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Mason Student Has a Bright Futura

Bright Futura is an online college newspaper, blog and video-based community. As stated on its website, Bright Futura is powered by students, for students. Founded by George Mason University biology major Max Garland approximately four and half months ago, Bright Futura is an interactive blog-style site full of articles on current events, music suggestions, memes,

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“Made” Comes to Mason

The Office of Student Involvement is constantly striving to bring George Mason University students the best entertainment possible. Recently, Michelle Davis, assistant director of Student Involvement Programming, was kind enough to sit down and talk about “Made” and a few other events SI has planned. How did “Made” end up at GMU? MD: They wanted

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Mason Alum Shares Her Story Through Photography

Deborah Lash, a George Mason University alumna, held a reception for her “When the House Burns Down” exhibit in Gallery 123 in the Johnson Center this past week. The exhibit captured her youngest brother and his best friend at many different scenes that represented emptiness for Lash. When she was 8 years old her family’s

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I’d Rather Be Eating: Chutzpah

I'd Rather Be Eating: Chutzpah

This past Sunday, I went to Chutzpah Deli for lunch with my two roommates, Lyndsey and Amanda. A friend recommended Chutzpah to me about a year ago, but due to its somewhat inconvenient location, I had yet to make my first visit, until last weekend. I don’t eat subs or sandwiches very often, but when

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Your Face, Your Voice: Mason Cable Network

Recently, the mass media has brought the idea of gender identity to my attention. The matter of gender roles is a very sensitive subject in America. Gender roles are an important mediator of human experiences and of the way individuals interact with each other and their physical environments. Many people question the validity of gender

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How To Get Straight A’s

Some people think that in order to get good grades in college, one must spend 30 to 40 hours studying each week. In reality, there are many ways to get the same results with a lot less effort. Here are 10 ways to be a fantastic student with a minimal workload: 1. Smile in class.

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Super Powers and Found Footage Collide

There is no genre that found footage doesn’t work for, is there? What started as a new and creative way to tell a horror story with “The Blair Witch Project” over 10 years ago has gone on to become a bloated version of itself. And now you can add superheroes to the list of film

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Fashion Has an Ugly Side

Perfect skin, perfect hair and the infamous super-svelte physique: Although the beauty ideals portrayed in the fashion world today are unattainable and unhealthy, many young girls still feel the need to make themselves look like the women seen on the runways and in magazines. Fashion show producer Kelly Cutrone said that models are “anomalies of

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Rise Against Takes Patriot Center

Rise Against Takes Patriot Center

Over two years ago, I made a 17-hour trek from Chesapeake to Chicago, Ill. for a concert. The tickets sold out merely six minutes after they’d gone on sale and my close friend and I were lucky enough to snatch up a few in that brief window. That was the last time I saw Rise

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Volition – What is It?

For anyone who has ever considered the prospect of publishing a piece of writing, be it a poem, a short story or an essay, even entertaining the thought can be daunting and induce feelings of stress and anxiety. But, thanks to Volition magazine, much of that strain can be alleviated. Volition is a literary magazine

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