KATIE WILFONGStaff Writer The Pepperdine students linger while the rest of their group starts to arrive. In front of Special Programs, the Volunteer Center van remains still, waiting to be driven 30 minutes north on Pacific Coast Highway. The caring volunteers, dressed in baggy clothes, carry nothing with them. As the group is finally together, they pile into the vehicle on a … [Read more...] about Students volunteer at Kirkpatrick
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First year seminar for “Pre-Med” students
FLORA THEDENStaff Writer The stench of stale flesh wafts through the air in a small room in the basement of Pepperdine’s Appleby Center. Hesitant footsteps creep across the tiles, slowly stepping over the puddle of formaldehyde leaking from body bags. As Dr. Laurie Nelson unzips the bags, the bones and organs of the skinless dead bodies are revealed. Resembling a scene in CSI, … [Read more...] about First year seminar for “Pre-Med” students
New eatery planned for Malibu Pier
STEPHEN ROESLERStaff Writer The Malibu Pier, one of Southern California’s most illustrious icons, will soon fully re-open to the public due to a new agreement with The Ruby Restaurant Group. Although the pier is currently open daily from 6 a.m. to sunset, mostly for fishing or sightseeing, the pier will soon contain a few fine attractions to extend the hours. Ruth Coleman, … [Read more...] about New eatery planned for Malibu Pier
In his class, music livens up finance
DANI LIMOSStaff Writer It’s Monday at 8 a.m., and the financial management class sits in the CCB watching a magnified presentation on private loans. All seems normal— another lecture, another chapter, another painfully early Monday— except one thing: there is Mission Impossible-esque music booming out the speakers. Dr. Vassilis Polimenis is not your typical professor. While … [Read more...] about In his class, music livens up finance
New students ponder the Hero’s Journey
GREG LEEStaff Writer An introspective study of Carl Jung’s philosophy, and how it relates to narrative film, bears a sophisticated and intricate connotation. However, for 15 freshmen in Professor Susan Salas’ seminar class, that philosophy is the staple of their first year of college. The first-year seminar class was designed as an adjustment tool for students to be paired … [Read more...] about New students ponder the Hero’s Journey