Special Publications

BLAKE KNIGHTStaff Writer The day of Monopoly has passed. Scrabble tiles lie in thin sheets of dust and are strewn about the shelves of grandmother’s game closets everywhere. A new era involving more advanced gaming – video games involving motion detection – and more exciting ways of achieving a sense of entertainment is at hand. This is the age of geocaching. Geocaching – “geo” … [Read more...] about The new rage: Geocaching

NICOLE ALBERTSONStaff Writer As many still around campus have noticed, The Pepperdine School of Law is the location of the much-publicized Floyd Landis arbitration. News vans, camera crews and the foreign press wait outside daily for the latest results of the testimony. Landis, the 2006 Tour De France cycling Champion, tested positive last year for drug use by the United … [Read more...] about Landis arbitration at Law School

SAMANTHA BLONSStaff Writer The Pepperdine Natural Science Division has a language all its own – one with which its students are quite familiar. Homework does not mean a quick worksheet, like in a communication course, but rather a 14-page calculus assignment that will take several hours. A paper does not mean an essay on a political issue or a Shakespearean play, but instead … [Read more...] about The Natural Science Division

JESSICA ROTTERStaff Writer Dr. Donna Nofziger Plank, associate professor of biology, has quite an unusual combination of passions: family, community in God, teaching and science. She has been a professor since 1998 after receiving her Ph. D. from UCLA and her B.A. in biology from Baylor.  Since she was a child, she always knew that science was her thing. “When I was a little … [Read more...] about Natural Science Division: Professor Plank

TAYLOR OLANDTStaff Writer If mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas, and great teachers teach from the heart, not the book, then Don Hancock must be one heck of a poet. This year marks Don Hancock’s 27th year teaching mathematics at Pepperdine University. He is a native Southern Californian, and has two sons who both attend Pepperdine. Among the many reasons for choosing to … [Read more...] about Natural Science Division: Professor Hancock