September 2012
COLUMN: NFL, not replacement referees to blame for poor officiating
|The first two weeks of the NFL season have come and gone. There are new faces in new places, swapping old digs for new Nike-sponsored jerseys. But not only have there been player swaps but referee swaps as well.
Top 5 weekend picks September 20
|Every week Connect2Mason will offer five entertainment picks for your weekend. Ranging from on-campus to off-campus events, Connect2Mason's Top 5 will give you a jump start on your weekend. Here are the Top 5 picks for this weekend:
OPINION: Pilot House lacks the efficiency of Ike's
|The line at Pilot House is really, really long. It is not that I am frustrated simply with the size of the line, but I am frustrated with the number of staff working the registers—it is never more than one. The line can literally be wrapped around to the point that the ends touch and Pilot House will still have one person working.
Nation's oldest honors society comes to Mason
|After decades of applications, George Mason University has been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
Provost Peter Stearns, undergraduate education programs coordinator Marcy Glover, and history professor Marion Deshmukh have worked for years to bring a chapter of the honors society to Mason. According to Deshmukh, the university has been applying for a chapter since the 1980s.
University to promote bicycling through new path and share program
|George Mason University’s commitment to reducing its environmental impact and fostering a bicycling community on campus has led to a series of new projects, including a bike path that would stretch from the Fairfax campus to the Vienna-Fairfax-GMU Metro Station and a bike-sharing program on campus.
MASON-SECURE replaces old GMU wireless network
|Many students are familiar with having to login to UAC wireless whenever they want to access the internet. MASON-SECURE is George Mason’s newest wireless network, and contains a one-time setup that does not require students to login to the UAC page every time they connect.
David Robertson is the service delivery manager for Network Engineering and Technology at Mason.
“MASON-SECURE is an authentication protocol network,” Robertson said. “It allows students to login once and have it remember their password.”
Two-time Tony award winner Sutton Foster comes to the Center for the Arts
|Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be coming to George Mason University as part of the annual ARTS by George! fundraising event. Acclaimed by the New York Times as “the voice of a trumpet and a big, gleaming presence that floods the house,” Foster should draw in the crowd that the School of Music is looking for to get scholarships for its students.
An Evening with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nationals Park
|Witnessing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band live is a religious experience. Like a preacher spreading the good news from the pulpit, Springsteen commands your attention from beginning to end with a passion and presence unaccustomed for a 62-year old rocker. With gospel and rock melodies coupled with the powerful lyrics of his songs, Springsteen intends to enlighten and console even the most down-trodden follower. The congregation, young and old, feed off this empowering energy, with arms held high and voices to the heavens.
University lends official twitter account to students and faculty
|On September 13th, George Mason University’s twitter account posted hints about a new project that would be released to its followers.
“Announcement tomorrow at NOON on what our plans are for this account!” read one tweet from @GeorgeMasonU. “We can't wait to share! #MNP (Mason Nation Project).”
OPINION: Business interests, academia and the fiscal realities of contemporary education
|Academia and business, those star-crossed lovers, locked horns in two major educational crises this past year. First, the University of Virginia was thrown into turmoil when their Board of Visitors suddenly and brazenly fired and subsequently rehired the university president who, up to that point, had served less than two years. The second catastrophe came this past week in Chicago when negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union and the mayor dissolved into a full-on strike by the teachers, leaving nearly 400,000 students out of school.