A “New Normal”: The Impact of COVID on Students
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor and Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor Following the spring 2021 semester and the announcement that the fall semester would be fully in-person, President Bob Iuliano emailed the rising sophomore, junior, and senior classes with class-specific notes about the path their education would take over their next years on campus in what he anticipated would be “far more traditional in nature.” Institutions of...
Rick Deutsch ’00 on Making the Viral ‘Blue’s Clues’ 25th Anniversary Video
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief If you haven’t already seen, in early September, Nick Jr. brought Blue’s Clues’s original host Steve Burns back to deliver a touching message in honor of the 25th anniversary of the show. The video on Nick Jr.’s Twitter account showed the original Steve addressing his abrupt departure from the show to go to college, and reflecting on how far both he and the viewers have come since he was last on the...
A Note from the Editor: On Community
I’m writing this to you from my on-campus apartment with my three roommates after attending a meeting in the Gettysburgian office to work on this magazine, an in-person class with nearly every seat filled, and an in-person rush event for Alpha Phi Omega. While I was on campus last semester, my daily schedule looked a lot different. Twice a week, I went to my one in-person class while half of the students stared back at us on a...
Students for Indigenous Awareness Hosts Creators of ‘Ghost River’
By Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor Students for Indigenous Awareness and the Land Acknowledgement Statement Committee hosted a panel with the creators of the graphic novel Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga on Thursday, Oct. 5 in person in Mara Auditorium and virtually on Zoom. This talk was a part of the annual Peace and Justice Week. The creators of Ghost River, including writer Lee Francis IV, Project Editor Will...
The Dive Temporarily Closes Due to Staff Shortages
By Nicole DeJacimo This morning, dining services announced in an Instagram story that The Dive will be closed until further notice. Per the announcement, temporary closing is due to a staffing shortage, a problem being faced across campus. Sections of the Bullet Hole are also often closed like the pasta and salad bar lines with signs noting that the lines are “closed due to staffing shortages”. The Dive sold smoothies, sandwiches, and...
