MICAELA GIL-CASASBuenos Aires Columnist It’s the beginning of April, and as students in Malibu start preparing for finals, we in B.A. are just getting back from Spring Break. This tardiness of schedule may well describe the lifestyle of this New York-meets-Paris city where siestas are taken during the day and dinner may last up to two hours because of sobremesa, after-dinner … [Read more...] about Trips, steak and late nights mold students
Women’s track struggles through tough first year
SHUHEI MATSUOSports Assistant At the beginning of the 2005-06 school year, Pepperdine added women’s track to remain in compliance with Title IX. With the start of the women’s track team, members and coaches are working on finishing the season, but it is questionable whether the team will exist next year. Dr. John Watson, director of Athletics, said it is hard to get a new … [Read more...] about Women’s track struggles through tough first year
Programs end as Lilly funding expires
BRITTANY YEAROUTNews Assistant The Spiritual Discernment Retreat, a two-day experience for students to think about God’s calling, was held last weekend for the last time. The retreat, which was funded by the Lilly Endowment Foundation through the Pepperdine Voyage, will be cut because of the end of the four-year $2 million grant. The Lilly Endowment Foundation renewed the … [Read more...] about Programs end as Lilly funding expires
McCain: A promising candidate
CLIFFORD SMITH Staff Writer Richard Nixon said in his 1973 book, “In the Arena,” that in retrospect, he was glad he lost the 1962 governor’s race in California, his second loss in a row after the agonizingly close 1960 campaign for President against John Kennedy. Had he not lost that race, he certainly would have been pushed to run for president again in 1964. Running again in … [Read more...] about McCain: A promising candidate
How to back-up your computer and save your digital life
MEREDITH RODRIGUEZ Assistant Living Editor You have pined away on those papers, projects, Photoshop collages and music mixes. You are the brilliant Pepperdine student. Everything is a work of your genius, which your computer should only feel honored to harbor. Unfortunately computers are not always as trusty as Lassie once was in your childhood memories. In reality they betray … [Read more...] about How to back-up your computer and save your digital life