Broadside News

By Ethan Vaughan, Asst. News Editor A George Mason University student was left in critical condition after being struck by a car on campus last Monday. Michelle Dawson, 21, was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital after she was hit at approximately 9:35 p.m. on the night of March 29. The driver, Jeffrey Jenkins, a 23-year-old […]

By Matt Loffman, C2M Contributer At a community forum and special meeting of the Fairfax City Council on Tuesday, Mayor Robert F. Lederer said that the budget for fiscal year 2011 is the “most difficult budget” he has ever seen. Fairfax, he said, is facing an $11 million deficit. Despite his assertion that “no decisions […]

By Rashad Mulla, Broadside Correspondent 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. […]

By Ethan Vaughan, Asst. News Editor 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, […]

By Helena Okolicsanyi, Broadside Correspondent 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 […]

By Yasmin Tadjdeh, News Editor Students parking on campus just lost an option. Recently, Lot I, a surface lot, was closed to begin construction on the Northwest Housing VIIIA complex. Students who previously parked in Lot I, which was used heavily by students living on campus, were given an option of getting a refund or […]

By Yasmin Tadjdeh, News Editor For some students, the idea of a menagerie of animals coming to George Mason University is not one that settles well with them. Beginning this past Thursday, the Patriot Center hosted The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The circus, which performs annually at Mason, will be here until […]

By Ethan Vaughan, Asst. News Editor George Mason University boasts students from all 50 states and 130 countries, but, this week at least, the Greeks are taking over. A cartoon-themed Greek Week, dubbed “Greekelodeon” by event organizers, began on Sunday evening, March 21 with a kick-off rally held on the SUB I quad where participants […]

By Yasmin Tadjdeh, News Editor Students looking to help Haiti will soon have the opportunity. On Wednesday, the Resident Student Association at George Mason University will be hosting the Haiti Awareness Talent Show, where students will be encouraged to text donations to the disaster-stricken country. Taking place in Dewberry Hall in the Johnson Center from […]

By Matthew Harrison, Broadside Correspondent President Barack Obama’s Friday visit to the George Mason University Patriot Center injected new fire into the health care debate on campus. With the spotlight on health care issues, Mason’s Economics Society said it hopes to answer some of the questions faculty and students have regarding the reform process. The […]