BRITTANY YEAROUTPerspectives Editor An open market for ideas, critical thinking, tolerance and free speech, is supposed to be the mainstay of American universities. However, as director Evan Coyne Maloney’s upcoming film, “Indoctrinate U,” highlights, the truth is becoming just the opposite. By revealing specific instances in public and private colleges, Maloney proves that … [Read more...] about Film exposes truth about academia
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Life: It is a balancing act
MARC CHOQUETTEOnline Content Manager As our generation takes the helm of the working world away from the Baby Boomers, we will inherit a job landscape different from when our parents were just out of college. But studies show the state of the American work force in the 21st century is troublesome. Many signs point to the fact that we may be working too much, especially outside … [Read more...] about Life: It is a balancing act
Reignite the engine of exploration
ASHTON ELLISStaff Writer “Remember when the whole world looked up.” These words appear as the tagline to the new film, “In the Shadow of the Moon.” Set for release this month, the documentary features interviews with every living member of the Apollo Moon missions. They recall the crowning technological achievement of the twentieth century: landing a man on the moon and … [Read more...] about Reignite the engine of exploration
Price hike doesn’t satiate appetites
LANDON PHILLIPS/Assistant Art Director STAFF EDITORIAL It will be no surprise to returning Pepperdine students that food prices in the Waves Cafe and across campus increased significantly this semester. The price for a fruit cup more than doubled from $2.05 in March to $4.29 in August, before Dining Services dropped the price to $3.59 this week. It channeled the pricing … [Read more...] about Price hike doesn’t satiate appetites
Suicide rate skyrockets, rises 76 percent for American girls
CURRY CHANDLERStaff Writer One of the basic tenets of journalism is that the profession is concerned with the five Ws: who, what, where, when and why. Concerning teenage suicide, the answers to the who, what, where and when are known, but the why remains unanswered. Suicide among young Americans has skyrocketed, definitively capping a lengthy period of abatement in suicide … [Read more...] about Suicide rate skyrockets, rises 76 percent for American girls