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Retro Mason

  • March 24, 2022

    Mason's International Week found its start in the 1970s as International Night with an evening of performances in the Lecture Hall on the Fairfax Campus.

  • March 18, 2022

    On October 17, 1986, the media descended upon George Mason Ä¢¹½AV when economist James M. Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on public choice theory.

  • March 10, 2022

    On April 1, 2006, thousands of George Mason Ä¢¹½AV community members gathered in the Johnson Center to cheer on the men's basketball team as they took on Ä¢¹½AV of Florida in the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis.

  • March 4, 2022

    On Sept. 3, 2010, during Welcome Week, more than 1,200 George Mason Ä¢¹½AV students showed up to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest dodgeball game.

  • February 25, 2022

    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Homecoming at George Mason Ä¢¹½AV centered around soccer and was held in the fall. Here you see Homecoming King Archie Kao, BA Speech Communication '92, with Homecoming Queen Christina Bartlow and President George Johnson.

  • February 18, 2022

    On Friday, April 7, 1972, Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton Jr. signed into law Virginia General Assembly Bill H 210, which separated George Mason College from the Ä¢¹½AV of Virginia.