BY SAVANNAH MARTINCIC, STAFF WRITER Electability. What is it? Who has it? The word that appeared in almost every bit of news coverage of the 2016 presidential election has once again begun to dominate the national conversation surrounding the diverse…
BY SIDONIA CANNON, STAFF WRITER The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is where souls come to die. The waiting room is sopping with despair. Forgotten dreams and lost hopes hang in the air like the humidity on a muggy summer…
BY DAWSON WEINHOLD, STAFF WRITER Housing affordability remains a big issue for many Mason students. For upperclassmen, on-campus housing is far from guaranteed, and off-campus housing presents its own set of difficulties. With a growing population and one of the…
BY DOMINIC PINO, OPINION EDITOR Dear Mason community, I’m honored to be your new Fourth Estate Opinion section editor. Writing for this paper every week was one of my favorite parts of school, and now I get to help put…
BY CHRISTOPHER KERNAN-SCHMIDT, STAFF WRITER Social media platforms have made it easy to share our lives with family and friends, but the prevalence of oversharing on social media has opened Pandora’s box. Status updates, location check-ins, online rants and “private”…
BY STEVEN ZHOU, STAFF WRITER Earlier this year, Stanford graduate students who had no other means of affording meals during winter break were reported to be foraging for food from trees on campus. As extreme as that example may be,…
BY JACK HARVEY, ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and her campaign staff have made waves in the media during the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses as two stories came out that pitted her against Bernie Sanders. The…
Southside replaces Ike’s as 24-hour dining hall on campus BY BRAD BYRNE, STAFF WRITER As Mason students come back from winter break, the spring 2020 semester brings about new changes to the university. This semester a new initiative goes into…
Progress made on new academic building and surrounding areas over winter break BY LAURA SCUDDER, NEWS EDITOR As students return to Mason after winter break, construction on and around the Core Campus Project continues. Program Director of Facilities Cathy Wolfe-Pinskey…
Mason Global Center named after Angel Cabrera BY SUDIKSHA KOCHI, STAFF WRITER; LAURA SCUDDER, NEWS EDITOR The Board of Visitors voted to rename the Mason Global Center to the Angel Cabrera Global Center, in honor of the university’s former President…