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A member of Iraels's Central Command Police Unit came to speak at Mason about terrorism. He was met at SUB 1 with a student march and signs depiciting messages such as "Stop Isreali Terrorism"

Broadside article describing the protests in February of 1992 due to racist phone calls, blackface, and community discrimination. The African American Literary Consortium came together to sponsor the protesting event after an unfortunate phone call…

Jesse Jackson speaks on the George Mason University campus about the issue of racism, the importance of education, and what it means to form a coalition. Other speakers include the co-presidents of Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism, the…

Broadside Article depicting Mason students rallying and raising money on the Quad for the Jena 6. These 6 were a group of black teenagers who were unjustly charged with attempted murder after a series of racist events occurring at their high school…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…