Perspectives

Over the past three semesters, I’ve developed an unfortunate habit: I absolutely love stealing seats, especially in a classroom setting. You’ve probably noticed how people will select a seat on the first day of class, and will plant themselves in that spot for the rest of the semester. You may be one of those people; if so, beware. At the risk of sounding immature, I’ll admit I … [Read more...] about Modern Dragon Slaying

Should Pepperdine change its mascot from a wave to a deer? Alonso Guerrero-Lopez Freshman Yes: There are definitely plenty of deer on campus, and we kind of are on the territory of deer. There should be deer-crossing signs everywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if our mascot were a deer.             Matthew Myatt Freshman No: Willy the … [Read more...] about Face Off: New mascot?

You may have heard in the headlines a couple years back that a man from China has “sued his wife for being ugly.”  Upon discovering that his baby was, in his words, “hideous,” he assumed infidelity on part of his wife, only to realize that she had in fact, been completely honest with him—minus the fact that she had undergone plastic surgery on her entire face prior to their … [Read more...] about Plastic problems

Since the devastating mass murder in Newtown, Conn., which took the lives of 26 people including 20 children, an estimated 1,502 more have died as a result of gun violence.  This is the human cost of a weak national policy on gun control, policy that has been crippled by decades of lobbying by special interest groups like the National Rifle Association that claim to represent … [Read more...] about Gun culture and the Second Amendment