Pepperdine University - Promenade Yearbook (Malibu, CA)

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pepperdine is. . . academics; with its library, professors and western heritage; making it for some a place to learn

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banowsky takes stands on concerns Impressions: Whai do you feci arc the benefits of a Christian college education? Banowsky: The college experience is a personal and different experience for everyone. I feel that a Christian education makes the college experience more personal and much more meaningful to the student. Wc do not force students as far as participating in Christian activities or groups on campus, but wc encourage a Christian way of life by the rules wc set and the standards we go y at a Christain college. Impressions: What part do you feel chapel plays on the Seavcr College campus? Banowsky: Chapel is just one way we carry out the goals of this university. Pcpperdine is a small liberal arts college with a Christian emphasis. Chapel encourages a Christian outlook on the college experience and, as I said previously, it is very well received by the students. Impressions: Do you think the social attitudes of Seavcr College have changed. along with some of the goals, since the rules have become somewhat more lenient? Banowsky: No. The goals of the university have remained essentially the same for 41 years. There have been times in the history of the school, where we have had compulsory chapel once previously, so that's no new development. Wc have been thrilled at the spirit of the Wednesday convocation. That seems to have been a highly successful thing to do. We have chapel five days a week, still, for those who wish to attend, but we have found it most successful to require the students to attend only once a week. 1 don’t think there have been any significant impacts on the social attitudes of the campus by permitting students to dance off campus. These days young people are legally adults at age 18. It seems a little strange for us to be so presumptuous as to seek to control our students’ attitudes off the campus. I think this is a mature position for the university to take. Wc are still deeply committed to a special kind of environment on campus and again 1 think this sense of acknowledgement of maturity of our students has been well received by them. Impressions: What more do you think Seaver College students can do to im- prove the quality or better achieve the goals of the university. Banowsky: I would say more or less a continuation of the things that wc have enforced. The increased participation in student government activities. To really take an interest in the student issues always makes for a better university. I’d like to see a better turnout when elections are held on campus and not allow the election of a student leader to be decided by a small percentage of students voting. More increased spirit at all of the Seavcr College activities, athletic events and continued support at the Wednesday convocation and general regulations of the institution. And of course to crack the books and make a fine academic effort mark so when the students graduate, they will be an example to all the world of the fine product of an educated person. All these things I think are moving in a positive direction. Impressions: What do you think the effect of the law school will have on Seavcr College as a small liberal arts college? Banowsky: The law school will have an impact in the community, but Seavcr College needs to remember that it is not the university. It is one of five colleges within the community. It has been easy, I think, for Seaver College students for the first five or six years out here to imagine that they were, Pcpperdine University because the President’s office is here, all of the senior administrators are here, the basketball team is here, that it’s where the President of the United States visits, and all we’ve had at Malibu is Seaver College. Now that is going to change. The law school is the first professional school to come. I would predict that through the years, others will come here. Wc have, after all 623 acres. On the old campus, where the liberal arts college was exclusively located, we had only 33 acres. Seavcr College occupies probably 150 acres, which is several times more than the liberal arts colleges occupied in our tradition. There is plenty of room for Seaver College to have it own personality, its own organization, its own independence, its own attitudes. The law school will come on to a separate 30-acre campus, dedicated by United States Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman. The boundaries are makred off and the law school will have its own autonomous location. 16 banowsky