Pepperdine alumni involved with the Teach for America program will come to campus Monday Nov. 3 in an effort to introduce and encourage increased participation in the program. Teach for America is a nation-wide program that seeks to end educational injustice. It recruits recent college graduates who are the nation's most promising future leaders and is a two-year commitment … [Read more...] about Pep grads join teaching force to improve education system
Leaders consider church's future
The Churches of Christ need to change. That was the focus of a meeting of more than 60 church leaders who gathered at the Pepperdine School of Law at the Church Leaders Dialogue event on Friday."The evangelical community in America is not adapting quickly enough to face its challenges or meet its God-given opportunities said David Kinnaman, president and strategic leader of … [Read more...] about Leaders consider church's future
They say we want a revolution
Forgive the melodramatic exposition but on Nov. 4 the American public will effectively guillotine the GOP's beloved elephant. If the polls are to be believed Barack Obama will take the White House in a landslide victory and claim a mandate for wealth redistribution socialize Medicare and spend $850 billion in new policies. The Democrats could take 60 seats in the Senate … [Read more...] about They say we want a revolution
IP makes the best of weak dollar
As junior Becky Clark walked away from London's Heathrow Airport last spring with only £40 to show for the $80 she had exchanged Becky was faced with the same truth as many other international program students traveling to Europe: the dollar just isn't what it used to be.For much of the later half of this decade the value of the dollar has fallen against European … [Read more...] about IP makes the best of weak dollar
Divine Nine: a Pepperdine possibility?
The idea began more than 100 years ago in the halls of Cornell University. In 1905 7 of the 16 black male students attending the school sought to unite their ideas by creating what would later develop into the first historically black Greek organization Alpha Phi Alpha. Twenty-five years later eight more black fraternities and sororities known as the Divine Nine joined together … [Read more...] about Divine Nine: a Pepperdine possibility?