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Opinion: Don’t Feel the Pressures of Figuring Out Your Life’s Purpose So Young

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Art by Madeline DuvallClose your eyes and picture your life in 20 years. What do you see? Who do you have by your side? What circumstances led you to this precipice of life? What is your life's purpose? These questions are daunting to even the most accomplished adults, yet many advisers and professors ask students constantly. Between the ages of 18 and 22, young adults are … [Read more...] about Opinion: Don’t Feel the Pressures of Figuring Out Your Life’s Purpose So Young

Give Students an Online Option for Fall 2020

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Art by Madeline DuvallUncertainty is the word on everyone’s lips, pens and keyboards lately. No one can definitively say how the coronavirus will affect the world in the coming months — regardless of how much planning, praying or predicting takes place.Pepperdine recently announced its plan to resume in-person instruction in the fall, provided that LA moves into … [Read more...] about Give Students an Online Option for Fall 2020

Clarify the Good Samaritan Rule

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Art by Peau PorotesanoThe recent deactivation of Pepperdine's Delta Tau Delta fraternity has brought to light many questions about the Good Samaritan Policy outlined in the Student Handbook. This Policy is not being upheld the way students were led to believe it would be. It needs to be revised and clarified.The Good Samaritan Policy was created with the intent of encouraging … [Read more...] about Clarify the Good Samaritan Rule

Sensitivity Shrouds Virtue

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Art by Sybil ZhangThe United States is in the throes of a decades-long identity crisis. No place is this more apparent than the American university. Ironically, in an effort to placate calls for tolerance, administrators continue to stifle the free exchange of ideas. They are, in effect, teaching their students to be “nice,” at the expense of virtue.Major changes in … [Read more...] about Sensitivity Shrouds Virtue