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The first student to ever lead a Wednes- day Chapel, A.J. Hawks spoke on the need for transparency among Christians, illustrated by his own story of being gay at Pepperdine.
Interview conducted by
AUBREY HOEPPNER
NEWS EDITOR
Graphic: What was your journey of revealing what you’re going through in such a public way? A.J. Hawks: I knew that I did not want to do
that intense of a form of ministry with so much influence and then have people find out later and then feel like they were misled. It was just clearly necessary. It ... Printed Edition »
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to cut $110 mil- lion from the Cal Grant budget would affect financial aid for approximately 430 students at Seaver College and more than 26,000 students in California in both public and private universi- ties. The proposed changes would apply to both incoming and returning students and would be implemented as soon as the 2012-2013 school year.
These changes are part of Brown’s plan to close the state’s growing deficit. If approved, $131.2 million would be saved by reducing the Cal Grant maximum award of $9,708 to ... Printed Edition »
As a result of several surveys conducted last semester, significant changes to housing for sophomores, juniors and seniors will be imple- mented for the upcoming academic year. These implementations will be- gin to be seen in just a few weeks with the earliest date for housing selection taking place on Feb. 8, according to Dean of Housing and Residence Life Brian Dawson.
Some of the biggest changes for next semester will revolve around re- duced costs and a new lottery system for juniors and seniors, as well as the introduction of ... Printed Edition »
Most college students, regardless of having varied majors, interests and post- graduate goals, await the same legacy after completing their undergrad: debt. While for some “financial aid” means thousands of dollars in loans, some savvy students seek employment or merit-based scholar- ship within Pepperdine’s academic depart- ments to offset the cost of attendance.
This fall, several students learned that the “cost of attendance,” according to Pep- perdine’s Office of Financial Assistance, did not include housing or living costs. The office
notified
scholar-
ship re-
cipients
whose
awards
exceeded
tuition
prices that
they could
not accept
all or part
of their
scholarships. ... Printed Edition »
Facing two felony charges, former Pepperdine faculty member Dr. Andrei Duta appeared in court yesterday for a preliminary hearing. Charged with kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon, Duta pled not guilty prior to his appearance at the West District Air- port Courthouse in Los Angeles.
The charges date back to June 24, when at 1:47 a.m., the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded
to a 911 call from the victim, a woman, regarding an incident of domestic vio- lence, according to an SMPD report.
Duta’s involvement with Pepperdine began in 2007 when ... Printed Edition »
t takes a 17-hour flight and two or three taxis through the unfamiliar streets of Amman, Jordan, to arrive here, a nondescript grey building. W. Timothy Pownall, assistant director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolu- tion at the Pepperdine School of Law, and his partners
in the PACIS
Project are ush-
ered into the of-
fice of a bearded,
turbaned man
in his mid-60s
— the secretary
general of the
international
leadership of the
Muslim Brother-
hood.
He could easily field dress an AK-47 blindfolded, Pownall thinks, as he faces a man who considers a Westerner his enemy. ... Printed Edition »
A 17-year-old high school student was the third young man to die in a span of six days, leaving a community in shock and wondering why. The most recent incident, believed to be a suicide, follows another alleged suicide and a suspected case of fatal alcohol poisoning.
According to the Malibu Patch website, on Monday the student from Agoura High School allegedly drove his car off Piuma Road, and the car burst into flames, triggering a small brush- fire. The young man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the fire ... Printed Edition »
For $3 million, she could have bought a 6,000-square-foot house, multiple Lambo- rghinis or courtside seats at a Lakers game for four generations.
Recently, Pepperdine alumna Laure Su- dreau-Rippe decided to use $3 million to give back to her alma mater and establish the Laure Sudreau-Rippe Endowed Chair at the School of Law.
Sudreau-Rippe is the first female School of Law graduate to donate more than $1 million, the first female Pepper- dine graduate to endow a chair, the young- est graduate to donate that amount and the fourth law school graduate ... Printed Edition »
Welcome to the 75th anniversary edition of
the Graphic! These eight pages contain original
articles and images dating back to 1937, the first
year of this school’s and this publication’s histories.
I’ve selected content that gives a telling if
brief account of Pepperdine’s history.
I learned a few things in my research that you
can’t take away from only reading these pages.
George Pepperdine College, or GPC, lends its letters
to the title of this publication: GraPhiC. At
its inception, the school was a bastion of conservative
Christians in a then much safer South Central
Los Angeles. And while the 1940s were ... Printed Edition »
An Italian appealscourt foundAmerican AmandaKnox not guilty ofmurder on Monday,overturning a lowercourt’s original 2009verdict. e rulingvalidated the workformer Deputy Directorof PublicSafety Steve Moore had contributedto the Knox defense. eeight-member jury cleared Knoxand her former boyfriend, ItalianRa aele Sollecito of the rape andmurder of British college studentMeredith Kercher. e judge,however, upheld Knox’s convictionof slander for falsely implicatinglocal bar owner PatrickLumumba in the crime, a sentenceof three years, stricken fortime served, and 22,000 euros. e prosecution intends to appealthe ruling to the Italian SupremeCourt, but the chances of Knoxbeing ... 
