By Noah Martin The outcome of a televised debate is about more than a candidate’s response to the questions, so come to the Johnson Center atrium at George Mason University for a Debate Watch party this Friday to view Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) and Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) confront each other over issues of foreign […]

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Today, Sept. 23, a Rock the Vote event focusing on Mason’s Hispanic and Latino communities is being held in the SUB1 Patriot Lounge at 7 p.m. As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, students will be discussing how the Hispanic/Latino community can affect the 2008 presidential elections. You can register to vote at this event. The […]

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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by Lindsay Fields – UPI The time has come; the unthinkable has happened. Paris Hilton has a starring role in a politically charged commercial. This election year, the stakes are high and candidates are doing as much as possible to target young voters. But are they stereotyping college students in the process? “I think that […]

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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By Noah Martin David Bacon, photojournalist, author, and immigration rights activist, spoke at George Mason yesterday as a part of the Fall for the Book program. Bacon came to speak specifically about his new book Illegal People but addressed the larger issues of immigration rights today, the current credit crunch, the War On Terror, the […]

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Voters should check-out the following sites for practical information on voting. Don’t know if you are registered to vote or where your nearest polling location is, want to register, or need practical voting information like what to bring with you to the polls? Go to: WWW.VOTEFORCHANGE.COM Mason Votes editors have contacted the campaigns of McCain, […]

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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By David Pierce, courtesy of Broadside Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke at a foreign policy town hall meeting, sponsored by presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, Saturday in Dewberry Hall. She was part of a three-person panel that included terrorism expert Richard Clarke and Rep. Jane Harman (D.-Calif.) Albright, 71, introduced herself […]

Posted on September 21st, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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By Lars Laing-Peterson 1) He votes with the failed and failing policies of George W. Bush 90+% of the time. (FactCheck.org has it at 95% of the time.) These policies will have a lasting detrimental affect on this country. And, more importantly, how can you be a Maverick when you vote with the Party Line […]

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Lars Laing-Peterson
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The Office of Student Media dn the Film and Video Studies program present a free screening on September 27, 7:30 p.m., in Harris Theater of Six Days in June, a film about the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and Egypt. This is part of a series of election-season films at George Mason University. The […]

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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by Noah Martin Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, U.S. Rep. Jane Harman and Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism advisor to the U.S. National Security Counsel, will speak at the Foreign Policy Town Hall at George Mason University in Student Union Building I’s Patriot Lounge on Saturday at 7 p.m.. The speakers will address the […]

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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by Noah Martin George Mason University’s School of Public Policy will host Bruce L.R. Smith, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Lee Fritschler, authors of Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities, on the Arlington campus in the Original building room 244 on Friday from 6:00 – 7:30pm. Smith, Mayer, and Fritschler will lecture on their […]

Posted on September 18th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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