http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud Fri, 16 May 2008 13:54:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Updating a previous story... The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that Kristin Elliott, an 18-year-old incoming Baylor freshman, has far surpassed her goal of raising $60,000 for an orphanage in Kenya. As of last week, following her appearance on ABC's World News Tonight, more than $100,000 had poured in for the orphanage! Thanks ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/16/past-future-bears-team-up-to-serve-kenyan-orphans/ I was flipping channels one night last week when I came across live footage of a fire on the campus of Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) in San Antonio. In the fire, the school's Main Building -- a beautiful building, in some ways similar to Baylor's Old Main ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/15/it-staffers-pitch-in-to-help-another-texas-university-after-devastating-fire/ It's great that Baylor has so many professors who are so eager to get to know their students that they actually want to move in right alongside them, living in the residence halls. Three more professors will soon join the ones already living on campus, bringing Baylor's total to nine ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/14/more-faculty-moving-onto-campus-to-increase-interaction-with-students/ For a young lawyer, graduating from law school and passing the bar exam are keys 1 and 1A to getting started on a successful career. Those same moments are important for the law school itself, too. After learning several days earlier that Baylor had led the state once again in ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/13/baylor-law-alums-well-on-their-way-to-success/ Baylor's athletic program has developed a well-earned reputation for developing quality student-athletes who embody the best of both those words -- "student" and "athlete." For years, Baylor's graduation rates have reflected well upon the department, with the Bears annually at or near the top of the Big 12 in their percentage ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/12/baylor-student-athletes-excelling-in-the-classroom/ Building on already successful regular seasons, the Baylor men's and women's tennis teams each took advantage of playing at home to advance to the NCAA Tournament Round of 16 over the weekend. The women will be playing in the tournament's third round for the fourth straight year, while the men ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/12/baylor-tennis-teams-both-advance-to-ncaas-third-round/ I was never much for model cars, model airplanes or any other sort of model. I lacked the coordination to keep things together and in the right places, and everything always came out not quite right. Thankfully, Baylor students involved with a different sort of model aren't having those troubles. Baylor ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/09/students-learning-international-relations-through-model-organizations/ For the sixth straight time and the 11th time in the past 14 offerings, Baylor law students have claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. During the February exam, 46 of 48 Baylor students passed on their first try -- a 96% success rate. Totalling up the ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/08/law-students-lead-texas-students-in-bar-exam-pass-rate-again/ Last week, we wrote about three exceptional students who will start at Baylor this fall. ABC's World News Tonight did us one better, featuring another soon-to-be Baylor freshman, Kristin Elliott, as the program's "Person of the Week" last Friday. (You can watch the segment here.) Elliott has been fighting a rare, ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/07/incoming-freshman-featured-on-abc-for-her-giving-heart/ Imagine former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz taking a job as an assistant under Art Briles, or basketball's Bobby Knight accepting a position as an assistant to Scott Drew. That's about what women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey has pulled off in getting Leon Barmore to come to Baylor. Barmore, who ... http://homepages.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2008/05/05/hall-of-fame-hoops-coach-leaves-retirement-to-join-baylor-staff/