By Audrey Valenzuela | Staff WriterComing to college may be a scary experience for new students, sometimes even for those returning. We often think we will be best friends with our freshman dorm roommates throughout our college career, but what if something changes? There are plenty of ways to get involved with student life on campus, but we get too...

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By The Editorial BoardAs election season approaches, so does the impending doom of exercising your right to vote for whoever you deem the least evil politician in the running. While a 2023 census shows that 18 through 25-year-olds make up almost 15% of Texas’ adult population, this age group is also known for not exercising their right to vote. Statistics...

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By Jackson Posey | Sports WriterDonald Trump won 84% of the white evangelical Protestant vote in 2020. Almost complete unanimity, an impressive show of unity in a polarized era. And it begs the question: What, exactly, is an evangelical? Nobody knows. Or at least, no one can define it well. 70 years ago, religious historian George Marsden, joked that an...

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By Kassidy Tsikitas | Photographer If you find yourself scrolling through tarot readings on TikTok saying your ex is coming back… you might be struggling to cope. As college students, it’s common to seek comfort in other people. This can push us to jump into a new relationship or drop old friends to search for others. The pain of losing...

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By Piper Rutherford | Staff Writer While some book lovers choose to remain in the past, audiobooks are the future of leisurely reading with a multitude of advantages. Listening to an audiobook counts as reading a physical or “real” book. Audiobook listeners do not deserve the scrutiny from fellow avid readers about consuming a story with their ears, rather than...

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By Foster Nicholas | Sports EditorDuring summers as a kid, I would ride my bike two miles to the nearest movie theater every Tuesday to check out whatever film had just been released. Spending just five dollars on a ticket, I could lean back and guarantee that I would see something I could enjoy, something I had never seen before....

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By Nate Maki | Staff WriterEveryone is getting settled­­, you’re getting to know the places around campus and maybe you even went to your first Dr Pepper hour, but none of it matters because your second half feels like they’re a million miles away. Whether you have been high school sweethearts for years, you fell in love over the summer...

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By Bella Whitmore | InternYou often hear people recommending certain classes for your elective credits based on how easy the class was or because it’s widely considered a "blow-off" class. While this is completely understandable and relatable, I am trying to be more mindful when choosing what classes I take as electives, and so should you. I have taken my...

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By Katherine Hatcher | Staff WriterYou know that feeling at the end of high school when you’re on top of the world? The one that feels like you’re invincible because it’s like "High School Musical 3" where everyone knows who they are and who their friends are? Besides the breaking out in song, of course. As wonderful as that feeling...

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By Erika Kuehl | Opinion EditorToto, I have a feeling we’re not in Waco anymore. We’re in Woodway. That was my first thought after entering The Butcher’s Cellar. Walls full of instruments that could’ve belonged to my grandad. Busts of animals that honestly, looked happy to be there. And the iconic photo of Lunch atop a Skyscraper fixes the mood...

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