September 2013
Fall for the Blog: Courtney Brkic and Marjan Kamali
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Fourth Estate follows events of the Fifteenth Annual Fall for the Book Festival through Fall for the Blog.
Authors Courtney Brkic and Marjan Kamali share their accounts of immigrant-American life.
Fall for the Blog: Sonia Sanchez
|Fourth Estate follows events of the Fifteenth Annual Fall for the Book Festival through Fall for the Blog.
Award-winning poet Sonia Sanchez explores pain and love during poetry reading at the Center for the Arts.
Mason Athletics and Mason Cable Network to begin live stream game coverage
|Mason Cable Network and Mason’s athletic department reached an agreement to begin streaming live broadcasts of all home athletic games beginning in October with men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball. The first official collaborative broadcast will be on Oct. 4 when Mason’s women’s volleyball team plays host to Saint Louis University.
OPINION: Apathy about campus architecture
|There was a time when buildings were not built in the ugliest and most offensive manner possible. That time is now past, and its passing is in few places more apparent than on the contemporary college campus. When our nation’s capital was being built, the architects looked back to the experts—to Rome and Greece—for inspiration. They built columns and arches and domes; they raised up out of the earth the most beautiful ruins man has seen. What, then, is the muse of our modern builder?
Fall for the Blog: Bonnie Jo Campbell and Mary Kay Zuravleff
|Fourth Estate follows events of the Fifteenth Annual Fall for the Book Festival through Fall for the Blog.
Fiction authors Mary Kay Zuravieff and Bonnie Jo Campbell write contrasting spins on the "American Dream."
Washington Wizards set to hold training camp at Patriot Center
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The Washington Wizards will be hosting their annual training camp at the Patriot Center on the Fairfax campus of George Mason University from Saturday, Sept. 28 to Wednesday, Oct. 2. The training camp will consist of two-a-day practices from 11 to 2 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. daily.
Mason students weigh the costs and benefits of unpaid internships
|The days of hurried coffee runs and phone answering may be coming to an end for interns across America.
Fall for the Blog: Nathan Leslie and Jen Michalski
|Fourth Estate follows events of the Fifteenth Annual Fall for the Book Festival through Fall for the Blog.
Nathan Leslie and Jen Michalski start off our Fall for the Blog coverage with three different perspectives.
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Fourth Estate is George Mason University's official student-run news outlet.
The organization was formed in Fall 2013 in collaboration between the student newspaper, Broadside, and an student-run news website, Connect2Mason.
Our mission is to inform Mason students, faculty and alumni about what's happening in the community. Through a weekly publication and an online presence, Fourth Estate covers everything from the Board of Visitors to the next concert coming to the Patriot Center.