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LIFE Giving Opportunities to Students with Disabilities
By Mason Votes Content Editor Christian Yingling
George Mason University’s Learning Into Future Environments Program admits six to eight new students each year in what is a highly selective process. This four-year program allows students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to gain a full college experience through classes like astronomy, employment opportunities, horticulture and exploratory mathematics time and measurement.
Solidifying Understanding Across the Atlantic
By Broadside Staff Writer Jared Trice
George Mason University hosted President Ernest Bai Koroma of the Republic of Sierra Leone on Saturday, Sept. 27. Mason is partnering with Sierra Leone in an effort to establish a four-college community system throughout Sierra Leone.
Lutheran Campus Ministry Embraces GLBT Students
By Broadside Reporter David Pierce
George Mason University’s Lutheran Campus Ministry was acknowledged by Lutherans Concerned/North America, a nonprofit Christian ministry, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, for being Northern Virginia’s latest Reconciling in Christ group.
The Lutheran Campus Ministry was recognized through the Reconciling in Christ program because it openly accepts gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) students, according to a Lutheran Campus Ministry press release.
Lewis Black and OneRepublic Come to Campus
By Connect2Mason Information Director Miguel Perez
University Life and Student Activites are teaming up with Mason's Program Board to bring some exciting events to campus next month. Comedian Lewis Black of The Root of All Evil fame will be at the Patriot Center on October 18. Then on October 25, alternative rock band OneRepublic headlines a concert featuring The Spill Canvas and The Hush Sound.
Tickets for both shows are on sale now for $10 each for students with their Mason ID at the Patriot Center. Student tickets can also be purchased with cash at the Student Activities Office. Faculty tickets are $20 and $30 for the general public, though students can buy up to two extra tickets for the Lewis Black show at $20 each for family members visiting during family weekend.
Volition Holds Open Mic Night, Accepts Submissions
By Connect2Mason Information Director Miguel Perez
Volition, Mason’s undergraduate art and literary journal, is looking for submissions and hosting an Open Mic Night.
The Volition Open Mic Night on October 16 will be held from 8-11PM. Poets, writers, and artists are all welcome to this event at the Johnson Center’s Bristo.
The literary magazine will also be collecting all works of poetry, prose, creative nonfiction and art for their upcoming publication. The deadline is October 28. Submissions can be sent to volition@gmu.edu.
Talking Foreign Policy With Madeleine Albright
By Broadside Staff Reporter David Pierce
Former United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, spoke at a foreign policy town hall meeting Saturday, Sept. 20, in Dewberry Hall on the bottom floor of the Johnson Center. She was part of a three-person panel that included terrorism expert Richard Clarke and Rep. Jane Harman (D.-Calif.).
Celebrate Literature at Fall for the Book
By Connect2Mason Information Director Miguel Perez
Fall for the Book, the annual literary festival organized by the City of Fairfax and George Mason University began this week on September 21. The festival in its tenth year, is a two-week event that “brings together people of all ages and interests,” according to its homepage. Many events are sponsored by on-campus organizations.
Appealing to Generation Y in the Workplace
By Broadside Assistant News Editor Sonya Hudson
Generation Y, which consists of people under 28, is causing havoc in the workforce. Michelle Marks, associate professor in management, gave a lecture titled, “The Young and the Restless: How Generation Y is Changing our Workforce.”
The lecture, which is part of the Vision Speaker Series, attracted an intergenerational audience of about 300, Monday night, Sept. 15, in Concert Hall.
OneVoice: A Movement Toward Peaceful Resolution
Story by Broadside Correspondent Adam Sylvain. Photo by Laura Foltz.
The OneVoice Movement, an international organization seeking to bring a peaceful end to the Israeli-Palestine conflict, sponsored by George Mason University’s Amnesty International and Project NUR, brought its message to campus on Monday, Sept. 15, in hopes of educating students on the Israeli-Palestine conflict and the recipe for resolution. The event took place in Student Union Building I.
Freshmen Participate in Life-Safety Fair
By Broadside Correspondent Miguel Perez
Since the year 2000, 168 college students nationwide have died as a result of fires.
On Sept. 18, as an effort to promote awareness and to combat fire safety apathy and ignorance, freshman residents of Presidents Park participated in the first-annual Life Safety Fair. The event, sponsored by the Office of Housing and Residential Life, City of Fairfax Fire Department and the Office of Fire Safety Programs drew a large crowd of curious freshmen who were treated to free turkey dogs, Coke Zero and later Domino’s Pizza in the event.