The Mason Spirit

Just to keep you alumni up on what’s happening on your old stomping grounds, reality show celeb Mondo Guerra, or just Mondo, thank you (how couture!), will be on Mason’s Fairfax Campus most of this Saturday as part of the university’s HIV Awareness Week. For you diehard Project Runway fans, the following couple sentences are…

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Perusing the World Wide Web in search of Mason-related people, places, and things to write about the other day, I threw caution into the wind and clicked on Mason’s Wikipedia listing. My initial reaction to what I stumbled across? “Well, what do you know? Look who graduated (or at least took a class or two)…

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How about some good food, beer, and music? Throw in a round of golf. Add a gorgeous location and your favorite basketball team to cheer for, and what do you get? A trip to Charleston, S.C.! Coach Larranaga and the rest of the men’s basketball team are heading to coastal South Carolina this weekend to…

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Win a Homecoming Weekend Prize Package by Entering Our Sweetheart 16 Contest! Tell us how you and your sweetheart are connected to Mason and you could win tickets and lodging during Homecoming Weekend 2011, February 4–6. We launched the Sweetheart 16 contest a little more than a week ago and the stories have just poured…

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As the caffeinated followers of Starbucks cheer the news that the coffee behemoth may soon add alcohol to its menu, David Gwathmey, MBA ’06, has one thing to say: been there, done that—and rather successfully, we might add. “I’m flattered,” he says of Starbucks’ plans. “It looks like Grape + Bean all the way!” Gwathmey,…

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It’s been five seasons already? To mark the historic occasion when Coach Larranaga took a scrappy yet determined Mason men’s basketball team to the Final Four, Mason will be giving out bobbleheads of the ’05-’06 starters at five games this season. Yes, they’re all represented: At the December 1 game against George Washington, the first…

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Hey alum! While sitting in your office cube, wishing Mason had a video game design degree when you were here, hop online and hang 10 over to the new Mason Alumni Association website. Recently launched, the colorful and interactive site is your one-stop-shop for staying connected to your old stomping grounds (remember waking up in the…

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Let’s get this straight from the get-go: The Mason Spirit is neither Democratic nor Republican, liberal nor conservative, or donkey nor elephant. Switzerland wishes it was as neutral as we are. Our sole position is for a happy, healthy, and successful Mason community. Our mascot? Need we say, but The Patriot, of course. According to one guide, though,…

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Searching for a photo of the King shaking hands with Richard Nixon? Or perhaps a snapshot of Nixon playing the dulcimer is more to your liking? Then look no further than George Mason University. Likely unknown to most of Mason’s political junkies is that Fenwick Library has a treasure trove of original photographs of the…

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Two eyes and a mouth illuminated by a melted candle just don’t cut it at Mason alum Noel Dickover’s Centreville, Virginia, home. How about a pumpkin carved to resemble R2-D2? Or, say, SpongeBob? Leaving the typical jack-o-lanterns to us amateurs, Dickover, BA ’90, is a much-heralded artist when it comes to transforming plain, old lifeless pumpkins…

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