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  Joslyn Plaza usually pristine with its shimmering fountain flora and statuary has a different appearance this week: The concrete is quilted with various sleeping materials cardboard "shelters and a handful of tired-looking students loitering about the area.  From Sunday to today, as part of Pepperdine's Week of Hunger and Homelessness, students are camping out … [Read more...] about Students go without to help Malibu's homeless

Ten weeks ago I posed a thought to the Pepperdine community about the embarrassingly low attendance at athletic events. The last paragraph of the column went something like this: "This could be the year that we stop hiding behind a facade of fake school spirit fueled by the free T-shirts and Chipotle burrito card handouts at home games. Whether we want to admit it or not our … [Read more...] about School spirit, athletic department tie for last

  Certain movies are immune to reviewers. Movies that people have long since decided to see or not see by the time they read a review about it. Nothing written by a film critic is going to persuade someone not to see such a film when they've already decided to and vice versa. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" is one of those films.    The "Harry … [Read more...] about 'Deathly Hallows' proves hollow

The sun shone brightly and the air was still Saturday morning as the Pepperdine men's rugby team painted lines on the grass and assembled goal posts on Alumni Field in preparation for the annual alumni game. The rugby team finished the fall preseason 5-0-1 but suffered its first loss to the band of alumni almost 30 players 66-12. The first try was scored in the early minutes of … [Read more...] about Men's rugby alumni teach undergrads a painful lesson

  Sadists at heart teachers pile on exams and research papers right before Thanksgiving. The pre-break pressure only intensifies when students set high standards. If students would just risk mediocrity they'd see it makes everything better.   We can turn to the self-proclaimed patron saint of mediocrity for what not to do on this matter. In the movie "Amadeus the … [Read more...] about Embrace the mediocre lighten the load