February 2010
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Top 10 Graphic rumors dispelled
http://www.pepperdine-graphic.com/life-arts/top-10-graphic-rumors-dispelled-1.2157564
1. We’re socialists. I once summoned the courage to audit a College Republicans meeting. As fate had it, I snuck into the back of the HAWC just as who I presume is their leader held up a copy of the Graphic and proceeded to educate members on how exactly we push our socialist agenda. The point in case? Keith...
Top 10 stereotypes based on favorite musical...
http://www.pepperdine-graphic.com/life-arts/top-10-stereotypes-based-on-favorite-musical-artist-1.2157608
1. Taylor Swift. Girls who don’t now how it feels to get dumped and boys who know the feeling all too well.
2. Death Cab for Cutie. People who quote lyrics in their Facebook statuses.
3. Radiohead. Everyone.
4. Drake. Indie rap fans who detest that he’s gone mainstream.
5....
Graphic fail
For the past two weeks, I have started my regular piece for the Graphic called “Top 10.” Just like it sounds, it’s a weekly themed list. For some odd reason, they haven’t been posted to the Web site. Until I chat with the managing editor and try to get them posted, I’ll at least get them out to my followers. Stay tuned.
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Jessica! (It’s Marisa so you know) I’m so proud of you and your new journey in your life. I’m so happy for you! And I mss you and other J-ism peeps. Okay, that’s all(:
Thanks Marisa! I miss you too, and I’m very excited to see what you do at your new school/with RCC’s paper. I’m going to haggle you to apply to Pepperdine btw!
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January 2010
86 posts
Bonjour la Suisse.
I just received my acceptance letter to Pepperdine’s study abroad program in Lausanne, Switzerland. I’m signing my contract this week and I say “au revoir” in September without the intention of returning to the etats unis until April. Hell. Yes.
For those of you who have asked, Lausanne is located: in the Swiss Alps, on Lake Geneva, only 30 minutes driving from Geneva,...
“Waves volleyball, formerly ranked No. 7, beats No. 1 USC in five games”
– PeppGraphic
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This isn’t really a question, actually. I just wanted to say that you inspire me so much. I read your Tumblr and even though you make me monstrously jealous, you inspire me.
And your Graphic articles are fantastic. Truly amazing.
Thanks Kim. That means so much coming from you. Please get a tumblr!
Ask me anything
LA Times: 'Avatar': A statement about the Israeli... →
Death Cab for Cutie Call New Album “the Project... →
fuckyeahdeathcab:
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“Print media hail iPad’s potential. http://bit.ly/9WSK0z”
– CNN
ReelStories FilmFest →
ReelPeople, ReelStories: Award-winning student filmmakers tell stories behind their reels
By JESSICA ABU-GHATTAS
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Published: Thursday, January 28, 2010
Updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010
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Student filmmaker J.J. Starr, a senior, triumphantly lifts his award at the ReelStories FilmFest on Friday, Jan. 22. Starr’s film...
“Have you picked up your copy of the Graphic yet today? Don’t forget—...”
– PeppGraphic
“Obama Asked Why US Doesn’t Condemn Israeli Human Rights Abuses (VIDEO)...”
– huffingtonpost
“IPad? That’s So 2002, Fujitsu Says http://bit.ly/dpvUGf”
– nytimes
Thoughts On Swimsuits.
Co-Worker: Do you want to look at this Victoria's Secret swimsuit catalogue?
Me: Nah, I don't feel like crying this morning.
If This is True, We Will Be Avoiding the Internets... →
(via newsweek)
Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on... →
ursulasteinberg:
The world’s first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary.
Guy out on bond for grand theft auto is arrested... →
caro:
Yes, this really happened.
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– – Charles Mingus (via idealisting) (via booklover)
“Nine bodies found after Ethiopian airliner crashes off Lebanon...”
– cnnbrk
Man, my tumbalrity would be killer if we still had it.
“The best way to waste your life, … is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via artpixie) (via alltheunsentletters)
Watch“While You Were Sleeping” from Pepperdine’s REELSTORIES Film Fest on Jan. 22.
“For many journalists, the addiction to low wages, sitting through endless city...”
– Stuff Journalists Like #64 - College Newspapers (via lsav)
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how’s college life?
It’s currently draining: one long to-do list, and I’m sitting here wasting time.
I’ve gotta finish my study abroad application, write two articles for the paper, do three econ homework assignments and read for a quiz in journalism tomorrow… I better get some coffee.
Otherwise, it’s wonderful and stress-free and I highly...
So You Want To Be A Writer by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you...
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Jessikins, I love you. Are you going to kick ass this semester? :) silly question i could answer it for you- YES you are :D
I love you, Dudekins!
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“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
New faces pose challenges →
My first story in the Graphic this semester/as Assistant Life & Arts Editor. Give it a read :]
New faces pose challenges
‘BHR’ meetings help prevent tensions between suitemates
By JESSICA ABU-GHATTAS
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Published: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Updated: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Living in harmony with seven other people for nine months is...
Overheard in the Graphic newsroom
Staffer: Is cock-blocking hyphenated?
Editor: According to New York Magazine.
First newsroom night of the semester!
Love the bustle.
First newsroom night of the semester!
Love the bustle.
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
– Albert Einstein (via ryanweatrowski)
gospelofwealth:
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it “Chops” because that was the name of his dog And that’s what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little...
Numbers →
azspot:
GDP of Haiti: $8.5 billion.
Goldman Sachs bonus pool: $20 billion.
“I wrote about dead babies for the last two weeks, so if I want to write about a...”
– Overheard in the Newsroom (via patrickdonohue)
“Just in from the Fieldhouse— Pepperdine defeats USF, 83-68, and improves...”
– PeppGraphic
“Reporter’s notebook: Nothing can mask smell of death: ...”
– CNN
Fake AP Stylebook Twitter Account Lands Book Deal →
electricollection:
Yes, I will purchase this.
It occured to me today
The reason I change shoes 20 times before I leave in the morning, the reason none of them look right… I hate wearing flats. I would wear heels every day — if only Pepperdine didn’t have such hilly terrain.
Note to self: Must live somewhere flatter and urban where ridiculously overpriced, delicious, sexy heels are appropriate on a day-to-day basis.
Seven Books We Lost to History That Would Have... →
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Fox News fail →
The news isn’t that the White House called Robertson’s remark, that the Haitians brought the disaster upon themselves by making a deal with the devil to free them from the French some 200 years ago) “utterly stupid.” The news is that there are people who may actually believe him.
Kudos, White House. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
Haiti tweets, articles, videos, and photos in one... →
(via newsweek)
newsweek:
“Around 4 p.m., I saw a weird Facebook status update from a friend, a journalist turned lawyer whose writing is usually smart, grammatical, and comprehensible. The update read, “rose and lavender paisley.” Huh? Over the next seven hours, more than half the status updates in my feed turned out to be colors, mostly pink, beige, and black. I figured out that these were colors of bras. Then...
