RSL Holds Spring Break Trips for Students Staying On-Campus
By Sydney Dyer, Staff Writer Over Spring Break, the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (RSL) held two off-campus trips each weekend. The first was the 24-Hour Mindfulness Retreat on March 3 and 4, and the second was to Washington, D.C. on March 11. “The goal of us taking these trips around Spring Break is to give students who otherwise would not have an opportunity to visit home and family to have an enriching opportunity to get...
Contours of the Middle East Program Offers Experiential Learning Opportunity Over Spring Break
By Laurel Bennett, Staff Writer Over spring break, the Eisenhower Institute (EI) program “Contours of the Middle East” traveled to Jerusalem and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) as an experiential learning component of the program. The trip was under the guidance of Danny Sebright, who is a guest lecturer for EI and currently serves as the President of the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council. The trip exposed students to many historical...
The Value of a Global Education
By Anna Audia, Lead Copyeditor Mason Clark ’24, an international affairs and political science double major, began this semester with back-to-back trips to Rwanda and Colombia in an effort to understand how conflict-stricken nations reconstruct themselves. Clark traveled first to Rwanda with the Immersion Project program through the Center for Public Service from Jan. 4 to the 14. His interest in Rwanda began in eighth grade when he...
Postcard from Abroad: New Beginnings in Berlin
By Aleah Ellerbee, Contributing Writer When I toured Gettysburg College during my senior year of high school, my tour guide mentioned that the college was evaluated as one of the top programs for study abroad. In the back of my mind I thought that it was such a useful piece of information since I had no intention of going abroad during my time in college. It wasn’t until the spring break of my sophomore year that I had changed my...
Grassroots Anti-Racism Activism in Gettysburg
By Kyle Hammerness, Features Editor The American Anti-Racism Alliance is a grassroots collection of people from the Gettysburg College community. In September 2020, a group of Gettysburg College students and employees participated in an anti-racism activation experience titled, A Long Talk about the Uncomfortable Truth (“A Long Talk”). When participants in the program wanted to continue this anti-racist work, Kyle Williams, the...
Model UN Visited Europe over Winter Break to Enhance their Club Experience
By Zach Brooks, Staff Writer This past winter break, members of the Gettysburg International Affairs Club and Model United Nations (Model UN) went abroad to Europe, a long-planned trip that finally materialized in part due to co-president of the organization Sophia Meyer ’24. Meyer is an anthropology and political science double major, and an Africana studies minor. Meyer said that she was inspired to major in political science with a...
