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Archiving the Pepperdine Rock! A September slideshow

To capture a snapshot of student life during the fall semester, Pepperdine University Libraries photographed the Pepperdine Rock each day of the month during September (or at least as often as it was painted anew). As the semi-official mouthpiece of student organizations, the Rock changes appearance almost daily, so we thought we’d capture a month [...]

The Rock: Today’s featured digital object

Do you recognize our beloved Pepperdine Rock? In the photograph above, which appears in the 1983 yearbook with the caption “Disco is DEAD, but the Rolling Stones live on,” the Rock is noticeably smaller and is paired with a tiny companion. In the intervening decades, the Rock has “grown” through countless coats of paint at [...]