Photos by Kaelin Mendez The Office of the Chaplain organized a prayer service for the community to unite, pray and mourn the victims of the Borderline shooting in Smothers Theatre at noon Thursday. Integrated Marketing Communication for the university streamed the service on a protected feed. Sixteen Pepperdine students were present at the Borderline Bar & Grill in … [Read more...] about Prayer Service Honors Borderline Shooting Victims
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Pepperdine Staff and Faculty React to Borderline Shooting
Photos by Kaelin Mendez Pepperdine staff and faculty are responding to the shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks Wednesday night that left 12 people dead and at least 10 injured. Sixteen Pepperdine students were present during the shooting, according to a University email sent Thursday morning. A local hospital treated and released two students but one … [Read more...] about Pepperdine Staff and Faculty React to Borderline Shooting
Pepperdine Cares for Trauma-Stricken Students Amid National Tragedies
Photos by Nicole Spafford A man opened fire in a Texas church Nov. 5 and killed 26 people, just five weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history that killed 59 in Las Vegas. Six days earlier, a man drove a truck into a bike path in Manhattan, killing at least eight and injuring 11 others. These mass slayings came weeks after Hurricane Harvey killed 82 … [Read more...] about Pepperdine Cares for Trauma-Stricken Students Amid National Tragedies
Pepperdine Goes Smoke-Free
Pepperdine will transition to a smoke-free university starting Fall 2018, according to an email from Pepperdine's Public Relations office.This change will apply both to Pepperdine's domestic and international campuses, though graduate campuses will retain designated outdoor smoking areas per their lease agreements, according to the email.Director of Human Resources Sean Michael … [Read more...] about Pepperdine Goes Smoke-Free
Pepp plans to increase Seaver
Graphic by Chad Jimenez There are 953 incoming students at Seaver College this semester, as of Friday morning. Growing Seaver was a plan set in motion in 2014 to expand Seaver College and to have 916 students in each class with a total of 3,664 total undergraduate students. Although Dean of Seaver College Michael Feltner said he expects the number to decline slightly … [Read more...] about Pepp plans to increase Seaver