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  Contestants light up the runway at this year’s annual Drag Show

  Lifestyle April 11, 2011 at 6:40 pm Comments are Disabled

  George Mason University’s annual Drag Show shocked, thrilled and inspired the crowd as drag kings and queens made their way on stage.

   
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  Students raise awareness about harassment and bullying of LGBTQ community during National Day of Silence

  Lifestyle April 11, 2011 at 6:33 pm Comments are Disabled

  Participants in the National Day of Silence relinquish speaking for most or all of the day in an effort to raise awareness about the harassment, bullying and discrimination faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning members and their allies.

   
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  Events in place for 31st annual International Week

  Lifestyle April 4, 2011 at 6:29 pm Comments are Disabled

  George Mason University is definitely not shy about diversity, as it boasts students from over 130 countries, bringing together a kaleidoscope of cultures.

   
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  Fashion Hotspot: Senior known for showing off her unique sense of style

  Lifestyle April 4, 2011 at 6:26 pm Comments are Disabled

  Tenzing Gyari isn’t afraid to be different. This Tibetan trendsetter racks up fashion knowledge as she travels around the globe. Her style is earthy and simple, yet very noticeable. Find out which key item she absolutely cannot live without and why she loves being two inches taller on weekends.

   
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  ‘The Elephant Man’ features great soundtrack

  Lifestyle April 4, 2011 at 6:22 pm Comments are Disabled

  Bernard Pomerance’s 1979 tragedy, “The Elephant Man,” is based on the true story of John Merrick. Merrick is a young man living in 1860s London who suffered from a congenital disease which caused his body to be greatly deformed.

   
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  Mason Supports Military Families

  Lifestyle April 4, 2011 at 6:15 pm Comments are Disabled

  Most mornings, Andrew Schloe wakes up before sunrise to partake in intense training as a cadet in Mason’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

   
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  Yes, Yes is back

  Lifestyle April 4, 2011 at 6:13 pm Comments are Disabled

  With a new album due in July, Broadside sat down with bass player Chris Squire to talk about the band and the new album.

   
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  Tommy Davidson, stars of ‘Reno 911!’ crack up students on Prince William Campus

  Lifestyle April 4, 2011 at 6:09 pm Comments are Disabled

  Students expecting to laugh out loud were not disappointed when Tommy Davidson and “Reno 911!” stars Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough came to town.

   

• Regarding Sir and Ma’am

  Lifestyle March 28, 2011 at 6:35 pm Comments are Disabled

  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. […]

   

• Theater of the First Amendment celebrates long history of on-campus thespianism

  Lifestyle March 28, 2011 at 6:32 pm Comments are Disabled

  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.