Monthly Archives: September 2017
DACA ends, DREAMers continue advocacy
POST-DACA REMOVAL, MASON DREAMERS PROVIDE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES FOR AFFECTED STUDENTS AND ALLIES By Fareeha Rehman, Co-Editor-in-Chief Hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Mason DREAMers hosted an evening of…
GMU Club Football – A Universal Language
By Matt Caron, Staff Writer The Mason club football team hosted its second annual “Intro to American Football for International Students” event on the RAC field on Friday, September 1. The club football team drew a very diverse crowd, including…
Bridge the Gap between the Silent Generation and Generation Z
THE KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OLDER GENERATION AND THE NEWER GENERATION By Adam Balmer, Staff Writer Syllabus week is over, late nights out with friends are normal again, and procrastination already has no shot of being avoided; the semester is truly…
DeVos Announces Changes to Campus Sexual Assault Policy
SECRETARY DEVOS GIVES MAJOR TITLE IX SPEECH AT MASON’S ANTONIN SCALIA LAW SCHOOL By Gemma Carretta and Henry Clay, Staff Writers Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced major changes to campus sexual assault policy while speaking at Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law…
New restaurant takes on the DMV
A FILIPINO RESTAURANT WITH A MODERN FLAIR OPENS IN ARLINGTON, VA By Christine Viray, Staff Writer A Filipino restaurant known as Bistro 1521 — the numbers referencing the year in which Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines and was shortly…
Taylor Swift’s New Reputation
TAYLOR SWIFT SLITHERS INTO HER NEW REPUTATION By Lizzie MacKercher, Staff Writer 10 time Grammy Award winning songwriter, Taylor Swift, came out of hiding on August 24 to release her much anticipated first single in three years, along with a music…
Fourth Estates Fantasy Focus Returns for a Third Season
By Mitchell Westall, Sports Editor It’s by far the most fun I ever have as a writer. I get the opportunity to dig around for my own statistics and communicate them to a reader and I help them share in…
Perriello Discusses DeVos’s Education Agenda with Students
By Alexander Shedd, Staff Writer Tom Perriello, former 2017 Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia and current CEO of WinVirginia, a political action group directed towards supporting Democratic candidates for the House of Delegates in Virginia, held a conference call…
Passion for Fashion
FOUR MASON STUDENTS EXPRESS THEIR STYLE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA By Angelique Arintok, Staff Writer The George Mason campus is home to an incredibly diverse set of individuals, all of whom have their own voices and interests. Students are led to careers…