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March 26, 2012

Volume 88 Issue 18

Garrett/Jordan Removed from Ballot

Greek Week Kicks Off

Mason’s fraternities and soroities began Greek Week Sunday by setting up shacks where they will be collecting donations to help the homeless in Washington, D.C. Events include a Field Day Wednesday and Quiz Show Thursday, culminating with Greek Sing Saturday. “My favorite part about Greek Week is how much we come together outside of all the obstacles we face with each other,” said sophomore finance major Hannah Frazier from Alpha Omicron Pi. “For Greek Week we really come together to do awesome [work].”

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Removed Candidates Plan to Appeal Decision Hannah Lea Smith Asst. News Editor Michael Jordan and Donald Garrett have been removed from the ballot for student body president and vice president after posting what the Election Dispute Commission ruled to be a campaign advertisement on Facebook before the start of the official campaign period.

The EDC made the decision after a hearing Thursday. Garrett and Jordan are filing an appeal that will be decided next week.

Senator Nick Guerin was the petitioner of the grievance against Garrett and Jordan. On March 14, Guerin noticed that Jordan and Garrett’s Facebook profile pictures had changed to the same image, according to his testimony.

Guerin presented the EDC with screenshots of the respondents’ Facebook profiles which showed a graphic depicting the letter M, a peach and the letter D. Both the petitioner and the respondents acknowledged it was referencing the EDC hearing to impeach Garrett on March 2. Garrett resigned from his position as senator in the opening remarks of that hearing.

Garrett alleges that Student Government violated the Freedom of Information Act when some members met without him to discuss a resolution to impeach him.

In January, Jordan unsuccessfully sued Matthew Short, chair of the Government & Academic Affairs Committee, after the G & A Committee denied his appointment to the senate through means of a secret ballot.

Guerin’s screenshots of the graphic used as the respondents’ profile pictures were taken before March 19, the official start of the campaign period. However, the issue at the hearing was whether the image was affiliated with the respondents’ campaign.

“A picture that highlights my running mate’s impeachment may do a lot of things, but it does not increase our likelihood of winning,” Jordan said at the EDC hearing. He argued the picture was an inside joke between him and Garrett.

In the election code campaigning is defined as anything that has the primary purpose of furthering a candidate’s chances of winning the election.

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Add/Drop Period to Remain Unchanged Despite Student Government Resolution, Faculty Senate Opts to Keep Eight-Day Add/Drop Period

Blackboard Mobile App Arrives Students Will Be Able to Access Blackboard Site Through Smartphone Application Starting Today Michael Lagana Staff Writer

students.

According to Scott and the Faculty Senate, many News Editor professors complained about the length of the The Academic Policies Committee of the Faculty add/drop period in 2010, when it was two weeks.

Senate has decided not to change the add/drop date They said that students missed too much class time, next semester. Students will have eight days from the and it was a challenge for some of these students to first day of the semester to decide which classes they catch up. wish to add and drop from their schedule.

According to an email that Scott sent to two On Feb. 29, Student Government presented a members of Student Government, “Mason’s tuition resolution to the Faculty Senate to open discussion revenue from the state is based on the add date cenabout the add/drop date. sus.”

The Student Senate resolution This means that in addition “We sympathize with laid out counterarguments to the to financial aid issues, Mason list of reasons cited by the Faculty students who are doing does not receive state funding (in Senate when it had changed the terms of tuition revenue) until auditions and need that add/drop date in spring 2010. Prior the add/drop deadline has extra time. We can’t to the fall 2011 semester, students passed. had two weeks to add or drop encourage late Scott also addressed issues classes. concerning certain students, schedule adjustments, The Faculty Senate stated that such as performance majors, but we do feel it is a the reasons for its decision to who must audition before being change the add/drop date in the safety net for those who admitted to classes. These sturesolution presented by Student dents do not hear back from experience those Government were incorrect, but the their auditions immediately and problems. ” Academic Policies Committee dehave less time than other stucided to discuss the issue over dents at Mason to finalize their spring break and return with a deschedules.

-Suzanne Scott, chair of the cision.

“We sympathize with stuAcademic Policies Committee As of now, there will be no dents who are doing auditions of the Faculty Senate change to the add/drop date. and need that extra time,” Scott According to Suzanne Scott, said. “We can’t encourage late chair of the Academic Policies schedule adjustments, but we do Committee of the Faculty Senate, there are two major feel it is a safety net for those who experience those reasons for not changing the add/drop date. problems.”

“The most important things were [that] finanAccording to Scott, the add/drop deadline discial aid is held up, which is a hardship for some stu- cussion is over for the time being, but it may be dents,” Scott said. “The other thing is [that] the brought up again in the future. eight-day period does allow for everyone to attend “The bottom line is we’ve decided to leave it as it one class. We had to look at what we saw as the best is,” Scott said. “We are not out of line with other Virsolution for everyone in the university. It does put the ginia universities on it. Only two Virginia universistudent at a disadvantage [to show up to a class two ties have an extended drop period like we do, so we weeks after it has started].” are not that out of line.”

Students cannot receive financial aid until the Student Government has declined to comment, add/drop period has been closed. Because financial but noted that they are still working on the issue. aid is awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, a later drop date would harm George Mason University

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George Mason University will roll out the mobile version of the popular Blackboard Learn software this week following increased student demand for the mobile app.

The mobile version 2.0 of the software will be available starting today through the Apple, Android, Blackberry and Palm app stores.

It will allow students and faculty to view a mobilefriendly version of the MyMason Blackboard site and access assignments, readings, blogging tools and grades from smart phones and tablet computers.

Officials in the Division of Instructional Technology noticed increased demand for a Mason version of Blackboard Mobile after prospective users unsuccessfully attempted to download the app.

“I think a lot of people may have just found it in the app store for whatever device they have and tried to use it and, it would say ‘George Mason University does not currently support Blackboard Mobile.’ The app will then ask you to sign up to learn when George Mason makes it available,” said Joe Balducci, manager of Online Learning Services and Learning Support Services with DoIT. “We had found that there were about 400 people who signed up to be notified when [Blackboard Mo-

bile] was available.”

According to Balducci, in order to make the Mason version of Blackboard Mobile available, Mason had to pay a licensing fee to Blackboard.

After a license agreement was purchased, Blackboard designed the app, which looks no different from other schools’ Blackboard Mobile apps.

After downloading Blackboard Mobile, users only have to sign in once in order to access

“The university has a mobile rollout strategy they are working on, so there is going to be an app for George Mason as well, which Blackboard will help develop.”

- Joe Balducci, manager of Online Learning Services and Learning Support Services with DoIT

their Blackboard page from their mobile devices.

Blackboard Mobile includes much of the same functionality that is found on the computer version of the site and can be used to access assignments, read files, check grades and participate in online discussions.

According to Balducci,

Blackboard Mobile also provides a user-friendly, mobilelearning experience that allows students to keep up with assignments no matter where they are.

“It’s good for reading things your instructors put up. It’s good for the interactive things.

It’s good for discussion boards, blogs and journals, and it gives you almost a text-message format where you see bubbles, and it’s easy to reply and respond to others,” Balducci said.

As part of Mason’s Mobile Rollout Strategy, Blackboard Mobile is an integral tool in keeping students connected to their education. In addition to Blackboard Mobile, Mason is also collaborating with Blackboard to develop and launch a general Mason app.

“The university has a mobile rollout strategy they are working on, so there is going to be an app for George Mason as well, which Blackboard is also helping develop,” Balducci said.

The Mason app will provide users with ongoing news and current information about Mason.

With the new rollout of Blackboard mobile, DoIT encourages app users to provide any feedback or comments about their experiences.

“We would love to hear everyone’s experience,” Balducci said. “We had a lot of student interest in this, and we are happy to provide something the students wanted.”

Users may send feedback about their experiences to courses@gmu.edu.

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Event Calendar

Experience Your Education Nathalia Peixoto Encourages Undergrads to Be Involved in Research

Monday, March 26 Greek Week 2012 March 25 – March 31 Vision Series: David Wiggins Prince William Campus, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Gregory Family Theater 7:30 p.m.

America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments Johnson Center, Cinema 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27

Academic Skills Workshop: Motivation and Goal-Setting Student Union Building I, Room 3129 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.

Wednesday, March 28 An Evening with Karagoz and Hacivat City of Fairfax Regional Library, Fairfax 7 p.m.

Mason Players: The Life of Galileo Harris Theatre 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 29 Health & Fitness Expo Johnson Center, Dewberry Hall Mason Miles Prince William Campus 12 – 2 p.m.

Friday, March 30

George Mason University Dance Company 2012 Gala Concert Center for the Arts, Concert Hall 8 p.m.

APEX Cycle Education Prince William Campus, Occoquan Parking lot 8 p.m.

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­Professor­Nathalia­Peixoto­pushes­bioengineering­students­to­create­devices­that­help­with­day-to-day­life.­Featured­above­is­a­robotic­arm­that­ attaches­to­wheelchairs,­allowing­its­occupant­to­use­it­to­feed­themselves.­

Nathan Dorfman Staff Writer Nathalia Peixoto, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, loves to build things and watch her students do the same.

“Most professors want to lecture,” Peixoto said. “But I want to build something — or maybe destroy something and then fix it.”

Peixoto is one of seven faculty members involved in George Mason University’s bioengineering program, which started in July 2011. Currently, she runs the neural engineering lab on campus.

Peixoto has lived in the United States for the last 10 years, but she earned her master’s degree in her native Brazil at a university she describes as lecture-based and

very traditional. Peixoto emphasized that she would much rather study engineering independently through a hands-on approach.

“I was a little bit rebellious,” Peixoto said.

Peixoto compares her graduate education in Brazil to sports training.

“It was a lot of practice, but I wanted to play ball,” she said.

Peixoto said she considers teaching students to be the most fulfilling aspect of her work.

“It’s interesting to see students developing new ideas,” Peixoto said. “If students’ thoughts go in all directions, I try to focus them. And if students’ ideas are too focused, I try to spread them apart.”

Peixoto is proud of her undergraduate students’ efforts,

Mason’s History Makers, Movers and Shakers Hannah Smith Asst. News Editor

March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23

Vandalism.

HQ Unknown person(s) broke the driver’s side mirror on a vehicle. (27/ Feliciano) Possession of Marijuana.

GMU Blvd / Patriot Cir Andre Cornelius (GMU) 23 of Charlotte NC, was charged with the above offence and released on his signature. (51/Huete) Hit and Run. Lot K Complainant stated that her secured bike was stolen from the bike rack outside his dorm. (60/Stahl) Accident.

University Dr. / GMU Blvd Vehicle # 1 was following vehicle # 2 too closely. This caused vehicle # 1 to rear end vehicle #2. Estimated Damage $2,000.00 (60/Stahl) Accident.

Ox Rd / Braddock Rd Vehicle # 1 failed to pay full time attention and struck vehicle # 2. Vehicle # 2 then struck vehicle # 3. Estimated damage $8000.00. (51/Huete) Possession Of Marijuana.

Presidents Park Ryan Grist (GMU) 19 of Herndon VA, Steven Singh (GMU) 18 of Herndon VA were both issued summonses for possession of marijuana and released.

(40/ Ross).

Underage Possession of Alcohol Rogers Hall Ceshanfallah (GMU) 19 of Ashburn VA, Chandra Rashid (GMU) 20 of Stafford VA. Both were issued summonses for underage possession of alcohol and released. (16/Chandler).

Drunk in Public/Possession of Marijuana.

Adams Hall Richard Paez, 18 (Non-GMU) of Vienna, VA was arrested for the above offenses and transported to Fairfax County ADC where he was held until sober.

(59/Soccio)

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terested students speak with any faculty member in the bioengineering program about the possibility of collaboration through the on-campus Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, which offers a part-time stipend of $1,000 and a full-time stipend of $4,000.

The online application deadline is April 16.

Students can also join the Bioengineering Society, which Peixoto advises.

For more information, visit the neural engineering lab’s website at complex.gmu.edu/people/peixoto/index.html Students can also look up “Mason Bioengineering” on Facebook, or visit the neural engineering lab’s YouTube channel.

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which demonstrate creativity and innovation. One undergraduate student, for example, designed a “smart pen,” which contains an accelerometer that detects hand movement or lack thereof.

“If you dozed off in class or stopped underlining notes, the pen would vibrate and awaken you,” Peixoto said.

No matter how satisfying Peixoto says she finds her job, it sometimes seems there are not enough hours in the day for her to finish all of her tasks.

“I usually arrive to Mason at 7 a.m. and return home at 10 p.m.,” Peixoto said. “I feel like an airline — completely overbooked.”

Peixoto encourages more undergraduates to become involved in bioengineering research.

Specifically, she suggests in-

Suzanne Scott has been the director of the women and gender studies program at George Mason University since 2009. She became a teacher after successful careers as a writer, business owner and mixed-media artist. No matter what she’s doing, the issues of social justice and equality always factor into her work.

Scott grew up in Raleigh, N.C. Her childhood shaped the way she approaches race and class.

“Even when I was four and five years old I was worried about the racial issues in the south,” Scott said. “When we would go out in public, I would see how differently African-Americans were treated. It was different from what I knew it to be like at home.”

Although Scott came from, in her own words, a “good, liberal, progressive-type family,” she said uncovering and exploring her own and others’ prejudices has been a lifelong journey. While running a communications business, Scott began freelance writing about social issues.

“The real ‘a-ha moment’ for me was when I fell in love with a woman,” Scott said. It was then that two other issues became central to her work: gay rights and feminist theory.

In 2000 she decided that she was old enough to do what she truly wanted, which was to teach.

She accepted a position at the New Century College.

Today she also co-chairs the LGBTQ Campus Climate Task Force. As the director of the women and gender studies she works to coordinate the two programs.

Scott has always been out to her colleagues but chooses to tell her students on a need-to-know basis — like when her teaching

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partner introduced herself to their class by describing her family and her husband.

“I said, ‘Well, if she’s talked about being married, I’m going to tell you about who I’m with and can’t marry,’” Scott said. “I’ve been with my partner for 30 years. We have four children, six grandchildren and a dog named Lola.”

After class a student told Scott that she had taken four classes with her and never suspected that she was gay.

Her partner, Lynne Constantine, is a professor in the School of Art. In Virginia, same-sex couples do not have the right to marry. Because Mason is a public institution, it does not extend the benefits of married couples to domestic partnerships, an issue that is important to Scott.

However, Scott doesn’t want her sexual orientation to define her. Like being a teacher, artist and mother, it is just another descriptor of her life.

“I can do more to change attitudes because it isn’t the first thing someone would suspect about me,” she said.

Flora Crater, an alumna of George Mason University, spent over three decades battling for women’s rights and blazing trails for female candidates in Virginia politics. She lobbied Congress for passage of the yet-to-be-ratified Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal rights under the U.S. Constitution, ran for Virginia lieutenant governor, for the U.S. Senate and founded the Virginia chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Crater first entered politics in 1952 when she worked with the Falls Church school board, later becoming a regular at Fairfax County Democratic Committee meetings.

However, it wasn’t until the Equal Rights Amendment came up for a vote in Congress that she was thrust into national politics.

From 1971 to 1972 she headed a citizen group dubbed “Crater’s Raiders” that played a central role in the effort to pass the amendment. Crater’s group met every Wednesday morning in the House or Senate cafeteria to decide which legislators to lobby. Crater’s followers would then fan out, hounding congressmen, passing out pink flowers and recording information about the lawmakers’ voting intentions on pink tally sheets. They were “one of the most powerful and unlikely pressure groups that Congress has ever seen in operation,” said Washington Star White House correspondent Isabelle Shelton in an article at the time of the ERA lobbying effort.

In 1976 Crater founded the Virginia Almanac of Politics, a biannual publication that tracks Virginia elections, demographics and political trends. Mason public and international affairs professor Toni-Michelle C. Travis took over the publication, which is now published by Mason, after

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Crater’s death in 2009.

Crater’s political activism resulted in numerous accolades over the course of her career. A joint resolution passed by the Virginia House and Senate in 1997 commending Crater for her activism attests to her legacy in Virginia politics. “Flora Crater stands as an example of the difference one person can make for the good of many people,” then Virginia Delegate L. Karen Darner (Dem, 49) said.

She also received an award from the Fairfax County Human Rights commission, as well as the Barbara B. Knight Distinguished Alumni Award from Mason.

Crater earned a bachelor’s degree in government and politics from Mason in 1981. She was also around when the women and gender studies program was created at Mason.

“Flora wanted to be a women’s studies major,” Travis said. “[She] was quite a character.”

Crater was born in 1915 in Costa Rica. She grew up in Orange, Va., where she also passed away at the age of 94.

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Virtual Computing Lab Online Software Offered Includes Microsoft Office and MatLab Michael Lagana Staff Writer Classroom and Lab Technologies’ Virtual Computing Lab is currently available for use by students. The VCL allows students to use programs such as Microsoft Word, MatLab and SPSS free of charge.

Mason developed the VCL as a joint venture with Virginia Commonwealth University. According to Mike Fletcher, manager of Computing Sciences in CaLT, the VCL was originally designed by North Carolina State University and launched in 2006 but underwent major changes and was relaunched by Mason in October 2011.

The VCL is a way for anyone with Mason credentials to remotely access programs available through on-campus labs. Mason students can access programs offered through the VCL anywhere in the world.

According to Fletcher, the VCL works through a type of computing called virtual machines.

“Virtual machines is really running an operating system inside another operating system,” Fletcher said.

This allows anyone using the VCL to use programs licensed by Mason as if they were running on a home computer.

“Once you initiate the remote desktop connection, you get win-

News Briefs Churches Amplify Calls for Justice for Trayvon African-American community churches around the nation are amplifying the cries for justice in the shooting death of 17-yearold Trayvon Martin.

Martin was shot while wearing a hooded sweatshirt as he walked home on a rainy night in a gated community. The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot him, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, is the son of a white father and Hispanic mother, and the demands to charge him in Martin's slaying have increased.

In religious centers from Florida to Atlanta, New York and Chicago, many preachers and their congregations wore hooded sweatshirts in Martin's memory.

But while the call continued to be for the arrest of shooter George Zimmerman, there were also a

dows that look just like your home computer,” Fletcher said.

Programs currently available

“We want feedback all the time. Any type of feedback, [even] beyond the VCL, if you have feedback about classrooms or anything within a lab, we would like to hear about it.”

-Mike Fletcher, manager of Computing Sciences in Classroom and Lab Technologies

through the VCL include Microsoft Office, SPSS, MatLab and SASS. More programs, such as Photoshop and AutoCAD, are currently under consideration. Certain programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, are not widely available for use in computer labs around campus; however, CaLT aims to change that.

The Department of Instructional Technology’s efforts to exlarge call to use the incident to spark a larger movement -Kyle Hightower. Associated Press National Cathedral Opens Tower for 1 Day Climb Washington National Cathedral is opening its central tower, which sustained significant damage during last year's August earthquake, for one day to visitors.

The tower will be open to the public Saturday for a "tower climb," a semi-regular tradition.

The tower has been deemed structurally sound and safe for visitors.

The cathedral says visitors will be able to climb the 333 steps from the ground to the top of the tower. The climb takes approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are required on the cathedral's website.

Repairs to the cathedral after the August earthquake are expected to cost $20 million. Approximately $2 million has been

pand program offerings are complicated by software developers’ licensing and purchasing requirements.

“Software licensing is our big headache that we deal with around here,” Fletcher said. “Most companies fight us tooth and nail because we are going to cut their profits, because they would rather have students buy it and here we are trying to provide it to the students. We are trying to figure out a way [where] both the software providers and we have a win on this.”

The VCL is updated periodically with new software and fixes to address problems. According to Fletcher, the VCL maintains a four-hour maintenance window on Sundays between 6 and 10 a.m., however an update is only made once or twice per month. Additionally, DoIT is planning a major VCL software upgrade in April.

In order to ensure that the VCL is meeting all of its users’ needs, CaLT appreciates feedback regarding the VCL. “We want feedback all the time,” Fletcher said. “Any type of feedback, [even] beyond the VCL. If you have feedback about classrooms or anything within a lab, we would like to hear about it.” Users can send feedback about classroom or lab technologies to CaLT at tellme@gmu.edu

raised so far.

-Associated Press Fairfax asks residents about future transit needs Fairfax County is asking residents what they want the region's transit to look like nearly four decades from now.

The survey from the county's transportation department asks whether there should be more Metro stops, light rail or streetcars by 2050. How to pay for future transportation is also part of the survey.

Department spokeswoman Ellen Kamilakis tells WTOP-FM (http://bit.ly/GPzqn2 ) that officials will use the survey as part of a "holistic approach" for how to get around Fairfax County in the future.

The county will publish the results of the survey in 18 months.raised so far.

-Associated Press

The­award-winning­Mason­forensics­team hosted­Night­of­Stars­Friday.­The­event­featured­examples­of­the­many­styles­the forensics­team­encompasses.­At­right,­ Brennan­Morris,­junior,­giving­a­presentation­on­Delta’s­controversy­involving­antiSemitism­on­flights­to­Saudi­Arabia.­Above, junior­Sam­Hopkins,­who­gave­a­poetry reading­exploring­language.­ Night­of­Stars­was­the­last­time­the­ forensics­team­presented­at­Mason­before they­head­to­the­American­Forensics­ Association­National­Tournament­in­Texas this­year.­ Photos by: Stephen Kline

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Board of Visitors Discuss Tuition Increases, Songdo Expansion Mason Medal Given to Lovey Hammel and Alan Merten at Meeting in Recognition of Services Justin Lalputan News Editor The Board of Visitors met Wednesday to discuss tuition and room and board hikes in addition to George Mason University’s expansion into South Korea. The board also honored several Mason faculty members including President Alan Merten.

Visitor Mark McGettrick introduced a number of motions that were passed by the board.

These included a 3.8 percent increase in tuition in summer 2013 and an overall increase of 3.24 percent in room and board rates for the same year.

Also discussed at the meeting was Mason’s expansion into South Korea, a project known as the Songdo initiative. Before Mason can become a part of the Songdo international campus in South Korea, it must receive certain financial data from South Korean officials. The board expects to re-

of Visitors, he stated that there was some unrest concerning faculty salaries.

Compared to their peers, Mason faculty is in the third percentile in regard to salary.

Pober also commented on the fact that in addition to the upcoming departure of Provost Peter Stearns, several deans will also be leaving their positions.

Visitor Kimberly Dennis reported that the number of alumni donors has increased since last year.

“We had just under 5,000 last year,” Dennis said. “This year we have over 6,000.”

At the conclusion of the open session of the Board of Visiors with Ted Marchese, an independent consultant on search and transitions, volunteered to speak on the importance of a smooth transition for president-elect Ángel Cabrera.

The board’s next and final meeting before the end of the semester will be on May 9.

ceive the information sometime in April, in time before the board’s last meeting.

A new master’s degree in commerce was also approved. The degree will be part of the school of management.

The Mason Medal was awarded to Merten and Visitor Lovey Hammel for their services to Mason. Emeritus status was conferred upon Thomas Hennessey, university chief of staff for the Office of the President.

Peter Pober, chair of the Faculty Senate, was honored with a plaque and was personally thanked by Rector Ernst Volgenau for his years of service.

Pober served as chair of the Faculty Senate and faculty representative to the Board of Visitors starting in 2009 and will continue to serve until the end of this semester. Volgenau will also be leaving his position as rector of the Board of Visitors at the end of this semester.

In Pober’s report to the Board

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Rector­Ernst­Volgenau­presented­Peter­Pober,­chair­of­the­Faculty­Senate,­with­a­plaque­in­thanks­for­his­years of­service­to­the­Board­of­Visitors.­Pober­has­been­chair­of­the­Faculty­Senate­since­2009,­and­he­will­be­leaving­his­post­at­the­end­of­this­semester.­Pober­also­served­as­faculty­representative­to­the­Board­of­Visitors.

Student Government to Explore Shared Governance

Two Candidates Removed From Student Government Ballot [that] I have been mistreated and lynched by different branches [of the Student Government]. It’s a political stateAnother ment about the student, Paige “I believe, personally, fairness of ResoDavis, changed myself, [that] I have lution 27.” her own profile That resolupicture to the been mistreated and tion, which graphic before lynched by different passed at a March they removed branches [of the Stu1 Student Senate the image, according to both dent Government]. It’s meeting, called for the impeachGuerin and Jora political statement ment of Donald dan. about the fairness of Garrett.

Garrett arWhen Comrived at the Resolution 27. ” missioner David hearing in time Bier asked Garto take ques-Donald Garrett, former rett to clarify tions from the what he meant commission. student senator. by “lynched,” When asked Garrett said that why he and Jorhe was not given dan were tagged in the image, Garrett said, a fair trial.

The vote by the EDC was five “I believe, personally, myself,

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Cite Lack of Student Voice in Policy Making Donald­Garrett­and­Michael­Jordan­defend­themselves­at­the­Elections and­Disputes­Commission­hearing­Thursday.­ guilty, two not guilty and one abstention. Commissioners Emily Daniel and Thomas Lee voted not guilty.

As the moderator, Commissioner David Bier did not vote.

Three factors were cited in the majority decision: the fact that the letter M was tagged as Michael Jordan, Davis’ posting of the

image and the fact that it was posted two weeks after the impeachment hearing.

“Based on timing,” the majority wrote, “a neutral observer would associate the picture with the pending campaign and not with Mr. Garrett’s attempted impeachment.”

Drunk and Disorderly Perception of Drinking at Mason Not Equivalent to Reality Vernon Miles Broadside Reporter Short of a few private institutions, alcohol is a part of student life at most every university in the country.

“The nationwide, college drinking culture frequently results in dangerous or life-threatening ways,” said Lindsey Hammond, coordinator of the Office of Alcohol, Drug, & Health Education.

Over 600,000 students are injured each year as a result of alcohol use Hammond said.

“Most RAs are content to let lower levels of intoxication go,” said Morgan Paugh, a junior tourism and events management major and resident advisor for two years. “But in dangerous situations, we’re trained to call the police and the hospital as well as file an incident report.”

“Mason offers a lot of education opportunities and alternatives to dangerous behavior, and

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that’s the kind of policy that’s going to help eliminate these trends,” said George Ginovsky, assistant chief of police at George Mason University.

Ginovsky said that police officers are not targeting drinking but possession.

When officers are involved with a situation involving underage drinking, their intervention is often at the behest of resident advisors or peers who are concerned about their friends or the safety of the students involved.

The brochure dealing with alcohol on campus is offered at the main office as well as on the Office of Alcohol, Drug, & Health Education website.

It states that any alcohol consumption under the age of 21 is illegal on campus and that certain residential areas are also classified as “dry zones” which strictly prohibit the consumption or possession of alcohol.

It also states on page two that

by university policy, the body is considered a “container.”

The source of this policy is Virginia State Code section 4.1305, which states that underage consumption of alcohol is illegal, and a person under the effects of alcohol can be found guilty of consumption.

The code also states that anyone purchasing alcohol with false identification will face a misdemeanor charge, and that any alcohol found will be forfeited to the state.

Some students, like sophomore government & international politics major Nathan Smuckler, think one problem is that resources like the Office of Alcohol, Drug, & Health Education are underutilized.

“It’s important to create an environment that promotes confidentiality and safety,” he said.

“And support to this office [from the university] and trust will help combat underage drinking.”

Hammond said her office focuses on student health education, not policy enforcement.

Her office is behind many activities connected to student drinking, particularly the “Safe Spring Break Awareness Week” from March 5-9.

These activities focus on awareness, not hounding students over their behavior.

Furthermore, Hammond said her office is undergoing changes to fit the needs of a growing university, including a recent staffing increase and a growing partnership with other organizations on campus.

Overall, Ginovsky said alcohol abuse and alcohol regulations on campus are roughly the same as they are on any college campus.

“Not as many college students drink as you might think,” Paugh said. “The perception does not equal the reality.”

Editor-In-Chief Following the passage of a Student Senate resolution calling for shared governance between students, faculty, staff and administration, members of Student Government will meet Friday to discuss how that might best be implemented.

At the heart of the issue is the lack of student involvement in decisions made at the highest levels of the university, chiefly by the Board of Visitors, the Executive Council and the President’s Council.

The BOV has two student members, though they cannot vote, while the latter two groups have no student input.

“When you don’t have any decision-making power, you get completely ignored, and that’s what this is all about,” said Jason Von Kundra, one of the student senators who submitted the resolution at the March 1 Student Senate meeting. “Ultimately, where all of us see this going is greater student power and students having decision-making power on the issues that affect us most. What those decisions are and how much decision-making power we would get is to be determined.”

The meeting, which begins 1 p.m. Friday in the Student Senate office on the second floor of Student Union Building II (The HUB), is open to anyone who wishes to attend.

The meeting is the first of many a task force that will research the issue and offer suggestions on how to best implement shared governance.

Faculty Senate and Staff Senate will be invited to collaborate with the task force, according to

the March 1 resolution.

“I think [shared governance] comes down to the decisions that impact us most,” Von Kundra said.

“For students, that’s housing, dining and tuition, but it can go further.”

According to the resolution, 19 out of 20 peer institutions officially recognized by George Mason University, have “significantly more student power than George Mason.”

Many of these schools have students with votes on their governing bodies. For example, Arizona State University at Tempe has one voting student on the Board of Regents and SUNY at Albany has one voting student among 10 councilors who govern the university.

“The three main structures of student involvement in decision making are 1) voting students on governing board 2) voting students on influential administrative committees 3) University Councils/Senates made up of student, faculty and staff governing bodies are given influential power over governing the university,” according to a document released by Student Government outlining research on shared governance at other institutions.

According to the resolution, there are opportunities to change the current power structure at Mason: “Whereas, additional opportunities exist to create new entities of governance such as a University Council comprised of members from the Student Senate, Faculty Senate, and Staff Senate but these opportunities have remained undeveloped.”

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The Odds Were in Their Favor ‘The Hunger Games’ Enjoys Huge Debut Weekend Jeffrey Giorgi Style Editor “The Hunger Games” has solidified itself as a major blockbuster. Making just under $20 million in midnight-release tickets alone, it has secured its position as the new, undisputed champion of book-to-film adaptations. Was there ever any doubt?

Taking place at an unspecified time in the future, “The Hunger Games” is a tale about class oppression and how far people are willing to go to survive and provide for their families.

Whenever beloved books are adapted for the screen, expectations run perilously high, and I have to say I feel it truly delivered.

Jennifer Lawrence has been knocking performances out of the park with roles in “Winter’s Bone” and “X-Men: First Class,” but “The Hunger Games” is the first time she’s had a part I felt would herald her arrival as a star. Her performance as Katniss Everdeen is the anchor of the film.

With the exception of Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, all the actors deliver strong performances, even in roles that will have you doing double takes. Yes, that’s Lenny Kravitz in the film, and, yes, he can act.

The film is broken into three distinct acts, and each takes a unique approach to filmmak-

ing. The third act is the most impressive as it switches to an almost guerilla-filmmaking style. The style is similar to the found-footage trope and lends an added sense of realism to the preceedings.

The cinematography will probably be jarring at first because all of a sudden the movie

Fans can rejoice that their film stands head and shoulders above that other young-adultbook-series-turnedmajor-motion-picture that isn’t “Harry Potter.”

feels like a found-footage production, but this allows the film to get away with the amount of violence that it does. Was there any doubt that a film about children killing one another would earn an R rating? But thanks to clever camera techniques we rarely see more on-screen gore than we would in an episode of a show like “Supernatural.”

The subject matter is necessarily of a very

dark nature. After all, it is about kids between the ages of 12 and 18 killing one another until only one remains.

Make no mistake: the film is violent and children do die, but the film never crosses any lines, nor does it stray into “Battle Royale” territory.

“The Hunger Games” has been met with criticism that it is just a watered-down “Battle Royale.” But with the exception of children killing children, the two films are hardly comparable.

There was little doubt in my mind that this would be a good film. You don’t see a studio market a film this aggressively if it doesn’t have complete faith in it. Fans can rejoice that their film stands head and shoulders above that other young-adult-book-series-turnedmajor-motion-picture that isn’t “Harry Potter.”

Not only can fans rejoice, but Lionsgate Films is also celebrating — all the way to the bank. According to a March 25 IGN report, “The Hunger Games” has the third-highest grossing debut weekend of all times. Coming in behind “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2” at number two and “The Dark Knight” at number one.

If you haven’t seen it yet, prepare yourself for stares of disbelief from all your friends.

Happy Hunger Games.

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“I haven’t read the books, but I am excited to see the movie. It looks awesome.”

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Icons of the Genre Deliver Blistering New Album Chris Earp Broadside Correspondent The new Anti-Flag album, “The General Stike,” just dropped.

The album was much anticipated in the punk world by old, nostalgic fans and the new crowd alike. The album isn’t unusual or shocking, but it’s comfortable and just OK. Since their first performance in 1993, the band has been refining their sound. The group came out of Pittsburgh Pa. in the late ‘80s and has been a force to be reckoned with ever since. Their first album, “Die for the Government,” was a gritty, punk strike at the establishment, embodied by subpar recording equipment and visceral, youthful anger.

Since then they have cleaned up their equipment and their sound but maintained a staunchly revolutionary and pissed-off tone.

The band is heavily involved in activism — their influence can be felt from PETA to Amnesty International. However, involvement in

big-ticket organizations doesn’t mean they’ve sold out; they’re still behind the scenes, organizing groups like Military-Free Zone and the Underground Action Alliance. Most recently, they have been up in arms against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, an act signed by President Barack Obama that gives the president the right to detain American citizens without a trial. “The General Strike” is exactly as it sounds — a protest with teeth.

The introductory song on “Strike” is only 21 seconds long. It’s fast, mean and just barely melodic — exactly how punk should be.

Not to worry, though. There’s plenty of melody to be found. The album is a return to the classic Anti-Flag sound. It’s melodic and fast with barebone guitar riffs and a pounding energy that’s enough to get just about anyone’s foot tapping.

“The Neoliberal Anthem,” the first full-length song, is a characteristical sing-along Anti-Flag

call-to-arms against government corruption and the general state of life in America. In many ways the record is also a salute to Sid Vicious and The Sex Pistols: “The Masses Rising” is reminiscent of early British punk.

Those who love Anti-Flag for their unique sound will not be disappointed. This is the kind of punk that is inviting enough for rock fans and angry enough to please even hardcore fans. My personal favorite is “Turn a Blind Eye,” because the band employs a melody complicated for a punk tune but manages to keep hold of their sound. It’s a sort of marriage between Dropkick Murphys and Black Flag.

Although the record is in no way a departure from standard Anti-Flag, it is pleasing and well constructed. Some may ask what business a group of successful, middle-aged musicians has singing a song like “I Don’t Wanna,” but I prefer to listen and just let them do their thing.

-Kyle Dingle Sophomore, Criminology

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Button­Mashing: Resident­Evil Operation­ Raccoon­City

Piero’s Corner Katie Hennis

Killing Zombies Should Be More Fun Than This Antonio Washington Broadside Correspondent The “Resident Evil” series has been through several transformations since its Sony Playstation debut in 1996. The premise of the game was simple: survive and blast your way through flesh-eating zombies.

The graphics at the time, were stunning, combining polygon-modeled characters with eerie backgrounds and limited camera angles, which gave players a sense of unwanted — but fun — tension. With four sequels, a few remakes, and a fair amount of spin-offs, the series has taken a new direction: third-person shooter.

“Resident Evil 4” (2005) and “Resident Evil 5” (2009) were the first in the series to make the leap into the realm of the third-person shooter. Now, with “Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City” released, there are a few things that tarnish this traditional, survival horror classic.

In “Resident Evil: ORC”, players are given the choice of playing the role of one of six members of the Umbrella Security Service team. Each character has a unique set of special skills.

The USS receives orders from the higher-ups of the Umbrella Corporation to destroy any evidence of the incident that takes place during the events of the second and third Resident Evil games and eliminate any survivors of the incident. With this basic format, teamwork is paramount to survival. Unfortunately, there are a few major problems with the teamwork.

The AI of team members leaves a blemish on the game. Because it is preferable to play with friends, your AI teammates are, at

times, completely useless. The player has absolutely no control over the other members of the team, and on top of that, their decisions during combat are idiotic at points.

These decisions range from running into empty rooms that have already been neutralized to running into enemy ambushes.

Even more frustrating is that the AI offers little to no assistance with back up. There are times in the game whenthe player in control is doing all of the fighting, while your allies sit back and watch you plow the road of the infected. Given that teamwork is so fundamental to success in this game,, it is tremendously lacking.

The combat in the game is questionable. The melee attack is overkill. To be candid, all the player would need is the knife.

You could take out about seven of eight zombies with the knife alone.

This is not in keeping with other games in the series; the knife is the last-resort weapon, which means that it is best used when you’re out of ammo and that is the only alternative way to fight back against the endless waves of the undead.

The aiming is choppy, and damage inflicted to enemies is random at times. Unloading an entire clip on an enemy will put it down, but occasionally a handful of bullets will do the job. The auto-cover mechanic in the game may sound useful, but at times it’s downright annoying. It’s even more annoying when you go to pick up an item and suddenly your character is stuck to the wall. The auto-cover is useless. The question that needs to be asked is: why is there auto-cover in a coverbased shooter? It makes no sense.

“Resident Evil: ORC” also falls short on atmosphere. The at-

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Lacking­competent­AI,­Resident­Evil:­Operation­Raccoon­City­is­a­failed experiment­for­an­otherwise­untainted­franchise.­ mosphere in a “Resident Evil” game is supposed to give players a sense of tension and constant dread. In “ORC” that effect is stripped away. The scenes are bland and forgettable. The music is decent, but it could be better since the atmosphere fails on its own. The graphics and the character models are awesome, but visually, that’s the only thing the game has going for it. The story is a little dull, primarily from the lack of flow; the game is supposed to give players and fans of the series a better insight into Umbrella’ - the organization that caused the outbreak — and sadly the game doesn’t deliver.

“ORC” has four multiplayer modes, which supports up to eight players. Survivor mode is an allout fight for survival against human and computer-controlled enemies that doesn’t end until the rescue helicopter arrives. Team Attack is essentially team death-

match since players who score more kills than the opposing team win. Heroes mode is a four-onfour team match in which players are allowed to play as notable characters such as Leon, Ada or Jill from the “Resident Evil” universe.

Biohazard is a “Resident Evil” version of capture the flag, only in this version you are trying to secure lost vials of G-virus — the actual cause of the outbreak. These multiplayer elements are fun and can become more enjoyable with friends.

“Resident Evil: ORC” was a little disappointing, but the game can be enjoyable. Multiplayer can offer gamers and their friends a few hours of fun with the different modes. That aside, this game had great potential; however, due to unreliable AI, unimaginative locations and choppy gameplay, the game uncouples itself completely from having the traditional “Resident Evil” effect.

Right before spring break I met up with my friends Marla and Pander to go to dinner at Piero’s Corner. Piero’s Corner opened recently in The City of Fairfax where Carlos O’Kelly’s used to be. I love Italian food, however, I typically don’t venture out to new Italian restaurants and just stick to the ones I know well in the area like Villa Bella in Burke. You can tell it used to be a Mexican restaurant before transforming into an Italian restaurant, but the décor inside was nice and the service was good.

We started out with an order of calamari, which was prepared the common way: floured, deep-fried and served with lemon wedges and spicy marinara sauce for dipping.

Pander does not care for seafood, but Marla and I enjoyed it. The waiters also brought out a basket of bread with olive oil and herbs for dipping, which was much better than what you normally get at a mid-range Italian restaurant.

For my entrée, I selected one of my all time favorites — eggplant parmesan. Piero’s Corner takes a different spin on this traditional dish by lightly breading thinly-sliced pieces of eggplant, flash frying them and rolling up a mixture of ricotta and other cheeses inside to make something comparable to a manicotti with eggplant rather than pasta. The eggplant parmesan was served alongside garlic linguine and homemade pomodoro sauce. The serving was perfect for someone who

was pretty hungry but also big enough to pack up half and have leftovers for lunch the next window.

Marla also had a pasta dish as her entrée. She ordered the Maine lobster ravioli, which was a dish I had considered ordering but just tasted hers to see how it was. The ravioli is filled with fresh lobster, which was tasty on its own, but then it is covered in a rich, yummy vodka sauce and is topped with arugula. Though it looked like a heavy dish to eat, it tasted great and I recommend it.

Pander ordered a brick oven pizzette (which I’m assuming is just a smaller version of their other pizzas). She chose the genove, which is a white pizza,topped with basil pesto and fresh mozzarella. It is also topped with fresh arugula, but against Marla’s and my suggestion, Pander asked for it without the arugula. I didn’t get a chance to try a bite, but it looked good.

Their pizza and pizzette menu offers a wide variety of topping combinations for diners to choose from if they’re in the mood for a pie.

There were many other options on the menu, including entrées featuring fresh fish, sandwiches, calzones and a variety of meat dishes. They also offer a gluten-free menu and serve brunch on Sundays. As far as I know, they do not offer Mason students a discount, but they do send out coupons in the mail from time to time. and the full price of their entrées is fair.

I wish I had room for dessert because I’ve heard their cheesecake is good, but I couldn’t bring myself to eat another thing. Perhaps on my next visit, I will save room for a sweet treat after my meal.

I had a great time indulging in some classic Italian cuisine and catching up with my friends. Until next time, I’d rather be eating…

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Thumbs up to Greek Week!

Thumbs up to it officially being spring! Bring on the great weather!

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The letters, columns and views expressed on this page are solely those of the writers. They do not reflect the views of Broadside or its staff, unless otherwise noted.

Broadside is a weekly publication printed each Monday for the George Mason University and surrounding Fairfax community. The editors at Broadside have exclusive authority over the content that is published. There are no outside parties that play a role in the newspaper’s content, and should there be a question or complaint regarding this policy, the editorin-chief should be notified at the information given above.

Thumbs down to allergy season and all the pollen in the air.

Thumbs down to the unfortunate smell outside of the JC due to the new mulch.

Due Process and Constitutional Rights Are Being Threatened Pattern of Civil Rights Infringement Must Come to a Stop

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Greek Week: ‘90s Style One Week a Year for Greek Orgs to be Acknowledged at GMU Clara Everett

Columnist It’s March. Enter spring weather, midterms and cravings for summer. Oh, and we can’t forget about Greek Week: the one week each year dedicated to the Greek organizations at Mason. Seeing as how there’s no Greek row (in fact, no Greek housing at all) and practically no acknowledgement whatsoever that Greek life exists here, it’s the least this school can do for the Greek system. Don’t know what Greek Week entails? Don’t worry. Simply read on for a very opinionated and biased overview.

Basically, Greek Week is a giant competition between all the Greek organizations. Six Pan-Hellenic sororities and 16 Interfraternal Council fraternities, along with those Greek organizations in the Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council, participate in Greek Week. Every Greek group has the option of taking part in Greek Week, but not all choose to. Those that do, however, must partake in all sorts of shenanigans before and during Greek Week. Said shenanigans are quite noticeable to the rest of the student body and are generally a source of irritation to those who are not affiliated with Greek organizations.

As someone who belongs to a Greek organization and contributes to these shenanigans, I would like to apologize. Sorry, everyone else, Greek Week sucks for you.

The first thing you will notice is the banners in the Johnson Center. Almost every Greek organization participating in Greek Week submits a banner to be hung in the JC. They are designed to match the overarching theme of Greek Week, which is usually generic and stupid. This year the theme is “All About the Nineties.” Therefore, you can expect banners depicting Power

Rangers, Furbies, Backstreet Boys and other bad ‘90s paraphernalia.

The construction of shacks outside the JC will definitely be another source of irritation for you. The shacks are just what they sound like: small buildings erected shoddily and rapidly.

These shacks will be decorated with ‘90s motifs, in keeping with the Greek Week theme. Members of the Greek organizations will be at these shacks at all times, usually pestering you to donate to Habitat for Humanity.

Arm yourself with pockets full of pennies and other small change so you don’t have to reject everyone who asks for a contribution.

To be fair, this is a very worthy cause and you should have no qualms about donating to it.

The banners and shacks aside, the main thing you will notice during Greek Week is large groups of girls migrating about campus late at night.

These ladies will be clad in yoga pants, carrying cups of Starbucks and acting shady. What are they doing, you ask? Why, they are practicing for Greek Sing. For those of you who are not aware, Greek Sing is a production during which Greek organizations put on a small skit related to the Greek Week theme. For the fraternities that are involved, Greek Sing is a bit of an ordeal but nothing to really sweat over. However, for the sororities, Greek Sing is the biggest deal in the universe. It is the culmination of weeks of hard work, sweat, tears and exhaustion. Nothing else during Greek Week compares to the ordeal that is known as Greek Sing. If you belittle it or make fun of it in any way, be prepared to feel the wrath of any hypedup sorority girls who hear you.

So there you have the main points of Greek Week. If you are irritated and inconvenienced, please accept my humblest apologies and my request that you cut us some slack. Honestly, Greek life at Mason is virtually hidden from view for the rest of the year, and Greek Week is the one time when we get to go all out. Just let us have our fun and you can grumble under your breath about us as much as you want!

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Columnist On March 5, 2012, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech at the Northwestern University Law School about the legality of using lethal force against potential “terrorists.”

Holder defended the use of drones and air strikes to kill and assassinate anyone who poses an “imminent threat” to US interests. Furthermore, he stated that even American citizens abroad can be targeted in such a fashion without any due process or legal oversight, as was the case with Anwar-al-Awlaki. Such efforts to legalize extrajudicial programs follow a historical pattern of restricting rights. Eager to preserve national security, many past administrations had taken solid—but profoundly unjust and unconstitutional—moves that deliberately restricted constitutional rights and liberties of certain individuals, groups, and ethnicities.

In the book “War and Liberty,” Geoffrey Stone contends that the “United States has had a long and unfortunate history of overreacting to the perceived dangers of wartime.” Such overreactions excessively limited civil liberties, and were later regretted. Some historical examples, as stated in “War and Liberty,” include the Sedition Act of 1798 which, signed by Pres-

ident John Adams during the confrontation with France, made it “a crime for any person to make any statement against the president, the congress, or the government of the United States with the intent to bring them into contempt or disrepute.” During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus—which allows citizens who are detained to seek relief from unlawful imprisonment—on “eight separate occasions, with tens of thousands of Americans imprisoned by military authorities without any review by a court of law.” During World War I, President Wilson launched an aggressive campaign to censor any criticism of his wartime policies by “prosecuting some 2,000 individuals for expressing their opposition to the war or the draft.” During World War II, President Roosevelt ordered the interment of more than “110,000 individuals of Japanese descent, twothirds of whom were American citizens.” Faced with the threat of Soviet espionage and communism, the government—influenced by McCarthyism—instituted “loyalty programs, biased investigations, blacklists and criminal prosecutions to ferret out and punish those suspected of disloyalty. This paranoia lead to the creation of The House of Un-American Activities Committee.” During the Vietnam War, the Johnson and Nixon administrations initiated secret programs of surveillance and infiltration in order “to disrupt and neutralize those who opposed the war, and attempted to prevent the publishing of the Pentagon Papers.” In the “War on Terrorism,” President Bush, through the Patriot Act, approved the indefinite detention of hundreds of noncitizens, closed deportation proceedings and authorized spying on Americans.

All these infringements on civil liberties have been a regular part of U.S. History. In fact, the contagious pattern of restricting liberties is aptly resonated in the Obama era of “change,” in which American citizens could not only be detained indefinitely—but also killed through “secret” memos and justifications only known to people like Holder. President Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a former professor of Constitutional law, also debilitated the requirements of due process enshrined in the Constitution which states that “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”

The rights of having an attorney and a fair trial have also been diminished––making an armed drone the judge, jury and the executioner.

I agree with Stone that today’s public should not be cowed into submission and must demand the protection of civil liberties for everyone. Since one of “the traditional bulwarks of civil liberties” stet educational institutions, we—as students of George Mason University—must protect and understand the essential importance of civil liberties. We cannot grant the Executive Branch carte blanche to tailor the law to justify secret programs which condemns people to death far from any battlefield without any charges, judicial review or public scrutiny. There can be no legal or moral justification for violations of constitutional liberties and human rights. We must learn from our history and not repeat the same mistakes again because once liberties are lost, they are hard to regain. We have to stop this institutionalized pattern of civil rights infringements—and save the endangered life of due process and constitutional liberties.

Is Student Government Just for Fun? What’s to Show for a $20,000 Budget?

WILL ROSE

Columnist Student Senator Donald Garrett recently resigned from the Student Government following a movement for his impeachment.

This article is not necessarily about the merits of Garrett’s proposed lawsuit on the state level, which raised SG’s concerns, nor is it about the earlier feud between Michael Jordan and Matthew Short. This article is about the general attitude exhibited by many members of Student Senate concerning the office to which they’ve been elected. In an online video available via Connect2Mason, many student senators voice their opinions regarding the lawsuit that was raised for initially choosing to vote via secret ballot. According to the meeting’s minutes, senators felt that retribution might be sought against them if they openly declared loyalty to a specific side on an issue.

Certainly, voting by secret ballot is illegal under the Freedom of Information Act. Taxpayer money funds George Mason University, which in turn funds SG. It’s frustrating to see almost all student senators say, “Well, I didn’t expect to get sued,” or “Well, this is a club. I came here to have fun!”

While I personally don’t believe in litigation as a means of conflict resolution, I can tell you I would never break the law to appease a few people who feel uncomfort-

able telling their friends how they matter at hand. If you’re willing to voted on an issue. If you are even break the law, you should be willslightly inclined to break a state ing to defend your decisions in law because someone in your club court rather than impeach the is afraid of stepping on anybody’s person who confronts you — estoes, you are the one who needs to pecially if you’re a senator in a forbe impeached for defying state mal government.

While it may be overkill to laws. Furthermore, I don’t want people in Student Senate who file a lawsuit over something that admit they are “just there to have could be resolved internally, the proposition is neither illegal nor, fun” to be spending my money. for impeachment.

After hearing a senator say, “I grounds feel like we’ve forgotten that [we’re Nowhere in the SG constitution is here just to have fun],” it became there a prohibition on the body evident to me that many people in being justly approached with litigation. It is no SG must not secret that I am know who It just seems to me the president of funds their oran organization ganization or that, regardless of on campus. If a what SG is acwhat changes we member of my tually supposed to do. say we’d like to see o rg a n i z a t i o n were to sue me “This is a club. on “What Do You for doing someWhy am I illegal, I being sued?”

Want Wednesdays,’’ thing would take was a concern I they never actually them on in heard from court rather one of the senhappen than initiating ators. If you’re impeachment in a mock-governmental organization, you procedures — after all, if I beshould not be surprised when lieved as strongly as SG does that people go to the full extent of the my actions were within legal law to sue you for violating state boundaries, I would have nothing regulations. In my opinion, the to fear. I would love a response most wonderfully confusing argu- from someone in the Election Disment against Garrett’s lawsuit pute Commission who can cite came from a senator who ac- any document stipulating that folknowledged that Garrett has lowing state law and raising legitstanding to sue. This senator imate legal concerns is grounds stated that he understood the jus- for impeachment proceedings.

In fact, I’d like to pose a questification for a lawsuit against SG because Garrett felt, in accordance tion to SG: What do you actually with the FOIA, that he had been do? I’m interested to see what le“treated wrong.” The only argu- gitimate power the organization ment against the lawsuit offered holds that we, as lowly students, by this senator, however, was that cannot wield by writing pissed-off Garrett’s intention to initiate legal letters to housing or our college’s action was disproportionate to the deans. I respect the fact that you

act as a model to prepare future politicians for Congress, since I’m sure that’s where all of you will end up. It just seems to me that, regardless of what changes we say we’d like to see on “What Do You Want Wednesdays,” they never actually happen. So, really, my question is: Can anyone in SG actually offer a coherent justification for your existence at Mason? What are you actually doing for the students that we can’t do on our own?

For a school that’s so keen on conservative economics, you’d think its student government would be interested in efficiency. From the video of the deliberation over theresolution to send Garrett to the EOC for impeachment, it seems obvious that you’re not entirely sure what purpose you serve.

Then again, as many student senators argued in support of sending Garrett to the EOC for an impeachment hearing. , maybe you’re just there to have fun. A point raised by another senator really sums up my argument: “Where are we right now as an organization? People keep asking me that. I don’t know. I don’t know the answer. I’ve been here for two years and I have no idea,” the student senator said. Where does your $20,000 budget go? Because your funds are public, maybe students struggling to pay their tuition would find comfort in the knowledge that, presumably, you don’t spend the entire $20,000 on pizza parties and cookies to hand out at the clock tower. How much money is required to pass resolutions that support bills floating about in Congress?

Maybe your funds should be postponed until you can articulate your purpose.

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Opinion

Kony 2012: Why Should American Citizens Care?

Student Government Monthly

Be Part of the Movement That Could Save Millions of Lives

Welcome back to another exciting Student Government Monthly! We hope everyone had a safe and fun spring break. It’s that time of year again. SG will host its fourth annual Academic Advising Expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday in Dewberry Hall, located on the bottom floor of the Johnson Center. Faculty and staff from more than 20 departments and offices on campus will be at the event to answer students’ questions.

This event is one way the administration supports the student body with respect to vital aspects of the college experience such as academic advising. Students are encouraged to attend the AAE where they can ask questions, find out who their advisor is and receive on-the-spot advice about their academic plans.

But wait, there’s more! Free food will be provided along with a chance to win a free general lot parking pass. All who attend and are advised will be entered in a raffle for the parking pass, which is valid for one semester. Raffle winners who have already purchased their passes for the fall 2012 semester may redeem the prize for cash back or an upgrade. Students can also purchase $1 tickets for a raffle to win a fast pass, which will allow the winner to skip the lines at Mason Day, which will be April 27. Proceeds from the raffle will go to the March of Dimes, which is a charity that raises money to prevent birth defects and premature births.

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Columnist “There’s nothing worse than attempted murder of possibility,” tweeted Ben Keesey, the CEO of Invisible Children.

The Kony 2012 movement has flooded our newsfeeds and Twitter pages for the last two and a half weeks, and I am not complaining.

The non-profit that raises awareness about Joseph Kony and the gruesome acts of his Lord’s Resistance Army has received an exuberant response to their 30-minute documentary.

The film highlights the history of the LRA, their terrorizing of vulnerable and innocent children and the fear Joseph Kony has spread over Northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.

Jason Russell, the director and creative mind behind the film, tells the audience to join him in making Kony famous. Through social media and the power of unity, Invisible Children’s goal is to end Kony’s reign of terror.

The question isn’t why should you care. The question is why shouldn’t you.

Everyday, children are kidnapped, drugged and forced to be sex slaves or soldiers in a war with no purpose and, if we ignore that, we continue to let it happen. But with the help of George Mason University’s Invisible Children Club, ignoring Kony and his

LRA is becoming harder to do. Charles Coats, the events coordinator for the GMU Invisible Children club, refuses to let Kony go unnoticed any longer.

The student organization was not expecting the reaction that the film received. “[At the time] I didn’t know how to feel,” Coats said.

A mixture of excitement, disbelief and utter shock was the general reaction across the board. No one was expecting it to be so popular so quickly. Within 24 hours the documentary received 2 million views. Coats explained the Invisible Children headquarters was only expecting to get 500,000 by April, and now they have surpassed 84 million views.

Within days of its release, there were hundreds of blogs and articles that criticized the movement and labeled it as shameful or nitpicked through “shady” financials.

Anything and everything about the organization was being scrutinized, and it seemed that people were losing interest fast.

“It’s hard when you’re passionate about something and there is so much negativity being attached to it,” Coats said.

Passion can lead us to accomplish great things. It’s what drives social movements, innovations and creations. Without it, our lives would become static and we would slip into a world where emotions, actions and thoughts become obso-

lete. There are few people who have the confidence to stand up and speak out against the injustices in our world and Jason Russell is one of them.

His passion makes bringing Kony to justice a possibility. Quite frankly, I’m surprised that this is even being debated.

Why does anyone have an issue with stopping a tyrant who rapes women and children, abducts them and forces them to kill their parents and their families?

Anyone can look at a situation and see the negative, but only a virtuous person with integrity can look at a situation and see the positive.

“A lot of the people who are spreading negativity about the movement don’t know how non-profits work,” Coats said.

Non-profits need to raise money in order to accomplish their goals. The way the money is spent all depends on their cause .Invisible Children doesn’t just make movies and spread awareness. It build schools in LRA-affected areas and gives students scholarships for school so that they can have some hope to recover from the vast horror they endure.

All of those programs require money, which much of Invisible Children’s funding goes toward. It’s the unwillingness to accept change that brings social movements to a standstill since change is precisely what movements bring.

Mason’s Invisible Children club is stopping at nothing to see Kony brought to justice and won’t let a standstill stop them, not this time.

Mason’s Invisible Children club is stopping at nothing to see Kony brought to justice. Coats has been involved with Invisible Children since 2005 and, like many of the other GMU IC members, has dedicated the majority of his high school and college years to educating people about this conflict that has been ongoing for 26 years. The Invisible Children organization is teaming up with American University, George Washington University and James Madison University to create a coalition to energize and rally the students and people in the D.C. area.

As the movement carries on, remember what you’re passionate about and the possibilities you want to make happen.

Don’t fall a prisoner to ignorance, aversion and avoidance because you’d be destroying the possibility to be part of a movement that could literally save millions of lives.

Take a moment as you read the final words of this article and think. Think of how you would react if Joseph Kony was kidnapping children and killing millions of people here in the United States. Think if you were one of the children forced to kill your parents or, worse, if your children were the ones being abducted. Would this change your perception of the severity of the issue? Regardless of whether you support Invisible Children, don’t reject what their end goal is — Joseph Kony being tried at International Criminal Court for the millions of lives he’s taken.

Kony 2012 isn’t a phase or a new trend.

It’s happening and affecting the entire international community. Use your voice and heart, and most of all stop at nothing to end the injustice.

Man on the Street What Do You Think About Kony 2012?

Connor Manning, freshman, undeclared “I think that the organization has had a questionable stretch, but it’s cool to see people come together over something.”

Chris Phillips, sophomore, criminology “I think it’s down to the point where people hear about Kony and want to stop it, but they don’t have the information. It’s a fad, in three months people will wonder what happened to Kony, if they even remember who he is.”

Laura Shultz, junior, environmental and sustainability studies “I know the organization Invisible Children has been going on for 20-something years. Now people randomly are caring when it’s been a thing for over two decades.”

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Time for a More Reasonable Drug Policy The rules set forth by George Mason University’s Board of Visitors and the Office of Student Conduct not only hinder student learning and engagement but also discourage it. Under the current university policy, if you are caught on first offense with any possession of marijuana, you are likely to be suspended “from the University for a minimum of one academic semester.� This isn’t the case for the possession of or drinking alcohol, which is illegal for those under 21 and something a lot of college students do frequently on this campus. Who’s to say what is worse for you: marijuana or alcohol?

All I know is that they’re both “bad,� and alcohol is illegal for a majority of Mason’s undergraduate population.

The university’s policies are also far more strict than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of comparable sister institutions like James Madison University. JMU, for example, has a three-strike policy related to marijuana. Why should someone get kicked off campus and out of their classes for an entire semester because of a little bit of pot? How does that policy “foster student engagement� and learning? It obviously doesn’t. I’m not trying to say

there shouldn’t be any consequences for possession of marijuana. I’m not even saying the Office of Housing & Residence Life shouldn’t have the right to kick you out of your dorm because you are in possession of or smoking pot on campus. What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t get kicked out of your classes because of it, which they do now even if you’re in your last semester of school. Again, how does that encourage learning?

If one had to choose between alcohol and marijuana, statistically speaking, marijuana is the much safer option. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, approximately 2,000 college students between the ages of 18 and 22 die each year from what they call “unintentional fatal incidents� directly related to the consumption of alcohol. How many deaths were reported directly attributed to marijuana use?

None. I’m not trying to encourage the use of marijuana, but when the penalties are stricter for something that is a much safer option compared to alcohol, something needs to be seriously re-evaluated here.

I spoke recently with Jane Garfinkel, the or-

What Do MultipleChoice Exams Prove?

Essay Exams Better Demonstrate What a Student Has Learned Angela Kim

Columnist Are you someone like me, who can answer all the questions during class but fails to do well on your multiple-choice exams? The first few semesters of college my grades suffered — not because I didn’t know the material, but because I generally don’t do well on anything multiple-choice related.

Frustrated with the poor results from all the time and effort I put into studying, I began to question if multiple-choice is even an accurate way of measuring how much a person really knows.

How many times have you not studied for an exam but still managed to receive a decent grade on your multiple-choice exam? I have many friends who have gotten away with that, whereas I would pull all-nighters studying and end up with a significantly lower grade

. Bubbling random answers without even understanding the course material and then receiving credit for something unintentional seemed nothing short of unfair.

Essay exams are a more accurate reflection of how much people understand the material, because they either know the material or they don’t. Not only do essay exams accurately measure how much we know, it encourages us to come up with creative ways to respond to a question and allows us to use our critical thinking skills to provide examples that pertain to our own lives. It is easier to administer and also less expensive to grade than the costs of buying and grading scantrons.

In a recent speech, Susan Cain, the author of “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking,� said that introverts are responsible for some of humanity’s greatest achievements and that introverts make up a third to a half of the population. That’s a lot of people. I believe essay exams would benefit introverts especially. I know of a lot of professors who will categorize a quiet student into an “aver-

age,� C-student because he does not participate as often during class and therefore deduct points in their participation grade. But what these professors fail to realize is that just because a student doesn’t engage in a classroom discussion does not mean that he or she isn’t actually thinking.

An essay exam will provide an alternative way of expressing the student’s thoughts or opinions.

Not only will the essay serve as some sort of “this is what I’ve learned� feedback, but the student will be able to write down the things he wasn’t able to express out loud in class.

Though essay exams can be more strenuous and time consuming, it is a more effective way of measuring a person’s knowledge. If you’ve been receiving good grades through memorizing books or learning to recognize certain information on multiplechoice exams, that will only get you so far. As students, we should encourage our professors to provide essay exams, which will help deepen our thoughts and encourage us to see things from all perspectives.

ganizer and founder of the unrecognized GMU Students For A Better Drug Policy. “Suspension for a semester serves only to give the student a long expanse of time to partake in drugs and decreases the chance of them graduating,� she said. Garfinkel’s organization is “aiming for a three-strike policy of marijuana and alcohol combined. Mainly, the group hopes to end suspension as a punishment for first-time offenders.�

The group was also recently the driving force behind Student Government’s resolution calling for the university to stop suspending students for marijuana possession. The resolution was submitted by Senators Sarah Harvard, Anthony Travieso, Cameron Burnette and Mike DeRobbio. The resolution was brought to the Student Senate floor during their most recent meeting on March 22, but it was sent to committee to be reviewed and amended and will come up to a vote at the senate meeting this Thursday. Many gallery members spoke in support of the resolution, which seemed to be well received from the senators.

Student Senator Harvard brought the resolution forward because, as she said, “Those who are

possessing marijuana just get kicked out, while those who drink underage have a chance to redeem themselves, even if [those students who are kicked out for marijuana] are students who contribute greatly to the university community.� One of the other co-sponsors of the resolution, Senator Cameron Burnette said, “The mission statement of the Student Conduct Office says they will better educate students and make them better members of the university and community, but they do the opposite of that by holding the students guilty before proven innocent.�

Burnette feels, that instead of kicking students out of their classes, they should be given a chance to redeem themselves by being involved in an education class on marijuana, just like what is done for alcohol.

Student Government President Allyson Bowers told us that she “supports the resolution and hopes that the administration takes it into consideration and recognizes that the current standards serve as a major injustice.�

Storm A. Paglia contributed to this piece

Letter to the Editor Editor,

As you may or may not know, March is National Athletic Training Month. I wanted to ask for your help in promoting the important role athletic trainers play in keeping athletes of all levels, youth through professional, safe and in healthy condition to compete in their sports. This year’s theme is “Athletic Trainers Save Lives.� Athletic trainers respond to, and manage, various medical and traumatic conditions including, but not limited to, an allergic reaction to a bee sting to cervical spine injuries and the fan in the stands suffering from a heart attack. The recent hot topic in contact sports, especially football, is concussions. While many people dismiss concussions as “getting your bell rung,� if not recognized and managed properly, concussions can be deadly.

The condition known as Second Impact Syndrome is when an athlete sustains a secondary traumatic brain injury before the first injury is fully healed. This causes an uncontrolled swelling in the brain, which can cause permanent brain damage or death. As you know the NFL has recently enacted a new rule that does not allow players to return to play the same day they sustain a concussion. This is a rule that most secondary schools and colleges have been following for some time. One of the leading researchers and proponents of concussion management is Kevin Guskiewicz, a certified athletic trainer at UNC and 2011 MacArthur Fellow. He developed concussion evaluation tests that are widely used by athletic trainers and has played an important role in identifying and raising awareness of the longterm effects of multiple concussions later in life.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a condition that is brought on by sustaining repeated blows to the head over an extended period of time. This condition involves symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression and dementia. Many professional athletes who have do-

nated their brains to scientific research, including Lou Creekmur, Dave Duerson, Reg Fleming, Rick Martin and Chris Benoit had the Tau-protein build-up evident of CTE. While concussions are not preventable in contact sports, it is important that they are recognized and proper protocol is followed to avoid further injury or complications. Some other cases of athletic trainers recognizing life-threatening situations also merit mention. A local high school volleyball player went to her primary care physician with knee pain and was told it was just “growing pains�.

She later went to the athletic trainer at her school and after performing palpations and tests, the athletic trainer referred the athlete to get a second opinion from an orthopedist. The MRI showed the young girl had a tumor. Luckily it was benign but if it had been malignant, and if not for the athletic trainer’s knowledge, and recognition of suspicious symptoms, this situation could have been deadly. Another student athlete a different high school came to the athletic trainer complaining of a groin pain. The athletic trainer noticed severe swelling of the girl’s upper thigh, and because the location she referred to contained her femoral artery and nerve, the athletic trainer told her she needed to go to the emergency room immediately. The girl had a blood clot in her femoral artery, which, if left untreated, could have resulted in a deadly pulmonary embolism. I hope that this letter will give your readers a new appreciation and recognition of the importance of athletic trainers and that they will remember these examples of how athletic trainers save lives. Thank you.

Respectfully, Tom Milosavich Sophomore Athletic Training

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Mongolian Wrestler Hopes to Pin an Olympic Spot Senior Mendbagana Tovuujav Finishes Mason Season at NCAA Division I Nationals

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Mendbagana­Tovuujav­moved­to­America­from­Mongolia­when­he­was­15 on­a­wrestling­scholarship­to­a­private­school.­After­gradation­in­the­spring, Tovuujav­is­moving­back­to­Mongolia­to­try­out­for­the­Mongolian­Olympic wrestling­team.­

Colleen Wilson Sports Editor In eighth grade, Mendbagana Tovuujav was a skinny kid living in Mongolia.

After a scuffle with some local gang members, Tovuujav was approached by two-time world freestyle wrestling finalist Naranbaatar Bayaraa.

“He told me that if I thought I was tough, I should come wrestle with him instead of waste my time with street kids,” Tovuujav said.

The experience changed the eighth grader’s life.

After training with the Mongolian wrestling team, Tovuujav was offered a full scholarship to an American prep school.

From there, he received a full scholarship to George Mason University.

Tovuujav, who’s now a senior, has been a nearly unstoppable force on the Mason wrestling team.

This year he finished the regular season with a 20-3 record and went on to the NCAA Division I nationals in St. Louis, where he lost.

Tovuujav plans to move back to Mongolia after he graduates in May and try out for the 2016 Mongolian Olympic wrestling team.

“Wrestling is an individual sport,” Tovuujav said.

“If everyone works hard, then the team does well. I focus on improving myself.”

When new coaches Joe Russell and Tommy of her five children off to America, but the decision Owen came on for the 2012 season, the team was told was ultimately his.

While at St. Benedict’s, Tovuujav roomed with that it was hard to restart with new leadership.

“Coach Russ and Owen are very positive people; Samardo Samuels, who now is a power forward and center for the Cleveland Cavaliers. they always support us no matter what,” Tovuujav said.

“We lived in the dormitories at school with other international stu“We trained hard and focused “I work harder than dents and kids who had bad grades,” on building team unity, which really helped us this anyone else. I train every Tovuujav said. “It was hard to adjust. is very different culturally — season.” day at practice and work Mongolia Since the beginning of different for everything really.” on my mistakes and try When he arrived in America at 15, his wrestling career when he was in eighth grade, Tovuujav to improve. I spend Tovuujav spoke no English.

He still struggles with the lanhas been wildly successful. weeks working on one guage, but he has managed to succeed He took third place in thing until it’s perfect, academically and will graduate this the Mongolian High School Nationals before he was even not everything at once.” spring.

Though three of Tovuujav’s brothenrolled in high school. He ers and his father were all wrestlers on was soon approached by the -Mendbagana Tovuujav the Mongolian National team, no one Mongolian Olympic coach. thought he would end up wrestling The Olympic coach made a deal with St. Benehimself. He credits his success on the dict’s Prep, a private school in mat to his work ethic.

New Jersey, to send one Mongolian wrestler to live “I work harder than anyone else. I train every day at practice and work on my mistakes and try to imand study at the school each year.

Tovuujav was the third Mongolian student to go prove,” Tovuujav said. “I spend weeks working on one to St. Benedict’s where he wrestled for three years. thing until it’s perfect, not everything at once.”

His mother was reluctant to send the youngest Tovuujav was trained as a freestyle wrestler dur-

ing his early years with the Mongolian National team.

“Freestyle wrestling is more professional. It’s what’s used in the Olympics and around the world.

American wrestlers use focus style, which is something new I had to learn,” Tovuujav said.

Freestyle or focus, Tovuujav’s style has always been offensive. However, after a broken elbow, hurt knees and a shoulder injury his junior year, he had to adapt his style.

“I had to stand back and watch and work defensively off of others’ mistakes,” Tovuujav said. “It was a big change to make in one year, and it was really hard for me.”

His knowledge of both styles of wrestling, along with his perspective as both an offensive and defensive wrestlerb has been an asset to the Mason wrestling team.

“He brought a different aspect of wrestling from being trained overseas,” said Frankie McLaughlin IV, a senior on the wrestling team. “Being versed in all styles and positions has helped the team grow.”

Tovuujav has high hopes for the future of the Mason wrestling program.

“I believe they’re going to do great the next couple years,” said Tovuujav. “The team is young, and they’ll end up being really successful.”

Coaches Blamed for Pitcher Ligament Injuries Baseball Working with Research Department to Prevent Elbow Problems Hau Chu Staff Writer There’s an ongoing epidemic across all levels of baseball.

Pitchers are more frequently in need of labrum surgery or, the most prominent of all, Tommy John surgery.

Mason’s baseball team has unfortunately had to deal with such injuries during pitching coach Steve Hay’s three-year tenure.

“One has been the fluke, one-pitch incident where it just happened late in the season.

We have had some others where some pitchers have come into the program tired or hurt which may have caused the injury,” Hay said.

“Most of the time there is a deficiency in the muscles in the shoulder or an issue with posture which we are currently doing a study on.”

Tommy John surgery is also known as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction. The procedure got it’s name from former Dodgers pitcher Tommy John who was the first to undergo the operation in 1974.

When the ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow tears and a tendon from another place in the body is used to replace the damaged ligament.

The usual timetable for a return from Tommy John surgery for a player is anywhere from 12 to 18 months.

In recent times there seems to be a high rate of pitchers returning successfully from

Tommy John surgery, the most successful case being John Smoltz of the Atlanta Braves, who won the National League Rolaids Relief Man of the Year in 2001, the year following his Tommy John surgery.

The blame for such injuries occurring across all levels of baseball is being put on coaches and managers, who are accused of overworking and overusing their pitchers.

Still, the fact remains that a pitcher motion is unnatural and puts a great degree of stress on the elbow.

Coaches are being accused of overworking and overusing their pitchers. It is not uncommon among major NCAA baseball programs to use their ace pitchers deep into starts, sometimes accruing 120 to 130 pitches.

A case recently came up in the past year’s MLB 2011 First-Year Player Draft in which Trevor Bauer, the 2011 Golden Spikes winner, was averaging 125 pitches per outing for UCLA. Although Bauer has yet to run into any significant arm troubles, ESPN analyst Keith Law wrote of a 129-pitch outing by Bauer in March 2011, “...that’s an irresponsibly high pitch count for a 21-year-old, and no, no one will bother to question the coach who left Bauer out there to do it.”

Hay has a different philosophy than Law’s when he explained how he manages Mason’s staff workload.

“Pitch counts to an extent are being overanalyzed in baseball lately,” Hay said. “While

there should be limits at the little league and high school levels, the college pitcher has fully matured and all pitchers are different. Some pitchers’ limit is 80 while another is 120.”

“It is our belief that it is more difficult and taxing to throw 80 pitches through four innings, than 115 though 8,” Hay said. “The more base runners in scoring position against the pitcher, the tougher the toll it is mentally and physically.”

“You would love to think that winning one game doesn’t cloud your judgment, but we try and do what’s in the best interest of the pitcher,” Hay said.

Although no one can give a definitive answer to why some pitchers must go under the knife for the various arm injuries, Hay believes Mason is being proactive in researching the root of the problem.

“We are currently doing a study using the Mason Research Department and training staff, trying to find out if there is a way to see the potential for injuries before they occur,” Hay said.

“If we can see the warning signs before the injury, then that is where I think we can separate ourselves from other programs.”

Hay’s philosophy for Mason is simple.

“We truly believe we are doing everything in our power to keep our pitchers healthy, and no one game is worth the risk or injury to a potentially professional player.”

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Coach­Spotlight:­Joe­Russell

Wrestling Coach Overcomes Life-Threatening Injury Danielle Roussey Staff Writer When the University of Minnesota oered a scholarship to Joe Russell, the head of Mason’s Division 1 wrestling team, they knew they were taking a risk.

In 1985, during his junior year of high school, Russell won national championships in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

He was on his way to becoming the star of college wrestling when a terrible accident changed his path. “I got into a motorcycling accident before my senior year in high school,� Russell said. “I had a compound skull fracture with lacerations of the brain, and I was completely paralyzed on the left side of my body.�

Russell had a choice to make.

He could leave the wrestling world or stay knowing the chances for a full recovery were slim. “After the accident I felt like even though I was supposed to die, for some reason I lived, and I knew I was going to come back as a wrestler,� Russell said.

Russell was recruited by the University of Minnesota in 1988.

The coach hoped he could make a full recovery.

Russell eventually regained the majority of feeling in his left side but was not able to compete at the same intensity as he did before. “Wrestling motivated me to keep ďŹ ghting through the recovery time,â€? Russell said.

After graduation, Russell became the assistant coach at the University of Minnesota where he assisted in coaching three NCAA championship teams and 11 individual national champions over his 17 years with the program.

When Russell learned about the opportunity to work with the Mason wrestling team, he applied. “I saw a lot of promise in the Mason program, and I saw an opportunity to have a bigger impact on the athletes and the sport,�

Russell said.

The team’s current record is 6-16, an improvement from last season’s record of 0-21. “For my ďŹ rst year at Mason I really wanted to learn what the needs of the program were,â€? Russell said. “Now it’s about trying to move the program in a positive di-

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rection.�

The team will keep training all spring and summer to prepare for the next season. “There are a lot of sacriďŹ ces.

It takes courage to get out there when it’s just you and one other person,� Russell said.

Coaching is not what Russell initially had in mind, but he has succeeded in inuencing the careers of others and being an image of success in the face of adversity. “It’s about attitude and eort.

If players have a good attitude and put in all their eort, I believe they can do a great job,� Russell said.

Fans can keep updated at Russell’s blog, masonwrestling. wordpress.com

Weekly Roundup Softball: Mason 2, UNCW 0 Sophomore Stephanie Maher threw a masterful seven inning shutout in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader for the Patriots, setting the tone for the day and picking up the victory. Senior Katie Rynex was 2-for-2 in the game while junior Emily Laerty contributed the game’s only RBI. Track and Field: W&L/VMI Track Carnival Junior Mandissa Marshall continued her hot start to the outdoor season, shattering the school record she set last week and posting a height of 4.30 meters. Three athletes set three meet records at the Washington & Lee/VMI Track Carnival in Lexington. Sophomore Amanda Denger set a record with a personal best 4,674 points in the heptathlon and junior Gustavo Osorio bested the previous meet record with 6,121 points in the decathlon.

Volleyball: Mason 0, USC 3 Starting its West Coast trip in Los Angeles, the Patriots were swept in consecutive matches by the Trojans by set scores of 25-18, 25-16, 25-21. Mason was led by seven kills apiece from juniors Mark Jones and Michael Kvidahl, with Jones contributing 12 assists and three blocks in the loss.

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Rowing: Murphy Cup In what was the second-largest intercollegiate regatta, the Patriots sent four boats to the 30th Annual Murphy Cup in Philadelphia. Mason’s Second Varsity 8+ ďŹ nished ďŹ fth overall with a ďŹ nal time of 8:31.03 while the ďŹ rst heat of Varsity 8+ picked up a second place ďŹ nish in its respective heat with a time of 8:27.38.

Baseball: Mason 5, W&M 4 After falling behind 4-0 early in the ďŹ rst game of Friday’s doubleheader, the Patriots rallied to a 5-4 victory over the Tribe. Tied 4-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning, sophomore Blaise Fernandez stepped to the plate and delivered the game-winning single on a line drive up the middle that scored redshirt sophomore outďŹ elder Josh Leemhuis.

Basketball: Cornelius Arrested On Wednesday, March 21, former Mason guard Andre Cornelius was charged with possession of marijuana and released on his signature. Cornelius spent the ďŹ rst portion of the basketball season suspended after being charged with credit card fraud and larceny. In a comment obtained on Thursday morning, Mason Athletics said, “We are aware of the incident and have no further comment at this time.â€?

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After­taking­his­team­to­the­Final­Four­last­season,­Shaka­Smart,­one­of­the­nation’s­most­dynamic­young coaches,­refused­to­part­ways­with­VCU.­

Adam Stern Commonwealth Times VCU fans had seen this gut-wrenching nightmare before — they were all too familiar with it, actually — and, by golly, they were determined not to go down that path again.

A beloved coach about to be sucked into the vacuum of multimillion dollar deals, the story went: The tale VCU fans have been waking up in cold sweats to for years now, it seemed about to happen once more.

Here we go, the thought was. A third coach in the last decade was to be usurped away to the purportedly greener pastures of high-majors; cruelly ripped away just when roots were beginning to take hold with emotions beginning to harden.

And VCU fans didn’t want to be hurt again.

So the old clichĂŠ came into play: Fool me once: Shame on you.

Fool me twice: Shame on me.

VCU fans were done with that.

After Je Capel and Anthony Grant, they didn’t want to feel that feeling a third time or, to be frank, ever again.

Paranoia set in. “He’s leaving,� became the rampant fear. “He’s done here,� others resigned them to.

And who could blame them? After all, the notion of, “he’s just like the rest of the cash-grabbers,� was the notion that nearly every mainstream media member implied for the last two weeks.

Yet Shaka Smart was never that.

That’s what people forgot. But it’s understandable: In large part because, in this day and age, the common mentality is ‘cash rules everything around me,’ no matter whom you are.

But Smart is a modern-day Renaissance man, and is truly one of a kind.

A person who counts collecting famous, intel-

lectual quotes as one of his pastimes, Smart is a cerebral man who has deep values that stretch far beyond the purse strings.

The Wisconsin native was accepted to Harvard and turned it down because he cared so deeply about the connection he had with a local coach he had met at Kenyon College closer to his home in the Midwest.

Additionally, he never played Division I basketball and thus doesn’t have the inherent — and, at times almost subservient and elitist — loyalty to high-major programs.

Most of all, he’s always been someone with a chip on his shoulder.

So it was more like a dream, then, when Smart came out with the news Wednesday that he’d rejected Illinois’ deal — not just for VCU fans but fans of all mid-majors.

Finally, we — not just VCU fans, but midmajor fans — had somebody whose loyalty ran deeper than their bank account.

Finally, we — not just VCU fans, but midmajor fans — had someone who saw as much in this so-called mid-major university as they did in any other school across the country.

Finally, we — not just VCU fans, but midmajor fans — have a David ready to slay Goliaths.

Smart’s move is a rare move, but it’s an important one, because it lets us know the truest of people still exist, however rare the may be. Loyalty can still run deep, Smart’s tale teaches us.

Community and camaraderie — they can still be thick.

So, after the painful turn of events versus Indiana in the NCAA Tournament, VCU fans will be glad to turn to a good tale, one that for now is complete with a happy ending.

Yes, for now, VCU fans can get back on with their journey of a lifetime — and, by extension, so can all fans of mid-majors.

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The Back Squat

“The back squat helps build functional strength. It works the major muscle groups all at once.

Baseball is all about explosion. It’s a quick sport. You need to be able to go from standing still to sprinting.

It doesn’t matter if you have the biggest biceps — if you have toothpick ankles you’re not going anywhere.”

-Blaise Fernandez

1. With your feet shoulder-width apart and the barbell placed on the middle of your shoulders, arch your back, inhale deeply and hold.

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2. Slowly sit back as if a chair is behind you. Keep your knees over your ankles while keeping your back arched. Flex your abdomin to provide support for your back.

Wednesday March 28 Softball vs. Georgetown, 4 p.m.

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Volleyball (M) vs. St. Francis, 7 p.m.

Baseball vs. Georgia State, 3 p.m.

3. Stop when the top part of your legs are parallel to the ground. Make sure to keep your head up while driving the weight into your heels to get back to a standing position. Do not to lock your knees.

Saturday March 31 Volleyball (M) vs. Penn State, 7 p.m.

Baseball vs. Georgia State, 2 p.m.

Tennis (W) vs. Longwood, 1:30 p.m.

Tennis (M) vs. Longwood, 1:30 p.m.

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