College Democrats host “Women’s Rights Under Attack” Panel
By Kate Delaney, Staff Writer On Thursday evening, the Gettysburg College Democrats hosted a panel entitled “Women’s Rights Under Attack: Fighting Back in 2018,” featuring guest speakers Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project, a Pennsylvania legal center that fights to protect and advance women’s rights, and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, along with Kate Michelman, who served as president of the...
College Democrats Aim to Register 300 New Voters Ahead of Midterm Election
By Kate Delaney, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College Democrats hosted an event last week to discuss the upcoming 2018 elections, registering to vote, and how to be more politically active on campus. The event, according to College Democrats President, Andrew Dalton, was “extremely successful—[there was} a large audience and [the Democrats] registered quite a few students to vote.” The main goal of this event, and future plans...
Rossides, Who Helped Build TSA in Aftermath of 9/11, Delivers 2018 Blavatt Lecture
By Kate Delaney, Staff Writer On Tuesday afternoon, the Eisenhower Institute hosted their final installment of their 2018 Women and Leadership program. Gale Rossides, former acting administrator and one of the original founders of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), delivered the 19th annual Blavatt Lecture, which is sponsored each year by the Blavatt family including EI Executive Director Jeffrey Blavatt ’88, on...
Women’s Center Aims to ‘Take Back the Night’ in Annual Event to Combat Sexual Assault
By Kate Delaney, Staff Writer On Thursday evening, the Women’s Center at Gettysburg College hosted Take Back the Night, an international event that focuses on ending sexual and domestic violence. The annual event featured Kelly Smith, Community Service Officer for the Pennsylvania State Police, as the keynote speaker. Smith began by thanking the Women’s Center for hosting the event and describing her experience with domestic violence...
Cantele Speaks in First EI Women & Leadership Lecture
By Kate Delaney, Staff Writer On Thursday evening, and International Women’s Day, Gettysburg Women’s Lacrosse Coach Carol Cantele gave a lecture on women in leadership in Mara Auditorium, the first installment in the Eisenhower Institute’s (EI) new Women & Leadership lecture series. While, in the past, Women in Leadership was one of EI’s expert programs in which a select group of students studied women in leadership...
