Senior Spotlights: Post-Graduation Plans
Compiled by Laurel Bennett, Features Editor Abigail Dryden ’24: Semi-Finalist for a Fulbright Fellowship I am a semi-finalist for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program in Uruguay. I have taken an unusual path at Gettysburg, studying Political Science and Spanish for my majors in combination with a Chemistry minor. While unconventional, I am incredibly grateful to Gettysburg for allowing me the space to explore my...
Honor Commission Prepares to Update Honor Code Amidst AI and Efficacy Concerns
By Katie Lauriello, Lead Copy Editor For the past couple of months, the Gettysburg College Honor Commission has been evaluating the state of the Honor Code in light of technological developments and campus opinion. On Feb. 23, the Honor Commission released a survey to the greater campus community asking for student opinions on the current state of the Honor Code and Commission. With the help of this survey, as well as careful research...
The College Administration’s Work to Enhance Transparency & Demand in the Face of the Demographic Cliff
By Laken Franchetti, Editor-in-Chief, and Ella Prieto, Managing Editor Various colleges and universities are beginning to face the demographic cliff, meaning a loss in their student populations. The Chronicle of Higher Education explains that the cliff is a result of the 2008 recession, which led to couples having fewer or no children. As the nation reaches roughly 18 years since the recession, those fewer children are impacting the...
The Inside Scoop on Campus Recreation and Wellness
By Joe Curry, Staff Writer Campus recreation and wellness is important to many of the students on campus at Gettysburg College. In fact, the department shared that 92% of students have been served by campus recreation and wellness in the last year. However, the scope of the department and its goals may be unknown to most students. Head of Gettysburg College’s Campus Recreation and Wellness Department Annette Hunt-Shepherd wants to...
The Digital Age: A Creative Approach to Business
By Ava Burchell, Staff Writer The Digital Age is a brand new club at Gettysburg College focused on the creative side of business and marketing, especially through social media and photography. It was created by club president Michaela Carroll ’25 in the fall of 2023, and its meetings began in spring 2024. Carroll said that the club’s mission statement is to “develop members’ creativity channeling in on graphics and photography for...
A Note from the Editor: On Doing Something Instead of Nothing
By Eric Lippe, Magazine Editor The Gettysburgian is operated by a staff of students who retain full editorial control over the publication’s operations. Unlike many other college news organizations, none of The Gettysburgian’s staff is paid or otherwise compensated outside of experience and exposure. Yet, I have had the privilege of meeting many of the most dedicated and hard-working people that this campus has to offer within the...
