President Iuliano Encourages Students to Vote in Campus-Wide Email
By Vincent DiFonzo, Editor-in-Chief President Bob Iuliano sent a campus-wide email on Monday afternoon addressing the upcoming election, encouraging students to vote and calling for the community to treat each other with “respect for difference.” Iuliano began his email by acknowledging the divisive political climate surrounding this year’s election. “It’s an election in which the candidates offer profoundly different views of where...
Woman Charged in Summer Vandalism of Gettysburg Battlefield, College Campus
By Vincent DiFonzo, Editor-in-Chief A woman has been charged in connection to using spray paint to vandalize a number of locations around Gettysburg, including the battlefield, the borough and at Gettysburg College’s Musselman Stadium. Suzanne Weiser was charged by the Gettysburg Police Department on Thursday in connection to the vandalism, which took place in August. She faces misdemeanor charges for intentional desecration of a...
Conversations for Change Lecture: ‘A Nation Divided? We’re More Alike Than We Think’
By Vincent DiFonzo, Editor-in-Chief On Thursday evening, Conversations for Change welcomed James Coan for a lecture focused on political polarization. Coan co-founded More Like Us, an organization aimed at “[spreading] the message that Americans are more similar across the political spectrum than we think.” The lecture is the latest event in the C4C series, the new College initiative aimed at creating constructive dialogue across...
President’s Office Updates Community on Steps to ‘Address Bias and Identity-Based Issues’
By Vincent DiFonzo, Editor-in-Chief On Thursday, the President Bob Iuliano’s chief of staff Kris Stuempfle sent a campus-wide email updating the community on steps the College is taking to “address bias and identity-based issues.” The update comes after a campus-wide email sent by Iuliano on Oct. 3 that announced new initiatives the College is taking in light of the incident in which a racial slur was cut into the body of a student...
Gavin Foster, John Whitehouse to Succeed Rod Tosten as Heads of College IT
By Vincent DiFonzo, Editor-in-Chief Vice President of Information Technology Rod Tosten ’85, who is set to retire at the end of this semester, will be succeeded by Gavin Foster who will take over under the title Chief Information Officer. Additionally, John Whitehouse, who works as the College’s data and software architect, will take on the role Director of Data Systems. The transition was announced in a campus-wide email sent by...
