Baseball falls in season opener
By Charlie Williamson, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College Baseball Team (0-1, 0-0 CC) lost 4-1 at non-conference opponent St. Mary’s last Sunday. Only one run was scored in the first six innings against Gettysburg senior pitcher Eric Brown and St Mary’s Zach Thompson. The pitchers’ duel wound up going in favor of Thompson, as Brown surrendered three runs in the seventh. Brown allowed four runs (three earned) on seven hits with no...
Gettysburg upsets top seed, falls short of conference title
By Charlie Williamson, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College Women’s basketball team (20-7) knocked off top seeded Haverford in the semifinals of the Centennial Conference Tournament but came up short in the championship game against Muhlenberg last week. Led by sophomore guard Emma Dorshimer who had 19 points, Gettysburg was able to knock off Haverford, the team with the best record in the regular season. Junior forward Emily Gibbons...
Bikes missing across campus
By Charlie Williamson, Staff Writer Last Monday, the director of Gettysburg College’s Department of Public Safety (DPS), Bill Lafferty, sent out an email informing the campus community that six bikes were stolen last semester. In the email, Lafferty said of the six bikes, two have been recovered, and three were not locked at the time they were taken. Former 12 year police officer and current Associative Director of DPS, Ivan Taylor,...
Bentley on baby food: A commercialized industry
By Charlie Williamson ’19, Contributing Writer On Friday, February 3rd in Masters Hall 110, Professor Amy Bentley spoke about how the invention of commercial baby food has shaped American notions of infancy and influenced what we eat as a society. Bentley,a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University, gave a timeline of how what we feed our children has developed over the last...
Bullet Shot: Athlete of the Week
By Charlie Williamson, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College Women’s Basketball team (14-4, 10-3 CC) steamrolled their way past Swarthmore with a 72-42 victory on Saturday, January 28. Among the leading scorers was junior forward Emily Gibbons, who recorded her 14th double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Gibbons is one double-double away from tying the Gettysburg program record. Gibbons has been one of the main...
