Football Scores First Victory on Homecoming
By David Goldman, Staff Writer First wins always seem to taste sweet no matter when they occur during the season. It took longer than they had hoped, but for Gettysburg’s football team, securing their first win at home in front of a packed crowd at Musselman Stadium on Homecoming Weekend made the occasion even sweeter. The Bullets defeated the Juniata Eagles 48-42 on Saturday, September 25, marking their first win of the 2021 season....
Opinion: Can We Be Better?
By Professor Scott Hancock Earlier this week The Gettysburgian reported on the most recent developments in Kelsi Kennedy’s lawsuit against Gettysburg College. Kennedy states she was raped in what used to be the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house in October of 2016, and her lawsuits have sought to hold Gettysburg College legally responsible in three different ways. As The Gettysburgian noted, one of those was recently dismissed by a...
The Business Major: What Happened?
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Listen to this story: https://gettysburgian.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bp-reading-business-major-story_mixdown.mp3 At the Feb. 2, 2006 meeting of the Gettysburg College faculty, then-Provost Dan DeNicola announced that the college had a problem. The Carnegie Foundation, which classifies colleges and universities nationwide, had announced that its subsequent classifications would include...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: May 2, 2019
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief 364 days after she informed the faculty of her plan to retire after the 2018-19 academic year, President Janet Morgan Riggs was the subject of two valedictory speeches and a faculty resolution — and was serenaded with a surprise musical presentation from Camerata — at the final faculty meeting of the academic year. Management Department Withdraws Business Major Motion Prior to the...
Women’s Lacrosse Looks to Three-peat
By Garrett Glaeser, Staff Writer Entering the 2019 season, the Women’s Lacrosse team has arguably the highest expectations placed upon it, more than any other Gettysburg team this year. Having won back-to-back national championships in 2017 and 2018, the Bullets were ranked #1 in the DIII Preseason Poll and are the heavy favorites to repeat for a third straight year. “Obviously we’d love to do it again, but our goal is to just be...
‘Completely Out of Context’: Alumni Recall Party Where Garthwait Photo Was Taken
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The now ubiquitous photo of former college trustee Bob Garthwait ’82 wearing a Nazi uniform was taken at a 1979 party held at the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, an alumnus who provided a photo of the party’s official t-shirt said Thursday. Dr. Albert Fedalei ’80, who was a member of Alpha Chi Rho, said that the photo was taken at his fraternity’s sixth annual “Four in...
