This is the final issue of the fall semester. PEPPERDINE GRAPHIC MEDIA The future of journalism lives here. Volume XLIV, Issue 10 | November 14, 2013 | www.pepperdine-graphic.com Why you can’t get an internship anymore >> See A7 ‘A king without a By RicardO AVILA ALVareZ Assistant News Editor Aaron Lewis was arrested on campus on last kingdom’ Monday for weapons possession on university grounds. A few hours after being released from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff ’s station at around 7 p.m., Lewis went home. He lay down near some » bushes in a nearby park and dozed off. See ALFA, A8 He was taken into custody Nov. 4 when DPS officers and L.A. County Sheriff ’s deputies found two knives in his possession. According to Cal- ifornia law, carrying a blade longer than 2 1/2 inches at a private university is a felony. Men’s basketball Finally. record 2-0 Off-campus meal points pilot program to kick-off in spring >> See B9 By FALON OPSAHL Assistant News Editor For more than a decade, students have been vying for the option of off-campus meal points. How To Thanks to the Student Government Association executive board, How To in collaboration with administration, Dining Services and Housing and Residence Life, students will have the option of signing up for the off-campus meal point pilot program next semester. Pick “As of right now, we need people to sign up in advance,” SGA Pick aa president Demisse Selassie said. “We’re releasing a lot of the infor- mation before Thanksgiving break so that people can sit down with their families and discuss this over the dinner table. We need a pool of students who will opt into this in oder for it to get off the ground. ProvostProvost If no one signs up, it can be detrimental to potentially implementing and incorporating this.” Since Provost Darryl Tippens Selassie said students will receive a link to create an account onto announced his retirement, which they or their parents can transfer money, which will automat- administrators have been ically be synced to the student ID cards to use at the off-campus lo- searching for a qualified cations. Besides a minimum amount and likely a maximum, students individual to fill his position. can determine exactly how much money they would like to put on Select member of Provost 1 search committee Benjamin Keoseyan / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER receive nominations 2 »See POINTS, A4 and applications Invite promising applicants to 3 Sodexo be interviewed Consider community begin review of responds and committee applicant files recommendations in december By FALON OPSAHL Assistant News Editor 6 5 4 The Student Government As- Narrow application sociation’s Oct. 30 junior town hall pool to three or four produced immediate results in the in February or March Caf. Listen to Kale has been added to the 7 finalist salad bar, and nutritional informa- presentions tion is now available online. The town hall conversation fo- cused on student concerns with Sodexo, since General Manager Benton 1-2 ft. of Dining Services Randy Penwell makes 1 ft. attended to talk with the juniors 8 and listened to what they had to final say, according to SGA junior class decision president Cassandra Rodriguez 1-21 ft. ft. and SGA junior senators Eliza- beth Yang and Angel To. »See SODEXO, A8 1-21-2 ft.ft. » Xander Hayes / CREATIVE DIRECTOR See Provost, A4 1-2 ft. A2 Graphic NEWS November 14, 2013 Submit your photos via with the hashtag: JULIA NAMAN News Assistant #ayoGraphic ‘Twas the month before Christmas Halloween is over. Knott’s Scary Farm is long gone. And although I still sense an eerie presence of darkness and de- cay, I assume that’s just from the sagging pumpkins in my suite as they succumb to the force of gravity. It’s that confusing time of year when I have no clue what I should be celebrat- ing. My candy supply from trick-or-treating is down ARIAEZRA EVR to disheartening Whoppers @ 4 @TIFFTIFFDOMINATION @DAMONSALVATORE247 and Smarties (why do people #sunset #pepperdine #nopark- bother to buy those, anyway?), I hate to see you go. But I love Habitual Wednesday After- I’ve had an unnerving amount ingfirelane #ocean #ayographic to watch you leave. #ayowaves noons #ayowaves #vampiredi- of Pumpkin Spice Lattes and #malibu there aren’t any jolly Thanks- #ayographic aries #season5 #healthyeatings giving songs to blast. Clearly, this is God’s way of saying, “It’s Christmastime.” Right? Now I know the leaves have not changed color yet (do the leaves even change color in Malibu?), it is warm enough to go surfing and Thanksgiving isn’t for a few more weeks, but I guess I just don’t care. As far as I am con- cerned, if the Brock House FRIDAY SATURDAY Monday TUESDAY sees fit to put up twinkle 15 16 18 19 lights and the HAWC is serv- What: Art for Art’s Sake: Selections from the What: Winter Wonderland What: Getty Villa Malibu Architec- What: Superheroes and Scripture: ing Peppermint Mochas, well, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Festival When: 11 a.m. ture Tour Lecture by Michael Zakian Christmastime is here. When:11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Where: Civic Center Parking Lot When: 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. When: 5 - 6 p.m. There is no harm in Where: Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art 23519 Civic Center Way Where: Getty Villa Malibu Where: Frederick R. Wiesman celebrating Christmas before Museum of Art Thanksgiving — it’s just like What: Les Miserables What: Multiple Visions - The Crazy What:: Dr. Dani Rabinowitz “The eating dessert before din- When: 7:30 – 9:30p.m. Machine Disproportionality of Justice in What: The Fine Arts Division ner ( … and then again Where: Smothers Theatre When: 7:30 p.m. Maimonides” presents the Pepperdine Guitar after dinner). Who wouldn’t Where: When: LACMA 4 - 5 p.m. Ensemble want that? And who made Where: Pendleton Learning Center When: 7:30 - 9:15 p.m. the rule that Christmas must Where: Raitt Recital Hall be confined between Nov. 29 and Dec. 25? There is no date in the Bible of Jesus’ birth, so for all we know, the actual Christmas could be in March. So just let me listen to my WHAT’S TRENDING holiday music and put out my Nativity set already. I used to be one of those puritanical children who did not believe in Christmas until December. Then I would have 11/11/13 one month to cram in tree decorating, cookie baking 11/11/13 11/13/13 How do I know (to be honest, it’s just cook- formal season ie dough eating), present Veritas Forum: 11/13/13 About to talk is upon us? new purchasing, Christmas movie The most con- to all the RAs profile pictures watching, light scouting, WE WON! troversial Convo @pepperdine with 7 million candy cane eating, ice skating Pepperdine @SaucekidSu- about faith and likes #Pepper- and the attempt to read the offers...according preme was 1 technology but dineProblems Nativity story at least five times so I wouldn’t lose sight to the Twitter rebound away I am barely #BeautifulPeo- world. from a double awake ... of what is really important ple (and obviously I would never double do that). It was madness, and I was never ready to see the season go. Now that I begin cele- brating four weeks ahead of schedule, I couldn’t be happier @katieeeep @chrishostetler1 @CraigDetweiler @Pepp_Problems when we start to tear down the tree. There’s another round of midterms coming up, finals after that and a looming 10-page paper that is due in the way-too-near future. I guess one could say I am coping with stress by cele- brating prematurely, but really (along with my roommates, by default), I’m simply getting a head start on the holiday season. I’ve already made a Christ- 11/4/13 8:48 a.m. 11/4/13 9:53 p.m. 11/5/13 1:11 p.m. Location: Thornton Administration mas music playlist on Spotify Incidents — Property Damage — Crimes — Trespassing Incidents — Silent Security Alarm — Center and an extensive list of gifts Non-Criminal Location: Seaver Drive DPS Booth Motion Detector(s) Summary: A staff member reported re- to buy my family members. Location: Lower Tennis Courts - Crest Summary: Public Safety officers respond- Location: Off-Campus Location— ceiving suspicious phone calls on a gen- And if you hear Nat King Summary: There was a report that a pole ed to a report of a person who was previ- Los Angeles eral university phone line of automated Cole’s Christmas album blast- that holds up a tennis net was accidently ously warned for trespassing on campus Summary: Public Safety received a re- recordings stating that a social security ing through campus, there is knocked over by a Crest member during attempting to gain access to the universi- port from an off-campus security alarm number may be stolen or compromised. a large probability that I’m a match. ty. The individual was taken into custody monitoring station advising an active just trying to spread a little by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department alarm at a university warehouse. The 11/10/13 7:22 p.m. pre-Thanksgiving-Christmas 11/4/13 2:22 p.m. for trespassing on private property. L.A. County Sheriff’s Department re- Incidents — Heat and Smoke Alarms cheer. If you don’t like dessert before dinner, or if your name Fire/Hazards — Dumpster/Trash Can sponded and performed an area check Location: Drescher Student Housing happens to be Scrooge, please Fire 11/5/13 4:19 a.m.