Schmucker Art Gallery offers tours of exhibitions and much more
By Daniella Snyder, Editor-in-Chief Instead of spending the lunch hour fighting for Servo cookies next week, take an hour to tour the Schmucker Art Gallery. The gallery trained five tour guides to present an hour long guide through the two current exhibitions. Tours are offered Wednesdays and Fridays. Both “Conversations: Studio Art Faculty Exhibit”, and “Posada: Jose Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Penny Press” will be on display...
One Billion Rising at Gettysburg College
By Daniella Snyder, Editor-in-Chief “Rise! Disrupt! Connect!” The slogan reverberated through the room as dozens of women and men stood in solidarity against the exploitation of women as part of the Women’s & LGBTQA Resource Center’s One Billion Rising campaign two weeks ago. A campaign that stretches around the world, One Billion Rising is the “biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history, based on the...
Gettysburg professors reflect on the return to dystopian classics
By Daniella Snyder ’18, Editor in chief Coinciding with the presidential inauguration and recent executive orders, Americans have turned to novels they might have read in high school: dystopian novels like 1984 and Animal Farm. Current political events have sparked a spike in sales, news outlets like CNN and The New York Times report. At the Women’s March three weeks ago, references were made to Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s...
LK5K raises money for women’s health
By Kevin Bielicki, LK5K Chair, Eta Phi chapter of Alpha Chi Rho Contributing Writer “LK5K” stands for the Lina Kranias Memorial 5K run, which is done every year in honor of a local Gettysburg citizen who passed away from a horrible battle with breast cancer. Her unwavering courage and optimism throughout her entire battle inspired her friends and family to create a 5K run that raises money for women to get free pap smears...
Castle of our Skins finishes impassioned residency at Gettysburg
By Diego Rocha, Contributing Writer Castle of our Skins (COOS), a musical collective based in Boston, visited the Gettysburg campus from November 13 to the 15, holding a series of events over their brief residency that inspired and moved many on campus. For this stay on our campus, COOS brought members Fred C. VanNess Jr. (tenor), Orlando Cela (flute), Ashleigh Gordon (viola), Javier Caballero (cello), Anthony Green (composition and...
