PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY was established as George Pepperdine College in 1937, by George Pepperdine. For thirty years, George Pepperdine College was a small undergraduate school located in Los Angeles, California. Badly shaken by the 1965 Watts Riots, which led to the exodus of most of South Los Angeles's remaining White population, Pepperdine's leadership decided to leave inner-city Los Angeles. In 1972, through the generosity of Frank Roger Seaver, Pepperdine opened a new 832 acre (3.4 km²) campus in the Malibu area. The former campus is now the site of the Crenshaw Christian Center and Faithdome.

Pepperdine gained UNIVERSITY status in 1971 when a school of law was added and the business and education departments became separate schools. In 1975, the undergraduate program was named Seaver College in honor of the Seavers. In the 1980s, Pepperdine rose to prominence as one of the United States' leading centers of conservative politics, attracting many conservative-leaning professors from nearby UCLA and USC. Prominent conservatives on the Pepperdine faculty have included Ben Stein, Kenneth Starr, Arthur Laffer, Douglas W. Kmiec, and, currently, Daniel Pipes. In 1993 and 1996, massive brushfires threatened the campus with destruction, but firefighters succeeded in protecting almost all structures.

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	Comment By: jonafou
	Date: Dec 21, 2006 23:31:47
	i'd luv to study there!!!