Students share experiences of undercooked meat, bugs, bolts and food poisoning from dining halls. BY ERICA MUNISAR, NEWS EDITOR According to Mason Dining, their mission statement is as follows. “Mason Dining is committed to bringing you the excellence and value…
Taking out food may help during busy hours in a post-COVID setting. BY ERICA MUNISAR, STAFF WRITER George Mason University is one of the biggest colleges in the state of Virginia composed of 27,104 undergraduate students. Of those students, 6,200…
Labor shortage on campus sparks frustration from staff and students BY ALLISON ALBERTY GRAPHICS EDITOR & SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR As businesses nationwide struggle to find and retain employees, Mason’s on-campus dining services and restaurants are no exception to this labor…
BY: ALEXANDRIA MCALPINE, FAUX ESTATE CORRESPONDENT Editor’s note: This piece is a work of fiction written for Fourth Estate’s satire issue, Faux Estate. The students remaining on campus are the lucky ones. It seems like just yesterday my friends and…
Well-known Southside employee leaves Mason BY: LEIGH NORMAN, STAFF WRITER Robert Daniels is always smiling. His kind eyes and salt-and-pepper beard have been a welcome sight for Southside diners. He spent years sitting at the register or preparing sandwiches. Sometimes…
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…
By Billy Ferguson
Workers hold a demonstration as part of ongoing union efforts BY JACK HARVEY, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Workers and students met Friday, Sept. 13, in the Southside lobby to deliver a petition to Sodexo’s management team. Sodexo manages dining for both…
Move over JMU and VT BY OWEN FERGUSON, SCRIBE If you’ve ever lived on campus or eaten in the dining halls at Mason, you know the food all too well. If we’re being honest, it’s pretty great, not to mention the…
By Dominic Pino, Columnist I am writing this column from my favorite place to study at Mason. There are many great places to study on the Fairfax campus. Fenwick Library with its comfy chairs and quiet study rooms. The Johnson…