Perspectives

It's 1 o'clock in the morning and just as you finally finish your research paper for your morning class the next day you get a call from a friend reminding you that the quiz that was scheduled one month ago will be taking place tomorrow in your other class. Frustrated by the fact that this has slipped your mind you realize the only option now is to down that next cup of coffee … [Read more...] about Sleepless in Seaver struggle

Wake up. Torture innocent animals. Rinse and repeat. Get dressed. Torture innocent animals again. Put on the finishing touches and walk to class.No average college student would write this on his or her daily to-do list. Yet however unknowingly nearly every Pepperdine student probably follows this routine each morning. Through simple choices of body hair and makeup products … [Read more...] about Consumers complicit in animal torture

It was the 13th century. While the period of the High Middle Ages was well underway in Europe in the distant cultural universe of medieval Japan there lived a Buddhist monk known as Nichiren Daishonin.  Challenging government sponsorship of the religious establishment of his day he sought to reclaim the teachings found in the Lotus Sutra (an earlier Buddhist sacred text) … [Read more...] about Resisting the 'eight winds'

We have all been there: the seemingly endless line at the mailroom. Maybe you were waiting to acquire the much-anticipated package from back home or collect the clothes you recently ordered off the Internet.  Maybe you experienced the freshman frustration of having to stand in line to see if you have any mail at all only because you can't get the mailbox open and sometimes … [Read more...] about Staff Editorial: Mail services frustrates students needs support

In 1961, during his final address to the nation as president, Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term military industrial complex warning the citizens of the United States of the possible consequences of the rapidly expanding military defense program. He cautioned against the development of a system in which the military, government and defense-contracting companies each have … [Read more...] about Miltary industrial complex influences university world