By Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor
Director of Gender Equity and LGBTQIA+ Life Amanda Del Gaudio and Vice President for College Life Anne Ehrlich sent out a campus wide email Tuesday afternoon informing students that the Women’s and LGBTQIA+ Resource Center has been renamed to the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.
The name change came about as a result of a campus-wide survey to gauge student and faculty perspectives on how the name could better represent the goals of the resource center as well as its purpose.
“While we will continue to support and passionately advocate on behalf of women and our LGBTQIA+ community, given our Center’s notable growth in recent years—and, in turn, our programming’s evolution—our new name will enable us to unify our many offerings and resources,” said Del Gaudio.
“Gender and Sexuality Resource Center” received the most votes of the options given to the campus to choose from.
“We support these results and believe our new name reaffirms that every student on the Gettysburg campus is welcome to visit our office in Apple Hall, to attend our programming, and to learn more about gender and sexuality, in all of its dimensions,” said Del Gaudio.
The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center is open on the first floor of Apple Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. There will be a New Name Celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the resource center with food and giveaways for students.
