Six Positive Cases Brings COVID-19 Total for Fall Semester Up to 15
Yesterday, Vice President for College Life and Dean of Students Anne Ehrlich sent out a campus-wide email updating the College community on the current COVID-19 situation. Over the past week, there were six positive cases among students, bringing the semester total up to 15. She clarified that these cases were restrained to one student group; the positive cases are in quarantine and mitigation strategies have been put in place for the...
Masking Update: Musselman Library and Theatre Performance
By Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor On Oct. 28, Vice Provost Jack Ryan sent a campus-wide email announcing an update to the masking policies on campus. Vaccinated students are now permitted to unmask in the library, except in Rooms 014 and 018 and the Special Collections Reading Room. Students may be asked to mask when working with library staff in close quarters, so students are advised to still bring a mask with them to the library....
A “New Normal”: The Impact of COVID on Students
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor and Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor Following the spring 2021 semester and the announcement that the fall semester would be fully in-person, President Bob Iuliano emailed the rising sophomore, junior, and senior classes with class-specific notes about the path their education would take over their next years on campus in what he anticipated would be “far more traditional in nature.” Institutions of...
A Note from the Editor: On Community
I’m writing this to you from my on-campus apartment with my three roommates after attending a meeting in the Gettysburgian office to work on this magazine, an in-person class with nearly every seat filled, and an in-person rush event for Alpha Phi Omega. While I was on campus last semester, my daily schedule looked a lot different. Twice a week, I went to my one in-person class while half of the students stared back at us on a...
Students for Indigenous Awareness Hosts Creators of ‘Ghost River’
By Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor Students for Indigenous Awareness and the Land Acknowledgement Statement Committee hosted a panel with the creators of the graphic novel Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga on Thursday, Oct. 5 in person in Mara Auditorium and virtually on Zoom. This talk was a part of the annual Peace and Justice Week. The creators of Ghost River, including writer Lee Francis IV, Project Editor Will...
