This project will allow George Mason University traffic to have a dedicated entry point into the Fairfax campus, away from the congested Rt. 123/Braddock Road intersection.

On May 20, Washington actors Sarah Marshall, Jennifer Mendenhall, Kim Schraf, Craig Wallace, MaryBeth Wise and Deidra Starnes will perform in readings of new plays by favorite Washington playwrights Ari Roth, Norman Allen, Ally Currin, David Emerson Toney, Renee Calarco, Elizabeth Pringle, Pamela Leahigh and Keith Bridges to raise money to send kids to theatre camp.

1 Everyone goes there.
2 Too trendy.
3 You have to commute to Manasshole for IT classes.
4 Parking services does not wash cars.
5 Anyone you disliked in high school is probably going.
6 They let almost anyone in.

With the past few turbulent years of financial strain, recession, home foreclosure and credit collapse, government policy will soon exist to help put safeguards and support in place to aid the American consumer on both minor and major financial decisions. The passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, spearheaded by Christopher Dodd, a former senator from Connecticut, and U. S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was signed by President Obama after the financial collapse to centralize an outdated consumer protections system, allowing for the creation of a new bureau to oversee law-making powers and aid for the modern consumer. This new agency, named the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has now been officially brought into being, with urgent goals to aid Americans of all walks of life.

With a growing list of social concerns and government policies, students in the D.C. metro area gathered for the Social Advocacy Conference with enthusiasm and big ideas. The conference was held by the University of the District of Columbia on April 2, as a way to educate undergraduate students about the process of social advocacy campaigns and lobbying for change on major social issues. All 83 students in attendance started the conference in selected groups such as Affordable Higher Education, Environment and Alternative Energy, Equal Opportunity, Human Rights, Immigration, International Development, Poverty and Homelessness, Education Reform, and Public Health, allowing all of the attendees to find an area of specific interest.

NOVA Fortnightly, the newspaper of Northern Virginia Community College, became the first publication of the college to ever win a Virginia Press Association award. But staff members didn’t just win one, they won two awards – in a category where the college newspaper competed against mainstream newspapers.

After several days of harsh rains and muggy skies, the sun finally broke through on March 13 to witness men, women and children gather together at Paddy’s Steakhouse and Pub in Stafford, to celebrate an important not-quite-holiday in March. Not St. Patrick’s Day, St. Baldrick’s Day.

The NOVA women’s basketball team ended its regular season on February 24 and 26 with two losses, first to the Hagerstown Community College Hawks 73-48 at the Annandale campus and then to Thomas Nelson Community College in a close one, 62-61, at Hoop Magic in Chantilly, Virginia.

In the game against the strong Hagerstown team, NOVA never led though it tied the scored a few times early on. At the ten minute mark of the first half, NOVA was down by six at 23-17, and by the seven minute to go mark, Hagerstown had opened its lead to 33-19. At halftime, NOVA trailed 42-29, and it was led by Kimberly Walton’s ten points.

The NOVA women’s basketball team earned a second seed for the VCCS tournament by going 5-3 during the regular season and finished second in the March 4-6 tournament in Chesapeake, losing to Tidewater Community College Storm in the final, 57-47, on Sunday afternoon.

The NOVA men’s basketball team finished a fantastic season by capturing its first–ever Virginia Community College System tournament in Chesapeake March 4 through 6 at the spacious Oscar Smith High School gym. Its three wins there gave it 22 straight wins, as it finished 26-5.
NOVA had won its last four games in the regular season, all at home, by an average of 37 points, but it met stiffer challengers in its last two tournament games, as predicted by Coach Mike Fitzmaurice. NOVA went into the tournament as the number one seed based on its 10-0 VCCS record during the regular season.