Perspectives

CASSANDRA TICER Perspectives Assistant The United States is a country whose leaders have prided themselves on upholding the values of freedom, liberty and equality for its citizens. It is a country of successful and effective corporations that cause the United States to be on of the wealthiest nation in the world. However, there is one issue the United States has refused to … [Read more...] about U.S. leaves maternity pay out

SHANNON KELLY Perspectives Editor College admissions requirements are ridiculous. Everyone has heard the stories about the straight-A-athlete-of-the-year-perfect-SATs-philanthropist-extraordinaires getting turned down from schools that they were supposedly over-qualified to attend. Involved in every club, Advanced Placement class, sports team and charity wasn’t enough to win … [Read more...] about Yale’s Taliban Acceptance is Irresponsible

BRIAN DILLE Staff Writer Simpson’s creator and erstwhile comic artist Matt Groening famously posed the above question “Should you go to Graduate School?” in his strip, followed by a self-help-style true/false quiz (complete with boxes to check next to the questions): “1. I am a compulsive neurotic; 2. I like my imagination crushed into dust; 3. I enjoy being a professor’s … [Read more...] about Grad school: Not a quarter-life crisis fix

GABE DURAM Staff Writer I’ve spilled some satirical ink this year about the awful state of modern filmmaking, and on the whole I believe our country’s entertainment is in a trite, mindless place. Yet the Academy’s choice of five exceptional films as the year’s Best Picture nominees gives me hope. I’m aware that not all of Pepperdine feels this way. In Brian Chatwin’s Feb. 2 … [Read more...] about Left-leaning films still Oscar worthy

STAFF EDITORIAL At Pepperdine we often find our eyes shifting toward “those girls.” They may be those ones in this sorority, or that sorority. They made be those ones with the Chanel bag — one for each day of the week — and beach-blonde hair to go  with  overly tanned skin. Whatever the case, they’re those girls who get the glances, the ones who catch people’s attention and … [Read more...] about NCAA-bound womens deserve praise