The Mason Spirit

Remember Nick Schrank? He played linebacker on Mason’s club football team for two seasons before transferring to Radford University in 2008. Well, Nick is still pursuing his NFL dream. In an attempt to impress NFL scouts, he’s made a series of videos of his insane workout routines, and posted them online. Now they’ve gone viral with…

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Members of the wildly popular and all around most amazing pep band in all the land, the Green Machine, are looking for former members to help tell the history of the band. “We’re trying to get the word out to our alumni that we are searching for information on the band,” says Jessica Berg, a…

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“Augmented Reality” sounds like a pilot for a Syfy Channel movie of the week. But while the technology behind what is known in scientific circles as AR is certainly state of the art, its mission is far from science fiction. In Brenda Bannan’s EDIT 732 and EDIT 752 graduate-level classes, students are learning and developing…

Continue Reading Classes We Love: In EDIT 732 and 752, Augmented Reality Is the ‘New Way to Learn’

Toss in a dining landmark once adored by foodies across the region. Pepper it with a lot of research. And finish it off with some yellowing photos that capture a simpler time. So what’s cooking? A new project by Mason’s University Libraries documenting the rise and fall of the local restaurant chain Hot Shoppes. Founded…

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Mason’s men’s basketball team wins on the court and in the video lab. This will definitely make you chuckle!

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Sotheby’s may have a Picasso or Rembrandt for sale, but what about the chance to have you name immortalized in food stuffs? Returning for its second year on March 3, Mason’s student-run GBAY auction lets bidders battle it out for everything from a book autographed by a Jersey Shore star to having a sandwich or…

Continue Reading GBAY Returns: You Too Can Have Your Name in Deli Meats!

A postcard not only captures the thoughts of its sender, according to digital historian and Mason alumnus Trevor Owens, MA History ’09, but it also supplies a snapshot of the place and time it was dropped in the mailbox. Owens is the author of Fairfax County, a history of the sprawling Northern Virginia locale told through graying…

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Move over Brad and Angelina, and make way for America’s (at least Mason’s little corner of it) newest “it” couple, Daniel and May Quigley. The two Mason alums from Alexandria, Va., were voted the favorite couple in the Mason Sweetheart 16 contest. “We are in absolute awe and humbled beyond imaginable!” says May about the…

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We who live, study, and work at Mason have known for some time that the days of the university turning into a ghost town after the daily mass exodus of commuter students are long gone. With about 5,400 students now living on the Fairfax Campus, the university is a 24/7, living, breathing, eating, sleeping, studying,…

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I just hope that Bebhinn Lynch, BA Global Affairs ’10, has a very soft bicycle seat. That’s because, Lynch, along with about 40 other people, will take part in a cross-country bike trip this summer to raise awareness for the need for more affordable housing in the United States. The ride is being organized by…

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