Senate Holds Impeachment Trial for Committee Chair
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor, and Leah McCann, Contributing Writer On Monday, Student Senate held its first impeachment trial, spent $11,000 on club activities, and donated $25,000 to scholarships and grants. President Sydney Quan ’22 also spoke about the Integrated Learning Committee meeting, which will be held Wednesday, Oct 6 at noon; students are encouraged to attend. The Impeachment Quan proposed a discussion of...
College Loosens Masking Requirements for the Vaccinated
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor This afternoon, Dean of Students Anne Ehrlich emailed the campus community and announced that vaccinated people will be allowed to unmask in certain inside spaces, unvaccinated folks will continue to mask in all indoor spaces except their personal offices and rooms. “Over the past several weeks, we have closely monitored many indicators, including our consistently low campus positivity rate,”...
Alex Wiltz Chosen as New Executive Director, DPS
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor Today, Dean Anne Ehrlich announced the new Executive Director of Public Safety, Alex Wiltz, who will start on Nov. 29. Until then, Associate Director Matt Rose will continue to hold the interim leadership role. “I am confident that Alex’s deep experience with college campus safety positions him well to continue to move our program forward toward inclusive practices that align with our institution’s...
Two Decades Later, Honoring the Lives of Gettysburgians Affected By 9/11
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor Early in the morning on Sept. 11, President Iuliano stood at the Peace Pole to lead a moment of silence for the lives lost twenty years ago. There, he honored four Gettysburg College Alumni: survivor John Schmittle ’01; and three lost lives: Tim Betterly ’81, P’12, P’15, Joe Hasson ’89, and Doug DiStefano ’99. The sole Gettysburg 9/11 survivor, Schmittle, had graduated mere months before the...
Gettysburg Sets Campus-Wide Temporary Indoor Mask Mandate
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor This past week, Vice President for College Life Anne Ehrlich and Provost Chris Zappe announced the College will require indoor masking for all students, staff, and families regardless of vaccination status until further notice, effective August 23. This interim change results from monitoring the high transmission rate of COVID-19 in Adams County, according to the CDC, the trajectory of the Delta...
