Baylor’s 2025 Family Weekend arrives this weekend with big headlines — a high‑profile Lauren Daigle concert, Taste of Waco and a packed schedule — but the event’s logistics are being reshaped by a major reconstruction of I‑35 through Waco, forcing alumni and families to rethink arrival times...
In its 65th year, Baylor’s Family Weekend stands as a living tradition: born in 1960 as a one-day chance for parents to meet professors and evolved into a full weekend that stitches family, faith, and campus life into a single communal experience.
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A tradition begins: Parents Day...
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The Peradeniya campus, in the telling by Thalif Deen, is a place where scholarship and satire mixed as naturally as monsoon winds and mango trees — a compact world of rituals, inside jokes, high-table formalities and the kind of campus legends that survive generations. The Sunday Times piece...
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