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MARSHALL, Texas (2/02/16) - The East Texas Baptist University Debate Team competed at the Southern Forensics Classic Debate Tournament January 30-31 in Shreveport, La. and won its second division championship in as many tournaments. 

MNM: MARSHALL, Texas (2/12/16) - Beginning this fall, Marshall High School juniors and seniors will be able to become East Texas Baptist University students without ever leaving their high school classroom.

School leaders from both institutions as well as the Marshall ISD Education Foundation joined together Thursday to announce the launch of Maverick University, a program that allows MHS juniors and seniors to earn up to 27 college credit hours while still in high school.

BASEBALL: ORANGE, California (2/6/15) - Scoring 15 runs in the final game on Saturday for a three-run win over Chapman University, the East Texas Baptist University baseball team split the double header but took the overall three-game series. ETBU fell in game one, 4-3, but then bounced back for a 15-12 win in the last game. With the 12-7 win from last night, ETBU starts off the 2016 season at 2-1.

MARSHALL, Texas (1/28/16) - The East Texas Baptist University Department of Music will present a program of Musical Theatre Scenes in Mabee Recital Hall on campus, Thursday through Saturday (Feb. 4-6), at 7:00 p.m. Students will present selections from seven different musical theatre productions, including Die Fledermaus, Pirates of Penzance, Sweeney Todd, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Porgy and Bess, Guys and Dolls and The Music Man.  

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER: (2/4/16) - East Texas Baptist University President Blair Blackburn is headed to the nation's capital to support the university's fight for religious liberty, he said Tuesday.

U.S. Supreme Court justices are set to begin hearing oral arguments at 10 a.m. on March 23.

The university, joined in the suit by Houston Baptist University and Westminster Theological Seminary, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a recent lower court decision that requires the school to provide contraceptive coverage in its employee insurance or face federal fines.