RYAN HAGENNews Assistant The current version of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) will not be offered after July 31, a change affecting many students who hope to attend graduate school. Most graduate schools require the GRE, with law, business and medical schools being the main exceptions. It is taken by 500,000 students annually. The revised, longer version will be offered … [Read more...] about GRE exam to change; new version will test cognitive reasoning
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SGA to provide music television
KATE SCHWARTZNews Assistant At its general meeting Wednesday, SGA supported a new program called MTVu that is showing up on college campuses across the nation. MTV University, MTVu, is a new program that MTV recently created to better connect and inform college campuses. An MTVu channel would be added to Pepperdine’s cable television package featuring music videos, clips of MTV … [Read more...] about SGA to provide music television
New regent brings wealth of experience
SHANNON KELLYNews Editor The Pepperdine Board of Regents has appointed, as its newest member, a former senior vice president of the popular dating Web site, eHarmony.com. Alumna Marylyn M. Warren, wife of the company’s founder alumnus Dr. Neil Clark Warren, will sit on the advancement and public affairs committee of the university’s chief governing body. “There are several … [Read more...] about New regent brings wealth of experience
Conference confronts dire global issues
SCOTT MILLERNews Assistant Associate Professor of Law Dr. Roger Alford and Visiting Professor Michael Bazyler stood in the courtroom used by the prosecutors in the Nuremburg trials for the 60th anniversary of those trials. They started talking about holding a conference on genocide at Pepperdine University’s School of Law. More than a year later, the School of Law joined with … [Read more...] about Conference confronts dire global issues
Sweatshops convo sparks arguments
RYAN HAGENNews Assistant Convocation proved unusually controversial Monday, as Stauffer Chapel filled with students passionately supporting or opposing anti-sweatshops activist Jim Keady’s message on sweatshops. Some students quietly filed out as the presentation, “Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice,” ended. But benches remained crowded two hours after Convo … [Read more...] about Sweatshops convo sparks arguments