JANE LEESports Editor The theme of the 2007 Pepperdine baseball season is probably one fans have heard once or twice in the sports world. It’s that highly overused but all-important cliché — the one that makes you think coaches and athletes should go back to school to learn new, insightful phrases. You hear it over and over again, but you’re going to hear it once more. We just … [Read more...] about Wave hello to a new season
How to survive without an iPod
LINDSEY BOERMALiving Assistant The world, as you know it, has come to an end. The scenario? You are being forced to endure a period of time without the piece of technology that has become seemingly indispensable to many a college student— the iPod. Maybe the battery has gone dead. Perhaps you’ve misplaced it. Or, maybe you’re just petrified to touch it after the girl who … [Read more...] about How to survive without an iPod
Outreach program welcomes students
JAIMIE FRANKLINAssistant News Editor The Pepperdine student organization Students in Free Enterprise welcomed more than 40 underprivileged middle school students to campus Wednesday to educate them on the importance of a college education. As a multi-national organization located on more than 1,200 campuses worldwide, SIFE designs “educational community outreach projects to … [Read more...] about Outreach program welcomes students
Rainfall dampens field, not fun at annual alumni baseball game
JANE LEESports Editor According to Nuke LaLoosh in the popular 1988 baseball movie “Bull Durham,” “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” And sometimes you get both. Just ask the Pepperdine baseball team. Anyone who’s seen the movie would know that it’s hard to take an oddball like Nuke seriously, but his statement definitely has truth to it, as evidenced … [Read more...] about Rainfall dampens field, not fun at annual alumni baseball game
Thailand trek shows students tribal life
BLAIR WARNERThailand Columnist Riding elephants, staying in a tribal village, meeting and living with Thai families, river rafting, playing with underprivileged and malnourished tribal kids and Thai language boot camp are just a few examples of what students in the spring semester in Thailand (SST) 2007 program have done in the three weeks that we have been here. And I have … [Read more...] about Thailand trek shows students tribal life