Gettysburgian editors Ben Pontz and Gauri Mangala discuss the news and other items of interest on the Gettysburg College campus and interview campus newsmakers on the new On Target podcast produced in association with WZBT.
Students Navigate Activism Fatigue
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief In the fall of 2019, Nadine Snyder ‘21 passed a resolution in the Student Senate advocating the elimination of plastic bags at the Bullet Hole. This call for a plastic bag ban at the popular to-go dining option on campus set off a chain of events that eventually resulted in the […]
Rudd Applies Lessons as Vietnam Activist to Modern Student Protest
By Cameron Jury, Staff Writer Mark Rudd came to Gettysburg College this Tuesday to speak to students about his time as an anti-war activist and political organizer specifically relating to his memoir: Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen. Now 72-years-old, Rudd shared his experience organizing a student revolution in 1968 at Columbia University. Rudd spoke with […]
John Carlos Discusses Athletic Activism and the Importance of Troublemaking
By Nicole DeJacimo, Staff Writer Athletic activism is portrayed in every sport around the world and has been for decades, where athletes take advantage of their public status to stand up for causes they believe in. Colin Kaepernick and Serena Williams are two modern examples of athletes fighting for their rights and for the rights […]
Opinion: Be an Active Citizen in Your Community
By Morgan Hubbard, Columnist and Joshua Wagner, Opinions Editor You’re probably an officer in multiple organizations across campus and jump from meeting to meeting. You don’t sleep, you skip meals, and haven’t watched Netflix in months. You should get more involved, and here’s why. Many students at Gettysburg College have highly structured lifestyles which orbit around […]
Over 300,000 attend People’s Climate March
By Julia Rentsch, Staff Writer To the uninformed onlooker who caught a musky whiff of marijuana smoke as it drifted over portions of the People’s Climate March, it might have seemed that the event was just another hippy-dippy protest of righteously indignant college liberals avoiding their homework. But what happened in New York City on […]
