Pepperdine University - Promenade Yearbook (Malibu, CA)

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Network battle highlights year National spotlight-focus on Pepperdine Excited cheers arose from the crowd when actor Gabe Kaplan, the team captain for ABC, rounded the turn on the Pepperdine track in a relay, as stars from the three major networks met in battle in October. An estimated national audience of 39 million watched the stars compete for the final victory which was narrowly won by ABC, following the tug-of-war competition held on a nearby beach. Robert Hedges, Penny Marshall, Hal Linden, Gabe Kaplan and Richard Hatch took the final title for ABC in that event. With the other two networks not content to let the ABC victory stand for long, a second battle was staged in February. This time NBC proved victorious in the competition which was aired on ABC. The quest to incorporate Malibu suffered a narrow defeat by only 104 votes on November 2, with 82 per cent of Malibu’s voters turning out for the election. Community leaders who had sun-ported the initiative for cityhood believed that Pepperdine students had a major influence in the defeat. Other reasons cited were resident fears of a lack of adequate police and fire protection. A recount of the ballots was taken, but it only supported the results of the initial count. Issues dominated campus news during the year. After successfully achieving extended lobby visitation hours in the dormitories,Student Government Association (SGA) leaders turned their attentions to beginning a drive to achieve a lifting of the dancing prohibition for on and off-campus student activities. After an informal poll in chapel taken by University President William S. Banowsky, which indicated a strong support of student requests to have dancing allowed on-campus, SGA lead- 6 News