CAPS Swamped with Patients, Low on Staff

CAPS Swamped with Patients, Low on Staff
Mason’s Counseling and Psychological Services is at its limit. CAPS falls short of IACS standards. Currently, nine full-time CAPS employees service 30,000 Mason students, or one CAPS employee for every 3,400 students.

Mason Celebrates Breasts

Mason Celebrates Breasts
Breastival® Promotes Women and Men’s Health Issues

Although breasts are without a doubt extremely common, rarely are they purposely planted to lead you through campus like a trail of breadcrumbs. Breasts are also, very rarely, a bright color of cerulean blue.

Keeping The Faith

Keeping The Faith
Muslim Students Struggle With Labels

They come from different places and different backgrounds, many ethnicities and different races and, as they stand next to each other, their voices chime in unity and the room is transformed into a peaceful scene. Yet, peaceful is far from what many students and Americans associate with Islam.

Bio Lab to Open

Bio Lab to Open
Built with $25 Mil from NIH

The 52,000 foot modular laboratory, which will be located adjacent to the Prince William campus, was awarded a grant of $25 million from the National Institute of Health.

Mason Madness

Mason Madness
Basketball Kicks Off Practice

George Mason University’s men’s basketball team opened up its season on Friday with their first official practice.

Read the article here.
See photos of the fans and events.

See also: Fans and Players Alike Begin to Feel the Madness

GoLoco Makes Travel Green, Simple

GoLoco Makes Travel Green, Simple
This new community-based travel network connects its users, through Facebook and similar traveling prospects, in an effort to lower gas emissions and traveling costs. GoLoco users can search for, or start their own trips to and from specific destinations all across the country.

Phantom Hourglass: One Game Fits All

Phantom Hourglass: One Game Fits All
The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass is probably the most cleverly-designed game on the Nintendo DS. Nintendo has taken a franchise geared specifically towards hardcore gamers and on the DS, turned it into a textbook example of what a casual handheld game should be.

Disabled Comedian Informs, Motivates

Disabled Comedian Informs, Motivates
Disabled comedian Jeff Charlebois held a comedy show for disability awareness on October 11 at the Dewberry Hall in the Johnson Center from 7:30 to 8:30pm.

Mr. Gore, the Environmental Guerilla and Other Faces

Mr. Gore, the Environmental Guerilla and Other Faces
I like Mr. Gore the Environmental Guerilla. I like Nobel Peace Prize and Academy Award winner Al Gore. My tune will quickly change if he downgrades to some lowly politician scrabbling, cheating, fleecing, and fighting over the table scrap support of undecided voters.

Shabby Pub Lures Amateur Brewers

Shabby Pub Lures Amateur Brewers
The 21-year-old denizens of Broadside Online (and their designated chauffer) drove to Pickett Street, Alexandria to sample the delight of personalized inebriation.

Purple Pump Relationships

Purple Pump Relationships
Change. It’s the one thing in the world that seems to stay consistent. In my four years of college I have seen people change for the good, for the bad, and sometimes they change so much you have to get to know them all over again just to figure out which side they belong on.

News Media Highlights the Horrors of War

News Media Highlights the Horrors of War
It’s worth keeping in mind that our opinions are worth their weight in gold – but only if we are sure that they have been forged by ourselves, and not tampered by the words of others and left untested in our minds.

Students Encouraged to ‘Prepare for the Bad Thing’

Students Encouraged to ‘Prepare for the Bad Thing’
So far “10,000 GMU students and faculty are registered with Mason Alert. While most people would say that’s a great, high number, I actually think it’s a disappointing number..."

CampusLIVE: A One-Stop Web Shop for Students

CampusLIVE: A One-Stop Web Shop for Students
CampusLIVE is a new, Mason-oriented homepage that aggregates weather, news, University links, Facebook, and much more. Mr. Revsin was kind enough answer some of my questions...

Gunston Still Under Review by Panel

Gunston Still Under Review by Panel
Named after the colonial home of George Mason himself, Gunston, the green furry creature riling up the crowds during games, has been causing a different kind of stir outside of the stands.

Gunston: What Students Think (VIDEO)

Budget Reductions Force Cut Backs

Budget Reductions Force Cut Backs
State Shortfall Costs $6.8 Million
On Aug. 23, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine asked for a 5 percent reduction in the Fiscal Year ‘08 budget from all state agencies due to a $641 million state revenue shortfall. How will this affect students?

Transportation a Large Issue in Upcoming Election

D.C. Region 7th Most Congested
Motorists in Virginia and across the country are seeking relief from the synergy of population expansion and insufficient highway infrastructure in rapidly expanding demographic areas.

Read more here.

Students Fasting For Change

George Mason University’s Muslim Student Association will once again host a Fast-a-thon, an event where they extend their religious practice of Ramadan to non-Muslim individuals in order to feed the hungry.

Read more here.