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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 ... Printed Edition »
When the Communication Division
posted scholarships to the accounts of
their top-achieving students involved in
media production, they never imagined
any policy could prevent the students
from receiving the funds they wished
to award. is fall, that is exactly what
happened.
Students awarded scholarships by
academic divisions such as Communication
and Fine Arts received emails
from the O ce of Financial Assistance
detailing their “revised” nancial aid
packages after the addition or increase
of their scholarships. ... Printed Edition »
Public Safety o cers temporarily
detained three students who had
been spotted in Rho parking lot
with what appeared to be a rearm
Wednesday evening.
e students, who were apprehended
around 5:20 p.m., were lming
for an upcoming episode of “ e
Randumb Show” using a realisticlooking
gun prop that other students
mistook for an actual weapon.
“DPS showed up and started
screaming at them, ‘Get out of the
car, get on the ground, drop the
gun,’” said junior Kacie Scherler,
who witnessed the event.
O cers had secured the weapon
in question before the arrival of the
LA Sheri ’s Deputies 20 minutes later.
After ... 
