Photo by Brandt Misik If you’re anything like I was, NSO has been a lot different than you expected. Thoughts of confusion, alarm and excitement have been spiraling around in your head for the last week since you stepped foot onto Pepperdine’s campus. You arrived nervous as can be on Tuesday, absolutely horrified when you were forced to take your ID photo the moment … [Read more...] about Start Your Pepp Career with Success
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From Rush to Sisterhood
Maybe you’ve heard of it in passing, a wisp of charged conversation about this sorority or that one. It’s possible a poster promoting Dessert Night or Yoga Night dominated a wall you sat near in the Plaza or the eye-catching symbols sewn onto various sweatshirts around campus caught your attention. No matter the medium, all declare the same message: Greek Life Recruitment … [Read more...] about From Rush to Sisterhood
The Journey of a Recruit
Photo by Paola Ramos An athletic team is only as good as its athletes, and at a four-year college the pressure is even higher for coaches to literally and figuratively be on the ball about recruiting. Case in point: at the time he was being interviewed, men’s basketball Head Coach Marty Wilson was en route to the airport in Texas. He was about to scout out a potential … [Read more...] about The Journey of a Recruit
Staff Editorial: Recruitment marks one way to get involved
Art by Sacha Irick What has several letters and numerous tears? If you said a long distance relationship you were close, but we are talking about Panhellenic Recruitment. With recruitment happening this week, there has been a lot of emphasis on being a part of something. Sororities and fraternities are just one of the many ways in which the school has been divided into … [Read more...] about Staff Editorial: Recruitment marks one way to get involved
Shearer shares ‘twenty-two years of distilled military wisdom’
Assistant Professor of Decision Science Robert Shearer was traveling with his son when he discovered Pepperdine. Will, Shearer’s only child, was being recruited to run for the university, and Shearer and his wife Luisa were wandering the campus, not wanting to “hover.” It was then that Shearer chanced across Jere Yates Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management within … [Read more...] about Shearer shares ‘twenty-two years of distilled military wisdom’