Fourth Estate Weekly
Hockey club continues work with children's hospital
|As the number one seed of the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference, the Mason club ice hockey team has a lot to be proud of. One source of pride for the team and its coaches is their involvement with the Children’s National Medical Center.
On Oct. 25, the Mason club ice hockey team visited the Children’s National Medical Center’s main hospital in Washington D.C. for a tour of the facilities and the opportunity to meet and spend time with patients.
New women's basketball coach brings different mindset
|Despite transitioning with a new coach into a new conference, the Mason women’s basketball team has high expectations for their season.
“Our ultimate goal is an A-10 championship, but we need to take small victories and baby steps first before we get to that point,” Coach Nyla Milleson said.
On April 16, 2013, Milleson was announced as the eighth head coach in Mason women’s basketball history. In 13 seasons as a collegiate head coach, Milleson brings a career 70.2 winning percentage to Mason. Milleson is entering her 29th year coaching.
Cosplay pros offer some costume advice
|Cosplayers are the masters of making costumes. Cosplay, short for “costume play,” is a sensation that many students love to participate in. Showing their love for a series or movie they’ve watched or book they’ve read, cosplayers will go out and buy materials to make amazing costumes from scratch. We sat down with Katryna Henderson and asked her to give our readers some tips on how to make an amazing Halloween costume, Cosplayer-style.
Housing horror stories: Nightmare on university drive
|“My freshman year roommate decided to go out one night and throw up all over my side of the room before leaving for the weekend. I did not stay in my room that weekend, and when she returned she began to yell at me and tell me it was disrespectful for me not to have cleaned up after her. She had also invited her boyfriend who had just gotten out of jail to stay with us for the week until he could find some place to go. She didn’t mention the jail part until an hour after he arrived.
Mason makes careers
|Sarah Weimar is a junior Communication major at Mason with a minor in Multimedia Studies. She hopes to become a branding consultant with a marketing firm when she graduates. Weimar interns for the popular radio station WTOP Radio.
How did you find out about this internship? I had a contact who worked at WTOP radio and he mentioned that there were internships. I went and did a pre-interview, and he basically thought I was a go-getter and would get a good experience out of the internship.
Mason players mix saucy humor with classic theatre themes
|Mason Players broke into comedy for the first time this season with a hint of Rome doused in a healthy helping of early twentieth-century vaudeville.
As part of their 2013-2014 season, the Mason Players are performing “The Merchant” by Titus Maccius Plautus, bringing back an ancient comedy and early twentieth-century vaudeville with a seamless finesse.
Why fake rivalries stink
|Last week, Mason and George Washington University announced the beginning of the Revolutionary Rivalry, in which the two athletic departments will compete in a season-long series across all sports. Each school earns points from victories against the rival school. At the end of the year, the school with the most points earns the Tri-Corner Hat Trophy.
Can you feel the excitement? Does the tradition overwhelm you? Are you brimming with hate for GW? Of course the answer to all of those questions is simple: No.
Hail to tradition: Should the washington redskins change their name?
|A controversy surrounds the Washington Redskins because of their name. “Redskin” is a term that was used to describe the Native American people and it is supposedly offensive to some, which is odd because, when examining history, one would find that they gave that name to themselves. Regardless, some people are upset and there’s been a big push to change this team name that’s been around since the early 1930s because it’s supposedly a derogatory slur.
A long-lasting disgrace: Should the washington redskins change their name?
|I’m going to go out on a limb and say I know that those who want to keep the name are not ruthless, mean people. What I do know is that they are seeing the ordeal in an egotistical, narrow-minded fashion. In his open letter to the public regarding the Redskins name controversy, team owner Dan Snyder went off on a nostalgic tangent as he recalled all the amazing memories he created as a child at his first Redskins game. To Snyder, I pose a question- why would changing the name to be culturally accepting obliterate fond childhood memories? The answer is that it wouldn’t.
Arguments for and against the redskins name change
|While Congress may have ended the government shutdown and resolved the debt ceiling crisis, one debate in the D.C. area seems nowhere near a solution: the argument of whether the Washington Redskins should change their name.
The debate about the Redskins name stems from the issue of whether Redskins is a racial slur toward Native Americans or simply an 80-year old nickname that symbolizes pride and celebrates the tradition of Native Americans.