Opinion: The Longest Three-and-a-Half Years
By Carter Hanson, Columnist And now, as the lilting rhetoric of Adam Schiff fades into the monotony, Lisa Murkowski has determined she will vote against including new witnesses and documents in the Senate Impeachment Trial. Though the verdict of the Trump Trial may not be released until next week, this almost surely dooms impeachment. This outcome is not unexpected, but it was not until Murkowski declined new evidence that the...
Conversations Beneath the Cupola: College Unveils Podcast Hosted by President Bob Iuliano
By Carter Hanson, Staff Writer Gettysburg College released the first episode of the podcast Conversations Beneath the Cupola on Oct. 30, with host President Bob Iuliano. The episode featured a conversation between President Iuliano and Lawrence Bacow, the 29th President of Harvard University, about the status of the liberal arts education and its future. The show was formatted like an interview, with Iuliano asking questions of Bacow....
Gettysburg College Spends Less on Instruction than Peers
By Carter Hanson, Katie Oglesby & Benjamin Pontz Gettysburg College spends less per student on instruction than any of its closest peer institutions, an analysis based on data from The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted by The Gettysburgian shows. Annual tuition (excluding room and board) for the 2016-17 academic year, the year for which The Chronicle compiled a comprehensive data set, was $50,860. That year, the college...
Student Political Groups Participate in Public Policy Debate
By Carter A. Hanson, Staff Writer On Thursday, Oct. 17, the Campus Policy Debate in Mara Auditorium featured debaters among some of the political student groups on campus. The Leftist Student Collective, College Democrats, College Republicans, and the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) debated for an hour and a half on policy issues such as gun control, climate change, data privacy, e-cigarette regulations, and packing the Supreme...
Opinion: Why I Felt Guilty Eating Baked Bread with Pesto Sun-Dried Tomato Butter
By Carter Hanson, Guest Columnist Faroe Island salmon, creamy dijon sauce, long grain and wild rice blend, and San Francisco blend veggies. That was lunch one day during my first week at Gettysburg College and it was, frankly, incredible. Cooked, spiced, and mixed to perfection, the menu at Servo is always changing and always delicious. It’s almost farcical, how incredible and unique the culinary experience is at Gettysburg. I...
