{{Short description|Baylor University student newspaper}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Baylor Lariat | image = Baylor Lariat Wordmark.png | type = Student newspaper | format = | founded = 1900 | owners = Baylor University | headquarters = Waco, Texas, U.S. | editor = Rachel Royster (2023) <!-- Editor is a student, it changes every year, might be a lost cause to edit it --> | publisher = | website = {{URL|baylorlariat.com}} }}
'''''The Baylor Lariat''''' is the student newspaper of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
==History== ''The Baylor Lariat'' was officially begun in 1900 as ''The Varsity Lariat''; it was formed out of a realization that "a high grade weekly was desired" to keep students, faculty, and alumni aware of campus events and news (including news from nearby colleges). ''The Lariat'' replaced ''The Baylor Weekly Leaf'', whose editor was credited in the Lariat's first issue with "taking the initiative" of reporting Baylor news.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://contentdm.baylor.edu/u?/24lariat,609 |title=Baylor vs. Austin College |work=The Texas Collection (Baylor University) |author=''The 'Varsity Lariat'' |accessdate=2009-12-21 |date=1900-11-08}}</ref>
==Gay marriage controversy== On February 27, 2004, ''The Baylor Lariat'' published an editorial in support of San Francisco's offering of marriage licenses to gay couples. The piece, which was supported by five of the editorial board's seven members, elicited a response from Robert B. Sloan Jr., who served as Baylor University president at the time. In a written statement, he claimed that he and many of the students, alumni, and parents were "justifiably outraged".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.www.ntdaily.com/media/storage/paper877/news/2004/03/11/Views/Lariat.Lassos.Controversy-1890440.shtml|title=Lariat lassos controversy|newspaper=North Texas Daily|date=2004-03-11|accessdate=2008-08-09}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Hertzberg|first=Hendrik|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/03/15/040315ta_talk_hertzberg|title=Wedded Blitz|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2004-03-15|accessdate=2008-08-09}}</ref>
==See also== *List of student newspapers in the United States of America
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://baylorlariat.com The Lariat Online]
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