December 2010

Top 5 flash mobs [DECEMBER DIVERSION]


FLASH MOB. FLASH MOB. FLASH MOB.

Welcome to the first December Diversion. 

Below are Connect2Mason's 5 favorite videos of flash mobs and other similar stunts. They should kill a good twenty minutes or so, and then it's back to your 12-pager on Keynesian economics.

Or Facebook. Your call.

Men’s Basketball routs UNCW, 80-52


Senior Isaiah Tate led all scores with 16 points in the Patriots' dominant victory over UNC Wilmington Saturday night to open the conference schedule. (John Powell)

Deck the U-Haul event collects items for charity

The Chi Omega and Delta Chi fraternities teamed up to collect items

Apple’s Fantasy Projections: Week 13


Tom Brady leads the highest scoring offensive attack in the NFL, but will he be able to continue his success in Week 13 against the tough Jets defense?. (Photo from Creative Commons, user Keith Allison)

Writers reflect on NaNoWriMo experience

National Novel Writing Month has come and gone giving the thousands of participants a chance to reflect on the experience. Some can say they have written a 50,000-word novel.

Men's Basketball wins Battle of the Orange Line


Junior Mike Morrison goes up for a jumper during Mason's 60-46 victory over local rival George Washington Wednedsay night in the Patriot Center. (John Powell)

BOV approves Code of Ethics, new degree


President Merten and BOV Rector Ernst Volgenau oversee the last BOV meeting of the semester.  (George Yanez) 

HIV awareness hits the stage at annual concert

The above video was shot and edited by C2M's George Yanez who was on scene for this year's HIV Awareness Week concert.

Our gift and answer to all your studying woes


Beginning to think you should have your own cot in the library? Or that the overnight employees at Starbucks are getting sick of you, even if you're paying a majority of their paychecks?

We know this is the time of the year where you want to slam shut your textbook, wave your fist in the air and cry out, "Darn you, December."

It doesn't have to be.

Tyson's Corner tragedy has Mason tie

The parents of the 2-year-old girl allegedly thrown from a fifth-story walkway by her grandmother at Tyson’s Corner Center Monday evening had connections to Mason’s campus.

According to a Washington Post story published today, the child’s mother is a Mason graduate and both the grandmother and her husband have worked part time as ushers at the Patriot Center.