Perspectives

ROBERT KAUFMAN Contributing Writer As the world marks the third anniversary of the American led invasion of Iraq, criticism of President Bush’s conduct of the war has intensified. The overwhelming number of commentators have rushed to pronounce the enterprise a failure, citing a variety of rationale for their scathing judgment of the President: the failure to find Iraqi … [Read more...] about U.S. should push the Bush Doctrine 

JOHN PAYNE Staff Writer For those of you who do not know who Daniel Dennett or Sam Harris are, briefly they can be introduced as two of the more well-known secular humanist philosopher-scientists who adhere to a purely naturalistic and scientific view of the world. It goes without saying that these two are evolutionists, and it is not my point in writing this article to … [Read more...] about Religion: not irrational

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