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BOV rejects hiring of an LGBTQ+ Councilor
After a BOV decision to designate $50,000 to the club football program, one anonymous student wrote an opinion piece about the appearingly increasingly conservative BOV. This opinion piece emerged as the author beleived this decision to be unjust…
Abortion Protestors at Mason Met with Counter Protests
Protestors from Life and Liberty Ministries came to Mason to advocate against abortion by standing behind signs dispalying graphic images of abortion and handing out literautre from their church to passing students. These protestors were met with…
Pro Life Group Brings Speakers to Campus
GMU Students for Life hosted an event called "Where have all the pregnant women gone?" Jessica O'Connor Petts spoke of her personal history with abortion at this event describing her abortion at "mechanical rape." Students from the organization stood…
Students Publicly Protest Against Abortion
Pro-Life students adorned the quad with 180 graves in order to "commemorate the number of abortions performed every hour in the United States." Some of the graves had names of women who had died as a result of legal abortions. An hour after the…
Park rallies football support
Student Government President John Park organized a rally in support of GMU Football with the help of other student leaders.
Football at GMU reaches 2-minute warning
Student leaders create a football proposal, including initial investment costs and avenues of revenue for the University.
Student's Cope with Add/Drop Frustrations
After students wait for hours in line for the registration Add/Drop process, one student collects signatures for a letter to President Johnson explaining student gripes and requested efforts to improve the process.
Students and Staff Raise Awareness for Sexual Assault
After a rise in on-campus sex offenses for 3 consecutive years, Sexual Assault Services sponsored a "Turn off the Violence Week". As a part of this week students participate in a peaceful march through campus as well as demonstrations such as the…
Students Rally to "Take Back the Night" in Johson Center
Over 200 students, faculty, and community members joined an event sponsored by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity with the goal to “break the silence” surrounding rape and sexual assault.
Students Rally to "Take Back the Night"
Students, facutly, and staff joined together to raise awareness for sexual assault on campus after a student was raped in presendent's park earlier that year.