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Young Entrepreneur Creates Own Site
By Broadside Staff Writer Adam Sylvain
Fresh off what was an invigorating Presidential election, anyone inspired to reach his or her Congressional leaders may benefit from the “I Hand Deliver” service.
Outlined on the Web site, www.ihanddeliver.com, the service allows customers to submit a personal letter, have it expertly formatted and hand delivered to the desk of a desired congressperson. This process allows anyone to reach his or her decided recipient in a quick and deliberate manner with a cost total of $7.95 per letter.
The Past is the Present and Future
By Broadside Correspondent Kevin Loker
Students who have an interest in government and international politics, or current events in general, have another useful tool at their fingertips.
History News Network, which resides on George Mason University’s server, is a Web site that hosts articles about current events through the eyes of historians. Writers who contribute to the Web site use their knowledge of past events and apply them to similar or current ones to add to the discussion of how they may evolve or how they may be remembered. As the History News Network’s tagline states, they do this “Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.”
Students With A HART Rescue Homeless Animals
By Broadside Staff Writer Kyle Ridley
What started as a class project has quickly turned into a mission of hope for three George Mason University students. Seniors Monica Michaan and Peter Berlin have joined forces with junior Judith Lee in an effort to raise money and help spread the word about the Homeless Animals Rescue Team.
The determined trio will hold a kiosk outside the Johnson Center on Thursday from 2 to 3 p.m. to take donations and promote HART’s Saturday PETCO adoption fair at the Greenbriar Town Center and Sunday’s charity dog wash at Bark ‘N Bubbles in Herndon.
The fundraiser began as a group assignment for Professor Dan Walsh’s Principles of Public Relations course. Each team was given the task to design a PR campaign for a non-profit organization and judge its success based on previous events.
The decision to work with HART was immediate for Michaan, Berlin and Lee.
Mason Goes Green: GMU Strives to Reduce Waste
By Broadside Staff Writer Jared Trice
With its newly opened Southside dining facility, George Mason University has shown significant concern towards efforts to embrace the environmentally-friendly movement.
Opened on October 6, the Southside dining facility replaced Ciao Hall as the main dining facility on campus. According to Michael Galvin, the marketing and community affairs manager for Dining Services, Southside boasts an impressive menu of recipes that are “delectable and high quality.”
Love, Life & Redemption (and everything in between)
Lamb To A Lion Productions presents "Love, Life & Redemption (and everything in between)." Written & Directed by Setor E. Attipoe.
Dewberry Hall North
7pm-9pm
Tuesday, November 11
Come with questions for Q&A after the show
Coming to Mason Thanks to:
* Student Organization Social Programming Fund
* African and African American Studies
* Women and Gender Studies
* The Feminist Ninjas
Program Board's XBOX 360 Premiere
By Connect2Mason Information Director Miguel Perez.
Hey Patriots! How would you like to be the first to test out the newest XBox games on the market?
Come to the XBOX 360 Premiere tonight AT 6PM for a chance to play such games as "You're In The Movies" and "Scene it."
Then stick around and watch Seth Rogen's comedy bockbuster "Pineapple Express" at 7PM. Don't miss out!
Final Election ’08 Tally
By Connect2Mason Reporter Matt Todd.
After predicting the odds for each state, the electoral votes defied MY expectations.
Final Tally
Barack Obama made history last night becoming the U.S.’s first black president and Michelle Obama has become our nation’s first black first lady. The race was tight according to numerous sources including CNN and Fox News, while my state-by-state odds predicted more of a landslide victory that could have easily been challenged.
I predicted Democrat Obama to pick up 338 electoral votes against Republican John McCain’s 200. And while Obama had a slim lead according to numerous polls on RealClearPolitics.com, the electoral vote wins defied my expectations with Obama winning more than I predicted. The final count was 349 to McCain’s 162 (with two states tied and still undecided on the victor) and I had guessed 48/50 states correctly with Washington D.C. guessed correctly as well.
LETTER: VP Forman's Decision to Not Vote Appalling
By Senior Rudo Meda, Govt. and International Politics
I was appalled by Claire Forman’s comments in Broadside of October 27. What kind of Student Body Vice President, who had to be elected herself to get to where she is, would advocate not voting in an election?
This is the biggest general election of our lifetimes. I’m shocked at her imprudence and irresponsibility. People organized and sacrificed, marched, and were ridiculed, were assaulted and even died, so that both genders and all races could have citizenship rights, chief of which is the right to speak, through your only audible tool in a democracy—your vote.
LETTER: Defending "Religilous"
By Non-Degree Grad Student Mary E. Thompson
In the October 20, 2008 edition of Broadside, Michael Grybowski slams Bill Maher's documentary, Religulous, for showing only religious extremists. He also criticizes other atheist works like the books of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. He contends that the purpose of the film (and books) is to claim that religion is fundamentally harmful or dangerous. His conclusion was that atheist films and books “prove nothing about which is better, religion or irreligion.”
But Maher didn’t interview religious extremists or crazy people. Although at the end of the film, Maher lectured about the danger of extremists, the people who appeared in the film were both ordinary people, such as truckers, and government leaders, such as former Arkansas Senator David Pryor. He also spoke people with several denominations: Catholics, Mormons, Muslims and Protestants. He spoke both with those who performed in a Christian-themed amusement park and museum as well as people who attended the park and museum. He asked them all very basic questions about religion, the scripture-based stories in which they believed, evolution, the afterlife, and other issues.
LETTER: Students Lack Etiquette in Guest Lectures
By Jack R. Censer, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
Between September 21 and 27, George Mason University’s Fairfax campus hosted the Fall for the Book Festival. Students, faculty, staff, and members of the local community attended the wide-ranging readings and presentations of fiction and non-fiction authors. The Festival attracts authors with notable reputations to the Mason campus each September for this annual event.
I attended quite a few of last month’s events, and I was very happy to see so many students in the audience. This speaks to the intellectual interest of the Mason community. Unfortunately, there was a problem. In the sessions I attended, an extraordinary number of students left before the session concluded. I understand that some may have had to leave because of other obligations or to get to the next class on time. But in some cases, students stayed for only five or 10 minutes. As the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, I was disappointed to see this sort of behavior.