April 2008
Featured Multimedia: Sex
Sex sign photo courtesy of Flickr's 'ndanger'
Connect Mason presents a week-long look at sex. Whether you love it, hate it, can't get enough of it or get too much of it as is, sex is a prominent issue on college campuses worldwide. Our guide features how-to videos and blurbs, need-to-know facts about sex laws in Virginia, STD statistics, sexy websites and more.
Check back daily for a new perspective on the nasty.
SATURDAY:
- Want to get a good night's rest and stay stress-free? Safe sex is something that should make every health-conscious couple smile from ear to ear.
- What Do You Mean, 'Hooked Up?'
- The cure for routine sex? Foreplay.
Forewarned About Foreplay
(UWIRE) By Emily Neumann, Daily Campus
So you've been doing it with your partner for a while and although it is probably still fun, routine sex is, well, routine. Getting into a habit of having sex at predictable times under predictable circumstances can really put a damper on your love life, and boring sex is sure to send a relationship down the tubes at lightning speed.
The art of foreplay is incredibly underrated, and it's the first thing to go when a couple falls into routine romps.
What Do You Mean, 'Hooked up?'
(UWIRE) By Sydney Arkin, Cornell Daily Sun
Photo by Flickr's 'Jigme Datse'
Sex May Lead to Less Stress, Good Sleep
By Connect Mason Sports Director Damien Sordelett
Photo by Flickr's 'Mark Sadowski'
While mixing alcohol and sex is always viewed as a bad thing, mixing safe sex and health is something that should make every couple smile from ear to ear.
SNL Stars Lead Baby Mama Hit
By Connect Mason Reporter Emily Culley
You want a baby. First you try to adopt, but that becomes a hassle. Then you seek out the oh-so-popular “test tube babies” method - for those successful single women in the working world. But what it that doesn't even help you? When Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) finds out that she cannot have a baby, she takes the next step to find herself a "Baby Mama."
Bands Rock Local Stage at Mason Day
By Connect Mason Multimedia Director Grace Kendall and Director Whitney Rhodes
WGMU hosted the 2008 Mason Day local stage on April 24. The parking lot venue offered neighboring bands to perform for the Mason community. While audience turnout was minimal (blame classes or the early performance schedule) the bands set the stage for that night's highlight, Gym Class Heroes.
American society is ____ when it comes to sex
* obsessed
* open
* just fine
* prudish
* other (please comment below)
Mason Goes to China, Korea for Students
By Connect Mason Asst. News Director Rashad Mulla
Potential graduate students in China and Korea may be calling George Mason home next fall.
Mason’s School of Public Policy sent Tennille Haegele, their assistant director of graduate admissions, to Seoul and Busan, South Korea and Shanghai, China from March 23–April 9.
- Click here to read Haegele’s chronicle of her trip in the School of Public Policy blog.
- Listen to Haegele talk about the school of public policy.
Weekend Round-up: Galas, Earth and Mason Week
By Student Media Freelancer Aram Zucker-Scharff, GMU Events Round-Up
Well, it has been a huge week event wise with a lot of events going on. The week is winding down, but there is still plenty to do. Except for on Sunday, there ain't a lot to do on Sunday. *Shrugz*
Friday (Apr. 25)
Mapped: Local, Registered Sex Offenders
Map compiled by Connect Mason Director Whitney Rhodes
Just a thought to keep you up at night. Or, more seriously, a compilation of information that may redirect your movements after dark.
Data collected from the Department of Justice's Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry.