April 2013
Top 5 weekend picks April 11
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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:
VIDEO: My Two Cents - Kristie Colorado
|Kristie Colorado, a senior at Mason, studies Government and International Politics. In this video, Kristie talks about the shortcomings in American education.
Mason students give back through BIG event
|The BIG event, first started at Texas A&M University, is spreading to college campuses all over the United States, including George Mason University. Nearly 200 Mason students, faculty and administrators are registered for the upcoming event.
Ninth-straight loss for Mason baseball comes in 16-1 drubbing by Maryland
|At the end of the seventh inning, a few crows perched themselves atop the scoreboard at Spuhler Field. It was as if they were waiting to pick away at the beaten and battered George Mason Patriots after the Maryland Terrapins put on a small-ball clinic en route to a 16-1 win.
The Terps sacrificed runners over and drove them in with singles or sacrifice flies. Through the first seven innings of Wednesday’s matinee, Maryland (18-15, 4-11) had four two-run innings and led Mason (12-21, 4-11), 8-0.
Krasnow Institute likely to play role in Obama brain initiative
|On April 2, President Barack Obama proposed to Congress to invest $100 million in the BRAIN Initiative.
BRAIN, which stands for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, is meant to map the human brain and to create technology that can record brain electrical activity. The goal of the initiative is to find cures for brain conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and autism.
If approved, George Mason University’s Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study is likely to play a major role in Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.
OPINION: Grinds my gears: The Johnson Center edition
|Ahh, the Johnson Center—the focal point of our beautiful campus and the biggest building that freshmen still cannot seem to find until October.
The Johnson Center is truly a one-of-a-kind building. It is a place where all of its sleeping students can dream of eating at the culinary delight that is Mein Bowl, watch movies in the classy basement theatre or study in the never-so-quiet library area upstairs.
Former news anchor Jim Lehrer speaks at Mason
|At a discussion on April 10, former news anchor Jim Lehrer spoke at George Mason University about his experience in journalism, and his views of the industry.
Lehrer served as both an executive editor and an anchor on Public Broadcasting Services’s Newshour.
Jack Censer, dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, moderated the discussion, which was sponsored by the CHSS, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Mason Wrestling Team.
Lehrer was invited to speak at Mason by his great nephew, Matthew Stull, a wrestler at Mason.
Mason Ke Rang dance team is anything but normal
|Mason Ke Rang is anything but your average dance team. This past week Connect2Mason was able to sit in on one of the team’s practices. Within the first 10 seconds anyone would be hooked.
Mason Ke Rang claimed first place at last year’s International Week Dance Competition, coming in as an underdog as their first year competing. MKR proved themselves as a force to be reckoned with by surpassing the expectations of the competition and challenging the traditional norms of dance within the Mason community.
Audio & Video: Behind the scenes of Mason's 2013 Drag Show
|Did you attend this year's Pride Week Drag show? Connect2Mason Enteratinment Editor Helena Okolicsanyi recently sat down with the show's producer Alex Gant along with two student performers to give an insider's look into what goes on behind the scenes of putting on this large, campus-wide event. [Video at bottom of page.]
Update on Arlington campus fitness center– where, when & why
|Roughly eighteen months after 405 Arlington campus students signed a petition to bring a fitness center to the Arlington campus, university officials have deemed the project over-budget, without a definitive solution in place for a fitness facility.