On March 31, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences held the Freshman Academic Achievement Award Ceremony, which recognized 250 freshmen in the college with the highest grade point averages. Two hundred and ten out of the 250 award recipients…
The information desk at the Johnson Center will soon be getting a facelift. Gail Sutton, the director of Student Centers is leading a project that will replace sixteen computers at the JC info desk with four iPads, as well as…
With campaign season for the Student Government election beginning Mar. 17, Fourth Estate has begun interviewing the candidates for the office of student body President and Vice President. Khadeja Tipu, running for President, is a second term senator and is currently the…
Mason has joined a national initiative aimed at doubling the number of U.S. students studying abroad. The initiative, called Generation Study Abroad, is a program by the Institute of International Education, a Washington D.C. based non-profit. Mason’s goal as a…
Around this time of year, students and family members anxiously wait for the announcement of who will give the commencement speech during the spring graduation ceremonies. In an email announcement, Mason has finally announced that Jonny Sarhanis, a recent star…
The Genocide Awareness Project, a program that seeks to end abortion, staged a protest from Monday through Wednesday last week on SUB I Plaza. “The two most important facts that we want to present are the humanity of the child…
On March 17, classes were cancelled due to winter weather for the fifth time this year. The number of missed days has resulted in an elimination of a reading day, and a shortening of each exam’s duration. A reading period…
With campaign season for the Student Government election beginning Mar. 17, Fourth Estate has begun interviewing the candidates for the office of student body President and Vice President. David Dorsey, two-year President of the Class of 2015 and a supervisor at the…
Student government is holding it’s annual Student Government Executive Ticket Debate at 7:30pm in the JC Atrium. The debate will be moderated by Student Government’s Election Disputes Committee Chairman, Greg Mercer, and Executive Editor of Fourth Estate, Frank Muraca. Students…
There’s a debate currently underway in Richmond. Virginia House Republicans and Senate Democrats are at odds over whether to expand Medicaid – a federal program that subsidizes health care for low-income citizens – to about 400,000 people. Democrats want to…