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I think to maintain the freedom that we have come to enjoy in the United States. Education is absolutely dominant. To me, it is no accident that this free country grew out of a culture that had appeared on this country that had established institutions of higher learning

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before it ever got its national government. I believe that Pepperdine's real strength is that it has always been Pepperdine. Certainly a distinctive feature of the university is our dedication to the American heritage, the American dream, the American economic system of free enterprise, Pepperdine has been willing

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to dare to be different. We have dared to be different in terms of attracting teachers who are in favor of our Judeo Christian heritage who believed in America in the best sense. I think whenever in history, you can combine the intellect with the soul. When you

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can combine the mind and the heart, when you can get that together, you have something that is superb. I think Pepperdine is doing that. One of the reasons this institution has been successful is that we were not intimidated by the obstacles that seem to lie ahead

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of us. Now, looking at these buildings around the hills here. It's easy to forget that only 10 years ago, this was a canyon without anything in it. And it took a lot of guts and a lot of courage to say we're going to put a campus

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there. We have built, we have innovated, we have explored from the original Los Angeles campus of 1937 to the opening of the Malibu campus in 1972 as Pepperdine College and is Pepperdine University through the inception of sever college and the Schools of Law Education and Business.

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Each one of us has joined in the destiny of this place. We who know Pepperdine believe that her past achievements are a sign of what is to be. We're still growing. We have building to do but more important. We have a legacy of academic excellence to

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maintain not only with bricks and mortar but from within with an investment in the academic enrichment of our faculty and students. The wave of excellence campaign is designed to strengthen the roots. Pepperdine has set down in that upper echelon of small independent universities in the United

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States to do this. We will raise $100 million to be divided evenly between new facilities and academic needs. $50 million are needed to complete the Malibu campus. The aim of this campaign is not to get bigger but to get better. The five major facilities that we

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intend to build are designed to serve the number of students that are currently enrolled. And administration building is now our number one priority. We built our most crucial academic buildings. First, a centralized administration building will be a significant boon to our next stage of development. We

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hope as well to commence with phase two of the law school building, which is according to the needs we've projected, we hope to build the headquarters here for the School of Business and Management. We would like to build a fine arts building and another academic communications

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facility. Another $50 million will serve the specific academic needs of every graduate and undergraduate division of the university, faculty salaries and research time, endowed chairs and professorships, student aid and scholarships, research equipment and computer facilities. Could you state your name for the record, please? George Williams.

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And what is your occupation? Mr Williams. It's wonderful to be able to go into court and the judge has already read your papers. It's your last shot, but you're able to go and stand in front of the judge and be very persuasive. It's like a shot

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of adrenaline. Mr Williams. Have you ever seen a copy of this labor agreement before? Scholarships are tremendously important in the legal education? Are you aware of? Section 28.9 which allows for causes for discharge of employees. We compete for our students every year. We want the best

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students that we can get. We want students who will fit in, who share our philosophy. We think that we have a very good school. We're confident that we do. But our biggest problem again would be those relating to financial resources. Mr Williams, would you consider your

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actions of September 1st willful sleeping on duty, objection? Your honor calls for a conclusion on the part of the Witness. And the main reason for it is as a new law school, we have no separate endowment at all. But your honor, I'd like to point out

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that rule 704 does allow such an opinion when it relates to the ultimate issue to be decided by the trier. Of fact, we are in need of a trial courtroom. Along with the appellate court room, we already have, we need additional faculty offices and student offices

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and administrative areas. The library area in particular needs additional space. I really enjoy doing legal research because you can really get that exciting sense of being part of making the law. I'm teaching at Pepper nine because I love the university. The most valuable thing for me

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is having the students free themselves from any dependence on me. And that's my goal in all the courses is to let them get free of the obstacles of technology and free to use the benefits of technology. Are you going to retrieve now? OK. We're gonna make

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it a hard test, easy test what we want just multiple choice items. So put an M next to the item type multiple choice. Ok. Let's send in the request, see what we get. What I'm finding. Now is that the older teachers act like young kids. And

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that to me is pretty exciting. You can't beat an enthusiastic learner who's got some experience. I think that the university definitely needs more computing capability and more communications capability as the computer works its way into various course offerings both in the graduate school of education, psychology

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and the School of Business and Management. Search an update. Now, go see if you can find anybody in the file with the doc document. If everything's right, they'll say no, right. The Business School is an example of Pepperdine's uh entrepreneurial spirit. The uh Pepperdine University School

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of Business and Management was designed to give an MB A to people who are working adults and there, there were very few colleges in 1972 interested in educating adults Stuart. Would you relate the t level or the level of certainty to a real life management decision

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situation for Pepper is unique in that it values risk. Pepperdine has looked at risk like a business would and they've taken risks and those risks have paid off all psychological variables such as test scores are distributed like that. As the emphasis in general in the world,

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economy shifts towards the West Los Angeles and California in general will be an important economic center. Pepper University is perfectly poised to make a great contribution to the continued health of our nation and of our world by influencing that Economic Center, think about the kinds of

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automobiles that were bought 15 years ago and what the shift has taken place in smaller. The Malibu campus, I teach the undergraduate students in in the business division. This idea that if we can specialize a task, specialize a job, break it down into its smallest component,

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then we can reduce the output goes up dramatically and the labor supply increases as well. I see my role as a faculty member, as instructor in the field of organizational behavior as one where it is my job to allow students to understand the complexities in trying

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to predict behavior of people and organizations. How are these groups composed that lend, lend itself to the benefit of the of performance in the group? Well, each person has different qualities they could contribute to the group where other people might be lacking. In this case, for

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team learning. Obviously, it's just a group. The other one doesn't even apply at Pepperdine. Everyone is encouraged to excel and I think most people do and they're really rewarded for it and recognized and they want to go out and keep going take it on eight. It

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just, it's too long, it's too long. What if we take out after the chop during the years that I've been here? I've gone from working the camera to co producing my own show. I do on air work mostly we'll be live on the air in two

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minutes. OK. Then we'll keep the story satellite story roll the opening cart start tracking camera three and CG off. Take one, Mike Q. But the majority saw their exit as brief criticism of the American legal system marked the winter meeting of the American Bar Association last

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week. I think Pepperdine will probably always succeed. Just the differences I've noticed in the three years that I've been here, it has to keep going. It's on a roll. No. And I knew I could achieve something here instead of going to a larger school where, you

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know, maybe somebody else did everything and everything was done by tradition. If I came to Pepper and I could help establish tradition, which I think we have over the last four or five years and I wanted to be a part of the building process. I love

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making the outlet pass. It helps start our break. And that's when one of the best is when we're running, but we can't run unless we can rebound. That's one of my main jobs is to get the rebound. And if I can get the rebound, we can

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get out and run. That's when we're exciting. That's when we're really fun to watch. What's gonna make the change happen. What, what's gonna force the big case is gonna come up with? It's gonna be, it's gonna be so confused that people are gonna demand it. The

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value system at. Pepperdine is one I've never been accustomed to myself. I grew up in a neighborhood that was kind of a tough neighborhood, you know, lower income type neighborhood. We're here. It's like kind of like a family type atmosphere where people watch out for each

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other. 123. Ok. Stop. It's a terrible place to stop and approaches. We all go to the floor. What you're doing is you're going on one level, you walk 234 slide, there's a lift so that when you go, you have walk 2 3 ft lift, physical training

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allows them some ability to open up and deal with the character that they're involved with. Come back, hold your way ready to go. And I ask that they observe, an actor has got to observe, they should run out and observe people from every stretch and form

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of life. And it's just very important that they have a complete observation of what's happening physically because of physicality. Changes of the style. 57 back up, 12345 and six. I love to see the progression of a person. I love it. If someone really is interested in

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theater and using the skill, the dance skill campus life. Three more tickets left for tonight. But that was it. I've always been so busy in all the theatrical and performing productions. I'm used to it. I'm used to being busy. I'm used to having rehearsals every night,

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opening night only comes once it all has to be ready. This is very disciplined business. And if you're not disciplined you're not gonna succeed in, if it was predestined, did he really have the choice to fall? Was, did Satan really have a choice

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at all or was it all in the eternal plan? Good classes are never so large that you don't have a chance to talk or get involved in the conversation, especially the lit courses as you read the rest of Paradise lost. Try to get a feel for

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what Milton actually bleed. Yeah, I think a degree from Pepperdine is going to become increasingly more prestigious in any area. I really predict that Pepperdine already, I think of the place there would without scholarships be a shameful waste of some of the finest talent in America.

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One of the major goals that we have administratively at the institution is that we want to be able to admit students solely on the basis of academic quality without any regard to their financial ability to pay. Ok, let's start. You have, yeah, there we go. Let's

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start. We need to take some room down here and I was offered a journalism scholarship as a freshman and that was one of the many reasons why I chose to come here. You have to leave room for your art and you don't want to crown the

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page too much. The student Achievement award allows me the opportunity to pay for most of my education. Ok. Looks like we're in good shape. So we have the opportunity to write our stories, to lay out our page format pictures, stories, or we're involved in each aspect

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of newspaper production on the newspaper. And with that, it just makes me a stronger candidate for a job. We're set and we're ready to put this one in. Thank you. It's almost as if it is like a job because spend 25 to 35 hours working on

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the newspaper and when you spend that much time, you have to have a good working relationship. I think that the religious atmosphere and moral atmosphere on campus has helped to strengthen my character and to gain a greater sense of what is right and what is wrong

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and what should be expected of a person in society. All the pressure in the world is on those guys. All right. We just play well in this game. This matches ours, play hard play, well, a little more discipline on the off plays. Let's go. I'm fortunate

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enough to be on an athletic scholarship here at Pepperdine. Here we go. We, I think objectively the sport has a lot to offer me. And at this stage in my life, I have a lot to offer the sport here at Pepperdine. We're located in Southern California,

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which is the volleyball capital of the world in the eyes of people who view us and respect us were the best of the best. Yeah, because then you'll get that one up and we believe in quality time and also quality contact at no point in time.

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Do I ever want them going through the motions with anything? So all of my training is designed with that in mind. One of the things that I like to see also and, and here is feedback from our Olympic coaches. They have said that players out of

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the Pepperdine program respond better to their teaching, their training and are better representatives of the United States than players out of any other program on the top are less sensitive to light than the ones on the bottom. That's right. The stone mates on the bottom uh

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would therefore be more sensitive to light. I think that one of the main strengths in the biology department at Pepperdine is that the student can get involved in undergraduate research where the same student going to a different college would never get that opportunity. I don't think

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that these leaves are very good for the inversion process. I was born in Cuba and I was raised there for 7.5 years. At which time my parents to escape the political pressures decided best for me to come to the United States. And so they got out

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with me just in time, just for me, Sala legas can undergo two different types of aster education in the presence of um acidic and hydride. It will react to form aceto acid. Definitely, there's no question in my mind that I do want to go to a

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medical school. I'm looking for a challenge and I want to get into a degree in medicine that offers a challenge. And so an identification and color change will give us um another, another test for purity. So I wish every donor could see some of the students

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that I've seen leave here and do. Well, I really think that's terrifically satisfying. And one thing that donors don't see enough, ok. Now you can see the purple color for me. Well, I think the American dream is definitely real. If it wasn't for the American dream,

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I wouldn't be here. Now, if I would be in another country, I would never get the opportunity that I got here. I definitely think that George Pepper, I had the belief, he had the American dream belief. Pepperdine University is much more than the dream and belief

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of its founder. Our friends make a continuing growing commitment to people such as those we have just seen to the many dreams and aspirations of each student, to the belief in Pepperdine's betterment and to the principles that will remain the foundation of this place. This mandate

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on the horizon. Our $100 million campaign for academic excellence is not only realistic, it represents the wave of our future waiting to carry us if we will reach for it as we know we can, I guess I would tell a donor that they will get a

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good return on their investment here. They will see a return down the line in students who are contributing in a positive upbeat way to the country. And yes, indeed to the world. I think we've been very fortunate in having so many friends commit their time and

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their efforts and their support to university because of who we are and what we're doing. And I think it'll be an opportunity for all of our friends to really be a part of seeing some really come of age. Join me in expressing appreciation to one of

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the finest faculties in the land. I kind of see George Pine as the principal architect of this entire venture. And the more I read about George Pre and the more I realize how much vision he really had one,

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I do feel like we're riding the crest of a wave that is dynamic and exciting and is leading to even brighter things in the future. I think the mood that Pepperdine University has is one of great exhilaration at the challenge that we have for the future

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because we believe that we are really standing at the threshold of our greatest achievements.