The Places We Inherit
By Omer Shamil, Opinions Editor This article originally appeared on pages 23 to 24 of the Sept. 2026 edition of The Gettysburgian magazine More than 3,000 miles separate Gettysburg from Sainte-Mère-Église, France, but the two towns have maintained a relationship for more than three decades. Gettysburg and Sainte-Mère-Église became sister cities in 1993, a relationship that grew in part from the historical significance of both...
The Squircle: Servo’s Newest Update
By Omer Shamil, Opinions Editor This article originally appeared on pages 12 to 13 of the Sept. 2026 edition of The Gettysburgian magazine To some, perhaps most, Servo seems to change every time we spend a few moons away from it. Servo has seen us change as well. It has seen us through Thanksgiving dinners and the weeks when campus life gets the best of us. Students leave for summer and return older, perhaps wiser and certainly with...
Opinion: Progress for Whom?
By Omer Shamil, Opinions Editor Artificial Intelligence (AI) may become one of the defining technologies of our age, but history warns us that when societies celebrate innovation before they confront power, the costs of progress are almost always paid by someone else. The questions AI places before us now is not simply what it can do, but who will control it, who will benefit from it, and who will be left behind. It has entered...
