August 2008
Welcome Week Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery assembled by Broadside Photo Editor Courtney Erland and Connect2Mason Director Grace Kendall.
Click the photo above or here to see a gallery of photographs from students and staff enjoying the many events that happened during Welcome Week.
Do you have pictures from Welcome Week? Send them to courtney.erland@gmail.com to have your photos added to the gallery!
'Traitor' Leaves Much To Be Desired
By Connect2Mason Reporter Emily Culley
The new film "Traitor" starts about a quarter of a century ago when young Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) walks outside just in time to see his dad's car blow up. Afterwards Samir is sent to live in Chicago, where his mother lives, where he later joins the U.S. military and becomes a U.S. Special Operations officer. After leaving the U.S. military, Horn becomes a leading suspect in a string of bombings across the world.
Fall 2008 Johnson Center Cinema Schedule
By Program Board’s Film Committee
This calendar of movies, along with other exciting campus events, can be found on your Fall 2008 Highlights calendar, available from Student Activities.
Movie Cinema Show Times:
Thursday: 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Friday: 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., with midnight showings on first Fridays
Saturday: 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Sunday: 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Click below for the full Fall movie calendar.
Calling Consistency
By Broadside Opinion Columnist Michael Gryboski
The Southern Poverty Law Center takes pride in continually monitoring and tracking hate groups throughout the United States. Indeed, the organization deserves accolades for its legal battles against the Ku Klux Klan as well as spreading awareness of hate groups. SPLC literature on teaching tolerance can be found in many educational facilities, including our own Student Government office, but while staunchly opposing racism, the SPLC tends to oppose any entity that has the slightest support from racial supremacists, even if they are not actually racist.
Track Your Software With Wakoopa
By Mason Tech Beat Blogger Jimmy Rogers
If you're like me, you use a ton of software and you're always trying out new things. Until now, there hasn't been a particularly good way to keep track of all of the freeware you sample. Wakoopa is trying to change all that.
Babylon A.D. Offers Few Reasons To Watch
By Connect2Mason Reporter Emily Culley
If you think the synopsis of Vin Diesel's newest blockbuster, Babylon A.D. sounds a little too far fetched, just wait until the movie starts unraveling the secrets hidden deep inside this embedded plot structure. Adapted from the French book Babylon Babies, the movie is set in the not too distant future, Toorop (Diesel) finds himself helping two women crossing the world from Eastern Europe to New York City.
The Quest for the Golden Gnome
Story and photos by Broadside Photography Editor Courtney Erland
If you saw about 60 students running around campus this past Saturday, don’t worry–they weren’t crazy. They were on The Quest. Starting in front of Fenwick Library, students gathered and broke into teams of four to go on the The Quest, a campus-wide scavenger hunt. There were a few rules such as: the groups must stick together and one may not sabotage other teams by hiding the clues. The prize for first place was a golden gnome and George Mason University sweatshirts from the bookstore.
The Russian-Georgian Conflict
By Broadside Opinion Columnist Brandon Cosby
The recent Russian-Georgian crisis should surprise no one. It only reaffirms Vladimir Putin's imperialistic tendencies, Dmitry Medvedev's puppet status and Georgia's complete idiocy in dealing with its titan neighbors. The conflict over two provinces the size of ant hills that no one in the West has ever heard of before was a sad event, yes. And while it was provoked by the Georgians, it was definitely a Russian trap. It will have lasting effects in Russian relations for the absurdly over-the-top response.
MUST II Creates Privacy Concerns
By Broadside Staff Correspondent Andrew Pennebaker
I'm typing this on a public terminal. Normally, I'd be flipping a pen at my desk. Not today. This past Sunday for eight hours, the whole Mason network was down as it geared for a new login system: MUST II. If you thought MUST was irritating in the past, you won't be disappointed by MUST II.
The Juniper Unified Access Control (UAC) system is a gatekeeper for corporate networks. Unlike the old MUST, this time it knows about alternative browsers.
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