Dear Patriots, This week is International Week, which is one of the most important events that Mason holds. Mason is an incredibly diverse campus, and it is important to celebrate that. Whether you are celebrating your own culture or exploring…
Women’s Tennis APR 20 (SAT) 1 P.M. MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE FAIRFAX, VA. TENNIS COURTS Softball APRIL 19 (FRI) 4:00 P.M. LA SALLE (DH) APR 19 (FRI) 6:00 P.M. LA SALLE (DH) APR 20 (SAT) 12:00 P.M. LA SALLE Baseball APR…
BY DANA NICKEL NEWS EDITOR Rico Gomez walked through the indoor track at Mason’s field house as if by muscle memory. It seemed like Gomez had spent so much time there that the field house was his second home, and…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR “That the better self shall prevail, and each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life.” It is under this motto that senior Sydney Green played at her high school, Hawken Upper…
BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE, COPY CHIEF In the Mason Swim Club, which just came back from the Collegiate Club Swimming National Championship, two very different factors are at work: the family feeling that the members find within the club and the…
BY SUSAN KATHERINE CORKRAN, STAFF WRITER About five seconds after the word “congratulations” leaves their lips, the question inevitably follows. “So, what are your plans after graduation?” There’s still a mouthful of celebratory cake in your mouth, relatives clamoring to get…
BY JACE WHITE, STAFF WRITER Apple recently announced Apple TV+, a movie and tv streaming service that will compete with Netflix, Amazon and others. The company reportedly spent nearly $2 billion creating new content featuring big-name actors and directors to attract…
BY DAWSON WEINHOLD, STAFF WRITER The term “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” doesn’t do enough to describe the scale of the the events currently happening in the Levant. For those unfamiliar with the term, the Levant broadly refers to Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria,…
BY SUMMER BROWN, STAFF WRITER Mental health affects a large portion of the population of the world on a daily basis, and students are definitely not an exception to this. Mental health issues can make completing daily tasks absolutely difficult and…
BY ARIANNA GOODMAN, STAFF WRITER On March 19, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California, Google announced its development of what could be another turning point in the trajectory of video games—a cloud-based gaming platform. The Google Stadia,…