Broadside Correspondent Rashad Mulla
Students go to bat for cricket: Team pushes for full-time club status
|In March, a George Mason University sports team was on the verge of securing a spot in the semifinals of a national tournament. But it is not a team anyone would suspect.
Mason’s cricket team came only a point away from advancing past the preliminary round of the 2010 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from March 17-21.
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.