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In the video, Christopher Nance, Steve Davis, Lee Kats, and Karen Martin examine the effects that El Niño might have on the flora and fauna of Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains.

In the video, Andrew K. Benton and Pepperdine students discuss various topics, including international programs and the Drescher campus.

The lecture, given by Holly Love, discusses the prehistory of the Chumash Indians and how they adapted to their environment with major inventions like the planked canoe and the shell fishhook. She also discusses their rich spiritual life, which developed from their life as fisherman and the abundance of their food supply.

Michael Zakian, leads a tour of the exhibition Rodin's Obsession: The Gates of Hell which was on display at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. He discusses why the artist is considered to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo.

The first series is audiovisual materials that includes 8 videocassettes and 2 betatapes from past Crest Lecture Series dating from 1997 to 2003. The second series includes photographs and scrapbooks from various Crest Associates events, board meetings, and luncheons from 1981 to 2019. The third series is all printed materials that include brochures and flyers for the Crest Lecture Series, the Neighbors Newsletters, News from the Crest, letters, a map, and clippings dating from 1983-2019.

In the lecture, Kevin Starr compares and contrasts international education systems with those in the United States.

In the lecture, James Q. Wilson analyzes Islam, which was once the greatest civilization in the world and is now just a shadow of its former self. Wilson credits many reasons for the change, but most of them begin with deciding what relationship religion plays in politics.