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Volume xLVIII, Issue 8 November 1, 2018
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Pepp unites after shootings Illuminating the Dark | Community members gathered Tuesday, Oct. 30, for a prayer service in memory of the victims in last week’s shootings.
Prayer service remembers Pittsburgh and Kentucky shooting victims Ryan H arding copy ch ie f The Pepperdine community gathered for a prayer service in Stauffer Chapel Tuesday night following the recent shootings in Pittsburgh and Kentucky. The Office of the Chaplain and the Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies hosted the service for
people of all faiths to join together to pray and memorialize the victims. “Many people are feeling fear,” University Chaplain Sara Barton, the primary organizer of the prayer service, said. “We prayed about that and decided that this is a time when we want to give people the opportunity to come together and pray and be comforted with
each other.” At a Kroger supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, Wednesday, Oct. 24, Gregory Bush shot and killed Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones. On Saturday, Robert Bowers opened fire on the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, taking the lives of 11 people and injuring six.
Mainly faculty and staff attended the somber half-hour service, which featured participants from across Pepperdine’s five schools and from varying religious backgrounds. “This is an interfaith experience,” Barton said. “People in our community of all faiths have been affected by violence, so we need to understand that people of faith can come to-
gether and support each other.” Barton began the service with a welcome explaining how the Pepperdine community must unite during times of trauma. She then lit a candle in memory of the victims of the Kentucky shooting. Afterward, Rabbi Lisa Bock of Westlake Village shared a poem she wrote after learning of the shooting.
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DPS RELeases annual safety report KIL EY distelrath c opy e d itor The Department of Public Safety published The Campus Safety and Fire Safety Report for 2017 on the Pepperdine website Oct. 1, including incidents from all Pepperdine campuses, undergraduate, graduate and abroad. The report covers serious crimes, most notably four sexual assault cases and one hate crime. The Campus Safety and Fire Safety Report, also known as the Annual Safety Report, or ASR, is required by law under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Safety Policy and Crime Statistics Act of 1998, or the Clery Act. All U.S. colleges and universities under the 1965 Higher Education Act’s (HEA) Title IV financial assistance programs are required to produce this report, according to The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting, 2016 edition. This means that if a college accepts Federal Pell Grants or Federal Work Study, for example, they must comply with the act’s measures to report their safety procedures and crime statistics. The community should take note of the ASR and the weekly crime logs, also required by the Clery Act, Director of Public Safety Dawn Emrich said.
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“It’s important because we want all members of our community to be equipped with as much information as possible to do what they need to do to be safe, both personally and their property,” Emrich said. Specifics Pepperdine recorded four sexual assault cases on the Malibu Campus in 2017, Emrich said. These cases are un-
SGA approved a resolution to provide funding for International Program’s Global Fest on January 24, 2019.
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derstood in two groupings. The first two cases are joined as one alludes to the other finding of sexual assault. The third and fourth cases include the same victim. All four cases involved the same perpetrator. The perpetrator was a third-party employee working for a campus vendor who delivered unwanted kisses to the cheek or neck to three students, Emrich wrote in a follow-up email. Students reported the first two cas-
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SGA approved a resolution to work with Transit Services to add a new shuttle stop on the Orange Route near Rho to better accommodate those who live in Seaside and Lovernich.
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es in the Tyler Campus Center (TCC) on Aug. 21, 2017, Emrich wrote. After the reporting of the first case, the original reporter mentioned that a friend had experienced a similar occurrence with the same person about two years earlier. DPS investigated the claim and the friend confirmed it, Emrich wrote. The students reported that one instance happened during the 2014-2015 school year and that one happened in March 2015. The second group of cases were reported in the TCC on Sept. 7, 2017, by another friend of the original reporter, Emrich wrote. The student said she had experienced unwanted kisses on the cheek by the campus vendor on two instances. The student reported one to have occurred during the spring 2016 semester and one to have occurred during the 2016-2017 school year. Pepperdine removed the employee from campus, Emrich wrote. Pepperdine includes these cases in the 2017 ASR because of the date they were reported rather than the time they occurred, Emrich said. This holds true for all cases in the report. The second notable crime was a hate crime on the Encino Graduate Campus. The crime consisted of an etching of a swastika on a car parked in
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SGA passed a resolution to work with Payson Courtesy of Ron Hall Library staff to change library hours to 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends.
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