LAURA JOHNSONA&E Assistant Editor For anyone who has experienced Sonja Sorrell’s Humanities 111 class of greatness, it is known that bread and beer were the first substances concocted by the Neolithic humans when they began to cultivate their own food. This meaning, even since the beginning of time, alcohol has been helping people dance. However, for every kid on the … [Read more...] about Lowering drinking age failed before, not solution now
Perspectives
Top scores for Malibu schools, but not for state
Melissa GiaimoAssistant Perspectives Editor Although Malibu public schools earned high marks in California’s annual school assessment, the California education system and API evaluation method is in disarray. Last Tuesday, March 27, California’s Department of Education released the revised 2006 Academic Performance Index (API) and state rankings. API measures academic … [Read more...] about Top scores for Malibu schools, but not for state
Adderall use is hidden danger on campus
MEREDITH RODRIGUEZStaff Writer It is dead week. There are two tests and three papers ahead and a semester’s worth of procrastinating behind. Voices charged with 10,000 gallons of pressure blast through the mind— parents, a competitive roommate, and worst of all your own voice— reminding that you have always been everything to everyone. There is no sense in stopping now. It is … [Read more...] about Adderall use is hidden danger on campus
Americans in need of a long term perspective
MATTHEW PICCOLOStaff Writer Americans possess abundant strengths that make their country a world superpower, but their most debilitating characteristic is lack of individual and collective foresight. This absence of vision has engendered a nation ripe with impatient foreign policy practices and an exorbitant debt burden. Americans consistently elevate seemingly immediate needs … [Read more...] about Americans in need of a long term perspective
Free speech accusations unfounded
Marc ChoquettePerspectives Editor A recent letter caught my attention from a Pepperdine alumnus to the editor of a L.A.-focused blog, the LAist, expressing concern that Pepperdine was actively suppressing a student’s right to free speech on campus. Nicholas Berg (‘01) charges the administration with “blatant censorship and viewpoint discrimination,” and worries about the … [Read more...] about Free speech accusations unfounded