GARRETT WAITSports Editor The departure of men’s basketball Head Coach Paul Westphal leaves a void for the athletic department to fill. In the interim, assistant coach Patrick Whitlock will assume the role of head coach while the search for a full-time replacement gets underway. Whitlock, a 1999 Vanderbilt University graduate, He came to the men’s basketball program in 2001-02 … [Read more...] about Whitlock named interim leader
Volleyball splits at home
GARRETT WAITSports Editor Pepperdine men’s volleyball’s first loss at home since 2004 was quickly followed by their second straight home loss at the hands of Long Beach State University on March 9. The Waves managed to regain their winning form against UC San Diego on Saturday at the Fieldhouse, pulling out a split over the weekend. The Long Beach State game was a mismatch from … [Read more...] about Volleyball splits at home
Project Serve: Students return from Spring Break trips physically exhausted, spiritually refreshed
VIRGINIA THOMASStaff Writer Editor’s Note: Over Spring Break, staff writer and junior Virginia Thomas led a team of 13 students on a service trip to Argentina. One of 14 such service groups from Pepperdine, the Argentina team spent a week at the Adulam Community Farm — a refuge for single mothers and children in an impoverished barrio west of Buenos Aires. All the team members … [Read more...] about Project Serve: Students return from Spring Break trips physically exhausted, spiritually refreshed
Grad school: Not a quarter-life crisis fix
BRIAN DILLE Staff Writer Simpson’s creator and erstwhile comic artist Matt Groening famously posed the above question “Should you go to Graduate School?” in his strip, followed by a self-help-style true/false quiz (complete with boxes to check next to the questions): “1. I am a compulsive neurotic; 2. I like my imagination crushed into dust; 3. I enjoy being a professor’s … [Read more...] about Grad school: Not a quarter-life crisis fix
Vargas, Waves demolish field
SHUHEI MATSUOSports Assistant The fifth-ranked Pepperdine women’s golf team captured a victory when it shot a 17-over par 589 in the Santa Clara Colby Invitational on Tuesday. The third win for the 2005-06 campaign gave 13th-year head coach Laurie Gibbs her 25th career tournament victory. The Waves didn’t just win the 13-team tournament at the Rancho Canada Golf Club in Carmel … [Read more...] about Vargas, Waves demolish field