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From the Vault: Film Points in the Right Direction
|Let’s take a short trip back to movies from the ’90s that, despite not having access to a multi-million dollar budget, were actually written well.
In fact, there were so many well-written movies that many went under the radar. One of those is 1997’s Grosse Pointe Blank.
Grosse Pointe Blank is a film that sits in the “dark comedy” genre.
It blends together action and comedy while taking a provoking look at the human psyche.
he U.N. and its role in the world: How it affects and shapes our modern politics
|A few years back, when I first watched Hotel Rwanda, I was completely shocked and horrified. I was just finishing the 8th grade, and while I’d heard of the Holocaust and cases like it, this movie was raw to me.
One of the scenes in the movie that got to me was when a news reporter was talking about apathy.
People actually knew that this was taking place, but there was no intervention by the United Nations to save the people who were being killed, and as a result, thousands died.
Patriot pigs to raise funds for the university: Students encouraged to save up spare change in piggy banks, then give to Mason
|George Mason University is targeting an untapped group for private financial support: undergraduate seniors.
Through the Patriot Pigs program, a first-year project of the Office of Annual Giving, seniors are encouraged to collect spare change in a green piggy bank issued by Mason and give the funds to the school. So far, the school has distributed 4,000 piggy banks and received more than $1,000 from the approximately 100 already turned in, said Jewelle Daquin, assistant director at the Office of Annual Giving.
Catholic Campus Ministry Hosts Pro-Life Week: Participants encourage issue to be looked at philosophically
|George Mason University’s Catholic Campus Ministry carried out its pro-life week starting last Monday, with special events at the campus chapel and elsewhere aimed at promoting pro-life views.
Organizers said that the event’s goal was to take the pro-life message, with which Mason’s Catholic students are already well acquainted, and
disseminate it to the school as a whole.
Trouble the Water comes to the Bistro: Controversial film discusses injustices after Hurricane Katrina
|Kimberly Rivers Roberts will always remember where she was on Aug. 29, 2005, and so will thousands of individuals still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, as documented in the film Trouble the Water. Roberts, who was in New Orleans when the storm struck, filmed her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina with a camcorder she bought for $20 just days before the disaster. She transformed the raw footage of her ordeal into Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize-winning and Academy Award nominated documentary Trouble the Water.
Alumnae helps impoverished children: Through Teach for America, former student aids at grade school
|“I had a parent come up to me, crying. She said, ‘My child can read.’”
That moment epitomized what got Marissa Herrmann out of bed early every morning five days a week, kept her going in the face of economic obstacles and gave her the strength to face down a classroom of teenagers who sometimes begrudged her presence.
Herrmann, 23, is a participant in Teach for America, which sends high-achieving college graduates to public schools in impoverished areas in the nation.