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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
Fire weather invades the east
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It’s not very often that you see my weather report say, ‘Red Flag Warning.’ This past Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued a Fire Weather Watch. On Wednesday, Fairfax was upgraded to a ‘Red Flag Warning.’ Everyone from the west coast here at Mason knew just what this meant. The term was pretty odd to the rest of us though. So what exactly does a ‘Fire Weather’ or ‘Red Flag’ alert mean?
Pride Week event highlights overlooked LGBTQ African-American authors
|The stories of black gay and lesbian writers are often erased from history. Even when homosexual, black authors have been included in history, like Langston Hughes, their sexuality is often erased from their narrative. American students often learn about Hughes’ poems such as “A Dream Deferred,” but rarely do they hear about his poem “Café 3am” which describes police brutality against the gay community.
Raucous RAC lifts men's basketball to 73-66 win over Santa Clara, forcing game three on Friday
|In front of a capacity crowd of 1,280 in the bandbox RAC Gym, the George Mason University men's basketball team fed off the electric atmosphere en route to a 73-66 victory to force game three at the Patriot Center on Friday.
Junior guard Sherrod Wright got back on track after scoring only three points in the first game of the CBI Tournament finals, finishing with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Wright earned 17 trips to the free throw line, capitalizing on 11 of them.
Renowned political theorists speak at Mason
|Two of the world’s foremost political theorists visited George Mason University to discuss the controversial topic of Chinese-American relations.
On March 28 and 29, Francis Fukuyama and John Mearsheimer each gave a lecture on their staunchly opposed views on the future of Chinese-American relations.
My Two Cents: Nicholas Brightwell
|Nicholas Brightwell, a senior, studies Government and International Politics at Mason. In this two cents video, he talks about problems within the educational system.