Photo and art by Whitney Powell | Powell illustrated first-year Sports Medicine major Everett Baker’s hope to go abroad by drawing him in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Baker plans to study in Buenos Aires next year. Hope. A term people use lightly but feel deeply. Moments of hope can be significant, life-changing events or even just simple smiles from strangers. Pepperdine … [Read more...] about Finding Hope in Every Moment
Currents Magazine
Letter from the Editor
It was in my ninth grade English class that I first learned about Elie Wiesel. A Holocaust survivor and Jewish prisoner of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, Wiesel recounts his World War II experiences in his memoir “Night” — the book that made its way into the hands of a young Annabelle and 20 other 14-year-old Robinson High students in Little Rock, … [Read more...] about Letter from the Editor
Statistics of Pepperdine and Beyond
Art by Aaron Yang _______________________ Email Melissa Auchard: melissa.auchard@pepperdine.edu Follow Currents Magazine on Twitter: @PeppCurrents and Instagram: @currentsmagazine … [Read more...] about Statistics of Pepperdine and Beyond
What is Global Citizenship?
Stamp-filled passports lay open. Much like a passport, the journey toward global citizenship is like collecting stamps — gathering diverse perspectives in the pursuit of a holistic worldview. The globe has 195 countries, 19,495 cities and 7.753 billion people. With a world population that large, global citizenship may be a hard concept to comprehend. However, those who take … [Read more...] about What is Global Citizenship?
Interconnected
_______________________ Email Lydia duPerier: lydia.duperier@pepperdine.edu Follow Currents Magazine on Twitter: @PeppCurrents and Instagram: @currentsmagazine … [Read more...] about Interconnected