Tag: snow

The Memorial to the Enslaved People of George Mason with snow in front of it.

Who We Dig Out, and Who We Leave Buried

A winter snow exposed whose legacy matters — and whose remains expendable BY PHILIP WILKERSON, CONTRIBUTOR Earlier this winter, George Mason University’s campus was blanketed in snow. As facilities crews worked to clear walkways and keep campus moving, snow was…

Mason Nation Braces for Impact of Winter Storm

What you need to know about campus operations and travel this weekend BY NATHAN FERRARO, MANAGING EDITOR Mason students are bracing for extreme winter weather as the National Weather Service predicts between six and 14 inches of snow in Northern…

Knots, noms and Netflix

How Mason students are spending their snow days Barbara Brophy, Copy Chief In the wake of Winter Storm Jonas, which this weekend left much of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area buried in over two feet of snow, Mason students are finding…

Winter Storm Jonas hits this weekend

Mason Cable News and Fourth Estate worked together to interview student meteorologist, Nick Stasiak (also known as GMU weather man) about this weekend’s winter storm. For more updates, follow @MasonCableNews and @IVEstate and tweet at us using the hashtag: #PatriotsvsJonas.    …

Top 5 Mason snow tweets this week

The Mason community went through a roller coaster of emotions this week as they waited on the powers that be to decide whether or not to cancel classes amid snow on Monday evening going into Tuesday morning. Some students took…

How Mason determines snow days

This story was originally published on February 14th, 2014. Behind the anticipated Mason Alert giving you the okay to sleep through class is a calculated procedure. It involves many different faculty members who assess a variety of circumstances in order…