Breaking: Governor’s Order Will Prevent Students from Retrieving Belongings, But Students Approved to Stay Can Stay
Posted By Benjamin Pontz on Mar 19, 2020 |
(Photo Allyson Frantz/The Gettysburgian)
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief
An order from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf requiring the closure of all non-life sustaining businesses by 8:00 p.m. Thursday will require Gettysburg College to close. Students will no longer be able to return to campus to retrieve belongings, an email from Dean of Students Julie Ramsey said.
Previously, the college had planned to be open through Saturday at 8:00 p.m. for students to move out of their rooms and would work to ship boxes to students who could not return.
Students approved to continue to live on campus will still be able to do so, college spokesperson Jamie Yates said.
See updated story on how the news has affected Gettysburg College students
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Author: Benjamin Pontz
Benjamin Pontz '20 served as Editor-in-Chief of The Gettysburgian from 2018 until 2020, Managing News Editor from 2017 until 2018, News Editor in the spring of 2017, and Staff Writer during the fall of 2016. During his tenure, he wrote 232 articles. He led teams that won two first place Keystone Press Awards for ongoing news coverage (once of Bob Garthwait's resignation, and the other of Robert Spencer's visit to campus) and was part of the team that wrote a first-place trio of editorials in 2018. He also received recognition for a music review he wrote in 2019. A political science and public policy major with a music minor, he graduated in May of 2020 and will pursue a master's degree in public policy on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Manchester before enrolling in law school.
March 20, 2020
All through this it is sad that not one message from College, GETTYSBURGIAN, or comments, has it been suggested that power of prayer might be useful.
Where is the chaplain of oldest Lutheran college in the country during this true crisis?
Is it possible that we all should just hunker down, quit second guessing, go along with national plan—and pray?