Opinion: Every Nice Tree is Twenty Years Old
By Logan Troy, Guest Columnist The U.S. Northeast has been engulfed in drought for nearly all of autumn. Wildfires have ravaged large swaths of land across the Atlantic seaboard, just as the World Meteorological Organization has announced that 2024 is the warmest year on record. 2024 specifically gets to boast the hottest summer ever recorded worldwide. The truth stares us in the face. “Climate Havens” like the hills of North Carolina...
Opinion: The Fate of Political Theory at Gettysburg College
By Terra Hobler, Opinions Editor Political science is currently the largest major by student participation on campus. The size of their department allows it to specialize into four different tracks: American government, international relations, comparative government and political theory. Each student majoring in political science is required to take three intro courses of different tracks and then continue to take upper level classes...
End-of-Semester Reflections: Student Perspectives
This article originally appeared on page 14 and 15 of the No. 1 December 2024 edition of The Gettysburgian magazine. By Ethan Osias, Guest Columnist During my time at Gettysburg I feel I have not only learned tons of new information in and outside the classroom, I have also learned how to be more confident with who I am and what I believe in. This is thanks to my professors for challenging me to go above and exceed my expectations I...
Opinion: A Message to Liberals from a Former Trump Supporter
By Tom Cassara ’23, Guest Columnist In 2016, my high school had a mock election ahead of the presidential election. The school’s administration had a voting booth brought in and placed in our schools’ main cafeteria. It represented a pretty solid exercise in civic preparedness. Over the course of several days, students could vote during school hours, reinforcing the notion that voting should be personal and private. As a social...
Opinion: In Spite of the Election, Keep Being You
By Michael DeRenzo, Guest Columnist With the 2024 Presidential Election coming to a close, I had a few thoughts that I would like to share. I am not a woman. I am not a black person. I am not part of the LGBTQ+ community. I am not a Latino, or an immigrant from outside the United States. Yet my heart aches for these all these communities. I do not see this election as a matter of left versus right. In fact, there are things about...
Opinion: Warning From a Former Trump Supporter
By Michael DeRenzo, Guest Columnist Back in 2016, I was an avid supporter of then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. His personality was bold and brash; with my then-limited impression of him, I was led to believe that anything and everything he stood up for, he represented the vast majority of us. Ideas that were once considered crazy and lunatic, such as wanting Mexico to pay for a future border wall that would deter illegal...
