Department of Public Safety officers are investigating a peeping tom on campus. On Tuesday, Jan. 17, at approximately 10:30 p.m. officers received a call about a possible voyeur around the Crocker residence hall.
“An unidentified person was observed holding a cell phone in the window on the ground floor of a standard residence while a woman was showering,” said DPS Deputy Director Dawn Emrich. It is suspected that the cell phone was used to record the victim while showering.
Although this is the only reported incident this academic year, similar incidents have ...
Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary, beating out moderate conservative (and possible robot) Mitt Romney by 12.5 percentage points. With his win, I, along with many other independent voters, cannot take the Republican Party seriously anymore.
The South Carolina Republican primary has traditionally been won by the party’s most electable candidate who goes on to win the nomination and the backing of the Republican establishment. In an upset that turned the tables on the Romney campaign, Gingrich won S.C., riding high on a campaign strategy of divisive politics and fiery ...
With the proliferation of Internet resources being used in coordination with the classroom, many educators are copyrighting syllabi and lectures in fear of intellectual property theft.
On Courses, professors opting to post materials into “resources” can facilitate the campus-based course experience. The more tech-savvy instructors rely on Courses as a courier for timed quizzes and essays. Others use the system for the distribution of handouts and extra material. Many professors post lecture slides or study guides. The syllabus is always there, complete with the professor’s copyright for that year.
“I always wondered ... 
Professors look back on their college days and the ways the university experience has changed.
“When I was in the university dorms, I was in one of the older men’s dorms. It was a large and stately four-story brick building with Corinthian columns. It was built in the 1920s and featured pipes running along the high ceilings, complemented by concrete floors and walls, a common sleeping room for a four-student suite and no air conditioning in the building. Since the university was located in a desert climate, it was really hot ... 
The revived Learning Exchange at Pepperdine (LEAP) program has moved on to the tackling the Chinese speaking populace. Tonight LEAP kick-starts the new semester with a Chinese New Year party held for international students from China and International Programs alumni from Shanghai in the HAWC.
The program couples Spanish-speaking Pepperdine workers with Buenos Aires returnees. For each week throughout the semester, the pairs have met for 40 minutes trading off from Spanish to English. The Chinese dialogue-exchange will mirror the Spanish timetable.
Students going to Shanghai next year already see the Chinese ... 
Acclaimed journalist Sonia Nazario captivated her Elkins audience Wednesday as the latest speaker in the Seaver Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series. In an address focusing on her most recent book “Enrique’s Journey,” Nazario described her experiences researching the hardships that face Latin Americans who immigrate to the U.S.
The work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for feature writing, tells the story of a teenage Honduran boy’s perilous attempt to rejoin his mother years after she leaves him to find a better life north of the border. Nazario also provided her ... 
