Full Text: Commencement Address by Joshua Wagner ’19
Speech by Joshua Wagner ’19 as prepared for delivery: Good morning! I am honored to welcome you — the family, friends, faculty, administrators, and staff — who have come to celebrate the graduation of the class of 2019. As President Riggs so kindly introduced, I am Joshua Wagner, a chemistry and mathematics double major from the class of 2019. Despite temptations to lock myself away in a lab or in a chalk filled room, like...
Opinion: Sexual Assault is a Serious Issue
By Joshua Wagner Dear Class of 2019, It was a great honor to be selected graduation speaker for the Class of 2019. Growing up on a small farm in western Pennsylvania, it was not an expectation that I would attend college. That I will speak at commencement is a source of pride for my parents and grandparents who were not able to achieve a higher education. Earning the respect and congratulations from my peers has been an incredible...
Opinion: 25 Things to Know to Thrive in Your First Semester at Gettysburg College
Compiled by The Gettysburgian’s Staff Figure out rush times at Servo. Avoid them. Don’t put your name down for every email list at the Activities Fair… unless it’s The Gettysburgian’s list for potential writers. Jaeger Center is pronounced with a j instead of a y. You can ask John Jaeger about it. Attend guest lectures. If a department flew someone to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania just to talk to you, then the presentation...
April Fools: Sanders Staggers Back to Gettysburg Forgetting Initial Visit
By Joshua Wagner, Opinions Editor It was a bright spring day on Saturday, March 30 as crowds waited to hustle into the Bream Wright Hauser Athletic Complex at Gettysburg College. Throngs of Bernie Sanders supporters were jostling to meet the self-proclaimed democratic socialist speak. Many waited outside after the stadium seating was filled and the candidate took the stage. Sanders spoke of income inequality and our country’s need to...
April Fools: 21 Ways to Use Gettysburgian Print Editions Besides Reading Them
By Ben and Josh, Almost an Ice Cream Brand Some traditions are meant to die. Promulgating misleading statistics about Greek Life participation to unsuspecting parents of prospective students, eating every meal after one’s first year at the Bullet Hole, and, yes, the biweekly ritual of printing a student newspaper. Gettysburg’s recent spate of budget cuts—Orwellianly dubbed “sustainable excellence”—has axed many anachronisms of a...
