Most Ever
5 Honored for Lasso Online Efforts
(June 10,2007)

This Mustang Wants More Mustangs
To Participate in ‘Relay for Life’
(June 8, 2007)

E.B. Henderson
Mustangs Excel In Letter-Writing Contest
(June 6, 2007)
In an avalanche of over two hundred entries to the E. B. Henderson Dear Editor Contest George Mason students emerged as major victors--capturing seven out of ten prizes.

Symbolic Hands of Support
(May 26, 2007)

NHS Service Project
Darfur Week Raises Awareness, Encourages Activisim
By Margaret Lipman (May 7, 2007)
For its annual service project, the National Honor Society sponsored a series of events as part of the weeklong “Darfur Week.”

Response to Challenge Day
19 Form Core of “Be the Change’ Club
By K-K Bracken (May 3, 2007)
Nineteen juniors attended the first ever “Be the Change” Club Monday under the supervision of Mr. Block

Putting Actions into Words
Council Offers Suggestions To
Improve Academic Environment
By Anna Duning (May 3, 2007)
After a series of deliberations and discussions, the newly formed Academic Council recently distributed a list of recommendations to teachers, its first substantial stride toward sharing their views on ways to enhance the academic environment at George Mason.

A Mixed Bag of Results
Survey Reveals Holes
In GM Recycling Program
By Anna Duning, Margaret Lipman and Kirsti Price (May 2, 2007)
According to a Lasso Online investigation of 65 classrooms, nearly 60 percent of George Mason facilities are not equipped with either mixed paper or cans and bottles recycling bins

Challenge Day Follow-up
Juniors Embrace the ‘Change’
(April 21, 2007)

Robotics Team Scores at Nationals
(April 19, 2007)

Day of Silence
(April 18, 2007)

Casting Their First Votes
7th Graders Take Part in SCA Election
(March 29, 2007)

Poet Laureate Kreiter-Foronda
To Give Reading April 9
(March 27, 2007)

Freedoms of ‘18-Year-Old Declaration’
Prompt New Responsibilities, Concerns
By Anna Duning, Margaret Lipman and Kirsti Price (March 26, 2007)
As of today, 29 seniors have signed their 18-Year-Old Declarations, thus asserting their right to sign permission forms and call in sick without parental consent, among other privileges.

Outstanding Flutist
Gresko Selected for Prestigious
Honor Band of America
(March 22, 2007)

Show Opens Thursday
Spicer Takes a New Twist on
The Bard’s ‘As You Like It’
By K-K Bracken (March 21, 2007)
It is a future the world has feared since the conception of the atomic bomb: a post-nuclear holocaust wasteland where people are forced to live

Off to Nationals!
Robotics Team Finishes
8th Out of 58 Teams
By Margaret Lipman (March 20, 2007)
Facing off against some very challenging competition, the George Mason Robotics team placed eighth (out of 58 teams) in the FIRST Chesapeake Regional Tournament, held this past weekend at the Naval Academy in Annapolis

Band/Chorus Trip
Atlanta Trip Featured 6 Flags,
Hawks’ Game, CNN, Coca Cola
By Charlotte Volpe (March 14, 2007)
The annual GMHS Music Department trip has always been a highly anticipated event by the many musicians in the student population, and this year’s trip was no exception

Mason Hosts Modern Foreign
Language Tournament
(March 12, 2007)

Geared Up, Ready to Lift
Robotics Team Ready To
Head to Annapolis Competition
By Roxy Sweeney (March 10, 2007)
A week and a half ago the Robotics Team tightened the last couple of bolts on its “donut/robot-lifting machine” and sent it off for the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition, which will be held at the Annapolis Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, March 15 through the 17.

If You Build it, They Will Come
Habitat for Humanity Club
Presents Proposed Building Site
(March 9, 2007)

‘As You Like It’ Performers
Earn Awards at Folger Festival
(March 8, 2007)
The cast of the spring play “As You Like It” performed a 30-minute version of the comedy at the Folger Shakespeare Festival on Tuesday in front of seven other schools and a panel of commentators

District X Band Festival
Band Racks Up Superior Scores
For Seventh Straight Year
By Charlotte Volpe (March 5, 2007)
The Symphonic Band received a Superior overall rating at the VBODA District X Band Festival for the seventh straight year Friday night.

Survey Says Masonites Know Their Stuff
Students Most Concerned About
War in Iraq, Terrorism
By Margaret Lipman and Anna Duning (March 3, 2007)
(Statistics compiled by Kirsti Price)
In a recent sampling of 118 students, (approximately one eighth of the student body) conducted by Lasso Online, 64 percent assessed themselves as being “knowledgeable” about current events

Concert, Auction Raise Big
Money for Winter Shelter
(February 28, 2007)

Scholastic Bowl
GM Takes Home State
Title After 23-0 Season
By Margaret Lipman (February 28, 2007)
The Scholastic Bowl team finished a perfect season with a win in the State Championship Saturday at the College of William and Mary.

Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler
GMRP Sponsors 2nd
Annual Carnival Week
By Anna Duning (February 20, 2007)
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, the George Mason Relief Project begins its second annual Carnival Week today

Brrrr!
Crews Work Hard to Make
Mason Safe after Ice Storm
(February 15, 2007)

Scholastic Bowl
Mason Wins 3rd Straight Region B Title, Heads to State Tournament Saturday
(February 13, 2007)
The Scholastic Bowl team took home its third consecutive regional title on Saturday at the Region B tournament in Gretna, securing a slot in the state championship next weekend.

Spicer Releases Cast List for
Spring Play ‘As You Like It’
(February 8, 2007)

Spicer Holds Auditions for
The Bard’s ‘As You Like It’
By K-K Bracken (February 7, 2007)
Auditions were held Monday and Tuesday for the spring play As You Like It, under the guidance of director Pamela Spicer.

Scholastic Bowl
Mason Wraps Up Undefeated
Bull Run Season, Wins District Title
By Margaret Lipman (February 6, 2007)
The Scholastic Bowl team added another win to its undefeated season by taking home the Bull Run District championship on Saturday at Clarke County High School.

Dance to Follow Mr. and Ms. Mason
New Guidelines Finalized for
Behavior at School Dances
By Margaret Lipman (February 1, 2007)
TA representatives convened Wednesday morning for a special meeting in which SCA officers Graham Downey and Will Stewart and seniors Maggie Jones and Louise Robertson presented the new guidelines for behavior at school dances.

Robotics Revs Up
Team Begins Work on Robot
For ‘Rack ‘n’ Roll’ Competition
By Kelly Casteel (January 31, 2007)
The George Mason Robotics Team, also known as Vae Victus, has been working on this year’s robot since “kick-off day” on January 6th.

Returning from Ski Trip
Seniors Hurt in Bus Accident;
4 Treated at Canadian Hospital
(January 16, 2007)
Four George Mason seniors were hospitalized yesterday afternoon after the charter bus in which they were passengers flipped onto its side while coming back from a ski trip in Quebec City.

Arabic, Chinese To Be Offered
Mason Alum Discusses
Study of a Critical Language
(January 13, 2007)
Kaitlin Bottock, a graduate of the GMHS Class of 2004, stopped by Madame Johnsen’s classroom Thursday afternoon to discuss her experiences learning Arabic and her travels in the Middle East with several interested students.

Mustang Ambassadors Mail Care
Packages to Soldiers in Iraq
(December 21, 2006)

Myriad Musicians Make All-District Band
Martinez, Moscati in Top Band
By Charlotte Volpe (December 15, 2006)
Thirty musicians auditioned for the All-District X Band at JEB Stuart High School last Saturday. Out of those students, two were selected to perform in the first high school band (the Wind Ensemble), ten were selected to perform with the second high school band (the Symphonic Band), and two were selected as alternates.

Latest on ‘Dirty Dancing’ Dilemma
An Open Dialogue Moving
Tentatively Towards Consensus
Margaret Lipman (December 15, 2006)
After weeks of debate and discussion, the issue of inappropriate behavior at GMHS dances may be reaching its conclusion.

Scholastic Bowl
Mustangs Dominate at Home,
Bringing District Record to 9-0
By Margaret Lipman (December 13, 2006)
The George Mason Scholastic Bowl team continued its overwhelming success in the Bull Run District during the only home meet of the season on Monday evening.

Winter Wishes Come True
Huge Shopping Spree To Put Smiles
On 120 Needy Children’s Faces
By Sarah Van Buren (December 12, 2006)
Working with the Salvation Army’s Adopt-A-Child program, 65 TA reps shopped for toys and gifts for needy children at Target last Friday.

New Project Benefits Homeless
Senior Class Gets Cookin’
By Anna Duning (December 6, 2006)
The senior class officers, Anna Duning, Andrew Walden, Irene Morrison-Moncure and Elena Martinez, and class sponsors, Ms. Alissa Mears and Ms. Paige Whitlock, kicked off the senior class’s latest service project by delivering a warm cooked meal yesterday to the Falls Church Winter Shelter that opened Friday.

Fall Musical Premieres Tonight
Playing ‘The Pajama Game’
By K-K Bracken (November 30, 2006)
“I’m proud to be in the pajama game,” sings junior Joseph Kendra as the curtain opens to frantic working girls stitching away at pajamas in the Sleep-Tite Pajama Company’s factory.

Greenberg Reaches
Out to the Community
By Dean Woodley (November 29, 2006)
What if I told you that I know someone who is the founder and leader of a charity with a goal to help poverty-stricken children in the D.C. area?

Should Mason Offer Arabic, Chinese?
Study Committee to Explore
Critical Languages Feasibility
By Rebecca Gomez (November 29, 2006)
“ We would love to offer another foreign language at George Mason, above all, Chinese or Arabic,” says Linda Johnsen, who, in addition to being a French teacher and head of the Foreign Language Department, is also chair of the Critical Languages Study Committee (CLSC).

First-Ever Student Academic
Council Convenes
By Anna Duning (November 13, 2006)
Last Thursday afternoon, students and faculty assembled after school for the very first meeting of the new Student Academic Council. Eleven of the 12 elected students were present, representing the sophomore, junior and senior classes along with six faculty advisers.

Interpreter Offers Insights
To ASL Students
(November 7, 2006)

Past Greats Inducted into
Athletic Hall of Fame
(November 7, 2006)

Zombies Take the Stage
3 Earn VHSL Acting Honors
By K-K Bracken (November 3, 2006)
Last Monday, October 30, the IBH Theater class loaded up a school bus with set pieces and props and settled down for the long trip down to Madison County for the VHSL Bull Run District one-act competition.

In Memory of Nora Hemphill
FORCE Stages Fashion Show
To Fight Childhood Cancer
(October 31, 2006)

JV Show
Annual Talent Show Raises
$2,700 for Juniors, Prom
By Charlotte Volpe (October 30, 2006)
The annual Junior Variety Show served its purpose well in not only showcasing numerous talents throughout the school, but also helping to raise money, some $2,700 for the prom, which is traditionally funded by the junior class.

Congo Scholar Shares Insights
With Int. Relations Students
(October 14, 2006)

Annual Powder-puff Game
Seniors Defeat Juniors 7-0
By Charlotte Volpe (October 12, 2006)
The senior girls defeated the junior girls 7-0 in the annual Powder-puff football game at Moore Cadillac Stadium last evening.

2006 Homecoming Court
(October 6, 2006)

Spirit Breaks Loose Today
As Homecoming Begins
By Anna Duning (October 5, 2006)
“ Yeea-Haw!” yelped vice principal, Tim Guy, and later, SCA president, Will Stewart, over the intercom Thursday morning, declaring the commencement of annual Spirit Week

Young Diplomats Tackle World Affairs at
19th Annual GM MUN Conference
By Anna Duning (October 3, 2006)
Nations from six continents met at our own George Mason High School to discuss pressing international affairs and plot the world’s current direction this past weekend. Well, not exactly, but the stream of events was not far from this as Mason was the host of the nineteenth annual Model United Nations Conference.

Mason Defeats Kennedy, Bullis - (Spanish Version - 10/3/06)
On ‘It’s Academic’
By Charlotte Volpe (September 30, 2006)
“The largest colony of penguins in the world is not in Antarctica but in what capital of Scotland?” With the correct answer of “Edinburgh,” Mason’s “It’s Academic” team was propelled to a 20-point tiebreaker victory over John F. Kennedy Academy High School and The Bullis School earlier today

Students Discuss Spirit Week Plans, - (Spanish Version - 9-28-06)
School Issues at SCA Retreat
‘Heroes and Villains’ Decided as Week Theme
By Anna Duning (September 27, 2006)
Led by SCA officers and sponsors Ms. Karin Tooze and Ms. Jennifer Jayson, 47 students and six faculty members spent 24 hours planning homecoming festivities and discussing important school issues from Sunday morning to Monday afternoon during the annual SCA Fall Retreat at Camp Highroad in Middleburg, Virginia.

Spicer Announces ‘Pajama Game’ Cast List
(September 21, 2006)

Scores Audition for ‘Pajama Game’
By K. K. Bracken (September 20, 2006)
Auditions took place Monday and Tuesday in the auditorium for the fall production of "The Pajama Game." Students were asked to sing a song of their choice that showed their general vocal range, acting and projecting as much as possible.

Interview
Principal Snee Reveals Goals for the
Year and Reflects on Mason’s Past
By Margaret Lipman (September 5, 2006)
Compared to last year, when George Mason became an 8-12 high school and a brand-new middle school sprung up where the tennis courts once stood, this fall seems relatively calm.