Senior Spotlight: Merlyn Maldonado Lopez
By Noelle Muni, Contributing Writer Merlyn Maldonado Lopez ’22, a double major in art history and an individualized major titled “Magazine and Popular Culture in Media,” is the curator of one of Schmucker Art Gallery’s newest exhibits “Martin Puryear: 40 Years Since Sentinel.” Reflected in the marriage of her majors, Maldonado’s drive toward curation came to her as a combination of her love of art and communications. After taking her...
Editorial: An Opportunity to Rebuild
By The Gettysburgian Editorial Board When the pandemic began, the word most often used to describe this period was “unprecedented.” Lockdowns were unprecedented, widespread masking was unprecedented, and the thought of draining our lives of the company of others was also unprecedented. Hardly anyone living had previously survived a public health crisis of this magnitude. With more than a year and a half behind us, “unprecedented” is...
What Makes Gettysburg a Home?
By Gracie Meisner, Contributing Writer For many college students, finding a sense of “home” on campus is no easy task. Indeed, the concept of home looks different for everyone. Whether it’s a place, a person, or an intangible feeling, home is a sense of comfort and belonging. For Michael Allessi ’25 and Gabbi Lombardi ’25, the people make a place a home. “It’s going to sound cheesy, but home to me is wherever family is, and wherever I...
Opinion: Afghanistan: Biden’s Foreign Policy Disaster
By Ziv Carmi, Contributing Writer For the past few weeks, Americans have been watching the events unfolding in Afghanistan. Perhaps some felt shock, others horror. The botched American withdrawal from Afghanistan was an avoidable foreign policy failure on the behalf of Joe Biden and his administration, and the effects of this disaster will reverberate both at home and abroad for years to come. After 20 years, it seems that the...
Postcard from Abroad: Exploring the Mediterranean
By Carter Hanson, Staff Writer PALERMO – On Sunday, I climbed up to the Chiesa Madonna della Rocca, a small, granite-grey church at the top of a cliff, and I leaned against the stone railing facing toward the Mediterranean, thinking about how ridiculously lucky I was to be there. The church and its landing protrude from the top of a terraced hillside, looking like something out of a Wes Anderson film, except for the modern,...
