A look into this year’s candidates and their plans for Student Government BY KENDALL BARNHARDT STAFF WRITER Fall 2021 Student Government (SG) elections are here, with 22 people running for the Student Senate body. Freshman Zayd Hamid: Candidate Zayd Hamid…
Potential candidates finalize their applications to run for Student Senate BY BRAD BYRNE STAFF WRITER As the fall semester begins a new cycle of freshmen moving in, seniors preparing for graduation or going to basketball games, it also means the…
Mason students to vote for new student body president and vice president, senators BY LAURA SCUDDER, NEWS EDITOR Mason students can vote for a new student body president and vice president, along with student senators, from Monday, March 30, to…
Student government member levels allegation at Thursday meeting BY LAURA SCUDDER, NEWS EDITOR; ALEXA TIRONI, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR; TRAVIS MCMILLAN, STAFF WRITER Editor’s Note: According to documentation received and confirmed by Fourth Estate, there are no open Title IX investigations…
Student government members explain current initiatives and future plans BY ALEXA TIRONI, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR It’s all hustle and bustle in Suite 2300 of the Hub as student government preps for future initiatives and the upcoming elections. Campaigns for student…
BY: DAWSON WEINHOLD, STAFF WRITER We are constantly told that voting is our civic duty. Each year, as election day comes near, an army of political volunteers descends upon campus to register students to vote. This is the part of…
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…
Virginia sets the tone for 2020, flipping both chambers of state legislature Democratic BY ABIGAIL ADCOX, NEWS EDITOR For the first time in 26 years, Virginia Democrats gained control of both chambers of the state legislature. All 140 legislative seats…
INTERVIEWS BY: IMANI HOLLOMAN AND IZZ LAMAGDELEINE Student: Isaiah Jordan AS A TRANSFER STUDENT, HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT STUDENT GOVERNMENT? HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED? So, at my last school, I went to Valley Forge Military Academy and College…
Student Government passes resolution to conduct clean-up of potentially offensive campus chalking BY SAMI GIBBS, STAFF WRITER; JACK HARVEY, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR; ABIGAIL ADCOX, NEWS EDITOR Student Government is responding to students’ discomfort over the word “toads,” which has been…