Pepperdine History
F-1 Regulations
American Culture
Academics
Pepperdine Icons and Activities
100
The first and last names of the person after whom Pepperdine was founded.
Who is George Pepperdine?
100
The person responsible for the student's F-1 status.
Who is the student?
100
To avoid freaking out your fellow classmates, you should cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your upper arm for these cold and allergy symptoms.
What are sneezing and coughing?
100
The only method by which all Pepperdine faculty and staff will officially communicate with students.
What is Pepperdine email?
100
The name of the Pepperdine mascot.
Who is Willie the Wave?
200
The year Pepperdine College was founded
What is 1937?
200
The name of the immigration document issued by a US school which represents a student's record in the US Homeland Security F-1 database.
What is an I-20?
200
For example, smacking your food, chewing food with an open mouth, belching, talking while the mouth is full of food, taking too big of a bite of food, reaching, picking your teeth, blowing/wiping your nose, speaking loudly, not using your utensils correctly, using electronics
What are bad table manners?
200
The Academic Advising report that tracks your academic progress toward completion of your bachelors degree.
What is a Degree Audit Report (DAR)?
200
The Pepperdine student newspaper.
What is The Graphic?
300
The location of the original Pepperdine College
Where is Los Angeles?
300
The minimum number of units in which an undergraduate F-1 student must be enrolled at all times at Pepperdine?
What is 12?
300
The very rude act of entering a line at any position other than the end (sometimes sparking confrontation and sending the offender to the end of the line).
What is cutting in line?
300
The document that a professor prepares for students that lists all assignments and exams for the semester.
What is a syllabus?
300
What you must do to meet with a DSO.
What is make an appointment?
400
The year the Pepperdine Malibu campus opened.
What is 1972?
400
How often an F-1 student must submit a Travel Permission Form for review and possible DSO endorsement.
What is every time s/he departs the United States?
400
The name of the award given to the winner of each category at the Academy of Motion Pictures awards ceremony each year.
What is an Oscar?
400
An act of using the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author:
What is plagiarism?
400
The OISS staff member who authorizes foreign language substitution and university credit for qualifying foreign secondary exams.
Who is Amanda Holder?
500
The name of the beloved statue that was brought from the old campus to Malibu and now stands in Josyln Plaza.
Who is Dolores?
500
The name of the F-1 regulatory program which allows F-1 students to participate in pre-graduation off-campus internships (associated with a course.)
What is Curricular Practical Training (CPT)?
500
The name of the yearly final American football game between the winner of the American Football League and the winner of National Football Conference held the first weekend of February each year.
What is the Super Bowl?
500
The minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) you must maintain at Pepperdine to avoid being academically dismissed.
What is 2.0?
500
"I didn't know," "My friend told me," "My brother never had to do it," "I've never been caught before..."
What are answers/reasons not recognized by OISS staff?
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