Lifestyle

Clothing tips to beat the cold

Students, professors, and faculty alike have to deal with the constantly fluctuating snowy spell that has fallen upon Mason. With below freezing temperatures and frigid wind chill, it is important to stay warm while walking around campus. Here are some winter clothing essentials and tips to turn your wardrobe from warm to totally toasty.  

Students join in Vietnamese festivities for Lunar New Year

Many students have heard about the Chinese New Year, but the Vietnamese and other cultures also celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is the beginning of a new year based on the lunar calendar.

On Jan. 29, Mason’s Vietnamese Student Association celebrated the Lunar New Year with cultural food, traditional games and New Year’s crafts.

The Vietnamese New Year, or Tết, is an important cultural holiday to Vietnamese families which typically  involves three days of celebration.

Hylton Performing Arts Center and Lyric Opera Virginia stuns viewers with "Master Class" performance

From Jan. 30-Feb. 2, the Lyric Opera Virginia, with help of the Hylton Performing Arts Center, presented “Master Class,” by Terrance McNally.

The small cast included Lisa Vroman, who played the central figure in McNally's play: Maria Callas. Accompanying her were Joe Walsh as Manny the pianist, two sopranos played by Aundi Marie Moore and Sarah Kate Walston, a tenor played by Joshua Baumgardner and a stagehand played by Mason student Matthew Lincoln-Bugg.

Cooks and Crafts: Origami Horse

This past Friday rang in the Chinese New Year, I thought it would be pretty fun to find an origami craft to help celebrate. This year is the Year of the Horse.

Origami is a really tricky art form. People who can create origami pieces really well astound me. I feel like your fingers have to do nearly as much acrobatics as the paper does in order to get the piece together. But if you take it slowly and relax, origami can be very fun with very minimal mess.

Mason March wraps up week of MLK Day equality events

On Feb. 2 at 11 a.m., students gathered in the Johnson Center Bistro for the annual Mason March for Equality.

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Multicultural Education and the African and African American Studies department included the event in their 2014 “Make the Dream Real” campaign commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The campaign encouraged student acts of service and remembrance.

Dr. Jane Hooper contextualizes "Africans in India" exhibit with historical lecture

Dr. Jane Hooper, a historian and professor at Mason, spoke at a lecture and reception held in Mason Hall’s Meese Conference Room on Jan. 30.

Although the general public was invited, History and Art History students and professors made up a majority of the audience.

The lecture was organized by the Office of Global & International Strategies in order to add an extra layer of depth to the neighboring art exhibit, “Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers.”

Captain Phillips sails into the Oscar nominations and the JC Cinema

Office of Student Involvement will be showing  “Captain Phillips” at the JC Cinema this weekend.

A quick search online will easily show that “Captain Phillips” is a favorite of many award shows. It has won eight so far, with 76 nominations overall.  The upcoming Academy Awards has given the movie a nod for Best Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Writing, among others.  Even Rotten Tomatoes has given “Captain Phillips” a good score.

So does this movie live up to the hype?

Second annual visual and performing arts career and internship fair seeks artists

Students and alumni interested in pursuing a career in the performing arts have the chance to meet with and talk to active members of the DMV area’s theater community at the upcoming annual Arts in the Real World Internship and Career Fair.

On Feb. 11, the Mason CVPA Alumni Chapter and University Career Services will be overseeing an internship and career fair that provides opportunities for both students and alumni to show their resumes and portfolios to theaters and other businesses that thrive off of the work of students and college graduates.

Cooks and Crafts: Elementary Ice Cream

Sherlock Holmes was an essential part of my childhood, as important to my upbringing as learning the alphabet and table manners. My mom would read to me from a beat up tome containing dozens of his and Dr. Watson’s often thrilling adventures.  From the mysteries on the moors of Baskerville Hall to the strange murders caused by a “Speckled Band,” I was hooked. 

Students and faculty take time to remember historical heroes

Mason’s class council held a celebration of the March on Washington’s 50th anniversary with a picture gallery at The Ridge on Jan. 24.

The photo exhibit consisted of different black and white photos from Martin Luther King’s era and that of President Barrack Obama.

The historical pictures were some that students have seen throughout their elementary years. Captions and dates were shown underneath the pictures so visitors could read about the story behind each photo and see when the pictures were taken.