The Mason Spirit

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…

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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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Editor’s Note: Mason professor Mahesh Joshi came to our attention as we were pulling together a feature on faculty and staff giving for the spring 2010 Mason Spirit. We were impressed with Dr. Joshi’s commitment to working with Mason students and helping them connect to alumni and business and community leaders. Each semester Mason School of…

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Last summer, for a time, Mason men’s basketball head coach Jim Larranaga was on Twitter. He was fascinating to follow. He tweeted about current and former players who were in touch with him, summer camps that were going on, the incoming group of players he had arriving, the work trips he was taking, and the books…

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Mason alumnus Richard Bausch, BA English ’74, was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel Peace. Peace is set in Europe during World War II and based on a story told to Bausch by his father. More information about the award and the novel can be found here.

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As most of you (hopefully) know, Gunston, that fuzzy ball of green Patriot spirit, has retired from his athletic mascot duties at Mason. Debuting last basketball season, Mason’s new mascot, The Patriot, has some big (floppy) shoes to fill. He sat down with us recently to answer some of our burning questions about his first…

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After a two-decade career, Michael Kohn, B.S. Health, Fitness, and Recreation Resources ’97, will soon be considered a two-time Olympian. The Mason alumnus has participated in the Winter Olympics once before, in 2002, where he won a bronze medal in bobsledding. Let’s hope this time around, he’s just as fruitful.

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Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason are the state’s largest colleges. In anticipation of the men’s basketball match-up on February 9th, the two schools are engaging in a little friendly competition to see who can net the most new fans for their respective facebook pages.

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Call + Response, a gallery show pairing local artists and writers, opens this weekend at the Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, DC. The show features many Mason MFA alums, including Joe Hall, MFA ’08; Danika Stegeman, MFA ’09; Eleanor Graves, MFA ’06; Mike Scalise, MFA ’08; Wade Fletcher, BA English ’04, MFA ’08; and Casey Wiley, MFA…

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A graduate of the School of Public Policy (SPP) is helping to lead US military aid efforts to the earthquake-stricken country of Haiti. Bruce Lindsey, captain of the USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier, is currently heading down to the island country by way of Florida. Lindsey received his PhD from SPP in 2005.

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