Networking websites serve as helpful tools for college grads
By Chrstina Marder, Staff Writer As if four years of high school was not academically challenging enough, another four years of even more rigorous studying at Gettysburg College should reassure soon-to-be graduates that they will succeed in finding employment upon entering the real world. With economic tension plaguing the job market today, this is unfortunately not necessarily the case for all individuals post-graduation. College...
New Jersey outlaws use of tanning booths for minors
By Morgan Patullo, Staff Writer Over one million Americans tan in tanning salons each day. Although tanning can hide skin imperfections, give the allusion of a summer glow and even mask cellulite, it can also have devastating effects such as skin cancer, wrinkling and sunspots. Most disturbingly, it can accelerate skin aging by ten to 15 years. Individuals who have a tanning addiction are comically referred to as...
Exoskeleton provides mobility to paraplegics
By Carter Ashforth, Staff Writer Russ Angold, the founder and chief technology officer of Esko Bionics, recently informed the New York Times that his company has invented “the jeans of the future” in the form of an exoskeleton frame to help wounded soldiers and disabled individuals move again. Originally designed as a robotic skeletal frame to help soldiers in the military carry up to 200 pounds across long distances, this...
Redesign of College webpage aims to improve mobile site
By Christopher Dellana, Contributing Writer In a 1987 article, New York University’s Frances J. Milliken cites the variable invoked by organizational theorists known as “environmental uncertainty.” This concept, though debated, establishes a psychological reason that validates human resistance to change. Whether we fear the uncertainty of change or simply resist alterations to the status quo, human reluctance to change...
New social media site provides anonymity
By Carter Ashforth, Staff Writer As current young adults at Gettysburg College, we have witnessed the birth and growth of social media and have truly been swept away by the colossal monsoon that social media has become. I, like many others, can remember the moment when I first signed up for Facebook in the ninth grade after my then-boyfriend insisted it would help us to better stay in contact. I never would have guessed that almost...
Iraqi war veteran survives unprecedented transplant
By Marli Horwitz, Staff writer It took thirteen hours of surgery on December 18, 2012, sixteen different orthopedic and microvascular surgeons, and one injured veteran’s determination for U.S Army Infantryman Brendan Marrocco to successfully undergo a double-arm transplant. On April 12, 2009, the Iraqi war veteran was driving an armored vehicle back to base from Baghdad when a roadside explosion caused him to lose both arms and both...
