Stories from the Class of 2023
By Phoebe Doscher, News Editor President Bob Iuliano was officially installed as Gettysburg College’s fifteenth president this past weekend, about one month into classes for the 2019-2020 academic year. Also new to campus are members of the Class of 2023, first-years who are already making their marks and experiencing the same acclimation to the new community as President Iuliano. Four of these students told us their...
Low Support Staff Wages at Gettysburg College
By Phoebe Doscher, News Editor In the spring of 2019, the Campus Climate Committee submitted a formal request to former President Janet Morgan Riggs to add members of the support staff to an existing compensation and benefits committee that would look specifically at the issue of low support staff wages. The issue was not pursued by Riggs before she retired. According to Co-Director of Human Resources Jennifer Lucas, “President...
Opinion: I’m from Sandy Hook. Now I’m Leading Gettysburg’s Charge to End Gun Violence.
By Phoebe Doscher I relax to the hum of my white noise machine emanating airplane-whoosh while I lie in bed in my dorm room at college. I clutch onto a tattered prayer shawl, making sure I nestle it in the curvature of my stomach, completing my nightly ritual before I drift to sleep. The shawl was once a carefully knit piece of fabric, but has deteriorated over time into long strands of yarn held together by knots. I acquired that...
Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Chi Team Up to End Hazing
By Phoebe Doscher, News Editor Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Chi kicked off Anti-Hazing Week with a painting party on Stine Lake Tuesday evening where students left handprints on a sheet to raise awareness of hazing incidents. The event was held in honor of Max Gruver, a student at Louisiana State University who died at a fraternity hazing incident in September of 2017. Alpha Delta Pi President Tyler Keohan ’20 said the event hit a...
Generator Malfunction Led to DPS Phone Outage During Last Month’s Campus Blackout
By Phoebe Doscher, News Editor Gettysburg College experienced a campus-wide power outage Thursday, August 22, causing the Department of Public Service (DPS) phone line system to fail. Although the generator in the DPS building was working over the course of the two hour long outage, a separate generator in Pennsylvania Hall failed during that time, according to Executive Director of Public Safety Bill Lafferty. Subsequently, the...
