The Mason Spirit

Tennille Parker was a high school senior in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who had never heard of George Mason University when she received a brochure and an application in the mail. Receiving an actual application did the trick. She sent it in, came down to visit the campus, and fell in love. That was more than 15…

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So far we’ve heard about Mason tattoos; Mason-themed cars, bikes, and rooms; children and pets named Mason; and tons of all-around Mason love. We’ve loved hearing your stories and we want to hear more! Write on our facebook wall and tell us why you’re Mason’s No. 1 fan. We’ll soon be selecting our favorites to profile…

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So I guess this is cool… Kim Kardashian name-checked a Masonalum recently in People magazine. When asked for a book recommendation, Kardashian picked a book edited by Luellen Hoffman, BIS ’87 and former lecturer in Mason’sCollege of Education and Human Development. The book is Special Dream: Personal Accounts After the Death of a Loved One, Second Edition (Crossroad,…

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George Mason University is fast approaching the 30,000 fan milestone on Facebook. To celebrate, we’ve decided to make the month of June all about Patriot fans. Are you Mason’s biggest fan? Write on our wall and tell us why! We’ll be watching our wall this month and picking out some of our biggest fans to highlight. Toward the…

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She may not look it, but Cheryl Krause is a fighting machine. A rising sophomore at Mason, Krause is training and competing in preliminary Olympic qualifications for the sport taekwondo, a Korean martial art. She just won a place on the 16-member USA Taekwondo National Collegiate Team after taking first place at the National Collegiate…

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Andrea de Gatica, a Mason alumna and a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESOL) at Thomas A. Edison High School in Alexandria, Va., received the 2010 Victoria D. de Sanchez Northern Virginia Hispanic Teacher of the Year Award at Marymount University’s Education Dinner on May 3. De Gatica, who earned an MA in…

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Talk about hand-me-downs. The Brooks family takes theirs seriously. When psychology major Daniel Brooks Jr. walks into Mason’s 43rd annual Commencement in the Patriot Center on Saturday, he will be sporting a 100-year-old graduation gown and following a sacred family tradition. The simple black wool gown was originally purchased by his great-grandmother Bertha T. Cottrell…

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The following is an excerpt from a Mason Spirit article that ran many years ago and is not in the digital archives. I believe Mike McDermott was still the university marshal at the time of the writing. If we were to say George Mason University has one long-standing tradition that tradition would definitely have to be Mason…

Continue Reading From the Archives: Mason Day Revisited

More than 100 guests celebrated scholarship giving at a special reception held at Mason on March 31. The annual reception provided an opportunity for donors to meet the students who benefit from their gifts and for students to thank donors for their generosity. One student, nursing major Augusto Paredes-Ubillus, spoke to guests about receiving the Bette Burch…

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Torture as Public Policy: Restoring U.S. Credibility on the World Stage James P. Pfiffner, University Professor, School of Public Policy Torture as Public Policy: Restoring U.S. Credibility on the World Stage Stage (Paradigm Publishers, October 2009) is a model of detailed policy analysis that demonstrates how greatly public policy matters beyond the back corridors of…

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