Eisenhower Institute’s New Virtual Format Leads to Programming Changes
By Alli Dayton, Staff Writer The Eisenhower Institute (EI) prepares students for careers in public, private, and nonprofit sectors through programs that teach students about leadership, networking, and translating their knowledge to positive action. Some of the distinctive program’s year-long or semester-long programs include Washington Connections, Environmental Leadership, Strategy and Leadership in Transformational Times, Contours...
Students Navigate Activism Fatigue
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief In the fall of 2019, Nadine Snyder ‘21 passed a resolution in the Student Senate advocating the elimination of plastic bags at the Bullet Hole. This call for a plastic bag ban at the popular to-go dining option on campus set off a chain of events that eventually resulted in the decision to start charging students for plastic bags, which drastically reduced plastic consumption at the college during...
Blast from the Past—April 20, 2021 Edition
By Shannon Zeltmann, Staff Writer This week in 1926, some members of the college wanted new shrubbery on campus to make it look more beautiful. The president’s office received word that an expert landscape gardener would be willing to draw up some landscape architecture plans for the college. If the college liked the plans, they would go with this plan and purchase the necessary plants and shrubbery. To make it so the trees and bushes...
Weekly Roundup, April 19 – April 25
Compiled by Jane Fitzpatrick, Assistant News Editor Tuesday, Apr 20 Mauricio Novoa ’14 Poetry Reading Held virtually from 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Poetry reading with an alum: Memorias From The Beltway Wednesday, Apr 21 ES Department Social Hour – Earth Day Held in Memorial Field Tent 8 from 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Talk about Earth Day with the Environmental Studies Department Budgeting 101 w/ the BOLD Council...
A Note from the Magazine Editor: On Using the Past to Contextualize the Present
By Phoebe Doscher, Magazine Editor Those of us living, studying, and teaching on Gettysburg’s historic campus know full well that the past is constantly aligned with the present moment. Every step we take on Stine Lake, every time we enter Penn Hall, and each visit to the battlefield allows us to confront the past in real time. We centered this edition of the magazine around just that: What does the past mean? How do we use it to...
