Sex and War

(fig.1) George Mason students and Broadside staff give attention to the Anti-War Moratorium in 1969

Alongside the additions of the C.B.A and its new editor, the Gunston Ledger would be renamed to The Broadside. It cited that the staff believed that the old name no longer represented what the paper stood for. Giving historical context for its new name to before the US revolution as quick news pamphlets to disperse news faster to the people. The Broadside newspaper staff also pledged to ensure the students of George Mason would be given the truth alongside a new editorial policy (see fig.1). [1]

George Mason University would see itself pulled into the nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. This was a nation wide event in which protests across the United States came out for the end of the war. By 1969 around 45,000 American soldiers had been killed in action.[2] Not including grievances with President Nixon authorizing the bombing of Cambodia, in which half a million tons of bombs were dropped on the neighboring country.[3]

Students represented in the Broadside newspaper were shown actively taking part in their right to protest. Going against the label of "apathy" years prior to the campuses first establishment. Students were both engaged with supporting it's countries war efforts and protesting it as letter to the Broadside were sent in criticizing flag burnings and showing off their Anti-War posters (see fig.2).

[1] George Mason Special Collections Research Center, The Broadside [Vol. 7, No.6], Box 3/R0128, Oct, 28, 1969

[2] BBC, Moratorium Day: The day that millions of Americans marched, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49893239, Oct. 15, 2019

[3] PBS, Battlefield: Vietname, https://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index3.html,