More than eight months ago the Pepperdine baseball team suffered back-to-back losses at the hands of Stanford in the NCAA Regionals closing the books on a prosperous 2008 campaign. Less than a week later the Waves lost star hitters Chase d'Arnaud and Eric Thames as well as dependable pitcher Brett Hunter to the MLB draft. However with Opening Day on Friday optimism remains … [Read more...] about No.-8 Baseball Preview
Octuplets' publicist ends 'good deed'
It takes no more than two minutes within meeting Michael Furtney to sense the compassion he exudes both as a person and as a publicist. That feeling radiates in the Pepperdine professor's belief that "anyone with a grain of compassion" should feel for the situation in which Nadya Suleman - the now household name who delivered eight miracle babies Jan. 26 - and her family have … [Read more...] about Octuplets' publicist ends 'good deed'
Staff Editorial: Pep makes light of Black History Month
Few would have noticed the error had the cleanup efforts not been such a shoddy job. Pepperdine's efforts to commemorate Black History Month seem forced as if the institution was scrambling to clean up its act.It began with the school-wide e-mail stating there was a new student life February calendar from Student Affairs at the end of January. Apparently the pink calendar … [Read more...] about Staff Editorial: Pep makes light of Black History Month
Student fights for justice
Working alongside President Obama's campaign staff and lobbyists in Washington D.C. is not what most students characterize as a normal summer. However Pepperdine students are afforded some amazing opportunities - even some as lofty as Capital Hill. Senior Sara Ward from Mercer Island Wash. has taken full advantage of such opportunities walking the road from Obama "helper" to … [Read more...] about Student fights for justice
Resurrecting the ailing print media
They say print is dead. They say we are a generation of illiterates by choice who cannot find it in ourselves to pick up a book - well unless it's "Twilight" - or read something more than the news ticker on CNN. In a world with the Internet words on a peice of paper are useless.Tell that to Carla Kostoff a Washington D.C. newsstand owner who sold thousands of copies of the … [Read more...] about Resurrecting the ailing print media