Food Label Fables: Advertising claims are not always what they seem
By: Julia Rentsch, GECO Columnist The advertising industry is built on exaggeration. No Big Mac in history has ever looked like those perfect ad pictures, and everybody knows that giant hamsters would never drive those jazzy little Kias (giant hamsters love Jeeps, duh). Advertising gimmicks can get you when you least expect them—sure, I’d expect some portentous claims from TV ad campaigns or on billboards, but how about on food...
Phi Kappa Psi Joins Campus
By Sarah Lowy You may have noticed a new fraternity making waves and attracting new members on campus. To find out more about this new fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, The Gettysburgian spoke with Adam Dunworth, Expansion and Recruitment Consultant for Phi Psi and Sam Wilensky, current President of Phi Psi. Phi Psi was founded in 1852 nationally at Jefferson College, which merged with Washington College and is now Washington and Jefferson...
Unique questions answered at the Ig Nobel Prize awards
By Samantha Siomko, Contributing Writer There are some questions that only science can answer. These questions include things such as, “Would this bee sting hurt more on my arm or on my face?” or “How can I get this chicken to walk like a dinosaur?” In a world of fast-paced and ever evolving science, sometimes the most simple and strange questions yield rather interesting results. That is exactly the premise behind the Ig Nobel Prize...
Introducing Professor Corey Van Landingham: Emerging Writer Lecturer 2015-2016
By Annika Jensen, Web Editor Corey Van Landingham is the 2015-2016 Emerging Writer Lecturer and author of Antidote, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed collection of poetry. She currently teaches Topics in Writing: Documentary Writing and two sections of Introduction to Creative Writing, her greatest interests being contemporary poetry and poetics and poetry of witness. Van Landingham grew up in southern Oregon before leaving to...
Active Minds supports World Suicide Prevention Day
By Annika Jensen, Web Editor Gettysburg College’s chapter of Active Minds led students in recognizing World Suicide Prevention Day on Thursday, September 10, working under the maxim “We’ll see you tomorrow.” At their CUB table on Thursday and Friday the group handed out blue and purple ribbons to bring awareness to the issue, provided statistics and information about warning signs and treatment, and encouraged students to sign a...
