CHRIS SEGALPerspectives Editor Forget road rage on the 405 freeway. My blood begins to boil when the gas gauge nears empty. For many Southern California residents, hybrid vehicles are becoming a promising alternative. According to a financial report on Illinois-based Pantagraph.com, sales of Honda’s three hybrids — the Insight, Accord Hybrid and Civic Hybrid — increased 240 … [Read more...] about Hybrid SUVs? Nice try, but I’ll pass
Coffee and copies
HANNA CHUAssistant A&E Editor Although Ryan Wickers has to fight through traffic on Highway 101 for an hour and a half to reach his internship in Glendale, he believes his unpaid job is worth the gas and extra travel time, especially because it prepares him for life after graduation. “It’ll be on my resume,” Wickers said. His supervisor also told him that if he worked hard, … [Read more...] about Coffee and copies
“Guess Who” Bill deals with gaining fame while trying to please everyone
LAUREN HOBARStaff Writer I think I will try my hand at the art of celebrity article writing. His blue turtleneck hugged his illusive frame. His face seemed like a baby being born through a blue curtain, a delight. His eyebrows perched as Red Robin breasts, and his face supported a great sea of red hairs lapping around an archipelago of baldhead. A charming red goatee, like a … [Read more...] about “Guess Who” Bill deals with gaining fame while trying to please everyone
Excitement and fear wait beyond these doors
LAUREN MORTON-FARMERLondon Columnist When the July 7 terrorist bombings came to London, it shook me up. After all, it was just two months before 37 of us would start the biggest adventure of our college careers, and the nearest of those four explosions occured less than two miles north of our future home. Now, as I sit by an open window in my room on 56 Prince’s Gate, I … [Read more...] about Excitement and fear wait beyond these doors
Bring on the Segways
JOHN DENISTONStaff Writer The Princeton Review ranks Pepperdine as the most beautiful college campus in America, but daily pedestrian commutes may lead students to imagine an even more beautiful university – a Pepperdine without hills. This seemingly far-fetched notion of vaporizing the stair-stepping effort from our campus might become a reality thanks to a “human … [Read more...] about Bring on the Segways
