Perspectives

SHANNON KELLYContributor Election ‘08’s big words are “change” and “experience.” Candidates love to spout them out, and as Super Tuesday passed, the same words held the same bizarre clout. I realized voters are eating these words right up, without taking a second to digest their meaning (or lack thereof). The presidential front-runners are exploiting these seemingly weighty … [Read more...] about Candidates hide behind meaningless buzz words

STEPHANIE TANIZARAssistant Perspectives Editor LimeWire. BitTorrent. Napster. Half a century ago, these names would have been nothing but gobbledygook. Today, they are virtually recognized worldwide as popular “peer-to-peer” (P2P) or file sharing software, most commonly used to share music. Downloading songs from a P2P network, however, is illegal. The music industry has begun … [Read more...] about RIAA in the right with fight againstfile sharing

LANCE MCNEILContributor For almost four years, I’ve pondered Pepperdine’s selection of majors and arrived at one conclusion: some are more difficult than others.  We need to acknowledge and account for the varying difficulty of different majors. I propose that Seaver College adopt a ‘strength of schedule’ provision when calculating academic awards, such as Dean’s List and … [Read more...] about Academic ‘strength of schedule’ needed

MIA SULLIVANPerspectives Assistant Many people point to excessive defense spending as the cause for our mounting national debt. What some forget, however, is that excessive healthcare spending is also eating away at our nation’s economy. In 2007, U.S. state and local governments spent $864.2 billion on healthcare and $681.2 billion on defense. According to an article in the New … [Read more...] about Clinton’s plan won’t heal healthcare crisis