April 2013
VIDEO: Connect2Mason speaks with Fairfax Mayor Scott Silverthorne
|On Saturday, April 6, Connect2Mason sat down with Scott Silverthorne, mayor of the City of Fairfax. Silverthorne spoke about the changing relationship between George Mason University and the city, affordable housing projects and his favorite places in Fairfax.
New dining options to come to Prince William campus
|New dining options will be brought to George Mason University’s Prince William campus in an effort to expand the satellite campus .
Three franchise restaurants—Subway, Zabb Thai, and Wings, Pizza-N-Things—will be coming to Beacon Hall, a multi-use building that will feature graduate apartments upstairs.
Civil engineering students to bring water to Nicaraguan community
|This summer, civil engineering students in Engineers for International Development will implement a project intended to bring accessible water to a small community in Nicaragua.
EfID plans to install a new well, a solar-powered water storage tank, and pipes to transport water to homes in the Grande Sabana community of Nicaragua. The community has two inefficient wells and no way to store water.
Cabrera to hold online discussion with students
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| President Cabrera will hold an "Ask-Me-Anything" on George Mason's sub-reddit on April 19 (photo courtesy of GMU sub-reddit). |
On April 19, President Ángel Cabrera will hold an online discussion with students through an "Ask-Me-Anything" session on George Mason University's sub-reddit.
Students can ask any questions from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The sub-reddit group has hosted previous AMA's with Fairfax County Supervisor John Cook and Josh Cantor, director of transportation and parking services for the university.
A look into Mason's 2013 International Week
|Hot on the heels of Pride Week, George Mason University will host International Week – a weeklong series of events that aim to celebrate the diversity of Mason students and faculty. From Monday, April 8 to Friday, April 12, there will be dozens of events on the Fairfax campus that help remind students of their membership in a global community.
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
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Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
I love Michael Crichton. I also love pirates. So when I found Pirate Latitudes on my father's bookshelf, I was understandably excited. The author of such thrillers as Jurassic Park and Timeline was bound to do brilliantly with swashbucklers and wenches and mystical creatures like the Kraken, right?
Well, turns out my high expectations were only partially met.
Pirate Latitudes follows the voyage of Captain Hunter and crew, who are on a "privateerng" mission against the Spanish. Their ship sails out from the Caribbean town of Port Royal under contract with the British governor. Without giving too much of the plot away, the crew faces many setbacks on their voyage, from encounters with giant sea monsters to cannibals.
Mason men's basketball falls to Santa Clara, 80-77 in the CBI Finals
|The George Mason University men's basketball team's season came to an end on a losing note Friday night as Kevin Foster and Santa Clara University held off the Patriots' late advances for a 80-77 College Basketball Invitational Finals win.
Jordan Foster elected as new student body president
|George Mason University’s Student Elections & Disputes Commission announced on April 4 that Jordan Foster, a rising senior, was elected as the next student body president for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Samantha Wettasinghe, also a rising senior, was elected as student body vice president as part of a combined ticket.
The pair won with 796 votes over write-in candidates Donald Garrett and David Noyes, who received 32 votes.
OPINION: Marriage equality is essential to a truly free America
|Hundreds of people gathered in D.C. last Tuesday, March 26, to show both support and opposition as the Supreme Court began its hearings on California's gay marriage ban. Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, overturning California's Supreme Court decision previously legalizing same-sex marriage. The issue here is to determine whether Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act violate the 14th amendment, which guarantees equal protection under law.
Steven Klein to leave journalism department
|After fourteen years at George Mason University, professor Steven Klein of the journalism department will be leaving the university at the end of the spring 2013 semester.
Klein is currently the coordinator for the journalism concentration of the