Reading your “required text” on a budget BY: NAYOMI SANTOS, ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR Classes are well underway and those pesky required readings are creeping up each week. If you’re like me, you dread the amount of “required” textbooks that are…
Two Mason students forge their own path in a flooded market BY: TRAVIS MCMILLAN, STAFF WRITER As many students may have seen around campus — whether it be by flyers, business cards or a personal pitch from one of the…
Shedding light on the inner workings of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery BY: MAGGIE ROTH, STAFF WRITER Mason students were given the opportunity this past week to peer behind the scenes of the iconic portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama…
Violinist Simone Porter and Fairfax Symphony Orchestra perform first show of the year NAYOMI SANTOS, ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR On Saturday, Feb. 8, the Center for Performing Arts (CFA) hosted the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s (FSO) first performance of the new year….
BY NATALIE HEAVREN SPORTS EDITOR We all saw the jokes and memes about the Patriots not being in the Super Bowl and fans being sad about it. But it was weird not watching the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Super…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Softball On Friday, the Patriots lost their first two games of the Stetson Lead-Off Classic in Florida to Sam Houston State and Stetson. Sam Houston State got out to a 6-0 lead by the…
BY CONOR FORREST STAFF WRITER As the Vince Lombardi Trophy finds its new home in Kansas City, it’s time to take a look back at the 2019 NFL season. The NFL is a story, and each season is a…
Students, staff and alumni turn out for Black Excellence in Dewberry Hall BY PETER NJOROGE, CULTURE EDITOR On Saturday, Feb. 8, over 400 members of the Mason community were in attendance of the 5th annual Black Excellence Gala in the…
BY: JACE WHITE, STAFF WRITER In a 2018 column defending President Trump’s tariff policies, conservative editor Daniel McCarthy mocked his free trader opponents for believing that “the harm to those whose manufacturing jobs are lost [is] outweighed by the…
BY NATALIE HEAVREN SPORTS EDITOR Head coach Nyla Milleson and players Marika Korpinen and Jacy Bolton all had smiles on their faces at the post-game press conference. For the first time in a month, the Patriots were back in the…