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JAIMIE FRANKLIN & RACHEL JOHNSONAssistant News Editor & News Assistant There’s some good news for health nuts: A Whole Foods Market is set to open in the Malibu Colony. The bad news is it won’t be open any sooner than two years from now. The location for the health food store is at the corner of Cross Creek Road and Civic Center Way, where the former Papa Jack’s Skate … [Read more...] about Whole Foods plans to open new Malibu store in future

JESSICA MERTURIStaff Writer Da Shiek Woodard received a practice room key in 1993 when he was merely a freshman at Pepperdine. After his performance during his 10-year reunion at Homecoming, he was determined to see if it worked. “We’re going to find out today if this is working,” Woodard said as he dangled in the air the key he had saved for so long. When Woodard attended … [Read more...] about Alumnus’ music still sweet

RACHEL SACHERStaff Writer The Chinese Student Union, led by junior Yuan Fang, celebrated the Chinese New Year at the HAWC. It’s part of an effort by for Chinese and non-Chinese students to bring the Chinese culture to Pepperdine. “Food is the most important thing about the Chinese New Year. We will play games and have contests, play ping-pong and have chopsticks,” Fang said. … [Read more...] about Chinese New Year celebrated

CAITLIN WHITEStaff Writer When passing through the Sandbar this week, students may  have noticed an unusual sight, the mural for the Eve Project, a student-lead group advocating sexual violence awareness. The Eve Project is an endeavor to stop sexual violence that asked the Pepperdine Community to fill in the blank, “When sexual violence ends, I will…”. The responses were … [Read more...] about Group confronts sexual violence, raises awareness

SCOTT MILLERNews Assistant As I sat in my lecture class in Elkins last week, my professor was explaining a biblical passage from the book of Luke; he was afraid that it would sound too much like social Darwinism, so he quickly explained that it was nothing of the sort, and that it wasn’t “Ayn Rand, or ‘Atlas Shrugged’ stuff” (“Atlas Shrugged” being a 1957 novel written by Rand, … [Read more...] about Rand’s philosophy provides insights