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"Bigger … louder …weirder!" Tracy Burns director of the Pepperdine Improv Troupe shouts across the theater to her improvisational students immediately after Wednesday Morning Chapel.In a miniature theater located in an often-overlooked corner of the Payson Learning Center a group of 18 students gather for an improv workshop. Led by Burns the lively energetic group … [Read more...] about Pepperdine improv workshop turns heads

While many Pepperdine students finish up their last month studying abroad Pepperdine's 16 Model United Nations (MUN) participants will be having an "international" experience of their own.National MUN which will take place in New York from March 28 to April 1 simulates the process of the United Nations and its international cooperation among foreign nations. The MUN staff … [Read more...] about Pepperdine Model UN will roleplay Great Britain

Just minutes after President Obama signed the landmark health care reform legislation into law solidifying an overhaul of the U.S. health care system top legal officials from 14 states across the country filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the new law. The controversial bill's passage has spurred heated discussion and in some cases protest.  The Federalist … [Read more...] about Legal expert challenges law's constitutionality

While most children his age were reading books like "Holes" and "The Little Prince 9-year-old Caleb Dominguez was sitting in a hospital bed reading a children's book about childhood leukemia, trying to make sense of what it meant to have cancer. Dominguez, now a Pepperdine senior and three-time cancer survivor, has been fighting cancer since he was a child. As … [Read more...] about Students live on after cancer

As members of the class of 2010 get set to embark on their post-college journeys they plan to use their Pepperdine educations and experiences in a wide variety of ways.For seniors who are choosing the job market for instance many are planning to leave Malibu to work in other areas across the country and even across the world."Right now I plan to move to Chicago senior Krista … [Read more...] about Seniors look to the future