Community Gathers for Main Street Gettysburg’s Dinner Party Fundraiser
By Alicia Method, Staff Writer One hundred and fifty six years ago, Abraham Lincoln traversed the streets of Gettysburg to deliver his famed Gettysburg Address. Today, these same historic streets are being restored and revitalized through Main Street Gettysburg: an organization dedicated to “the preservation, revitalization and improvement of the Historic District of Gettysburg.” To continue funding these efforts, Main Street...
Vietnam Veterans Share Experiences and Lessons from War
By Kyle Beatty, Staff Writer Five Vietnam veterans gathered in CUB 260 Thursday evening to share their war experiences with Gettysburg students and faculty. The event, hosted by and presented to two First-Year Seminars, began with an introduction from History Professor Michael Birkner, who teaches the seminar, “You Say You Want a Revolution? The Sixties Revisited.” He presented the war as a Rorschach, or inkblot, test that...
Inauguration Panels on Climate Change, Eisenhower’s Lessons, and American Economics
Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Insights By Phoebe Doscher, News Editor Professors from the Departments of Environmental Studies and Psychology presented interdisciplinary research on climate change. Students worked with Environmental Studies Professor Sarah Principato to study the effects of virtual placement attachment and film on climate change awareness. She reported that of her students, Dori Gorcyzca ‘15 and Brittany Bondi...
Rudd Applies Lessons as Vietnam Activist to Modern Student Protest
By Cameron Jury, Staff Writer Mark Rudd came to Gettysburg College this Tuesday to speak to students about his time as an anti-war activist and political organizer specifically relating to his memoir: Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen. Now 72-years-old, Rudd shared his experience organizing a student revolution in 1968 at Columbia University. Rudd spoke with a great passion and even greater nostalgia to the students and...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: October 3, 2019
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The Gettysburg College faculty dispensed with its agenda in a mere 22 minutes on Thursday afternoon. During that time, it passed a motion to approve a restructured major from the Management Department entitled “Business, Organizations & Management.” The faculty spent two entire meetings last spring debating a proposal from the Management Department to add a dual major in business...
Senate Discusses Opinions Committee Proposal to Change Medical Amnesty Policy
By Kyle Beatty, Contributing Writer The final Student Senate meeting of September included budget reporting and requests, recognition of a new club, and discussion of recommended changes to the college’s medical amnesty policy. Senate Parliamentarian Shane Carley ‘22 introduced an amendment from the Policy Committee separating the Safety and Sustainability Committee into an individual Safety Committee and a Sustainability Committee....
