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This summer a young woman from Ukraine stopped by Pepperdine to drop off her résumé with the Pepperdine cross country team.  That same woman Iryna Vashchuk is now both the men's and women's cross country assistant coach and is already making a noticeable difference in the cross country program.   Described by members of the team as kind dedicated and … [Read more...] about Ukrainian runner comes to Pepp

    Steve Moore says he knows how to read evidence and he should. After all he spent 25 years as an FBI agent analyzing evidence to put bad guys behind bars.   Moore now retired from law enforcement and one of Pepperdine's deputy directors of Public Safety drew upon his experience as a federal investigator to call media attention to his recent findings: that … [Read more...] about Moore Questions Italian Conviction

  For the Cordoba Initiative: Allison McCarty   One of these things is not like the other: the Al-Qaeda terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the moderate Muslims who want to build a community center in Manhattan.  Conflating the two isn't just bigoted— it's dangerous.   As tensions escalate between supporters and opponents of … [Read more...] about A Graphic Face-Off: Disagreeing over the 'Ground Zero Mosque'

  For the past 22 years the new fall semester has been ushered in with Pepperdine's traditional Step Forward Day. As a day to serve others and consider what has been given freely to oneself Step Forward Day is meant to serve as a reminder to Pepperdine students and faculty to give back to the community. Student-founded in 1988 the Pepperdine Volunteer Center (PVC) has … [Read more...] about Pep steps forward into service tradition