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Broadside GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1963

Volume 89 Issue 23

(JENNY KRASHIN/BROADSIDE)

Mason Week concludes with Andy Grammer concert PAGE 12-13 News

Lifestyle

Opinion

Sports

Campus-wide graffiti costs the university thousands of dollars to clean up

The Annual Ten Minute Play festival showcases student writers, actors and directors

The problem with being a good student and the benefit of being a bad one

Women’s lacrosse looks forward to A-10 play to boost their strength

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Mason in the News “As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula or in the South China Sea, the reaffirmation of this security guarantee can prevent a destabilizing arms race among nervous countries in the region.”

- Janine Davidson, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy said to Voice of America about the United States’ relations with Asia, diplomatically and militarily.

“What we see on college campuses represents a dereliction of duty by boards of trustees, which bear the ultimate responsibility.

Wealthy donors who care about the fraud of higher education should recognize that there’s nothing like the sound of pocketbooks snapping shut to open the closed minds of college administrators.”

- Walter Williams, economics professor, said in his weekly syndicated column about higher education.

“What we’re going to try to become is the best university for the world. That’s our goal.”

- President Ángel Cabrera was quoted in The Washington Post as what he said at his inauguration on April 26.

“The hype is, fundamentally, what you would expect from a market like this. For quite a while, this has been a terrific housing market in Fairfax County.”

-Gerald Hanweck, professor of finance, said to The Connection about the state of the housing market in Fairfax.

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Letter from the Editor-in-Chief You can’t please everyone. In this job, you can hardly please anyone.

Approval and trust ratings for journalists have been rapidly declining, with some polls reporting that people think more highly of lawyers and politicians than journalists.

Though perhaps for different reasons at Broadside, we feel similar animosity.

Last year, while waiting in line for a replacement swipe key at the help desk, I overheard two boys chatting animatedly about Broadside.

One expressed his excitement to see the new issue out, to the confusion and ridicule of his friend.

He quickly explained that he only picked up the paper to mock the mistakes and laugh at the content.

Kathryn Mangus, the faculty advisor for the Office of Student Media, often reminds me that as the student newspaper, we are the largest classroom on campus. Each week, our learning process and trials and error are printed for the entire community to scrutinize.

Even the best students occasionally ask embarassing questions in class or bomb a test, it’s part of the learning experience. The only way that we can grow is to make those awful mistakes, whether it’s mispelling Virginia on the front page, printing the wrong date for an

event or failing to fact-check how many people actually live in Canada.

I don’t mean to whine, part of being a visible group on campus, as well as a media source, is having a responsibility to the community to get things right. But at some level, I need for the Mason community, administrators, professors and students alike, to realize that we are not the Washington Post. We are students with hectic full-time schedules who work tirelessly to bring you this resource each week.

I wasn’t planning on being Editor-in-Chief this semester, and to be perfectly honest, the experience has been one of the most challenging I’ve ever faced.

I know that not everyone has such a negative view of this paper, I often get comments congratulating the staff for our hard work and dedication to learning a craft that is not a specialization at Mason. These comments are what make the long hours and stressful deadlines worth it.

But I’ve grown weary of the pushback, and I want to know what I can do to make it change.

In my first column as Editor-in-Chief, I talked about how my relationship with Mason is sometimes strained. I got some great feedback from faculty and students alike, agreeing with me that as a community we need to do more work to bring Mason to its full potential.

With another semester under my belt, Mason continues to be just as pimply-faced and awkward as we struggle against the challenges of a young university without a clearly defined identity.

Change comes slowly, but as the staff of Broadside, I believe we are making progressive strides towards it. If there is something you’d like too see in the paper next year, a criticism that you often repeat in public but haven’t taken the time or effort to email me about or just comments in general, I would love to hear them.

If you want to help, whether in the form of an article, a story idea or just some general feedback, please reach out. My honest belief is that Mason is what you make it, and Broadside is no different.

I’ll be back next year to tackle a full academic year of scandals, scrutiny and hard work, and as torn down as I am from this semester, I really am looking forward to the renewed opportunity.

Colleen Wilson

Editor-in-Chief

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Number, in dollars, at time of publication, raised by the Relay for Life event held at Mason. The money raised will go to a variety of cancer-related research and treatment facilities

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News&Notes Center for Teaching Faculty Excellence awards The annual Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence awards were presented to 16 members of the Mason faculty.

The winners for 2013 include Terry Myers Zawaki, retired associate professor of English, who was honored with the David J. King Faculty Teaching Award.

The winners were split up into Teaching Excellence Award and the 2013 Teachers of Distinction.

Mason one of The Princeton Review’s top environmentally sustainable colleges Mason has been given the title of one of the country’s most environmentally sustainable colleges, according to The Princeton Review.

The list compiles 322 universities that are the environmentally responsible. Of the 322, ten were Virginia schools.

The list was created in partnership with The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council.

Other Virginia universities on the list include Old Dominion University, Shenandoah University, The College of William and Mary, James Madison University, Virginia Tech and others.

Drum Line wins international title

Mason’s indoor drum line, Mean Green, placed eighth in the Winter Guard International’s World Class Finals with a score of 92.2. In the previous competition, the drum line placed eleventh. The drum line is directed by Dr. Michael Nickens and Chris Martin.

(JENNY KRASHIN/BROADSIDE)

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Mason Human Rights Fair

The Future of Mason Transatlantic Cabaret: Relations The Former Mayor of Hamburg, Millennials

In cooperation with MedStar Health Blood Donor Services, there will be a blood drive to help with hospitals in the Boston, Mass. area that are in need of blood. The event was created in light of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Guidelines for donating blood include being at least 17 years old, weighing at least 110 lbs and having no illness symptoms in the last 7 days.

HUB Ballroom, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Social work majors will present their findings of their research on the state of human rights education in the Virginia and Washington D.C. area at the Human Rights Fair.

The event hopes to provide more information about human rights education.

HUB Ballroom, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Germany and current member of the German parliament, Hans-Ulrich Klose will speak at an event sponsored by the History and Art History department and the American Council on Germany. Klose will speak about the future of transatlantic relations.

Johnson Center, Meeting Room A, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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Students in the Environmental Science and Policy class use the wetlands mesocosm compound to engage high schoolers.

Mason biology students will be presenting results of wetlands research to area high school students on May 10 in the West Campus Wetlands Mesocosm Compound.

According to Professor Dr. Changwoo Ahn, wetlands ecologist and associate professor with the Department of Environmental Science and Policy (ESP), the presentation is a part of the Ecological Sustainability class.

Ecological Sustainability is a research-intensive course that teaches students how to integrate what they have learned and conduct scientific experiments around the theme of building ecologically sustainable environments to mitigate the effects of wetlands loss and climate change, using the West Campus Wetlands Mesocosm Compound. The compound of medium-sized microcosms is designed specifically for testing and observations of wetland growth and degradation.

“Under the theme of ecological sustainability, I’m teaching how to do science, or how to conduct a scientific experiment,” Ahn said. “So a little bit of math and a little bit of science is [in the course], and actually there is a lack of courses where we teach directly to students or where we provide them the opportunity to combine or

integrate the things they have learned have learned from courses like chemistry or math or physics into just one course.”

Throughout the semester, students are trained how to read and interpret scientific journals, form and test hypotheses and analyze and interpret data from their experiments and fieldwork.

The students are then evaluated on their interpretive skills. This helps prepare students to be able to interpret and explain results and data from their own experiments to others who are not scientists, which they will put into practice when high school students visit West Campus Wetlands Mesocosm Compound.

“One big part is science communication, because a lot of problems we’re dealing with, especially environmental problems, [are] coming from the lack of communication between scientists and policymakers,” Ahn said. “As part of that, the students will present their research and outcomes, not only to their peers, [but] to high school students.”

According to Ahn, students in the course must prepare posters for visiting students who come to observe Ecological Sustainability students’ work in the compound. The visiting students will be encouraged to ask

questions, and presenters will be evaluated on how well they present and explain their conclusions without using complicated scientific language.

“So, that practice plays an important role in science education and I wanted to actually explore that in this class,” Ahn said. “[It] completes the complement very well of this course as a research and scholarship course.”

Although the main goal of the activity is to foster dialogue and understanding between scientists and non-scientists, another goal is the development of this program as a potential teaching method, according to Ahn. He will present his conclusions about the class on September 20, 2013 at the Center for Teaching & Faculty Excellence’s Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference.

“I think it’s going to provide a good experience to [the high school students] and a really good experience for undergraduates in this class as well,” Ahn said. “So, at the moment I’m documenting everything, all the details carefully, so that the documentation can be developed into some kind of story and some kind of protocol that can be presented.”

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Social entrepreneurship program holds fundraiser 18 days, five thousand dollars and the opportunity to give five students the learning experience of a lifetime.

This is the current goal of the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship (MCSE) and while the days tick down the staff in this division are working harder than ever to reach the numbers.

Starting on June 16, MCSE is launching their annual Social Innovation Program (SIP) . The program invites ten cohorts from around the country and from over 15 different institutions, who have been accepted into the summer program, to come and participate in a five week, learning intensive atmosphere.

MCSE sponsors the program only has enough funds to grant ten students scholarships for the $3,750 tuition fee.

In the hope of giving 15 total students the chance to

participate in this outstanding program, instead of the initial ten, MCSE has launched an 18 day campaign with the online site Indiegogo to raise the $5,000 necessary to provide those five students with scholarships.

“We are flexible funding and verified non -profit because all of our money is going through Mason, and one of the reasons that we choose Indiegogo as a platform is because of the perks they can give you for your contribution,” Brun said.

“We take rising seniors or recent graduates mostly, we’ve had a couple of master students this year as well,” said Rachel Brun, director of engagement at the MCSE. The five week program consists of one week in the classroom from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The program brings in guest lecturers, faculty and affiliated entrepreneurs with the center, to meet with

the students to lecture on the programs four different lenses.

The next four weeks, the students will conduct two or three capacity building projects with a team, essentially a consulting project, assisted by the program’s community partners, followed by a lean startup where they essentially start up some kind of organization.

“They’ve found some of their leadership skills, they’ve found what they wanted to do, but they still need those tools to work further,” Brun said.

Those are the tools that the program intends to provide these students with.

With only nine days left, in the fundraiser the program hopes to reach the desired funds to allow five additional students a valuable learning opportunity.

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Definitions AGENDERED: someone who chooses not to be identified as a specific gender CISGENDER: a person who identifies with their birth sex GENDERQUEER: someone who identifies themselves as something other than male or female INTERSEX: refers to someone who, by medical definition, has both male and female biological sex assignments QUEER: has no stable definition, but is often used as a political or umbrella term because it is thought to be inclusive of all people within the community TRANSEXUAL: becoming outdated, but typically refers to someone who changes from one sex to another TWO-SPIRIT: an identity under the transgender umbrella; seen a lot in native cultures, people who are of a third gender

A primer for keeping up with the correct LGBTQ vernacular Andi Johnson has never liked being called “mister” or “sir” and feels out of place when people assume that Johnson identifies as male, simply because of Johnson’s outer appearance.

“When being identified by male pronouns, I feel like I’m being pushed into a masculine identity. People expect me to act and be a certain way,” Johnson said.

The wide spectrum of identities represented in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) communities has created a new vocabulary in order to fully include all individuals.

A way that sexual minorities have navigated through the limited vocabulary of the English language is by creating gender-neutral pronouns.

For example, use of “they” for “he or she,” “them” for “him or her” and “their” for “his or her.” Johnson, communication chair of Pride Alliance, noted language is constantly changing and, in Shakespearean times, there was a singular form of the word “they.”

This usage is starting to resurface in order to acknowledge people who may not fit in the gender binary. Other unique lingual adaptations are “xe or ze” for “he or she,” “hir” for “her or him” and “rs” for “hers or his.”

“Always ask how to identify

“As discourse becomes a person,” Johnson said. Gender neutral pronouns Johnson believes people hold different meanings for more honest, people are have different identity labels, different people. For some, becoming more comfortable but that is a personal matter; they create a distinction with articulating who they someone’s personal identity between sex and gender— are and are taking the initiashould never be imposed on for others, they are a way tive to define themselves someone else. In accordance to reject the notion of the instead of letting them be to its definition, Gender binary gender/sex dichot- defined,” Harris said.

Harris added that it is is socially-constructed. omy. Genderfluid or genderBecause of this, some people queer individuals who reject poor etiquette to categorize individuals without feel like they don’t confirming or inquirfit within the gender ing how they identify binary and choose to “As discourse becomes more themselves. identify outside of it.

An agendered These individuals are honest, people are becomidentity is one in often referred to as ing more comfortable artic- which an individual gender queer. ulating who they are and are chooses not to iden“It’s important to use the pronouns taking the initiative to define tify with a specific Harris that the person has themselves instead of letting gender. explained that an presented to you… them be defined.” intersexual identity you wouldn’t go up has two meanings: to someone and ask Tashia Harris one being that a what’s their gender person has male and identity or what female biological pronouns they use,” parts (also known as Johnson said. hermaphrodism) and A consequence of the second being that a using the wrong pronoun is the social construction of that someone could “out” a gender feel comforted by person may be “in-between” identities, neither male nor person who does not wish these pronouns.

“Gender neutral pronouns female or both male and to be outed in a certain social setting. In the state of are a tool that allow people female.

Two-spirit is a gender Virginia, a person can get the opportunity to make fired due to sexual orienta- their gender identity visible identity within the transtion or gender identity, so it is instead of allowing it to gender umbrella. This has assumed…but most roots in Native American important to ask how people be importantly gender neutral cultures that believed in a are identified, they said.

According to Tashia Harris, pronouns allow individu- third gender. These people program coordinator for als to have a verbal tie in were often seen as spiritual Women and Gender Studies, reference to themselves that leaders. Some of this culture gender neutral pronouns matches how they internally has permeated down and serve as a verbal clarity to identify despite their external is acknowledge by various renounce socially-prescribed identifiers of biologically-as- individuals within LGBTQ communities. norms of a particular gender. signed sex,” Harris said.

Another term that some identify with is queer, though it does not have a stable identity. Queer is way for individuals to not define themselves.

“It is also used as a political term or an umbrella term because it’s thought to be inclusive of all people within the community.

Though historically it was a derogatory term, it has been reclaimed by the community as an identity. However, not all people accept queer as being a positive thing,” Johnson said.

Some unacceptable terms and phrases are: “fag,” “faggot,” “tranny,” “homo,” “no-homo” and “that’s so gay.” The sexual identity “transsexual” is being used less frequently because it refers to someone who is changing their physiological sex, which may not always be the case. “It is also very rude to ask a person what genitalia they have or if they’re planning on going through a transition,” Johnson said.

Johnson added, overall it is important to listen to and accept people’s own truths, even if you don’t understand them. Many people dismiss ideas because they don’t understand them but being open and willing to learn is a major step.

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Unsolicited artwork around campus costs university thousands in cleanup, removal Bathroom stalls littered with hate-filled sentiments and other ambiguous graffiti across campus has cost Mason thousands of dollars.

Although students at Mason tend to create art in acceptable campus locations, more obscure forms of graffiti remain on campus. The kind of spraypainted graffiti normally seen in inner cities and on freight trains is not what is normally popping up around campus, though.

It is the drawing on bathroom stalls and occurrences of lesserknown graffiti that are costing money.

Recently, some illicit outdoor graffiti has become prominent.

“We get occasional reports [of graffiti],” said Sgt. David Ganley of the Mason Police Department. “We’ll have sprees of things like that.”

In the past year, tags displaying the word “slick” have cropped up around campus.

Appearing anywhere from outside of the Patriot Center to the halls of the Robinson buildings, “slick” has become a dreaded adversary to the Fairfax campus.

“As far as that goes, that would be part of an ongoing investigation,” Ganley said. “If people do have information, we encourage them to call our crime solvers tip line here on campus.”

The biggest occurrence of the “slick” tag took place last August on the southern side of the Southside Dining Facility facing the SUBII Building. According to Paint and Sign Shop Supervisor José Vasquez, that tag marked the first time facilities management knew of “slick.”

“I think it’s over $3,000 on expenses we did to clean up the slick graffiti,” Vasquez said. “‘Slick’ was using all kinds [of paint]. He tried everything to make it difficult for us.”

The “slick” tags have appeared in a variety of mediums — including different colors of spray paint, chalk and permanent marker.

Aside from this type of exterior graffiti, the most abused locations on campus are the bathrooms. Offensive graffiti is often reported, specifically in men’s bathroom stalls in the Johnson Center and Robinson Hall.

“It is definitely an issue,” Vasquez said. “We get a lot of offensive graffiti sometimes,

“It is definitely an issue. We get a lot of offensive graffiti sometimes, like racial graffiti.”

Sign Shop Supervisor José Vasquez

like racial graffiti.”

Facilities Management has tried to prevent such occurrences by installing a protective coating of graffiti shield on the stalls. Regardless, Director of Facilities Management Larry Spaine says graffiti is definitely increasing the budget.

Another case of graffiti — in a less conventional sense — are the thin, green and gold lines painted on the sidewalks around campus. Although they are found in acceptable sidewalk locations, paint is not allowed.

“That was not anything university sponsored,” said Rose Pascarell, vice president of university life.

Painted in the fall 2011 semester, the perpetrator has yet to be discovered. Whether it’s indoors or outdoors, however, students usually overlook graffiti on campus.

“I’ve heard of it, but I haven’t really seen it,” said Jordan Pohl, a senior at Mason who has lived on or near the Fairfax campus for three years. “It’s not something that stands out to me.”

Aside from the prohibited

graffiti on campus, certain kinds of graffiti tagging is allowed.

Acceptable locations on campus have been set aside for such activities.

“The sidewalks are for anyone to use as long as people chalk them, not paint,” Pascarell said.

“If it can be washed off naturally, students can chalk and use them.”

The sidewalks aren’t the only places for students to be creative. The wall between Robinson A and B is available for students to chalk on, as well as the cubes in front of the Southside. These cubes mark the only place on campus where students can use paint with no penalty.

“Part of the goals [of the Office of University Life] is how to make student life and student projects more visible on campus,” Pascarell said.

The Office of University Life installed the cubes a few years ago for student organization advertising.

“One of the reasons we created them was so people could be a little bit more creative,” said Alissa Karton, assistant to the vice president and director of special projects of university life. “That was one way we chose to respond [to graffiti].”

Karton explained that paint carts are offered to student organizations in the Skyline Fitness Center on a first-come, first-serve basis. The cubes are available to paint as long as student organizations are promoting an event seven days in advanced and have a specified date and time.

While graffiti still impacts the Mason’s budget, the Office of University Life and Facilities Management agree that the cubes have helped to reduce such finances.

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Though permanent graffiti is banned by the university, students are allowed to use chalk to decorate the concrete.

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Joanna Collins is volunteering to help raise a puppy that will eventually become a service dog for the blind or a veteran.

Dozens of people hurry through the Johnson Center, clicking their heels, rolling their bags and chatting loudly on their cell phones. Someone drops a stray piece of food as they rush by, and it rolls across the floor right in front of Sachi, an 8 month-old golden labrador stretched across the floor.

Despite the distraction of the people, smells and noises radiating off the high ceilings and laminate floors, and the temptation of the food that now sits inches from her face, Sachi does no more than to lazily wag her tail as she observes her surroundings.

As part of a program sponsored by the Guide Dog Foundation, Sachi is being raised to be trained as a service dog for the blind, veterans or other people with other disabilities.

But the extensive training required to aid someone with a disability cannot start until the dog is approximately one year old, which is where people like Melissa Harrington come in.

Harrington, local puppy program representative, has brought the Guide Dog Foundation to campus in hopes of recruiting students to help raise puppies for one year.

Joanna Collins, a senior majoring in criminology, is the first student to participate as part of the new partnership.

“I love dogs, and this makes me feel like I’m really helping while doing something fun,” Collins said.

Just days after first hearing about the

Guide dog foundation recruits student handlers Program seeks off-campus students to help raise puppies for future work as service dogs program, Collins had already began the process of applying to be a raiser and is set to receive her first puppy in the next few weeks.

Collins has been working closely with Harrington to prepare to have the puppy with her at all times, including on campus as she attends summer classes.

Harrington has been raising puppies to prepare them for training for 11 years, and has a deep passion for both the animals and the program.

“We all think as raisers that we help the world,” Harrington said. “But in reality, these dogs help each of us.”

Harrington works with raisers to instill proper behavioral and social training in the young puppies as they spend one year in their temporary home.

Classes are held several times a month at local recreation centers and focus on basic commands and training and socialization.

It is imperative that during the one year raising period, the puppies are properly trained not to jump, lick or rough house.

“When the dogs are young, there is a socialization window where everything they are exposed to becomes natural and normal,” Harrington said. “After about 8 months old, it becomes too late.”

Raisers spend time exploring new situations with the puppies that they will most likely encounter as a service dog, including crowded malls, busy streets and the Metro.

It is important for the public to understand that while the puppies may be at their most adorable at when they begin their preliminary training at 10 weeks old, it is also the most important time to respect their boundaries.

“It’s easy for the young puppies to get over excited,” Harrington said. “Usually we tell the public that the dog is not quite ready for that attention yet, but to check back in a few

months. We don’t want to overwhelm the dogs.”

The Guide Dog Foundation, a non-profit organization with no federal funding, covers all expenses for the puppies except for dog food, which raisers must cover on their own.

“It’s a great relationship. The dog will watch t.v. with you and just curl right up on the couch,” Harrington said. “It’s a much calmer relationship than most people have with their pet dogs.”

After the year of raising, the puppies are sent to Smithtown, New York to the Guide Dog Foundation’s state of the Art facility, where they will be fully trained as a service dog.

Harrington said the number one concern among volunteers is that they will become too attached to the puppies they raise.

“Yes, you get attached, and some cry,” Harrington said. “You pour your heart and soul into the experience. It’s a good sad, a good hurt. And usually, it’s cured by someone handing you a wriggling new puppy to start the experience all over again.”

Harrington is hoping to find up to two more students to participate in the program for the next year. Students must go through an application process and –live off campus to be eligible.

COLLEEN WILSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Mason Week 2013 featured concerts, events and giveaways for Mason students ready to show their Patriot pride and celebrate the inauguration of Mason President Angel Cabrera.

The week began with a trip to Kings Dominion on April 20, and ended with a finale celebration at Mason Day. Concerts throughout the week featured rapper Kendrick Lamar, acoustic artist Chad Hollister, Andy Grammer, Parachute and local band of Mason students Sub-Radio Standard. Other events included a zip-line, a BMX bike show, a comedy show featuring Scott Schendlinger and the carnival rides and booths at Mason Day. RYAN WEISSER LIFESTYLE EDITOR (JENNY KRASHIN/BROADSIDE)

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Creative writing major’s Tumblr wins book deal Senior Paul Laudiero spends lots of time writing – and rewriting. “I'm an English major, so I write a ton,” Laudiero said. “And most of what gets onto paper is shit.”

This February, Laudiero realized that he was not alone, that even famous writers must struggle with a series of drafts before the final masterpiece.

Starting with his favorites and moving on to the classics and more popular works, Laudiero drafts up what he images the author went through in crafting the perfect title, dialogue or scene.

To date, he has picked on everyone from J.K. Rowling to George Orwell, even creating a mock version of the rough drafts of the Ten Commandments, by God. The site quickly rose to popularity, with some of his posts receiving thousands of notes and shares on the blogging site.

Then, after a positive review on Huffington Post, Laudiero saw a dramatic increase in page visits and interest.

"They tweeted at me a week after I started the tumblr, asking if they could do an article on it," said Laudiero. "I tweeted back. Immediately."

Laudiero entered the blog into a book competition that publishing company Chronicle Books was hosting in collaboration with Tumblr.

The contest searched for a humorous Tumblr that could potentially be turned into a book.

Out of 175 entires, Laudiero won the first place prize, which included the book deal, $300 worth of Chronicle books, a featured Tumblr post and feedback from publishers and authors.

The "Shit Rough Drafts" manuscript is due by July and is (JENNY KRASHIN/BROADSIDE) set to be released by summer 2014.

Senior Paul Laudiero attracted the attention of Huffington Post Laudiero had been active on Tumblr for a year before

Two roads diverged in the wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, and I have been lost for forty-five minutes.

From shitroughdrafts.tumblr.com, based on “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost. 1916.

hitting big success with "Shit Rough Drafts".

His personal account, paullaudiero.tumblr.com features more personal content and comedic writing.

Laudiero is moving to New York City this summer to continue an internship at a comedy club.

At 22, Laudiero says that this book deal and Tumblr compilation is his dream job.

He encourages others with aspirations of Tumblr fame and book deal dreams to keep trying. "Write every day," Laudiero said. "And realize that most of what you'll post is shit. But that it's part of the process."

COLLEEN WILSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

and now has secured a book deal through his Tumblr.

The Great Gatsby and the art of crossing bridges My best friend is smarter than me, more talented than I am, most definitely taller and his name is Noah.

He is two years older than me, which meant that in high school, he graduated just as I was leaving the phase of life that makes you want to stuff yourself in a locker, rather than waiting for someone else to do it for you.

Since I have met him, he has acted as the older brother that I never had. He went through experiences two years before I had to deal with them, giving me several expletive-ridden accounts of his forays with college applications, girls and the real world.

During my sophomore year of high school, the conversation of what would happen in the following year came up frequently. He was leaving Vermont for a liberal arts school in Ohio and things would be undoubtedly be different.

Our advice to each other was consistently the same: “We’ll cross that bridge when we get

there.”

Now, it is my sophomore year of college and Noah is graduating from that liberal arts school in Ohio.

Since Christmas, the realization that he is actually graduating has hit me. We would talk about it, always with my prompting. Would he be going to grad school? Or would he find a job? Would he move home? Or find somewhere new to call home?

The questions were always to hard, the answers were always too vague, and we tended to land on “Well, we can just cross that bridge when we get there.”

It was a phrase that implied a lot of things, but most of all, it placed the future, a future that we didn’t want to deal with, into an ambiguous space where we no longer had to worry about it.

The two of us sat around insisting that one day we would arrive at these bridges, operating under the premise that we weren’t already on a bridge. But we are.

But here is the thing: If you’re already thinking about the future, you are already there.

That bridge you’re waiting to cross? It’s already here; the dreams you dream, the hope you hold and the aspirations you talk about in your head at night—those are all waiting for you right on the other side of the bridge. And that is a bridge you have an opportunity to walk across every single day.

Next month, Noah will graduate and he will be thrust from institutionalized higher education into the real world, whatever that is. If I did not think he could do it, I would not be writing this.

But I have watched Noah, with all of his strength, intelligence and gusto deal with situations and experiences far exceeding what is appropriate for a twenty-two year old.

The last page of the Great Gatsby holds some of the saddest, but most honest words I have ever read: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter— tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current,

borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

We are crossing our bridges every day and completely missing what it means to live in the future we have put off for so long.

As the school year ends, we allow a few tests to arbitrarily represent the end of another chapter in our lives. For many of us, including my dear friend Noah, graduation will be that representation.

We live firmly in the future, and we must not allow that to recede us or elude us. We must not allow ourselves to become victims of false promises of running faster or stretching farther.

We must beat on and cross that bridge now, rather than when we get there.

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"Should I go to college and continue my education or skip college and get a job,” is a commonly asked question among young adults. Those who have jobs already know want it takes to keep a job, while college can provide a higher level of self-understanding as well as sociological and psychological expertise. In addition, college familiarizes people with interesting areas of study. College can be for everyone, including those who have disabilities. However, those with disabilities face unique challenges in a higher education environment.

First, how can we help people with disabilities to get a higher level of education just like their brothers and sisters? Second, can they handle and stay in college. I’ve done some research to prove that they can. From my research I found a program that helps people with disabilities.

Mason LIFE (Learning Into Future Environments) is a supportive program that helps students with disabilities. The program examines the individual needs and wants of each student alongside their parents, and creates a course of study focusing on three areas: academics, employment, and the development of independent social skills.

Mason LIFE teaches academic courses, including literature, history, science, and math, in a unique style that depends primarily on the individual student’s year and course load.

Mason LIFE tackles employment in a similar manner: freshmen are taught tho think of what they want out of a job and learn how to get them. Seniors, by contrast, generally work within their area of interest until they graduate. Mason LIFE’s

Broadside teaching of independent social skills is structured mainly around helping students life on or off campus. However, how independent they are allowed to be is depends on the pace of each student.

I asked students in the Mason LIFE program “How did college change you?” and second year student Zeb Loico said, “inspiring because all people with disabilities don’t get this opportunity”. Why don’t people with disabilities have this opportunity? I also spoke to some Mason students without disabilities.

“I think that my college experience is similar to a person with a disability in that we all have to make a big positive change in our lives,” said student Ryan Weisser.

The staff and instructors of Mason LIFE also agree. Their responses are very inspiring. “Each student is unique in how they learn. When you are able to work together and build off of the students strengths it’s fun to watch them blossom,” said [name needed]. Based on this information, we can infer that strong supports can overcome the barrier of the disability itself.

Going to college is really for those who need time to figure out how their interests. The Mason LIFE Program can help those with disabilities accomplish this task and achieve their goals.

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An insight into Mason Life

Students who participate in Mason Life speak out on the strengths and benefits the program provides to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Gaining employment skills is essential to an individual’s career path. The Mason LIFE program is made up of students with disabilities who have the ability to work just like everyone else and gain experience through a class called “Employment”.

This course will provide students with necessary skills to get and keep a job as well as complete a portfolio for their future job.

The teachers for this course, Ms. Candace McTeer and Mr. Andrew Hahn, choose each students employment site through a person centered planning meeting. McTeer says, “If we can’t give a student one of their top three choices we pick something they would be good at or something we know they’d enjoy.”

These students are given a job site for the semester according to their likes and dislikes. First year, Jeffery Eskridge, works in the mailroom organizing the mailboxes. He would love to continue working there in the future. “I am happy to work at the mailroom because I like to work with other people,” said Eskridge.

Another first year, Stephanie Vostal, is lucky enough to work in the Mason LIFE office. She completes secretarial work, such as going on the computer and answering the phones. “I am happy to work here because I get to stay inside,” Vostal said.

This second year, Eesha Minocha, is employed at an off campus job site to work and develop her independence.

Minocha works at the Humane Society where she gets to play with cats. She makes sure that all doors are closed and does not go in the room with the sick cats. “I think helping and working with animals is good and I am against animal abuse. I would love to work here again,” Minocha said.

Another student in the program, first year Rachel Fishbein, loves her work at Mason’s Child Development Center, also

known as the CDC. “I am happy to work here because I’ve always loved children,” said Fishbein. Fishbein cleans up the lunches, reads to the kids, sets up naptime, and puts them to sleep. “I would love to work here again because the children are so much fun.”

Part of this class allows students to put together a professional portfolio. The portfolio consists of five sections including the students’ resume, skills, interests, work evidence and supports. McTeer finds the portfolios to be essential because they “help the student understand what they’re good at and the skills they acquired in school and at first employment sites”.

The Mason LIFE Employment class has definitely made an impact on the students’ employment decisions after finishing the program. Some Mason LIFE alumni are currently employed at the places they worked when they were students of the program. Three such places are Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) Virginia, Pitney Bowes Mail Service and the Recreation Athletic Center (RAC) here on campus.

Hahn says the program “does an outstanding job in allotting students employment opportunities they may not receive elsewhere. These unique experiences go a long way in preparing our students to be contributing members in the workforce after graduation."

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It is not uncommon for a typical-age college student to say, at least a few times, that they don’t know what to do with their life.

Christopher Williams, a junior economics major transferring to Mason this fall, was no exception to this rule.

After graduating from high school in 2005, Williams blindly chose to attend Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia.

“I started out in psychology just because it seemed like something easy to pick,” Williams said. When his grades were below what was required to continue on with his major, Williams dropped out of University and attended NOVA for a time, though his grades still suffered.

“I don’t know if I always wanted to become a Marine,” Williams said. “I literally had no direction with my life. I ran into a recruiter during my lunch break while I was at NOVA, on the Sterling campus. At the time, I was living at home and in between jobs while all of my friends were being successful in school. So, I decided to give the marines a chance.”

When Williams joined in 2007, he thought he had found a safety zone for his future. His plan was to serve a full twenty years, retire early and live a good life. Time went by as he went through flight school, his peers of all ages slowly being discharged and putting their G.I. Bill to use, Williams began to consider his options once more.

“When I finished flight school, in June of 2009, I was told that we’re going to another unit and that we’re going to Afghanistan in September. So, that kind of opened my eyes a little bit. That it’s real, what’s going on over there,” Williams said.

Williams has well-trained and ready for deployment, but some of the missions he was sent on were nothing he could have been trained for.

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over the country who had never been able to meet due to land obstacles—whether it was huge valleys or mountains,” Williams said. “We were able to unite all these different tribes and work towards a common goal. I realized that the people over there aren’t really bad. I made some pretty good friendships. It was definitely difficult—being the the United States military—to not be biased towards them.”

Currently, Williams attends a community college in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Since the city is a main military area, Williams says that many of the students are his own age.

However, Williams is very aware of the fact that he will not be a typical-age college Junior when he joins the Mason community.

“I’m excited to start the next step. I’ve been wanting to go to the college since I got back from deployment in 2010 and I am just excited,” Williams said. In only just a few weeks, Williams will be finishing his Associates Degree with around a 3.94 GPA—significantly higher than his much earlier years spent in college.

“My higher GPA is definitely thanks to the Marine corps,” Williams said. “Something that really helped me was definitely seeing the success of my younger brother. He is actually the student body president at George Mason—Alex Williams. Seeing his success and what he is doing really made me want to get back to school. It motivated me to do well in the Marine Corps so that I could get out with not only an honorable discharge, but also to get the 100% benefits. I didn’t want to let Alex down, my family down, or my current fiancée down.”

Having grown up in D.C., Williams is anxious to finish up his associates and be reunited with his home, as well as find a new one at Mason, alongside his little brother, who will ironically finish up his undergrad before Chris.

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Christopher Williams, furthest left, is attending Mason in the fall after struggling at several other schools and serving in the military.

“Another plus of Mason was the proximity—they have a lot of Veteran Service Organizations that are headquartered on Capitol hill. They do a lot of lobbying that had to do with veterans right, and I like it. I want to be a part of it... getting some knowledge of the business world might help me.”

“The marine corps is pretty much one big business. I mean, there is just so much that goes into it,” Williams said, expressing yet another one of the many things being a marine did to shape who his today, as well as his future goals as an econ major.

“I’ll be coming into Mason as a Junior, so I’ll be class of 2015, I think. Those kids will all be six or seven years younger than me, so I don’t

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know what to expect. It is kind of a little strange to think about, especially with all of my peers having established jobs and bought homes and what not, while I’ll just be a junior in college. I just took a different path. Hopefully I can bring some different perspective to the classroom,” Williams said.

“Instead of the 21-year-old who has done high school and college, I’ve got some realworld applications. Just a different way to see things.”

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Study abroad offers students a chance to work with the African Wildlife Foundation in Kenya

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This winter break, while many Mason students were stuck in frigid temperatures in the U.S., eight students were able to escape the cold and enjoy the dry, 70 degree weather of a Kenyan summer.

These eight Mason students not only earned the opportunity to study environmental conservation and wildlife in Kenya, they were also offered the chance to work with the African Wildlife Foundation (AFW).

“Students are now more interested in more exotic places. They’re also not satisfied with things that are easy to get -- they’re interested in a real adventure,” said Academic Director Ryan Valdez, who has been teaching students in the Kenya study abroad program since 2010.

Valdez has been with the Kenya study abroad program since it began, conducting research with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

“During my research, I began working with the African Wildlife Foundation, who’s primary role is conservation. Over the year my collaboration got better and better, and the opportunity for my students to work with the AWF came up,” said Valdez, who is also working on his doctorate degree at Mason. “I’m always looking for new things for students to do, and I was specifically looking for internships.”

In the past, as a part of the Kenya study abroad program, it is required for students to write a science-based paper on their experiences, observations and studies while in Kenya. However, this winter Valdez decided to change the requirement to writing blogs for the AWF. “The students would pick stories relevant to the AWF in Kenya,” Valdez said. “They’d pick a topic, research the background information and then they would write the content while they’re in the field. Together, they would make

stories about what they’re specializing in.”

John Probert, a sophomore studying environmental science and conservation, has dreamed of going to Kenya since he was young, and the Kenya study abroad program was one of his deciding factors for choosing Mason for undergraduate studies. Working with the AWF enriched his experience in Kenya.

“One of the first places we went to was the AWF headquarters in Karen. It was a beautiful place. While there, we got to talk to Dr. Philip Muruthi, the Chief Scientist for the AWF,” Probert said. “Hearing about conservation issues from a professional working directly in the field was very enlightening about what we would experience in our time in Kenya. The blog posts make me feel that our experiences will encourage others to do what they can to help conserve wildlife found in the United States and abroad.”

Writing the blog posts was also an exciting challenge for some students.

“Writing for other people is always difficult, and writing something that could potentially be published is even more intimidating -especially when you are writing about something that’s important to you,” said Olivia Cosby, who is a senior biology and ecology and conservation major, and an ocean and estuarine science minor.

Because the program went well for Valdez, he is considering doing the blog assignment again for the next Kenya study abroad trip.

The blogs from this January, if approved by the AWF, should be posted by the end of May. RYAN WEISSER LIFESTYLE EDITOR

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Ten Minute Play Festival brings talent to the stage On April 26, the Mason Theater Department presented the Seventh Annual Ten Minute Play Festival.

The end product of a grueling playwriting competition, the festival showcased the work of eight aspiring student playwrights. This competition narrowed down the submissions based on their ability to create a meaningful, wellrounded story in just ten minutes.

To some, this may not seem like a great task. However, it should be noted that many great performances do not even introduce their main character in the first ten minutes, much less craft an engaging plot with a solid beginning, middle and end.

The plays’ brevity had the potential to create problems. With so little time, it can be difficult for the audience to build a connection with the characters on stage. In addition, the playwrights had to build a world on stage quick enough for viewers to feel engaged without making it confusing or contrived. The student writers and their casts managed to pull off that task seamlessly.

The festival’s performances ran the gamut

of the human experience. From the literal dawn of time to a plague infested future, from silly, heartwarming romantic comedies to gritty, realistic family meltdowns. The playwrights utilized every last minute to make their characters as real and dynamic as possible, and the result was an audience that was at some times laughing out of their seats and at others holding their breaths in a contemplative silence.

Two of the performances that personified the festivals range were Open and Close, written by Emma Hull and directed by Rafael Medina, and Saturday, written by Cody Clarke and directed by Kathleen Barth. The two plays, while sharing a ten minute parameter, could not have been different, which made their juxtaposition in the first act all the more potent. Both dealt with relationships, but one focused on the sweet beginning, and the other focused on the bitter end.

Open and Close came first, opening with the main character James, played by Calil Davis, coming home after tennis practice. He begins with a short monologue explaining his father’s descent into alcohol abuse and his subtle attraction to his best friend Louisa.

From there, we are taken into his home where a tension filled family dinner spirals into a loud, expletive-rich argument between James’ mother and father. The mother, played by Cynthia Newby, wears medical scrubs and has her hair tied up in a messy topknot. Her disheveled appearance is contrasted by her frantic need to micromanage her children’s lives.

The audience is stunned to a silence.

Though the play did not follow the traditional story model and ended without reaching a concrete solution, I felt as though the playwright’s intention was not to present a “traditional story”. No problem can be resolved in ten minutes, and reality is almost never as rehearsed as a play.

Open and Close was meant to be felt, not simply watched. It was a small, ten minute look inside a fragmented family. It gives the viewer just enough time to feel a personal connection with James, but cuts off before anything can be done to help him. In the end, the audience members empathize with the cast, and in turn they begin to look inwards to reflect on their own relationships.

The following play, a palate cleanser of

sorts, marched to a much more upbeat tune.

Saturday tells the story of a young couple, played by Cathryn Benson and Danny Issa, who are constantly being woken up by their neighbor’s lawnmower. Through a series of quirky, hilarious antics, the two are arrested for drugging and kidnapping their neighbors and stuffing them in a closet.

Though the play did not have as much emotional depth as the one that preceded it, Benson and Issa’s marvelous portrayal of the young, confused newlyweds helped to bring home the writer’s witty jokes and savvy use of “poetic justice.” At the end of the play, the two sit handcuffed on the bed and realize that even though they will probably face some heavy charges, they couldn’t be happier.

Overall, every play was a success in its own right. Each with their own world and unique cast of characters, watching these ten minute plays was something like – not to sound like a hyperbolic Tumblr user – an emotional rollercoaster.

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Celebrating Earth Day, Warts and All As most know, last Monday was Earth Day. A holiday focused on awareness of environmental causes, there were many activities connected to the global observance held at Mason.

Celebrating the efforts to maintain a healthy environment on the third planet from the Sun are widely socially accepted. Exempting the occasional right-wing concerns over extremist environmentalism, most everyone either takes part in Earth Day or at the very least looks upon it ambivalently.

This even though one of the major figureheads of the effort to create an Earth Day was a convicted murderer.

Ira Einhorn, a bearded, bespectacled hippie was the master of ceremonies for the first ever Earth Day, held in 1970 as a rally at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.

A self-described pacifist, as reported by Remy Melina of NBC News Einhorn’s stated disdain for violence did not extend to his girlfriend Helen “Holly” Maddux. In Sept. 1977, Maddux went missing.

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foul-smelling liquid was leaking from the ceiling directly below Einhorn’s bedroom closet,” wrote Remy Melina.

“Inside the closet, police found Maddux’s beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk that had also been packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers.”

Presently, Einhorn is serving a life sentence for the murder. To be callous, one can note that he not only was a murderer, but by using of all things Styrofoam he was a bad environmentalist.

This major rotten apple has hardly destroyed the ecological awareness movement, much less resulted in a cessation of Earth Day celebrations.

Neither has the presence of eco-terrorist organizations, who year after year the Federal Bureau of Investigation considers its top domestic terrorist threat.

As John Lewis, an FBI deputy assistant director, testified before Congress in 2005, “There is nothing else going on in this country, over the last several years, that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions, arsons, etc, that this particular area of domestic terrorism has caused.”

Some would argue the success of environmentalism in general and Earth Day in particular comes from a biased media that seldom reports these facts when covering the cause. Yet that same media has

been more than willing to acknowledge the horrid acts of ecological extremists.

Mason did not celebrate Earth Day last week because one of the holiday’s founders was a convicted murderer and some who adhere to its ideals commit acts of terror. Rather, Mason students and faculty celebrated Earth Day because they recognized that the fundamentals of the cause, as well as the mainstream of said movement, are benign in nature.

Einhorn’s horrible act does not negate the arguments that pollution damages wildlife and that harm to environment often negatively affects human life. The violent behavior of an ecological terrorist group does not debunk the evidence that fossil fuels harm air quality or that years ago chlorofluorocarbons were ripping apart our o-zone layer.

A truly benevolent cause can withstand constructive criticism; it can survive badly behaved members, and even the occasional poor argument.

Earth Day shows that.

Michael Gryboski Columnist

Letter to the Editor We are writing to formally make a complaint about the two articles in the April 22, 2013 edition of Broadside that contain blatant false statements of fact in the context of a clear intent to defame and/or dismantle Students Against Israeli Apartheid.

Erez Cramer’s claims of anti-Semitism and hate speech are predicated on SAIA’s advocacy “through posters” that Israel should be eliminated. He states as a fact that these posters exist and also blame Jews for America’s problems.

These posters do not exist. SAIA does not advocate any of these positions, and in fact has spoken against anti-Semitic and other types of hate speech. On April 13, the group posted its “Guiding Principles” to their Facebook page. The final paragraph states, “SAIA maintains a nonviolent and non-confrontational stance in both our actions and our speech. We reject any and all hateful speech, and will not be held accountable for such speech made on our behalf by non-members.” These principles were created before Hala Numan’s article ran in the Broadside. SAIA has not released any “anti-Semitism messages” in any form.

Through his opinion piece, Cramer shows clear intent to designate SAIA as a hate group, which is not only damaging to our organization, but also our members. He perpetuates his argument through false statements, the only conceivable way to substantiate such outrageous claims.

Cramer not only insinuates that SAIA is a hate group, but also that any students involved with SAIA are “inciting hatred,” which is a federal crime. SAIA also welcomes participation from people of all races and religions that agree with our Guiding Principles. Finally Cramer asserts that: “They believe that the world’s only Jewish state, (…), should not exist.” Again, this is a false statement of our beliefs, and was used by Cramer to demonstrate SAIA’s “anti-Semitic” nature.

In Michael Gryboski’s piece, he states that “What the SAIA, the SJP and the whole host of Palestine solidarity groups seek is the removal of every Jewish man, woman, and child from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, regardless of whether or not they belong to the Israeli Defense Forces.”

Additionally, he states that, “They seek to create a singular ethnic nationalist state, purged of any Jewish communities.”

This is a false statement of fact. Stating that we want to ethnically cleanse Israel or the Occupied Territories of Jews is absolutely untrue. We have stated that we want everyone to have equal rights under the law, and a one-state solution. None of these goals include ethnic cleansing, which we vehemently oppose. By printing these false statements of fact, Gryboski aims to diminish our support and credibility in the Mason community.

Tareq Radi, on behalf of GMU Students Against Israeli Apartheid

Sports

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April 29, 2013

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Underwater Hockey team prepares for nationals The underwater hockey team is preparing for their upcoming national tournament in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this July, the team’s fourth and final tournament of the year. This year, they have traveled to Canada, Orlando and have held their own tournament at the AFC. “I love going tournaments, especially nationals, is really fun,” said Dan Yocum, president of the team who will be taking his third trip nationals this summer. “Preparing for it is difficult and getting everything organized.

It is fun to push yourself for three months for the big tournament so we can play high level hockey. We are lucky at Mason because every practice we get in a high level game.”

Underwater hockey is an interesting variation of hockey in a pool where swimmers have a mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, small stick and weighted puck. It is played with six people in the pool per team, typically with three forwards and three defensemen but no goalie.

Yocum believes it is the type of sport where people will get a lot more out of it then they expect.

“Underwater hockey was weird when I started and I did not know what to expect, but I thought it was fun,” Yocum said. “I watched videos on Youtube which made it look fun.

You just have to play it. Most people that come out to play continue to come out.”

Underwater hockey shares similar characteristics with normal hockey. Like ice or roller hockey, swimmers usually play in shifts.

A typical shift may last two minutes and a swimmer may be under water for 30 seconds at a time.

(COURTESY OF TIMOTHY JORDAN)

For the past two years the underwater hockey team has been placed in the A division of the National Tournament.

Another similar part of the game to its on-land counterpart is penalties. The most common foul in the underwater hockey is hitting someone in the face with a stick, which happens when players swim close to the floor when opponents are hitting the puck.

Hitting someone in the face may get a swimmer thrown out of a game.

Because underwater hockey has fewer competitive teams than most sports, adult teams and even one high school teams play at

nationals in separate A and B divisions based on skill level. Cities like California, Colorado and D.C are known for having competitive teams.

“We hope to get into the A division again, which is rare for a college team,” Yocum said.

“That is our big accomplishment in the last two years and hopefully we can do it again this year.”

No matter how his last season as president ends, Yocum just wants to know he has made

the program better from when he took over.

“The sport is awesome. It is like nothing else you have ever heard. It is a great conversation piece and it is addicting. I think we are in a really good place as a program.”

JAMES ZEMBRISKI STAFF WRITER

Recruited distance runner adds further depth to track team

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Ellis has a lot of speed and endurance, a potent combination that allows him to be a potential threat in several events.

Travis Ellis from Morris Hills, N.J. will be joining a promising group of distance runners for the track and field team next fall.

Ellis signed his national letter of intent on April 2 and has fully committed to becoming a Patriot.

This signing brings depth and competition to an already skilled group of runners.

As one of the top runners in New Jersey, Ellis has posted strong times in the 800-meter at 1:53.71 and 4:16.54 in the 1600-meter.

With those types of times he’ll be able to start right away and should realistically elevate his teammates abilities as well.

“Whenever you recruit a kid straight out of high school, you are trying to find someone who can start right away and have an impact,” said Andrew Gerard, coach of the track and field team. “We generally look

at two things: does the kid work well within our program and does he fit in academically with the university. Both happened to be the case with Travis.”

Ellis certainly has the intangibles to produce for the Patriots in his freshmen year. His unique speed and endurance propelled him to win the Morris County cross-country title last fall with an impressive 15:49.5 finishing time.

“We will mostly be having Travis focus on the open 800 and 4x800 relay,” Gerard said regarding what events Ellis will be competing in.

Current runners Parker Boudreau and William McReynolds have both run sub four-minute miles this season when Ellis has yet to even break 4:10.

This is not to say that Ellis does not have the ability to accomplish those same times.

He will just need time to develop like every

other freshman prospect.

One of the big discussions among Mason fans is how competitive will the university be after the move from the CAA to the A-10 occurs.

“I think the competition level will be just the same if not better than some of the top teams in the CAA,” Gerard said. “I don’t believe the switch will create any change in competitiveness that we are not already use to, but we are excited and looking forward to the challenge.”

With a fresh start in a new conference and adding depth with Ellis next year to an already experienced roster, the track and field team has set themselves up nicely for the future.

JIMMY MCGRATH STAFF WRITER

SportS Broadside of Play by play Life lessons from sports Workout the Week Squats, deadlift, bench press 22

April 29, 2013

Finals week. Ready- No? Tough tinsel. The coach is putting you in anyway and you’ve got some big plays to make. You’re coming late into the game and there is nothing you can do to change that, so you’ll have to roll with it.

Take what you’re given and hopefully put on a little late semester magic. If you aren’t sure how you’re going to pull this off and hope seems lost, here is a rundown of some steps that should give you a game plan.

Check the scoreboard. Even if you have been paying attention to the game the whole time, you need to forget about it for now and look at the scoreboard. It gives the honest facts of the right here and now. It doesn’t tell you how you got lucky by guessing C three times in a row after a string of all A’s and B’s on that last quiz.

The scoreboard does not care about outliers, flukes, runs, momentum swings or any of that.

It tells you that you have this grade,it can go up or down by this much with the final and how much time you have until it’s here. The situation is clear. Next up is a plan of action. This is where you bring back what you’ve learned over the semester. The professor curves, there is always true and false sections, the professor likes to take questions that people got wrong from the midterm, the test is cumulative – use these things to your advantage.

Lebron doesn’t go out onto the court and

It is important to use proper form when squatting, as incorrect form can lead to injury.

When completing any of the three traditional lifts, the squat, bench or the deadlift, make sure that you start out with a light weight and always use a spotter.

Squat The squat targets the gluteus maximus, hamstrings, quadriceps, and requires you to stabilize your core.

Implementing squats into your leg routine can strengthens your legs, increases flexibility, and strengthens the muscles around your knees.

To begin, set the bar in the rack at about mid-chest level. Then position your feet shoulder width apart, directly under the bar. Place the bar evenly above your upper back muscles at the base of your neck.

By lifting the elbow up, you can create a shelf for the bar to rest on so that it is not resting directly on your spine.

Step forward and then begin the movement downwards with your weight on your heels and sink your hips by moving them backwards as if you were going to sit in a chair.

Keep your chest up and look forward to maintain a straight back. Once your hips are parallel with the ground, drive your heels downward and extend your hips and knees to return to the starting position. To avoid a knee injury, do not sink forward by moving your knees in front of your toes.

Deadlift The deadlift is a total body lift with emphasis on the lower back and hamstrings.

To begin, stand centered over the bar, with your feet slightly more than shoulder width apart.

Grab the bar with an overunder grip so your arms are

disregard the other team’s history of fast breaks and looking to score off of the transition.

If you weren’t paying attention and you don’t know these things, remember your class is a team. It might be a non-unified conglomerate mass of awkward kids who really don’t want to be there, but gosh darn it, Corbin, you’re all in this together; so make like a millionaire and poll the audience or phone a friend.

If you happen to be all alone on this one with no connections, well, you just really like an underdog story, don’t you? With no idea of what is going on in class and leaving yourself with no one to ask about specifics of the test or advice on what to study; you have really put yourself in the hotseat. It would be like stepping out to kick the game winning field goal and never practicing and not even knowing what team you play for. But I’m here to help. In this situation the playbook has only one answer. Hail Mary. Wish or pray to what or whoever you can, because your goose is cooked. Cram in as much preparation before the snap, roll out wide behind your strongest tackle to buy time and huck it up there.

(AMY ROSE/BROADSIDE)

The deadlift exercises the entire body, with an emphasis on the lower back and hamstrings. vertical to the floor. Sink your hips downward, and bend through your knees until your shins touch the bar. Begin to pull upwards, keeping the bar close to your body and your weight on your heels for the duration of the lift.

Keep your chest centered over the bar, and maintain a straight back through the entire lift. Bring the bar up past your knees to your thighs, and drive your hips forward to complete the lift.

Once you are at the top of the movement, lower the bar by pushing your hips back first, and then bend your knees once the bar reaches knee level.

firmly on the ground and lie flat on the weight bench with your shoulders centered on the pad.

Try to space your grip so that when the bar touches your chest, your forearms are perpendicular to the ground. Squeezing the bar, and keeping your upperback tight and your chest up, unrack the weight and bring the barbell down to the peak of your chest.

Lower the bar until your elbows are parallel to the floor. Press the bar in a straight line above your chest, not towards your face. Keep the bar above your elbows during the whole lift.

Bench Press The Bench Press is an upper body lift that targets your pectorals and triceps. To begin the lift, place your feet

NATHAN MALINSKI STAFF WRITER

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23 Women’s lacrosse look forward to A10 after winless season Broadside

April 29, 2013

Coach Lauren Hay congratulates seniors, encourages returning players The final seconds ticked off the collegiate career of eight women’s lacrosse seniors on April 21, as Mason fell to William & Mary, 16-12.

Senior attacker Allie Hilderbrandt led the way in scoring with a careerhigh six goals for Mason, capping off a season of solid play for the team.

The loss was Mason’s seventh consecutive defeat, all of which were against CAA rivals.

“We played an exciting game, our girls fought back late in the second half and it is always tough to lose, especially when you are saying goodbye to the senior class.” said coach Lauren Hay. “I would like to recognize the hard work of all eight seniors have put in their careers at Mason. All will graduate from here and I am proud to have watched them grow as people and athletes.”

Looking back on the season as a whole, Mason had and up and down season, claiming all of their victories against non-conference opponents while being bested by all their CAA foes. Mason finished the season with a record of 5-11, going 0-7 in CAA play.

“Overall, we had many contributions by numerous players. Our seniors had phenomenal seasons, our underclassmen got plenty of experience, and we had a successful non-conference season,” Hay said.

As a result of the move from the CAA to the Atlantic 10 next season, the women’s lacrosse team is a part

(IAN MOSTROM BROADSIDE)

Prospects are looking good for the Patriots for next season. Returning players have improved this season and second place Temple University is leaving the A10. of the group of spring sports left out of postseason play as a result of the conference switch.

Coach Hay was disappointed to

not be able to compete in the CAA Tournament, but is excited for the move to the A-10.

“I am excited to lead this transition

and feel that we will be very competitive. We will get to experience new conference rivalries and we welcome the opportunity to win

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an A-10 championship,” Hay said.

“We are leaving a very competitive conference and moving to one that also has some storied programs.”

Mason’s lacrosse team will face stiff competition in the A-10, the biggest of which is the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who have dominated the A-10 in conference play, winning the past four A-10 conference championships.

Mason catches a break in A-10 play though because the school with the second most A-10 women’s lacrosse championship wins, Temple University, is leaving the A-10 for next season to the Big East conference.

Mason’s lacrosse team hopes to regroup after this season and take the lessons learned from the results of this season into next season with their returning underclassmen and get help from incoming recruits.

“At the end of each season, you always assess and brainstorm as a coaching staff on ways to improve practice to have it translate to the game. We have a fall season playing other opponents to help us achieve that,” Hay said. “The rest of the summer is recruiting the next wave Mason lacrosse players. We have a great nucleus coming back and a very talented freshman class joining the program.”

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