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"What does it look like to you or what do you see?" asked artist Dan Colella. While I struggled for the correct intellectually creative term he said "It can mean anything you want it to mean as long as it makes you think. There is no wrong answer." His words help express the purpose of the Preserve Art Show on Saturday night: to give support to Pepperdine artists and attempt to … [Read more...] about Show highlights students' emotions through artwork

Dedication devotion drive and durability form the indispensable characteristics essential to performance art. Jason Chanos' distinguished artistry is demonstrated through the voluminous years spent rigorously evolving his knack. A resume chock-full of theatrical performance Chanos now brings this proficiency to Pepperdine. He's changing his focus to his students and manifesting … [Read more...] about Pepperdine welcomes passionate new theater professor

Keith Cantú was alone.Night had fallen. His only friend had boarded a plane bound for the United States and he was stuck in the Indian slums near Agra India - behind the Taj Mahal. With nowhere else to go Cantú loitered and chatted with villagers. He gave them crude English lessons. Eventually they pulled an outdoor cot for him. They crowded around as he settled … [Read more...] about Couch Surfing

It was an unfortunate coincidence. After grazing the weekly Graphic I came across a column about Barack Obama and his tax policy. That is where I saw the word.No it was not the "N" word. It was not even directed at him. I read the word "lynchpin."Immediately the first five letters sent a rush of memories of the Civil Rights movement: torture despair injustice stories about how … [Read more...] about The Race Cards

"Maybe God doesn't exist." It's a bold somewhat harrowing notion on the campus of a prominent Christian university but this statement made by Pepperdine senior Colin Davies is precisely the kind of outlook the group "Doubters Anonymous" is aimed at uncovering.The group formed by Davies and fellow senior Brett Hughes is a new feature this semester at University Ministries which … [Read more...] about Doubters Anonymous