(Photo credit: Claire Cecil/Fourth Estate) “Call if you can. Text if you can’t.” Police departments in Fairfax County, the Town of Herndon, the Town of Vienna, the Town of Clifton and the City of Fairfax have implemented a Text to…
(Photo credit: Claire Cecil/Fourth Estate) Mason students can now get a glimpse of the past just by walking through Exploratory Hall. The university has received the fossil of a Zygorhiza kochii, an ancient relative to the modern-day whale, from the…
Walk through any level of the Johnson Center, and frustrated screams of “Wi-Fi sucks!” can be heard reverberating off the walls. But a local startup is hoping to change that. The company, CirrusWorks, was founded in 2012 and works to…
(Photo credit: Astacia Pegram/Fourth Estate) On the night of Oct. 14, a group of students came together to ask, “Right, Wrong or Different?” The theme of this semester’s discussion was the ethical issues surrounding the global treatment of displaced populations,…
(Credit: Songjun Deng/Fourth Estate) The presence of hazardous materials, such as lead and asbestos, is one of the reasons Mason is requesting funding for the planning, demolition and reconstruction of Robinson Hall. According to Virginia’s Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan, Robinson…
(Photo Credit: Courtesy of Robert Horan/Mason Cable Network) Pope Francis visited Washington, D.C., last week as part of his five-day tour of the United States. This was the current pope’s first visit to the country, and he is the fourth…
Pope Francis arrived in Washington, D.C. today as part of his five-day tour of the United States. This is the current pope’s first visit to the country, and he is scheduled to make stops in three east coast cities: Washington D.C.,…
Mason is a school with complete and total freedom of expression, and therefore was recently awarded a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. This freedom, coupled with Mason’s status as a public university, means that any…
(Photo credit: Claire Cecil/Fourth Estate) Mason earned the highest “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) this past April after making changes to the Code of Student Conduct. Joining the University of Virginia and the College…
Mason has received authorization from the Virginia General Assembly, along with $5 million, to begin planning demolition and a new design for Robinson Hall. Cathy Wolfe, director of campus planning, said part of the $5 million allocated for the reconstruction…