Baylor University has received a lot of bad press lately. Racist ‘tire swings,’ flammable political protestations, hell, even on this “Grey’s Anatomy” show, Baylor School of Medicine (no longer affiliated with Baylor University) got knocked.
There are always bright spots that go unreported. Last week hordes of high school students were roaming the halls as part of some kind of outreach program. The local news picked up the story and did a little featurette on it (best quote from a high school student: “I sat in on a class – now I don’t know if I want to be a lawyer anymore”). It was great. This past weekend was National Adoption Day – parents and children were running around these normally tear soaked hallways, except they were eating cake and whacking each other with balloon swords. According to Prof. Osler’s blog, a movie called “American Violet,” featuring a Baylor lawyer’s struggle against the Man, is going to be released next year.
It isn’t always dismal on this side of University Parks Dr. There are plenty of good things that go on here that just go unreported.
Except when finals time rolls around. Then it’s a morgue. I found this desperate scrawled message in a room during the last week of finals.
Those are actually the ingredients in a drink I like to call “The Tuesday Night Special.”
