BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Deanna Balsama is not your average lacrosse player. She is not even your average athlete. The Sewell, New Jersey native played three sports during her freshman year of high school: soccer, varsity lacrosse and…
Kenny Kelley explains the importance of safety equipment on college campuses BY DANA NICKEL EDITOR IN CHIEF Many universities across the U.S. work hard to fight against sexual violence on their campuses. There are several options that university officials will recommend…
BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE, COPY CHIEF When assistant track and field coach Becky Hartley saw sophomore kinesiology major Jaylen Simmons compete for the first time, she knew she had to recruit him. “I had my eye on Jaylen for a while,”…
Dear Patriots, This marks our last issue for the school year as well as my last letter from the editor to you all. Needless to say, this is very bittersweet. As I myself come close to graduation, I am feeling…
Dear Patriots, I’ve worked at Fourth Estate for about two years now—half of my college career, and the majority of my time at Mason. I was first a staff writer covering movies and politics. My first big story was about…
BY ELIJAH NICHOLS, STAFF WRITER For too long, I’ve seen a rise to power by those who’ve had the voice for a rally, but truly lack the stamina to strategically and empathetically organize both with and for their community. This…
BY SUSAN KATHERINE CORKRAN, STAFF WRITER I think there’s something almost soothing in naming fears. The Greek classifications of the myriad of phobias from which countless human beings have suffered places those fears in the same realms as the monsters of…
No student should have to worry about how to get to class each week BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE COPY CHIEF Earlier this week when I was in my Ethics and Human Rights class on the Arlington campus, my professor made a point…
BY DOMINIC PINO, STAFF WRITER There is a clear disconnect between students and faculty on course evaluations. On Wednesday, April 24, the Faculty Senate (see if you can follow this) passed a motion to recommend advancing a proposal of the revised…
BY BASMA HUMADI, MANAGING EDITOR Since the news broke that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will come to Mason as a distinguished visiting professor with a three-year contract, the pushback from the community at large has been overwhelming to say the…
