Members of Pepperdine's faculty who planned to teach on the Malibu campus when it opened in the fall were faced with the decision of moving closer to Malibu, or commuting from Los Angeles. Some, including the family of PE professor Walter Glass, had already made the move, but others had yet to decide.

The Graphic reported that the university had plans to build condos for faculty on campus, but that they would not be done in time for the fall (in fact, construction had not even begun and would not be finished for many years).¹ The faculty was not highly compensated, so living in Malibu was out of the question for most. About ten faculty families were already living in new developments near Lake Lindero in what is now Agoura Hills, and others considered moving to Thousand Oaks or Calabasas, where there were schools for their children, though one professor complained that "there is no major shopping center" in Thousand Oaks.