“We have more sports at Mason than just basketball you know.” I said once to a student in my class, but he just shrugged and said that the others teams are nowhere near as good. This conversation with a student in my English is actually the sad reality of our campus, no one attends the other sports games or club games. Again back to my survey of random mason students. The majority attend Basketball, but only a few have attded other sports. It is a shame because, no offense o the basketball players, the other teams have done better overall in the Atlantic 10. This year alone Men’s Soccer, Women’s Indoor and outdoor tack won first in the A10, an amazing feat since this id the ir first year. Volleyball did not do so well but, they did gain popularity among the volleyball community with this one play however.
Taking a look at a survey of random Mason students we can see that the percentage of students who go to basketball games is high, while the others are low.
In conclusion, being a community means that your and your friends know what is going on around campus. Seeing trend like not knowing the schools alma mater, o r not knowing about awesome plays in sports id disheartening to a university that is searching for a sense of community. The whole reason behind this blog is to back up an op-ed written by Fourth Estate Executive editor Frank Muraca in which he explains some of the reason why mason does not have a community. I would have to agree with him. If mason wants build a sense of community, they have to know what it is that they are dealing with.