October 2008
Campus News in Brief
Living Learning Community
If you’re interested in establishing a Living Learning Community with your own interests and needs in mind, join people like yourself in Research 1, room 162 on Oct. 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. The meeting, titled Building Z: The Future of Living Learning Communities will address various issues of Living Learning Communities. Your suggestions and opinions are welcomed.
Easing the Veterans' Transition to Higher Education
By Broadside Staff Writer Adam Silvain
Mason Military Outreach, in conjunction with the Office of Disability Services and George Mason Human Resources, hosted a web-based seminar entitled: Returning Veterans: Implications for Higher Education. The 90-minute seminar was part of an ongoing effort by the university to reach out to returning veterans with resources and services available to help them succeed as they return to the classroom.
Corcoran Gallery Displays Political Art in DC
By Broadside Staff Writer Jared Trice
The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. hosted Shepard Fairey, an internationally celebrated contemporary artists and graphic designer, for a dialogue discussion on the artist’s politically-charged work on Friday, Oct. 17.
Fairey, whose portrait of Senator Barack Obama, D-Il, became one of the most iconic images of the 2008 presidential campaign, did not begin his career as a political activist. Entering the art world as a street artist, Fairey initially created a sticker, which would later become one of his most recognizable signatures, embedded with the now deceased wrestling champion, Andre the Giant.
This Week in Finance: October 20-26
By Broadside News Editor Noah Martin
College Cuts
Institutions of higher education will be cutting their budgets in response to Gov. Kaine’s $2.5 billion slash in the state budget. Old Dominion University, Norfolk State and Tidewater Community college are all shutting down facilities, laying off employees and forming auditing committees to cut more than $10.1 million from their budgets. The Governor’s plan calls for a five to seven percent reduction in funding for public institutions of higher learning.
Forman Speaks on Conference in Honduras
Mason senior Claire Forman attended a conference in Honduras last month. Hear about how she and others gathered to help make a difference.
Student Takes Trips to Honduras, Helps Others
Student Body Vice President Claire Forman has been on several trips to Honduras in the past year, and she's recounted her story for Student Media. Learn all about the children she helped teach, the conference she attended and the people she met.
- Watch an audio-visual slideshow to hear about Forman's experiences in Honduras and see her photographs.
- Read about Michael, a boy from Honduras who had dreams of college and for whom Mason students purchased a new bicycle.
- Watch videos of children Forman met during her time in Honduras blowing bubbles and playing outside.
- Listen to Forman discuss the conference she attended.
Student Experience Inspires Club
By Student Body Vice President Claire Forman
In 2007, I spent the summer living in La Ceiba, Honduras, where five to six days a week I worked with other volunteers at a boys’ home called Casa del Niño (Home of the Boy). One of the boys, Micahel, kept in touch with me via e-mail, sending updates and practicing his English.
Afraid of the Dark: Sexual Assault on Campus
By Broadside Staff Writer David Pierce
UPDATED AT 7:43 p.m. Oct. 29: Assistant Chief of Police Major Ginovsky has stated that the assault claims were unfounded and falsified, and that no part of it was true. In an interview on the afternoon of Sunday, October 26, the woman told police that she had lied.
Givnosky advises students not to falsify police reports. There is no decision on a criminal charge yet, but the woman is being referred to the Dean of Students.
Mason Student Self-Publishes Novel
By Broadside Correspondent Caylee So
Sunny Naasiri studied in the New International School of Thailand at Bangkok before moving to the United States at age 14. Bangkok was crowded, much to his dislike. The city was full of people and buildings, the opposite of any world he would ever admire.
Naasiri recalls being an introvert; living inside his mind more than interacting. It was then, in those years, he began to imagine a more peaceful world, a world full of more natural surroundings. Naasiri began reading R.A Salvatore’s Forgotten Realms series. Salvatore would later become his favorite author; his fantasy novels would influence Sunny to create his own world, his own stories.