concert of the 2000-01 Distinguished Artist Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, in Jones Concert Hall at Baylor University.

Dr. Donald D. Schmeltekopf, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Baylor

Baylor University's bioinformatics and biochemistry programs have received a $500,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles for the purchase of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment that will enrich the two fastest growing undergraduate science majors at Baylor.

Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library (ABL) will celebrate Benefactor's Day, the 154th anniversary of the marriage of poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in the library.

Dr. Michael Jacobson, professor of saxophone in the Baylor University School of Music, will present a faculty recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in Meadows Recital Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.

A campus memorial service will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in Miller Chapel for Baylor freshman Jonathan Graham Hatfield.

For the second consecutive fall semester, Baylor University has enrolled more than 13,000 students, the largest number of students ever in the university's 155-year history.

Baylor University President Dr. Robert B. Sloan Jr. will speak at a noon lunch sponsored by the Baylor Alumni Association Friday, Sept. 15, at the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center, 1212 S. University Parks Dr.

An exhibit of works by printmakers Dennis Olson and John Whitesell will open tomorrow at Baylor University's Martin Museum of Art in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. The exhibit will run through Oct. 14.

The Association of Social Work Boards has announced that 100 percent of Baylor University social work students who took the 1999 American Social Work Boards (ASWB) have passed the licensing exam.

Dr. Stan C. Denman, assistant professor of theater arts at Baylor University, has been appointed acting chair of the department of theater arts at Baylor. He succeeds Bill Cook, who has returned to full-time teaching.

Dr. Charles M. Tolbert II has been named chair of the department of sociology and anthropology at Baylor University. He succeeds Dr. Harold Osborne, professor of sociology and Master Teacher, who is returning to full-time teaching.

Baylor University senior Rob Schickler will be among 15 college students who will compete in the JEOPARDY! College Championship this month at the University of Washington's Meany Hall in Seattle.

Business and engineering programs at Baylor University get high marks in the latest listing of America's Best Colleges, compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

Well-known marriage and family therapist Dr. Leslie Parrott will speak at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 4, at Chapel in Waco Hall.

Dallas 2012 Bid Committee officials announced today that they will propose Baylor University in Waco as the venue to host the prestigious Youth Camp to be held during the 2012 Olympic Games. The Dallas 2012 Board of Directors will consider all proposed venues for the bid, including the Youth Camp, at a meeting this Fall.

Baylor University President Robert B. Sloan Jr. today presented Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow with the 2000 Baylor Communications Award during the annual President's Media Luncheon at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco.

One of America's most popular weekly public affairs programs, "The McLaughlin Group," will bring its own inimitable way of discussing key national issues to Baylor University when the panel members take part in the President's Forum at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, in Waco Hall.

A memorial service for Baylor University nursing student Amy Chesnutt, who died in an automobile accident on June 8, will be held at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 in the student lounge of Baylor's Louise Herrington School of Nursing, 3700 Worth Street in Dallas.

Former Baylor University regent Victor Newman and Daniel Sternberg, dean emeritus of the School of Music, are being remembered this week as two men whose lifetimes of service epitomized Baylor's mission, especially among countless students.

More than a thousand Baylor University freshmen and transfer students saw what it was like to transform a neighborhood, as they stepped out into the Waco community for the first time during Welcome Week's First Step community service project.

Dr. Thomas L. Charlton, vice provost for research and professor of history at Baylor University, will receive the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Oral History Association (TOHA) during a noon luncheon on Saturday, Aug. 26, in the Gregory Room in the Bill Daniel Student Center.

With an expected record-breaking fall enrollment of more than 250 students, including 101 new students, Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary will hold its seventh opening convocation at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Waco, 500 Webster.

Participants in a national month-long study of air quality will host a media day at Ellington Field, the Houston-area study site, at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. Ellington Field is located eight miles southeast of William P. Hobby Airport.

The FastTrac Program for business entrepreneurs is set to begin another fall session during the first week of September.

Dr. Diana Garland, professor of social work and director of the social work graduate program and the Center for Community and Family Ministries at Baylor University, has been elected to serve as Texas' Region 9 representative to the National Association of Social Workers Delegate Assembly (NASW).

Baylor Theatre will open its 2000-2001 season with a production of the acclaimed drama Galileo. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1-2 and Sept. 5-9 and 2:30 p.m. Sept. 10 in the Mabee theater in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center on the Baylor University campus.

They came in SUV's, cars and rental trucks, their belongings packed neatly in plastic storage containers or tossed into trash bags and banana boxes. They hauled up the stairs and into their rooms everything from computers, television sets and refrigerators to teddy bears, toothpaste and photos of their family members and friends.

Baylor University's Piper Child Development Center was recently granted accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Approximately 7 percent of early childhood programs nationwide have received NAEYC accreditation. Childcare centers run by McLennan Community College and Lakeshore Baptist Church are the only other NAEYC-accredited centers in Waco.

More than 1,000 first-year Baylor University students will have an immediate opportunity to give something back to the Waco community on Saturday, Aug. 19, when they take part in First Step, a mass community service project sponsored by Baylor, the City of Waco, Keep Waco Beautiful and the Area Agency on Aging.

Baylor University's first art exhibit of the academic year will open at the University Art Gallery in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, Wednesday, Aug. 23. Fiber sculptor Jerry Bleem will display 20 works in the show, which runs through Sept. 20.

Baylor University has been recognized by the Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog 2001 as a top choice among schools that guidance counselors would attend if they could repeat their college years.

Dr. Nikolas Gvosdev, associate director of Baylor University's J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, examines the tradition of Orthodox Christianity and its role in contemporary political society in his new book, Emperors and Elections: Reconciling the Orthodox Tradition with Modern Politics (Nova Science Publishers).

Baylor University's traditional "Welcome Week" gets under way Wednesday, Aug. 16, with several orientation activities for Baylor freshmen, transfer students and their parents, ranging from picnics and pep rallies to academic seminars and a mass community service project.

Dr. Charles Talbert, Distinguished Professor of Religion at Baylor University, has completed his term as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA). Talbert, who is an ordained Baptist minister, is only the second Protestant to serve as president of the organization. He delivered his presidential address at the association's annual meeting held Aug. 5-8 at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

With less than a week before Baylor University students return for the fall semester, more than 150 residence life personnel will undergo hands-on fire safety training at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 14, in the back parking lot of the Ferrell Center.

More than 500 Baylor University students will receive their degrees during summer commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Ferrell Center.

Visitors to Baylor University's Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village can learn how dairy products were produced during the 19th century during "Udderly Delightful," scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Activities include visiting a planter's house to see how farmer cheese is made and taking turns at churning butter. Village guests can even try their hands at milking Bossie, an artificial cow.

The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform (InterVarsity Press), by Dr. Roger E. Olson, professor of theology at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary, was awarded the 2000 Gold Medallion for best theology/doctrine book from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

Baylor University is hosting 10 students from Belgium and the Netherlands for an exchange program designed to give international students a cross-cultural education in computer science. The Knowledge Engineering program, organized by the computer science department in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, is a collaborative effort between Baylor and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.

Visitors to the Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village can watch a rousing melodrama and learn about cotton production in the 19th century during two events planned for Friday and Saturday, July 28-29.

The Texas Leadership Conference will be held July 27-29 at Baylor University. The conference, which is sponsored by the Women's Missionary Union of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, has been held at Baylor for 47 years.

Fort Worth lawyers Darrell and Susan Keith will be honored by Baylor University School of Law during a noon luncheon Friday, July 21, at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth.

David R. Brooks, a Baylor University graduate and chairman/CEO of McKinney-based First Bank Group, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Baylor, President Robert B. Sloan Jr. announced today. He succeeds Harold R. Cunningham, who will become vice president for special projects at the university.

The role of religion in public life, from prayer in schools to religious symbols on government property, continues to be one of the most hotly-debated subjects in American culture. But what did the framers of the U.S. Constitution envision that role should be? Did they think that the government had the right to advance or support religion and religious activities?

The church music division of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) will host its annual conference July 24-26 at Baylor University.

Former FBI director William S. Sessions will be the keynote speaker at commencement ceremonies for 55 graduates of Baylor Law School at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 29, at the Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.

Designed for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs, the FastTrac Program for business entrepreneurs is set to begin another fall session during the first week of September.

The Association of Southern Baptist Admissions Professionals (ASBAP) will hold its annual conference July 23-26 at Baylor University.

Green Acres Baptist Church of Tyler will host a church camp for children entering third through sixth grades July 18-21 at Baylor University.

Marching Auxiliaries of America will host a marching camp July 17-22 at Baylor University.

More than 1,300 weekday church educators will focus on the future of children in their care during "Our Future--Under Construction," the annual Texas Baptist Church Weekday Education Conference being held today and Saturday at Baylor University. The conference -- the largest of its kind in the state -- is co-sponsored by the Texas Baptist Church Weekday Education Association, the church ministries department of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and Baylor.

WACO, Texas -- Baylor University's Center for Family and Community Ministries in the School of Social Work has received a $702,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to study the impact of community service on the faith of congregations.

Baylor University will observe the Fourth of July holiday on Tuesday, July 4.

The Metro Baptist Association will hold a youth and adult camp July 2-7 at Baylor University.

The Dallas Chinese Fellowship will hold their annual retreat at Baylor University

Baylor University’s Student Bar Association will hold its annual blood drive to honor the memory of law graduate John Edwards on Tuesday, June 27, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. near the Law School parking lot.

Glenn Moore, who led LSU to the Southeastern Conference championship each of the last two seasons, is Baylor University's new women's softball coach, Athletic Director Tom Stanton announced Monday. Moore replaces Paula Young, who left coaching last month to accept an administrative position within the department.

There's a new name in town at the Baylor Alumni Association. But Mark E. Kimbell is no stranger to Waco or Baylor University.

Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey, professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Ottawa, and Dr. Robert C. Roberts, professor of philosophy and psychological studies at Wheaton College, have been named Distinguished Professors at Baylor University. Jeffrey will serve as Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities, and Roberts will serve as Distinguished Professor of Ethics.

Baylor University head soccer coach Nick Cowell and his staff will host four soccer camps June 26-30, July 15-30 and 22-27.

Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business and the department of accounting will host the accounting and business careers conference June 25-28.

The Baylor University School of Music will host its annual summer organ institute June 18-24. It is designed to teach organ to young musicians ages 12-18. Dr. Joyce Jones, The Joyce Oliver Bowden Professor of Music and Organist in Residence, will direct the institute. This year, for the first time, all the students are from Texas. The institute will feature three recitals open to the public.

The Baylor University School of Music will present its annual summer piano institute June 18-24 in Roxy Grove Hall. This year's institute will host a total of 37 high school piano students from Texas, New Mexico, Oregon and Maine.

Baylor University cross country coach Steve Gulley will host two cross country camps June 18-23 and June 25-30.

Baylor University head baseball coach Steve Smith and his staff will host three day camps and two overnight camps this summer.

The Bridge Christian Outreach Inc. and Christian Education for the Blind will be hold their annual conference on June 23-25 at Baylor University.

Baylor University women's basketball head coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson will host her first summer day camp from 9 a.m. to noon on June 26-29 at the Ferrell Center.

The Dave Bliss Basketball Camps will be held on June 18-22 and July 9-13 at the Ferrell Center on the Baylor University campus.

The Baylor Department of Public Safety reports that several campus streets will be closed for parts of June for construction.

The Worldview Academy will host its second Christian leadership camp at Baylor University June 11-18.

The Texas Baptist Literacy Missions Center will host the Conference for International and Literacy Ministries at Baylor University June 8-10.

Students from across the state as well as Arizona and New Mexico will attend a junior high school band camp at Baylor University June 11-18.

Philip M. Dorr, who runs an Illinois-Texas firm of investment advisers has donated $250,000 to the business school at his alma mater, Baylor University, to help launch a new student-managed investment fund.

Baylor University's department of theater arts will present Marathon, its first production of the 2000 summer season, June 8-10. The British play, written by Tony Dunham and Rob Sian, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Theater 11 at the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center on campus.

The Texas Baptist Conference for the Deaf will hold its annual state convention at Baylor University June 9-11.

Nominations are being sought from members of the public and chambers of commerce throughout the Lone Star State for the 11th annual Texas Outstanding Family Business of the Year competition sponsored by Baylor University’s Institute for Family Business. Family business owners can also nominate their companies for the awards. The deadline is Aug. 1.

Baylor University will host the Leadership In Free Enterprise program (L.I.F.E.) June 4-7.

Baylor University men's basketball head coach Dave Bliss will hold a day camp from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 5-8 at the Ferrell Center.

Baylor University head women's tennis coach Dave Luedtke will host two tennis camps for boys and girls ages 10 through 18 on June 4-9 and June 11-16.

Students from across the state will attend a high school band and orchestra camp June 4-10 at Baylor University.

Dr. W. Hulitt Gloer, pastor of First Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, will join the faculty of Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary as professor of preaching, President Robert B. Sloan Jr. announced today. Gloer's appointment is effective July 1.

Baylor President Robert B. Sloan Jr. was elected chairman of the Big XII Conference Board of Directors at the group's sixth annual spring meeting today at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Baylor University and its distinctive Baylor Bear logo will take to the highways and byways of America--from the east coast to the west coast--as The History Channel Great Race 2000 roars across the country June 11-24. A 1947 Ford convertible owned and driven by a Richardson man will be co-sponsored by Baylor during the 4,000-mile race.

About 100 students from eight Texas high schools competed in the Governor's Symposium on Economic Development Through Entrepreneurship held April 14 at Baylor University.