Students make waves at the 2015 Vagina Monologues
By Janelle Smith, Women’s Center Correspondent The Facebook event for the Vagina Monologues advertises the show as an “award-winning masterpiece [that] gives voice to women’s deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman’s body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.” This year’s show was especially interesting for me, as I had seen it once two years ago and only remembered...
CPS prepares to launch spring immersion trips
By Nora Tidey, Staff Writer The Center for Public Service (CPS) has been working for over twenty years to engage students, faculty, community members, and staff to foster social justice and promote positive institutional, personal, and community change. One of CPS’s major program areas is Immersion Projects in which students travel in the U.S. and abroad to engage with a community and deepen their understandings of social justice...
Red v. Blue: American exceptionalism
A weekly column where Gettysburg’s College Republicans and Democrats debate topics in the news. This week College Republicans discuss: American exceptionalism By Timothy Meads, College Republicans Many oppose the ideal of American exceptionalism because they falsely believe it implies denying the United States’ historical follies and transgressions. Therefore, far left academics despise American exceptionalism and ultimately avoid...
Studying for midterms? Train your brain how to focus better
By Morgan Patullo, Staff Writer Have you ever been doing work on the first floor of the library and realized that instead of studying you were either on Facebook or Instagram or people watching? How about a time when you were in class learning one minute, and then the next you realized you were day- dreaming? Did this make you wish that you could keep your focus better, and not let your mind wander? Imagine a world where your mind...
Wrestling finishes 9th at Centennial Conference Championship
By Michael Boncardo, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College Men’s Wrestling team capped off their Centennial Conference season last weekend at McDaniel College. The Bullets finished 9th overall in the tournament, scoring 13 points. Stevens Institute of Technology claimed its first Centennial Conference championship, posting 102.5 points to edge out two-time defending champ Ursinus College. “It was not one of our better performances of...
