President Abe Lincoln returns to Gettysburg
Courtesy of Musselman Library This week, our nation’s sixteenth president returned to Musselman Library as part of a national traveling exhibit entitled “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War.” The exhibit, which is comprised of five free-standing panels, examines how the President used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War—the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil...
Bullets outscore Washington in second-half win
Courtesy of GCC&M Junior Caroline Murphy (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) and First-year Jessica Porter (Narberth, Pa./Lower Merion) out-scored host Washington College by themselves in the second half to lead Gettysburg College to a 61-49 win over the Shorewomen on Saturday afternoon. Gettysburg (17-6, 14-4 CC) kept pace with Swarthmore College (18-5, 14-4 CC) atop the conference standings with only two games remaining. The Garnet defeated...
Race for CC playoffs tightens for Bullets
By Emily Kleinburd, Staff Writer As the men’s basketball team nears the end of their regular season, they will have their sights on the McDaniel Green Terror as they make their final push for the playoffs. A week ago, the post-season was all but guaranteed, however now that their top player Alex Zurn has broken his wrist, things have gotten a bit dicey. Zurn’s absence was certainly felt in the Bullets last game as they lost to their...
A cosmic love
By Stephanie Harrington, Opinions Columnist For as long as I can remember, I would look up at the night sky and stare in pure awe at its vastness. As I think everyone does, I would wonder about all of those elements that lie light-years away, so far beyond our grasp that all we can really do is just appreciate their subtle beauty, because it is something we may just never understand. Of course that is not necessarily true because...
The right vibrations
By Riley Park, Opinions Editor Music is universally intimate. A person’s favorite band can tell you more about them than they themselves ever might be able to. It’s a window into the soul, in that completely corny and cliché lyrical way. Music is memory embodied. The notes spark sights, sounds and smells of things you once experienced. The first song on the first album you bought that you listened to like it was a religious rite. That...
