Making the Most of Those Fifteen Minutes

Immediately after UCLA's victory over Memphis that placed the Bruins in the Final Four, UCLA coach Ben Howland ended a television interview by noting that among the many benefits of the win would be a boost to his recruiting effort. Our new dear friends, the Patriots of George Mason University, are seizing the same opportunity to promote not just their basketball team, but their fine institution as a whole.

I have it on good authority that some folks at George Mason are getting a little tired of hearing their university described as a "commuter school." One source notes that "most students are housed in townhouse-style housing built during the last ten years." Indeed, this looks like a pretty traditional collegiate setting:


As our GMU correspondent reports:

George Mason currently has the highest enrollment (more than 29,000 students) in the Virginia public university system--more than UVA and Virginia Tech. In addition, GMU was recently rated as the most diverse university in the nation. Mason has two Nobel Laureats, 87 graduate programs including 16 doctoral programs, and its top-50 law school's faculty is rated 23rd in the country. And of course, now we have a Final Four basketball team.

Well done. So remember: George Mason University -- we have dorms!