April Fools: Bullet Shot: Chipper the Squirrel
By Charlie Williamson, Sports Editor Last Saturday, Chipper the Squirrel delivered a jaw-dropping performance, taking down defending champion Nutty in the nut eating contest to close out the Hibernation Winter Derby. Chipper put down a world record 100 acorns in the 10-minute contest. A simple food-to-body weight conversion comparing Chipper to hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut revealed that Chipper ate the equivalent of 150 hot...
April Fools: JMR’s Number Retired, Iuliano Drafted
By Garrett Glaeser, Staff Writer In honor of President Janet Morgan Riggs’s retirement, all Gettysburg athletic teams will retire the number 77 as a gesture of thanks for her service to the school since graduating in 1977. Back in January, President Riggs and her husband Ed (also Class of 1977) were honored in-between Bullets’ basketball games as two seats in Bream Gym were reserved in their name and accompanied by a plaque...
April Fools: Admissions Announces New Residence Hall to Premiere in Fall 2055
By Joseph Maguschak, Staff Writer Showing prospective students and their families the musty-smelling hallways, pee-stained shower curtains, and compact rooms with decorative cinder block walls and alcoves posing as closets – defining characteristics of the infamous yet lovable Stine Hall – used to cut it for Gettysburg College’s Admissions Office. At one time, a quick walk through Stine Hall presented future Gettysburgians with...
Men’s Lacrosse Takes Down Eastern
By Garrett Glaeser, Staff Writer This past weekend, the Men’s Lacrosse team concluded its out-of-conference play with a 9-5 win over Eastern after beating #16 Washington and Lee the previous Wednesday. The Bullets, now ranked #9 in the most recent USILA Coaches Poll, enter Centennial Conference play this Saturday with a top-10 matchup against #8 Ursinus. At this point in the season last year, the Bullets were ranked #5 with an...
Senate Holds Final Meeting of Semester. Quorum Sends Opinion on News Reporting of Senate Back to Committee.
By Joseph Maguschak, Staff Writer Vice President Patrick Custer ’19 began Student Senate’s Monday, December 3 meeting by announcing that Randy Feeley ’21 has been chosen as the Senate Committee on Greek Life’s non-Greek Committee Chair and that Custer himself had been chosen as the Greek Committee Chair. Proposed Constitutional Amendment The Senate voted on a constitutional amendment that had been tabled the week prior, making...
