Ranked 20th on Princeton Review's list of the top "LGBT-unfriendly" campuses it may be difficult to believe that Pepperdine would attract any gay students faculty or staff. However there are quite a few gay waves in our midst. Just like our straight peers we chose to come to Pepperdine for various reasons including the faith-based community academic prestige awe-inspiring … [Read more...] about Our campus ranked 'LGBT' unfriendly
Perspectives
Not as perfect as appearances say
Our small campus is one filled with beautiful girls smart girls thin girls rich girls busy girls girls who seemingly have it all together. If you look around and try to compare yourself there will always be someone who has a life that seems easier happier or more privileged than your own. There will always be someone with nicer clothes someone whose body looks better in those … [Read more...] about Not as perfect as appearances say
Finding hope after Project Serve
After being back from Guatemala more than a week I still struggle with knowing how to respond when people ask me how my break was. It seems like no matter how hard I try words always fall short. When I try to describe the process of building the church I can never quite explain how being dirty sweaty sunburned sore and physically exhausted brought me closer to Christ. When I … [Read more...] about Finding hope after Project Serve
May I have this dance?
What kind of dance partner are you? I know this is a random question but seriously. I never thought about this before I recently experienced being someone's dance partner and not like grinding and nasty dance partnering — like real dancing. In my case it was the country two-step. The other night a group of my friends and I decided we wanted to go country dancing. It was … [Read more...] about May I have this dance?
If Beyoncé were to fight Stefani …
"I wish …" "If only …" such are the beginnings of thoughts that can grow into reality-changing ideas and actions. In the middles of these thoughts comes an element essential to communicating their possibility: subjunctive verbs. Please resist the temptation to put down the paper now that we've mentioned language rules, and follow us down the rabbit hole into the wonderful world … [Read more...] about If Beyoncé were to fight Stefani …