Get Acquainted Day 2019: Accepted Student Highlights
By Thea Toocheck, Staff Writer Each spring, Gettysburg College hosts a Get Acquainted Day for accepted and newly enrolled students. Hundreds of prospective students and family members bustle around campus, enjoying the atmosphere of the college. The future class of 2023 and their families had a busy schedule with activities ranging from an exposition for clubs and services in the morning to academic presentations and a reception for...
The Story of a Great Gettysburgian: Janet Morgan Riggs as Professor
By Julia Chin and Thea Toocheck, Staff Writers Janet Morgan Riggs graduated with Gettysburg College’s senior class of 1977 with Princeton University on the horizon before her. At age 22, Riggs never expected that she would return to Gettysburg’s campus in four years, and this time, not as a student. After earning her Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton, Riggs returned to Gettysburg College in 1981 as a professor, an occupation she...
SAE and TriSig Win Airbands, Hosted by ADPi
By Thea Toocheck, Staff Writer Last Saturday, March 30, Alpha Delta Pi hosted its much-loved Airbands competition in the College Union Building Ballroom. ADPi is one of Gettysburg’s seven sororities, and each year they host Airbands to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities. ADPi and RHMC have been partners since 1979, and since then, the Alpha Delta Pi Foundation has facilitated the contribution of more than $14,000,000...
Wandering through Multiverses with Helen Schulman
By Thea Toocheck, Staff Writer On Wednesday, Jan. 23, Helen Schulman was the first speaker in this semester’s reading series in a discussion of “the craziest book I’ve written,” to quote Schulman, called Come with Me. Schulman is a New York Times bestselling author who has published five books and has had fiction and non-fiction appear in Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Come with...
Christmas Festival Brings Holiday Cheer to Gettysburg
By Thea Toocheck, Staff Writer The appearance of December and the approaching end of the semester heralds another arrival: that of the holiday season. It is hard to miss, what with the multi-holiday decorations in Servo and the library, the snowman tree in Commons, and festive music playing whichever way you turn. The town of Gettysburg celebrated the arrival of the holiday season with the Gettysburg Christmas Festival. In the past,...
