College Celebrates the Life of Gordon Haaland
By Sarah Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer Gettysburg College held a memorial service Sunday in the Campus Union Building Ballroom honoring the college’s 12th president, Gordon Haaland, who served the college from 1990 to 2004. The event provided Haaland’s colleagues and friends with an opportunity to mourn his sudden loss and celebrate his legacy. Speakers stood in front of the former president’s image and shared their fondest memories of...
Gettysburg Fraternities and ROTC Students Work on Battlefield Beautification
By Sarah Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer In these tight budgetary times, the National Park Service had struggled to find a work force to clear brush from around the Eternal Peace Light Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield until Alpha Chi Rho, Alpha Omicron Pi, and the ROTC program offered to help. On Saturday, October 21, over 80 Gettysburg students from these organizations donated three hours of their time to work on park beautification...
Howard Fineman Named 2018 Commencement Speaker
By Sarah Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer Gettysburg College has announced that it will host Howard Fineman as the 2018 commencement speaker. Fineman, who serves as Global Editorial Director for the Huffington Post and has a long-standing relationship with the college, has published books about political history, has appeared on TV shows such as “Morning Joe,” and has interviewed every significant American presidential candidate...
Lincoln Lyceum Lecture: Stepping into Lincoln’s White House
By Sarah Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer Gettysburg College’s Civil War Institute sponsored a lecture Thursday by James Conroy, a recipient of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, about his winning book Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime. The Gilder Lehrman Institution and Gettysburg College award this prize annually to an outstanding historical work on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War soldier. This is Conroy’s...
College works to implement action items from climate study
By Sarah Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer Last fall,the consulting firm Rankin and Associates returned the results of a campus climate study to the Gettysburg College community along with suggestions for improvement. Although the survey found a variety of positive trends at the college, such as high levels of comfort and positive attitudes about academic work, it also demonstrated that Gettysburg struggles with issues like discrimination and...
