Sami Gibbs Staff Writer The anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation was remembered by survivors returning to the same grounds on Monday, Jan. 27, that they were liberated from 75 years earlier. This same date is also remembered as the Holocaust…
Chris Kernan-Schmidt Staff Writer It’s a hot summer afternoon in mid-July. You step up to bat — your parents look eagerly from behind the fence. Next thing you know you’ve hit the ball. It’s flying. Right fielder runs — sprints…
BY: ELI KOHN, STAFF WRITER In the 21st century, materialism and television addiction have given rise to a massive, multi-billion dollar holiday: Super Bowl Sunday. Now, football itself is as American as it gets, but that’s really only…
By: ALEX MADAJIAN, STAFF WRITER Do you know what one of the biggest annual human rights demonstrations in the nation is? It has taken place every year for over 40 consecutive years. Every year, thousands of people converge to one…
By: STEVEN ZHOU, STAFF WRITER Last month, a study at Kaplan reported that Americans believe an internship at Google to be more helpful to a high school graduate’s future career than a Harvard degree. In some ways, this isn’t surprising,…
Hey Patriots, This week our News staff and my co editor and I delved into a little bit of Mason history and went through our archives to find out more about the presidential search processes of 1996 and 2011. To…
BY: SAVANNAH MARTINCIC STAFF WRITER Over the years, climate change has become a highly politicized issue. Party lines have been drawn over economics and whether climate change is even happening. But rarely do we hear climate change called what it…
By: SYDNEY JOHNSON, STAFF WRITER Bernie Sanders was criticized by his former political rival Hillary Clinton in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, in which she suggested that she witnessed him getting nothing done for years while working in Congress….
INTERVIEWS BY AHMED FARID AND NAYOMI SANTOS STUDENT: Tom Sit What made you come to Mason? Mason’s close to D.C. Since I’m majoring in IT, I found out that there are a lot of IT jobs in NOVA and Washington,…
What your favorite coffee shop wishes it could be BY: PETER NJOROGE, CULTURE EDITOR In a sea of overhyped coffee shops with “nice aesthetics” and “a cool staff,” A Baked Joint on K street in Washington, D.C. stands out as…