Staff editorial There’s a buzz going around campus about possible schedule changes. Currently Pepperdine is on a Monday, Thursday and Tuesday, Friday schedule. With the implementation of the schedule change, classes will be held three days a week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday or two days a week on Tuesday, Thursday. The Seaver Faculty Association (SFA) is changing the … [Read more...] about Students face unfair schedule change
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U.S. should push the Bush Doctrine
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
Grad school: Not a quarter-life crisis fix
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
Left-leaning films still Oscar worthy
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