May 2008
Encouraging the Act of Recylcing
Story and Photo by Broadside News Editor Asma Chaudhary
Students and resident advisors met for a small group session at the Recycling Center last Wednesday to sort recyclables as part of a volunteer effort during George Mason University’s Earth Week.
Residential advisor coordinator Laura Anthes discussed how great it was to see students work with each other on a hands-on project.
“I’ve been working with housing’s green group and with Ron Lim to encourage recycling more on campus,” Anthes said. “There is a lot that students are not aware of, specifically with the impact of residences on the environment.”
Project Nur: Africa Underground
By Broadside Staff Reporter Erica Terrini
Photo by Broadside Photographer Erica Terrini
There are stories of poverty, social injustice and failing democracies, which feature the voices of young hip-hop artists coming from the ghettos of African countries. In certain regions of the world and many others, hip-hop music is not used to advertise or represent the lifestyles of the wealthy.
According to those regions and a recent discussion forum from Project Nur, hip-hop is used as a voice of the people, as a tool for democracy and as resolution to conflict.
Drugging America's Youth
By Broadside Opinion Columnist Brandon Cosby
Maybe the world has grown up and gotten far more complicated, but it seems that nearly everyone I know today is taking some delicate cocktail of prescription drugs.
Maybe the world has turned more dark and confusing, or maybe I just have screwed up friends, but the rule seems constant.
As a generation, we seem to be growing up heavily medicated and bred passive.
Race Continues to Divide
By Broadside Opinion Columnist Arthur Gailes
Slavery and genocide are the two ugliest chapters of American history.
But while the wound that genocide leaves is left to heal itself, the gash of slavery is one that is constantly rubbed by racism, reverse racism, affirmative action and the general clash of opposing cultures. This clash is inevitable because the oppressed remain obsessed with this ugliness that the oppressors want to forget.
Pettiness Destroys the Dem. Presidential Chances
By Broadside Opinion Columnist Scott Mason
Historically, it seems that there have been campaigns full of both vice and virtue since the beginning of our American republic, since the legendary George Washington’s majesty paved his way into office. From the Federalists and Jeffersonians, who believed that the opposing party had no thread of legitimacy, to dueling Andrew Jackson to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, there have been great times and low times for the dignity and sophistication of political campaigns in America. But it seems that never before have candidates had to explain why or why not they choose to where a pin of our flag on their lapel. The sheer idiocy of the seeming need for a mandate on lapel attire for presidential candidates is absolutely asinine, but it seems now that Senator John McCain should not have left that measure out of his campaign finance reform.
Mason Soccer Icon Passes Away at 74
By Connect Mason Reporter Mike Foss
MANASSAS, Va. - Former George Mason men's soccer coach Gordon Bradley passed on Tuesday at the age of 74. Bradley had an unrivaled career as a player and as a coach.
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