Just some small talk
By Stephanie Harrington, Opinions Columnist There are some days when I just don’t have much to say, when I spend most of it quietly in my own thoughts. Just sitting is quite nice, not having to speak to anyone just because they are there. I hate having to force conversation just because I feel that I have to. This often happens at family parties when I have to speak with that cousin I only see once a year, just speaking nonsense small...
Richard Benedetto speaks at EI event
By Bethany Foxx, Staff Writer On Thursday, Feb. 14 Former White House Correspondent Richard Benedetto gave a guest lecture titled “Media, Politics, and Presidential Communications” in CUB 260. Benedetto is an adjunct professor at American University and worked as a White House Correspondent to administrations including Reagan, H. W. Bush, Clinton and W. Bush. The Eisenhower Institute (E.I.) sponsored lecture began with...
Sounds of ‘gunshots’ heard near campus
By AnnaMarie Houlis, Web Editor Panic pervaded Gettysburg College campus Saturday after a student reported an alleged gunshot fired from an unidentified white sedan on West Broadway near the corner of College Avenue at 5:59 a.m. Police and Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers closed the investigation Sunday, confirming that the sound was, in fact, that of newspapers smacking the sidewalk as a driver delivered them. Campus...
Redesign of College webpage aims to improve mobile site
By Christopher Dellana, Contributing Writer In a 1987 article, New York University’s Frances J. Milliken cites the variable invoked by organizational theorists known as “environmental uncertainty.” This concept, though debated, establishes a psychological reason that validates human resistance to change. Whether we fear the uncertainty of change or simply resist alterations to the status quo, human reluctance to change...
BMB names Jim Stoeffel new Cadet Battalion Commander
By Chelsea Donohue, Staff Writer Gettysburg College is proud to have one of its current students, Jim Stoeffel, be named the Cadet Battalion Commander of the Blue Mountain Battalion (BMB). The BMB is part of Dickinson College’s Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) program. Students at Gettysburg College have the opportunity to take classes at Dickinson, whose ROTC program was established in 1952. Stoeffel, a senior, has...
