Student Life
For the Average Student: Josh & Amanda
Photo by Courtney Erland.
Student Government Candidates Joshua St. Louis and Amanda Johnson.
Student Government Candidates Joshua St. Louis and Amanda Johnson.
Why are you running for office?
St. Louis: We feel that the student government has become out of touch with the needs of the average student.
Do you have a specific campaign platform?
St. Louis: I really want to make sure people know what Student Government does. I want to create a website just maintained by the executive branch to tell people what we do. I want to increase the Town Hall Initiative. I want to make my office open to everyone, so people can come and tell me their concerns. I want to make a State of the Union Address at the beginning of the second semester. And I want to create an office of an Attorney General, so that students’ rights can be protected and so if they have a complaint they can bring it to that office.
Help All Students: Kyle & Jillian
Photo by Courtney Erland.
Student Government Candidate Kyle McDaniel.
Student Government Candidate Kyle McDaniel.
Why are you running for office?
McDaniel: To help people, to help students. Anything that the Student Government can do to ease a little bit of pressure, that’s what we need to be doing. That’s why I’m running.
Do you have a specific campaign platform?
McDaniel: My plan to help all students consists of three key issues. The first issue is controlling spending from the student government, spending money better. The second issue is increasing student representation in student government through informal things like inviting students over to meetings, posting the bills, minutes, and resolutions online, doing electronic newsletters, things like that. The third thing I want to do is be a more effective advocate with the administration. The administration needs to understand that the needs of the students should be coming first and the student government can be the person and the entity to convey that.
Outreach and Action: Dev & Tyler
Photo by Courtney Erland.
Student Government Candidates Dev Dasgupta and Tyler King.
Student Government Candidates Dev Dasgupta and Tyler King.
Why are you running for office?
Dasgupta: I really don’t feel Student Government’s presence on campus. I really want to show students that Student Government can reach out to students and show that we’re working to better a day in the life of a student at Mason.
King: I feel Student Government should be the ones that are being proactive to the students. Coming from the outside, we have a good view of what the students want and need and have an understanding of various issues at the university. Even though we don’t have experience in Student Government, we can come in and be the voice of the students.
We Believe in Results: Anthony & Krista
Photo by Courtney Erland.
Student Government Candidates Anthony DiCarlo and Krista Muise.
Student Government Candidates Anthony DiCarlo and Krista Muise.
Why are you running for office?
DiCarlo: We have a very strong passion for really working to help out students. We just feel like in terms of our experience and in terms of the connections we’ve made, we really know what it takes to get stuff done.
Muise: We want people to be just as proud to be here as we are so we can get other students to feel the same way and have that same Patriot Pride. That’s what it’s all about for us.
International Week Kicks Off
By Broadside Staff Writer Kristen White
Mason: Meet the World.
That was the theme for this year’s 29th Annual International Week that took place April 4-11. The Opening Ceremony and Celebration was held last Monday in the Johnson Center Atrium below the many hanging, vibrant flags that represented a wide range of cultures.
Amy Moffitt, the assistant director of the Office of International Programs and Services, took the stage to proudly declare the start of the festivities.
“This week gives an opportunity for those students to celebrate their traditions and for our campus to celebrate what their experiences and perspectives add to us as a university community,” Moffitt said.
What's Up Weekend Gets Political
For the latest episode of "What's Up Weekend?," hosts Matt Loffman and Christian Yingling delve into the hot topic of the upcoming student government election.
What's going on this weekend, April 9-12? Listen to find out! And then listen to full interviews with the candidates.
GMView Video Yearbook 1991 Part IV
"Study hard, party hard, graduate in four years." Sometimes advice for freshmen always stays the same. Watch what Mason was like back in 1991, courtesy of GMView.
Drag Show Highlights
Improving Community through Campus Police
By Broadside Contributor Scott Mason
Spring is in the air here at George Mason University. It rains often, but the overabundant number of daffodils on campus shows that the dreary days are making their effects known, and even that the earth is rooting for it’s patriots.
With all of this relatively great weather, as compared to the rest of the year, it disappoints me to see Mason’s police officers going through their beat in their cars.
LETTER: Smoking or Sex?
By Economics Major Tyler Watts
I have no shame in admitting that I enjoy tobacco. An after-dinner cigarette or a contemplative puff on my pipe always hits the spot. A few weeks ago at Mason, I was short of cigarettes and sans pipe, yet desirous of a smoke. I trundled into the convenience store in the JC, but alas, they don't sell tobacco in any form.