Editorial: What We Know About Josh Wagner
By Members of The Gettysburgian’s Editorial Board THE ISSUE: Joshua Wagner ‘19 was selected as the student speaker at this May’s Commencement exercises. Since that announcement was made, a group of students has begun to circulate a petition advocating Josh’s removal in light of an article he wrote as part of last spring’s April Fools edition for The Gettysburgian. The article — titled “13 Places Safer than FIJI Basement on...
College in Early Stages of Plans for New Residence Hall Across from Jaeger Center
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Gettysburg College officials are in the early stages of planning a new residence hall that would allow the college flexibility to renovate existing first-year halls that President Janet Morgan Riggs said at a March faculty meeting “are becoming a liability in terms of attracting students.” At that meeting, Riggs framed the issue as an “emerging priority” in which the Board of...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: April 18, 2019
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief After spending the entirety of its second consecutive meeting discussing the proposal, the Gettysburg College faculty seemed poised for a vote on whether to approve a motion from the Management Department to add a dual major in Business to the college curriculum Thursday afternoon. Instead, the faculty parliamentarian raised a question of procedure and a motion came from the floor to postpone the...
Barnes & Noble Will Take Over College Bookstore
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Barnes & Noble will operate the Gettysburg College Store beginning in late May, Gettysburg’s Vice President of Finance & Administration Dan Konstalid announced in a campus-wide email Tuesday. At a faculty meeting in March, College President Janet Morgan Riggs said, “We cannot continue to provide affordable course materials and excellent service without losing money.” At the...
McKenna Elected Student Senate President, Lashendock Will Be VP
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Patrick McKenna ’20, a political science and public policy double major who has served in Senate since his first year, has been elected the body’s 2019-2020 president. McKenna defeated Marisa Balanda ’21 and Hannah Dalzell ’20 by taking exactly 50 percent of the 644 votes cast. Political Science and International Affairs double major Jack Lashendock ’20 won the vice...
