This is your call to action so listen up. Each person on this campus has a simple yet vital role in promoting diversity and collaboration on campus. Diversity and collaboration are related and the two working in tandem can produce some pretty incredible results. The topic of diversity is for the most part exhausted. By now everyone understands (or at least says they understand) … [Read more...] about Diversity: It's Your Responsibility
Haiti: Revisiting the crisis one year later
Jan. 122011 marked the one-year anniversary of the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti claiming more than 250000 lives toppling countless residences and commercial structures and leaving an estimated 1.5 million Haitians homeless. In less than 40 seconds much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince was destroyed. Now more than 365 days later the damage is still … [Read more...] about Haiti: Revisiting the crisis one year later
Irish verse enchant campus
Eaven Boland world-renowned poet and director of creative writing at Stanford visited Pepperdine's Raitt Recital Hall on Tuesday. For an hour she filled Raitt Recital Hall with her most striking poems and memorable stories of inspiration from Irish history captivating Pepperdine students in turn with her own story. Boland has received much acclaim for her seven books … [Read more...] about Irish verse enchant campus
Diver's body washes ashore at Corral Beach
Saturday afternoon at Corral Beach was abruptly interrupted after a scuba diver's body washed ashore around noon on Jan. 15. A Los Angeles County fire squad responded immediately pronouncing the man dead at 12:39 p.m. Identified as 58-year-old Thomas Swanson of Simi Valley the body shows no signs of trauma according to Lt. Fred Corral of the LA County Coroner's Office. He said … [Read more...] about Diver's body washes ashore at Corral Beach
Women's basketball falls to Gonzaga
The Pepperdine women's basketball team fell to 1-2 in conference play tonight after an 80-61 loss to Gonzaga at home. After a league win against San Diego and a close loss on the road to Saint Mary's over winter break the Waves were looking to get back to a winning record in the conference in tonight's game against the visiting WCC Champion Gonzaga Bulldogs. Although the Waves … [Read more...] about Women's basketball falls to Gonzaga