Pepperdine University

In your right-wing university that caters to the lunatic fringe you forgot some stuff. Carol Ann Brown a minor falling down an elevator shaft at Pepperdine. Pepperdine President Hugh M. Tiner being accused of elder abuse and then subsequently resigning. Litigation over how Pepperdine spends its money and the “secret fund” (Lexis/Nexis/LAT). Basketball center Reid Poole sues pepperdine for medical care. Suspicious fire(s) reported in the Los Angeles Times at Pepperdine Campuses (insurance fraud???). The sentencing to home detention of Pepperdine soccer player Tabetha Garibay Hoult for robbing a Westlake Village bank. The sentencing of Pepperdine Accounting Professor Joseph V. Nash to 11 years in prison for bank fraud and other accounting tricks (LAT). There are also stories about a pepperdine instructors being fired and manipulating test scores (The Graphic). The consumption of alcohol by staff, off campus to skirt the alcohol abstinence policy (bulletin boards). And of course there are all those workplace safety violations (insurance fraud/cost shifting???) Plus whatever the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and CLUE Reports say about Pepperdine??? And then there are all those EVACUATIONS that take place when the wild fires come (LAT). Somebody should write a soap opera about the goings on at Pepperdine with Charlie Sheen playing “Norvel Young,” chancellor, drunk, insurance fraud profiteer. more

An extreme RIGHT-WING university created to cater to the lunatic fringe. Pepperdine Student John Frederic Anderson is convicted of shooting two people (LAT). Pepperdine employee William Charles Lane is found guilty of the shotgun killing of 15-year-old Larry Kimmons. Speech professor Fred L. Casmir is a former citizen of Nazi Germany, Luftwaffe cadet, Hitler Youth Leader, minister, and former German army infantryman (LAT). Pepperdine Chancellor M. Norvel Young pleads guilty to killing two women and injuring a third while driving drunk. Pepperdine has also accepted millions from Iran. Pepperdine President William S. Banowsky pleads guilty to insider trading and pays $754,000 fine to the SEC. Pepperdine Regent Richard Mellon Scaife verbally abuses women, drinks, and sleeps with prostitutes (VF, CJR). Pepperdine student John Wesely Jermyn is homeless and prefers to be paid in food, liquor, and paper for his services to the Crazy Robertson clothing brand(WSJ). The Graphic reports pepperdine students drive drunk. And of course, there is all those unnecessary and preventable insurance claims filed by pepperdine (insurance fraud???). Pros: NONE Cons: Extreme Radical Right Wing institution for the fringe more