AAUW at Gettysburg recognizes Equal Pay Day
By Nora Tidey, Staff Writer In 2015 women earned $0.79 on average for every dollar earned by men, a 21 percent wage gap. Women on average make less than men in virtually every occupation, despite earning more college and graduate degrees than men. Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day when women’s earnings finally match men’s earnings from the previous year (being that it takes women approximately 15 months to earn what men make in 12...
Franklin and Marshall slides past Gettysburg 3-2: Diplomats’ pitcher Mike Androconis outduels former teammate and fellow pitcher Brad DeMartino
By Sean Brower, Staff Writer Sophomore pitcher Mike Androconis pitched seven strong innings and led the Franklin and Marshall Diplomats to a 3-2 victory over his high school teammate Brad DeMartino and the Bullets on April 8. “It was a close game the entire way, so I just kept trying to keep our team in it…I’m not down on myself. It was a great game, so I can’t be sad about that,” said DeMartino, who pitched 7 1/3 innings,...
Bullets hold onto No. 9 Division III ranking: Men’s lacrosse takes down Centennial Conference foe Swarthmore College 14-4
By Stephanie Karalis, Staff Writer Despite the fidgeted weather and postponement to Sunday, 190 fans collected to Shirk Field at the Musselman Stadium to watch the men’s lacrosse game against Swarthmore College. Finishing with a score of 14-4, the Bullets walked away with a decisive win. The first quarter of the game started with two of the three goals made by first-year Blake Gray assisted by senior Paul Warner and junior...
Tech companies start to close the wage gap
By Eileen Gazzola, Staff Writer Facebook and Microsoft just became the latest technology companies to boast that their female employees earn just as much as their male employees. This has been a topic of conversation for quite some time, and tech companies are bragging with equality. These two companies just released their figures before Equal Pay Day, on April 12. In a Facebook post, Lori Goler from HR at Facebook writes, “at...
A dessert a day keeps the doctor away?
By: Erin Stackowitz, Staff Writer Finally, science has bestowed on us answers to the questions we really want to know and has given us a valid justification for eating ourselves into a sugar coma more frequently then we would like to admit. Once and for all, we can say the things we have been telling ourselves for years with truth and gumption: It is okay, chocolate is good for you! Or how much harm can that extra doughnut really do?...
