College housing shortage leads to additional trailers
By Jamie Welch, Staff Writer It is spring, and that means Gettysburg College students are participating in a competitive process that many have dubbed Hunger Games: Housing Lottery Edition. With lower and lower participation in Greek Life every year and next year’s First Year class predicted to be bigger than ever, the housing lottery has proven to be especially terrible this year. Current sophomores and juniors have already selected...
Gettysburg College to be renamed after deal with soda corporation
By Brendan Raleigh, News Editor Following the 2014-2015 academic year, Gettysburg College as students know it will cease to exist — at least under the name “Gettysburg College.” After weeks of negotiations with the new, but rapidly expanding Bisom Cola Company, the college finally settled on a deal that would alter the college’s name in exchange for a number of financial gifts from the Bisom Cola Company. “It is really a...
Honor Women’s History Month with these events
By Janelle Smith, Staff Writer The month of March is Woman’s History Month and it represents a time of reflection. During this time it is important to sift back through the years to herald the contributions that women have made to society. I think of trailblaz-ers like Susan B. Anthony, who greatly impacted the women’s suffrage movement during the late 1800’s, Josephine Baker, who combated segregation as the first black woman to star...
I want you to write about you to discover yourself
By Julian Weiss, Opinions Editor I write often. My history classes alone call for somewhere around four pages a week between exams and essays. In my free time, I write articles here and sometimes for my blog. Last week, I had two unique opportunities to write in a way that was very different from my normally-analytic, rational process. I rarely write about myself outside of cover letters. It is even more rare that I take time to...
Marine ecology students Skype with author and ecologist Carl Safina
By Bethany Holtz, MS&T Editor It is 12:30 in the afternoon and students from the Marine Ecology class have gathered during their lunch hour to discuss the last section of “Song for the Blue Ocean” before Skyping with author Carl Safina later in the afternoon. It is not in every class that you find students ea-gerly giving up their lunch to discuss class readings. And it is certainly not in every class that you find the opportunity...
