Perspectives

Kiera ScholtenLiving Assistant I love an adventure. Now, I may not have gone skydiving or climbed Mt. Everest, but my little adventures have been just as exciting. For example, one might follow a limousine through Malibu to see where it goes or what celebrity it might hold — what an adventure.  One of my greatest adventures was spending the past year in Florence, Italy, living … [Read more...] about As classes start, new adventures begin

Megan WesterveltNews Assistant Coming to California as a lifelong Colorado resident, I knew there would be dramatic differences in lifestyle and attitude in Malibu. What I didn’t count on, however, was the total absence of gun stores and almost no gun magazines in the grocery store or the local newsstand. My father taught me at age 11 to shoot a .22 rifle, and by my following … [Read more...] about Malibu and Colorado share common gun laws, not common recreational interests

Judith TapperGraduate Student After watching one of the events that was filmed at Pepperdine this summer, I am concerned about the image that is being transmitted to both the academic community and the general public. I realize that the use of the campus by television shows and general media production nets the university a great deal of income and publicity, but I  suggest … [Read more...] about Letter to the Editor: Pepperdine publicity outweighs Christian mission statement

Rachel JohnsonPerspectives Assistant “Today Show” weatherman Al Roker took a break from predicting the weather to try his hand at investigative journalism last week. Venturing out onto the streets of New York, he proceeded to randomly stop people and ask them various questions regarding politics and pop culture. I found the results to be alarming. The majority of those … [Read more...] about Headline news: media focuses on ratings and popular culture

Chris Segal Perspectives Editor Pornography is a taboo subject that people in polite society do not talk about and certainly never watch. Lawmakers recently changed a federal law that went largely unreported. The law, created 15 years ago to prevent producers of pornographic material from using under-age performers, was inspired because of a famous porn star named Traci … [Read more...] about Pro & Con: Regulating Pornography