Student Senate Gears Up for Elections
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor The first Senate meeting of April began with a discussion about technocratic elections as well as presidential and vice presidential elections. They began to accept applications for technocratic positions on Tuesday, the same day as the forum for the presidential and vice presidential elections. Student Senate President Kurtis Grey ‘21 announced that student organizations are allowed to host outdoor...
Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith on How to Put ‘Guardrails’ on the Presidency
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor On Thursday, Mar. 25, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and co-founder of Lawfare Jack Goldsmith joined the Fielding Center for Presidential Leadership Study to discuss his book After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency. The discussion was moderated by political science professor and Director of the Fielding Center Shirley Warshaw. Goldsmith...
April Fools: EI Solves Polarization Crisis with New Lecture Series
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor President Bob Iuliano announced via a campus-wide email on Apr. 1 that the recent Eisenhower Institute Lecture Series intended to combat political polarization on campus has, in fact, solved the polarization crisis. Instead of having separate clubs, College Republicans, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), College Democrats, and Leftist Student Collective now meet at the same time in Mara Auditorium for a...
After the Suspension of Two Chapters, What’s Next for Greek Life?
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor The Gettysburg College chapters of Delta Gamma and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) were suspended for violations of COVID-19 protocols on campus during the fall 2020 semester, and these sanctions were issued following the de-densification process that ensued after 64 students tested positive for the virus. Around 1,300 of the students on campus were sent home after the outbreak; only first-years and several other...
‘A Rise in Positive Cases on Campus’: 10 Students Test Positive for COVID-19
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor Interim Vice President for College Life and Dean of Students Jeff Foster sent out a campus-wide email on Friday to update the campus community on the current state of COVID-19 on campus—a total of ten students tested positive this week. This news came after nearly three weeks of zero positive test results. According to the college’s COVID-19 dashboard, seven students are in isolation and nine are in the...
