Working alongside President Obama's campaign staff and lobbyists in Washington D.C. is not what most students characterize as a normal summer. However Pepperdine students are afforded some amazing opportunities - even some as lofty as Capital Hill. Senior Sara Ward from Mercer Island Wash. has taken full advantage of such opportunities walking the road from Obama "helper" to … [Read more...] about Student fights for justice
News
Resurrecting the ailing print media
They say print is dead. They say we are a generation of illiterates by choice who cannot find it in ourselves to pick up a book - well unless it's "Twilight" - or read something more than the news ticker on CNN. In a world with the Internet words on a peice of paper are useless.Tell that to Carla Kostoff a Washington D.C. newsstand owner who sold thousands of copies of the … [Read more...] about Resurrecting the ailing print media
Closing Guantnamo bridges gap
On his second day as President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay within one year. The detention facility was established after 9/11 by the Bush administration to imprison individuals defined as "enemy combatants"- those who the administration felt posed a potential threat to national security. Located on the … [Read more...] about Closing Guantnamo bridges gap
Poetry Corner
The eye of Orion watches from western skiesas he slides along his radio beaminto the waiting arms of oblivion.And I'm keeping my ear to the groundlistening for his siren callto wake me from this jealous swellof my internal symphony.Orion's feet are drippingblues and greys into the mesosphereof my understandingthreatening to recreate the personI thought it was.I told him "I … [Read more...] about Poetry Corner
TangoKilo
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree for Pepperdine professor Dr. Mike Jordan's son Randy. You might not have guessed it but in his youth Dr. Jordan was a very talented drum player. And several decades later his son Randy became the lead drummer of the up-and-coming band TangoKilo. TangoKilo performed last Friday at Blue Club in Agoura Hills to a crowd of Pepperdine … [Read more...] about TangoKilo