Tag: winter

Winter Break Adventures

December 5, 2018 / no comments / 1814 views

Check out what Mason students have planned for the long-awaited break BY ANGELIQUE ARINTOK, STAFF WRITER After a long semester filled with papers, assignments and Blackboard discussion posts, a long-awaited  winter break is nearly here for Mason’s hard-working students. They…

Four Fun Things to Do in NOVA

December 3, 2018 / no comments / 2486 views

Local activities for some winter fun this finals season BY BROOKE LEWITAS, STAFF WRITER With finals on your mind, it can be hard to focus on anything else. As the holidays are just around the corner, if you can pull…

2018 Olympics Roundup

March 1, 2018 / no comments / 2397 views

By Natalie Heavren, Staff Writer The 2018 Winter Olympics have come and gone, and the countdown to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo begins. Team USA finished the games in fourth place overall with 23 medals, behind Norway, Germany, and…

Early Olympics Update

February 15, 2018 / no comments / 4090 views

By Natalie Heavren, Staff Writer The United States is in fifth place in the 2018 Winter Olympics medal count with seven total — four gold, one silver and two bronze as of Feb. 13. Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Canada…

OPINION: Winter Olympics: The Quadrennial Oddity

February 5, 2018 / 3 comments / 15811 views

By Alexander Kenny, columnist Every four years, Americans tune to NBC to watch beautiful figure skaters, high-tech sled races, Shaun White, and dangerously fast downhill skiing, yet nobody knows what a triple Salchow actually is. We like the drama. We…

Winter Storm Jonas hits this weekend

January 21, 2016 / no comments / 2751 views

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.    …