News
Take All You Care to Eat
By Broadside Correspondent Yasmin Tadjdeh
Last week, Dining Services began their campaign to end wasteful student eating habits in Southside. Since Southside’s opening in October 2008, staff have noticed an increase in the amount of students taking too much to eat and throwing the excess away, as well as stealing food from the dine-in only restaurant.
According to Sodexo, the facility serves around 2,400 people per day and every month, hundreds of pounds of food are thrown into the garbage.
So-Called ‘Consortium’ Scams Students
By Broadside Staff Writer Samantha D'Introno
Many George Mason University students have been the victims of an e-mail scam recently. The scam extends an invitation to join a nationally recognized organization called North American Scholar Consortium. For many, an honor society application process is competitive, and sometimes, it can be difficult to be accepted. The North American Scholar Consortium, however, “grants membership” by simply filling out an application and paying a one-time fee of $68.
Campus News in Brief
Compiled by Justin Petrisek, Interim Asst. News Editor and Kevin Loker, News Editor
Circus to Temporarily Change Parking
Parking on campus will continue in its altered format for the next two weeks due to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The tents that have occupied Lot A, Friday, April 3 will remain until Monday, April 20, and any vehicles left in the area will be ticketed and towed. Lot K will remain open, with the exception of Monday, April 6. Lot A will open by Tuesday, April 21. .
MUST II Returns
By Staff Writer Britany Rouse
The network security system, Mason Update and Scanning Technology, also known as MUST II, is back in full force in campus residence halls.
According to David Robertson, manager of network engineering at Mason, the program keeps computer viruses from infecting the entire network and shutting it down.
In The Area...
Compiled by Kevin Loker, News Editor, from reports and ABC 7 News
Local Superintendent to Teach at Mason
A local superintendent will soon join faculty for the College of Education and Human Development at Mason.
Robert G. Smith, who announced his retirement from his current position as superintendent of Arlington Public Schools at the start of the 2008-09 school year, will join Mason faculty as an associate professor of education. He will teach in the education leadership program.
Women Making History Panel
Photo by Teddy Meyer.
By Broadside Correspondent Ramla Mahmood
Last Monday night, the Women Making History panel brought together four hard-working and talented women to talk about everything from their accomplishments and barriers to advice about majors and colleges.
“Do the opposite of what you think you should do,” said author Gina McCabe during the Feminist Ninjas’ sponsored event. “Study abroad, go outside your comfort zone, just go.”
Debate Offers Glimpse of Candidate Platforms
Story by Reporter Hayley Roder. Photo by Photography Manager Courtney Erland.
The 2009 debate for the upcoming student body presidential and vice presidential elections was put on by the Elections and Disputes Committee at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night in the Johnson Center Atrium.
Presidential Debate Live Online Tonight
The 2009 student body president election is growing near, and four Mason students have risen to the challenge and are actively campaigning. The official debate will take place tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Johnson Center. Can't make it? We'll be broadcasting the debates live on C2M in coordination with MasonVotes, as well as hosting a live chat. We hope you will stop by and join us in discussing the election.
Meet the candidates:
To read the rules and predetermined questions being used for the debate, click here.
‘Mason Cares’ Extends Goal
Student Media Copy Editor Jacqueline Schafer
The Counseling and Psychological Services’ Mason Cares program held training for suicide prevention in the Eisenhower Lounge last Tuesday and Wednesday to train students as gatekeepers and “expand the Mason safety net,” said Adrienne Barna, licensed psychologist and associate director of CAPS.
BOV Sets Summer Tuition and Fee Rates
By Broadside News Editor Kevin Loker
Mason's Board of Visitors set tuition and fee rates for summer 2009 at its meeting on March 25. In-state undergraduates will pay $337 per credit hour this summer, a $24 increase over the 2008-09 academic year, while out-of-state undergraduates will pay $1,003 per credit hour, a $66.50 increase.
Because the university budget will not be finalized until the May 2009 BOV meeting, rates for the 2009-10 academic year may differ.