Amid the hustle bustle and sleepless reverie of fall finals week a professor priest and university president made Pepperdine history.On Monday Dec. 8 2008 nearly 40 students and faculty filed into Stauffer Chapel at 9 p.m. for a Catholic Mass celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception - the first on-campus Mass in nearly 30 years.Moreover President Andrew K. Benton … [Read more...] about Waves of Faith: Catholics on campus
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Kmiec reflects on Obama campaign
Doug Kmiec Pepperdine professor of constitutional law and an active supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign left Malibu for Washington D.C. Wednesday morning directly following the election.Kmiec declined to give more details other than saying his trip has to do "in part" with Obama who he said he expects to speak to within the next 12 to 24 hours."[Obama] will meet … [Read more...] about Kmiec reflects on Obama campaign
'Frogz' leaps off stage
The surreal acrobatic production, Frogz blurred the line between the stage and the audience as the Imago Theatre company performed at Smothers Theatre on Sunday. Five acrobats donned various costumes and masks to represent different objects and animals, taking their acts off the stage and into the laps of the audience. The creations delivered by the flexible performers ranged … [Read more...] about 'Frogz' leaps off stage
Benton briefs University community on budget at town hall meeting
President Andrew K. Benton fielded questions about Pepperdine's budget situation and its effects on the university at a series of town hall meetings Thursday Jan. 22.At the first question-and-answer session which nearly filled Smothers Theater with faculty staff and other members of the Pepperdine community Benton began with a 20-minute overview of the financial problems facing … [Read more...] about Benton briefs University community on budget at town hall meeting
Professor brings history alive
Nothing can or sometimes even should stay the same forever. Take a raisin for example. Though it starts as a grape patience and ample time to dehydrate create this dried fruit. Victor Davis Hanson born in 1953 and raised in the small town of Selma Calif. grew grapes on his family farm and learned a valuable lesson from this process. He has since spent much of his life studying … [Read more...] about Professor brings history alive