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Nearly a year after Pepperdine rejected the Student Government Association's request to ban JuicyCampus on the University server, the economic crisis forced the infamous college gossip Web site to shut down on Thursday, Feb. 5.Our growth outpaced our ability to muster the resources needed to survive the economic downturn said JuicyCampus Founder Matt Ivester in a statement … [Read more...] about JuicyCampus closes Pep reflects

Facebook has Mark Zuckerburg. MySpace has Tom Anderson. The newly opened GreekStrength.com has ... Oprah? According to its creators she is the source of inspiration for the site."The idea for GreekStrength.com actually came from a dream I had said Jerry Sneed a senior at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. I dreamt I was on the Oprah show and told her … [Read more...] about Greeks gather 'strength_' online

The Proposition 8 spotlight has some faculty and staff arguing that Pepperdine has been branded as a far-right institution damaging the university's credibility as a place of scholarship.To combat that impression faculty from a variety of fields formed a new initiative called the Pepperdine Coalition for Balance on Tuesday Feb. 3. The goal is to bring more diverse speakers to … [Read more...] about Faculty demands political balance

With only one month to go until the Calabasas City Council election the five candidates vying for three open seats sat down to answer questions from the community. … [Read more...] about Video of the Week: Calabasas Candidate Forum heats up

If Barack Obama was Asian I would have supported him for President. If he was a woman homosexual or used a wheelchair he still would have had my vote. Even if he was white I would have voted for him. The point is that Obama was elected regardless of his minority status because the majority of voting Americans believe him to be the superior candidate. His vision of change for … [Read more...] about New politics redefining 'White' House