Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Madness has Begun (by Sophia Cooper)

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It’s time to map out your brackets, compulsively check ESPN.com, and cheer for the Lady Bears!

Our girls are heading out to defend their national championship, and I think they can do it. With such a strong team and intense coaching, our Lady Bears are favored to win the title.

Brittney Griner has broken so many records, it has been such a great opportunity to get to watch her play. Odyssey Sims has phenomenal leadership on and off the court. Other key players to keep your eye on throughout the tournament include Brooklyn Pope, Alexis Prince, and Destiny Williams.

A major part of why our Lady Bears have been so successful would be the great coaching of Kim Mulkey. She is intense! When Coach Mulkey tells the crowd to get up, you jump to your feet and cheer. I can only imagine how tough it would be to play for her! Her dedication and determination to making our program top-ranked and competitive has really paid off. She is composed on and off the court, representing Baylor University athletics in the national light. Her interviews with ESPN always emphasize the team winning games, not just individual players. Her sportsmanship is ideal in my eyes.

As a campus tour guide, I often get questions about whether I’m friends with Griner, how often do I see Sims, and if Robert Griffin III is in my classes. While I’m not privileged to even be acquaintances with Griner or Sims, and RG3 already graduated, I do get to see the girls every once in a while. Sims even lived a floor above me freshman year! In the next few weeks, they’ll be getting more high fives from random students than ever before, and Baylor Basketball t-shirts will be seen all around campus.

Spring Social Season (by Hunter Gorman)

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The green grass growing, the sun warming, and the new spring pledge classes of the over 40 Baylor Greek organizations in full swing, can only mean one thing and one thing only: Social Season at Baylor. This is a loved time of year on campus with an endless amount of fraternity/sorority mixers, take-a-dates, and dances. The time of year when 10th street is filled with sporty youths, the library filled with those more scholarly, and the thought of the fast approaching spring break on everyone’s mind.

Spring truly is a great time here at Baylor, and really gets people in the mood for some dancing! Check out this video of Baylor’s “Harlem Shake!”

As I said, dances are a common theme of the spring time and it honestly can get a little overwhelming when you think about the number of events that you can have and they all seem to happen in the same week! School work is something that is very easy to get behind on during the spring season, especially freshman year, while you continue to experience that euphoric feeling of new found community.

For those of you that will be coming to Baylor as freshman for the nearing fall semester, spring is a time to look forward and also a goal to work for during your first semester. Aside from the various Greek and other student organization’s events, Baylor University has a lot going on during the spring time such as spring break (as mentioned), the Easter Holiday, the fun and exciting “Diadeloso,” and then finally, summer time!

During the spring it is very easy to lose track of time and before you know it you are almost done with your first full year of college (that’s my case anyway).

For those who are looking to Baylor as incoming freshman, get excited! Baylor is a great place that thrives on community and tradition. Finally for those of you looking to Baylor as a place to restart your college journey, look no more! Baylor’s great people and many communities could not be more excited for you to get here!

 

“When the Lights Go Out” (by P.J. Martinez)

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As I’ve mentioned multiple times throughout this blog, I have been participating as a SING chair for my fraternity for this year’s All University SING. After working on this act for the past year, I can finally say it is finished! This seriously has been one of the most memorable moments while being here at Baylor.

Our act, “When the Light Go Out” was based on the movie “Night at the Museum.” Pretty cool, huh? The characters that were a part of the act were cowboys, Indians, gladiators, soldiers, and statues. Standing behind us on the backdrop, was a painting of a skeleton dinosaur. This act was simply full of fun and energy, and it’s safe to say we had the crowd amused.

 

SING takes place in over a two week span with the last week including the awards ceremony. On the last night, after the show takes place, all the SING chairs stand on stage and wait for the awards to be announced. Everyone waits nervously as they think about what awards they could receive. The first awards they announced were People’s Choice. These were awards solely based on what the audience preferred. We won Best Vocals and Best Backdrop! Next came the invitations for Pigskin. Only the top 8 acts get the opportunity to perform at Pigskin in the Fall. We were invited to perform in Pigskin! This was our goal before actually participating in Sing this year. Next, came the top 3 awards that actually place. Making it to Pigskin is actually quite an accomplishment in itself, but being either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd is always good! They began to announce, and as they uttered the words, PHI KAPPA CHI, my heart soared. That was our act and we had won third place!

Seriously, by far the best feeling ever! It was great stepping outside of Waco Hall and seeing the guys in my fraternity cheering as we held our plaque in the air. I will always remember this moment!!!