By Sarah Carrillo--News Assistant & Maya Minwary--Assistant Lifestyles Most students come to college to gain life experience. Freshman Athena Asklipiadis, however, already has more experience than most people will ever have. Growing up in the Crenshaw neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles, Asklipiadis has gained a tough exterior. “L.A. has made me have a harder … [Read more...] about FaceInTheCrowd: Athena Asklipiadis
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Global Gab: You call this an evacuation? Sound more like free vacation to me
By Lindsey BeseckerGraphic Correspondent FLORENCE-This week I have received a lot of phone calls and e-mails concerning the evacuation we are having this week because of certain social forums being held in Florence that have a history of uprisings. But I don’t know if I would really call it an evacuation. Since when are students evacuated to Venice and Verona? Oh yeah, Mom … [Read more...] about Global Gab: You call this an evacuation? Sound more like free vacation to me
Healthy Habits: Would you just quit already?
By Shanna Dusablon Life as a non-smoker in a smoker’s world: Your clothes and hair stink when you come home from a club. Your date has bad breath and kissing is like licking an ashtray. You listen to your roommate coughing all night long. You grew up in a family that smoke, now you suffer from asthma and allergies. You wonder how someone can be so addicted that they will … [Read more...] about Healthy Habits: Would you just quit already?
Mama Mia: Pep caught the wave of being polite
By Kimiko Martinez Pepperdine people are polite. Really. I’m not just trying to flex my alliteration. I’ve noticed in the last week or so how perfectly polite our students are. On the Graphic’s recent trip to Orlando for a journalism conference, one of the employees at a restaurant we visited commented that we were the nicest group of college students that they’d had in. … [Read more...] about Mama Mia: Pep caught the wave of being polite
T-Molbie gives students another choice
Students have another option in cell phone service as wireless newcomer T-Mobile provides the same coverage as CingularBy Adam HoldridgeStaff Writer There was a time, not too long ago, that a cell phone was a privilege and a status symbol. And while the residents of Malibu may have been among the first people to use mobile phones, they may be among the last — at least in … [Read more...] about T-Molbie gives students another choice