Farewell: Opinions articles I never got to write
By Isabel Gibson Penrose, Opinions Editor During my time as Opinions Editor I wrote a lot of articles, some admittedly better than others. Here are some brainstorms and excerpts from the pieces I never got to write. Ban Group Projects Excerpt: “Many hands make light work,” said some delusional liar many years ago. I have lost years of my life to partners who don’t answer texts, pretend not to have opened emails, and are “just really...
Democracy under siege
By Jeff Lauck, Contributing Writer If you were on campus on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 you might have noticed a few students yelling something about “big money in politics” while standing around a cardboard cutout of the White House on Stine Lake. If you checked your campus mailbox anytime in the past month, you probably got a fake $50 bill telling you to come to that very same event. In any event, you’re probably wondering what all...
A take on Sonnie Johnson’s radical view of the Black Lives Matter movement
By Jenna Seyer, Staff Writer On Tuesday, April 19 Sonnie Johnson, a Tea Party activist and guest speaker for Fox News, presented a lecture which was supposed to discuss the “myth of the Black Lives Matter movement.” However, her talking points hit every base but the topic that was advertised: socialism, communism, capitalism and an uninformed view, in my opinion, of freedom in America. She began the discussion with a history of the...
Bernie speaks for veterans at Gettysburg College
By Zachary Warner, Contributing Writer It was an overcast afternoon for Earth Day on Friday, April 22 when Senator Sanders held a dialogue with Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii in the Bream Wright Houser Athletic Complex at Gettysburg College. Although he was emerging from a tough loss in the NY primary, Senator Sanders did not appear deterred. The event was overflowing with both community members and students...
Student storage policy changes drastically with less than a month left of school
By Isabel Gibson Penrose, Opinions Editor On Thursday, April 14 the Gettysburg students that have previously used on-campus storage received an email with the subject line: “Do you have student storage needs?” For many, the answer is yes. Up until this year, Gettysburg students who live more than 10 hours away by car (and some students who applied, even though they lived closer) could store their things in the basement of...
