One Month In: Week 4 Sports Roundup
By Kyle Miller, Staff Writer The Bullets faced off against Ursinus in nearly every sport on April 10. Softball, baseball, tennis, and lacrosse all competed against the Bears last Saturday. Double Header Splits on the Diamond Starting with softball the Bullets picked up a split in the doubleheader on the road. In the first game Gettysburg picked up a dominant 6-0 win behind the pitching of Megan Hughes ’24 who threw a complete...
Honoring the Memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Monday April 19, 2021
This slideshow requires JavaScript. By Hannah Labovitz, Contributing Writer On April 19, 1943, the few thousand Jews remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto made the brave and inspiring decision to resist the Nazis and to stage a violent uprising. In addition to making a statement against the Nazis, one major goal of the uprising was to create a long-lasting legacy for the Warsaw Ghetto Jews, an attempt to preserve memory through impact. As...
Class of 2020 Commencement to be Held on Homecoming Weekend
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief The Class of 2020 will celebrate their commencement ceremony on Sunday, September 26 during Homecoming weekend. In a message to the campus community, Commencement Coordinator Erin Eline Aumen noted that the decision was made with the hope that the fall will allow greater flexibility to gather safely, and with fewer COVID-19 restrictions. Aumen also noted that the postponement will provide the new...
S/U Grading Option Deadline Extended for Students
By Alli Dayton, Staff Writer On Wednesday, March 24, the Registrar Brian Reese and the Dean of Academic Advising and Support Services Charmaine Cruise sent an email to the Gettysburg College student body informing them of a modification to the college’s S/U grading policy. The college faculty approved Thursday, May 20 as the deadline to select S/U as the grading option for a Spring 2021 course. “Course(s) taken S/U for the Spring 2021...
Blast from the Past—April 13, 2021 Edition
By Shannon Zeltmann, Staff Writer This week in 1916, the orchestra held a concert in New Oxford. They had been practicing the music since early March. They also had a concert in Taneytown, MD, but they had to miss a concert and dance that weekend to go to Taneytown. On the trip back from Taneytown, one of the stagecoaches had a broken axle, so the students in that stagecoach had to stay at Taneytown in the hotel another night before...
