Monday marks the beginning of the annual Islam Awareness Week celebration. IAW is a national event that Muslim Student Associations from colleges all around the U.S. celebrate. According to the MSA National website, IAW aims to “introduce Islam on a unified platform to all university and college campuses.”
Student Government elections are looming. Campaigning has already begun and elections are scheduled to take place April 5–6 . The question is, is it worth voting?
The recent chain of events occurring throughout the Middle East and North Africa should come as a welcome shift in politics for a nation promoting freedom and democracy, yet our actions contradict this logic.
I still remember the morning that I left to go on Spring Break. At roughly 3 a.m., I was in Eisenhower playing pool with some of my friends. I had just narrowly avoided sinking the 8 ball when a security guard walked in and turned on the news, and what I saw was indescribable.
Any stated policy on regime change? No, but no one is really completely sure. Exit strategy? None. Congressional approval? Non-existent.
Call me irreverent, but I believe the practice of addressing unfamiliar people as sir or ma’am now fully belongs to a bygone era. Those born of more genteel generations no doubt decry the unchecked corrosion of the frontiers of respect, much as they are perplexed by the younger set’s capacity for instant rapport. There is much truth to this just as there is, surely, reason for nostalgia. Nevertheless, the practice is dead and so it is worthwhile to ponder its decline. Sir and ma’am now suffer from the worst fate that can become an act of protocol: perfunctoriness. No longer a mark of breeding and manners, they are now the buzzwords of societal cogs that appear to be making an effort but are really just going through the motions. There’s no need to feign interest so long as these bells are rung at their proper moments. This is not veneration; it’s laziness. The terms have become vested with aging connotations. As with most glacially evolving trends, we absorb evidence of this petrifaction via off-hand observations — of the people who use these terms and the circumstances in which they are used. Subordinate to superior, they come off as being sycophants. […]
Alongside George Mason University’s famous and influential professors, the university is also home to an entire award-winning professional theater company, the Theater of the First Amendment.
Directly following a performance at the Verizon Center next Sunday, members of Lil’ Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment will hit up Icons Sports Lounge and Grille in downtown Fairfax for an official Bed Rock Sunday after party. Weezy’s I Am Still Music tour will also feature Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Travis Barker with MixMaster Mike. Directly following Weezy’s I Am Still Music tour stop in D.C., Mack Maine, Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz and Cory Gunz will unwind at the local hangout and perform for patrons. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 if you buy online or about $4o at the door. The after party is open to people 21 and over. Boris “Can Do” Kuperman, an organizer of the event along with his friend Mike C, says that students should attend the event because Icons is within walking distance from campus, so you don’t have to drink and drive, it’s a great place to hang out with fellow George Mason University students and it’s not too expensive. “There will be four celebrities in the building performing,” said Kuperman. “And Young Money is the hottest group in entertainment right now.” Kuperman says that in the future students can look […]
Once upon a time in 1999, a certain average teenager became a pop sensation. She had an OK voice, better dance skills, a great body and a reasonable personality. No, not Ke$ha (no personality) or Miley Cyrus (too much personality). Her name was Britney (bitch) Spears.
In a conference call interview with Oliver, Broadside had the opportunity to discuss his career and passion for stand-up comedy.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Merger between C2M and Broadside 
Mason Week celebrates road to Cabrera’s inauguration 
Women’s lacrosse look forward to A10 after winless season 
Ten Minute Play Festival brings talent to the stage 
Study abroad offers students a chance to work with the African Wildlife Foundation in Kenya
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