A Note from the Editor: I’ve moved out for the last time. It sucks. But we’re not done yet.
To our readers: Earlier today, I returned to campus to clean out my room and office at The Gettysburgian. Truthfully, it was nothing short of gut-wrenching to pack four years worth of accumulated memories in about 90 minutes and leave campus without there even being anyone here to whom I could say a final goodbye. A semester that was cruising along as the highlight of my college career has suddenly hit a brick wall, and there is...
Opinion: Consider Your Impact for Collective Health
By Emma Armstrong, Guest Columnist During the week leading up to spring break, the coronavirus epidemic seemed distant to me. It only existed in casual speculative chit-chat amongst teachers and students. Questions like “Will the American Chemical Society Conference get canceled?” and “Should I go visit my sister in California and spend time on an airplane?” were some of the conversation fragments I heard. I don’t think that any...
Opinion: Gettysburg Must Prioritize Public Health for People Like Me
By Joshua Gonzalez, Guest Columnist It seems hard to believe that the world as we know it feels so much different than it was before spring break began. There were rumblings of a disease emerging in China that did not seem to be too large of a threat to the United States or Europe. All of the sudden, I read headlines from major world news organizations that the Italian government is sealing its borders. France is beginning to ban...
Opinion: Coronavirus, a Crisis of Confidence
By Wellington Baumann, Columnist As I watched President Trump’s Oval Office address on the coronavirus, I was left with the impression of another presidential address given in that same room 40 years ago. Then-President Jimmy Carter told an apprehensive nation that it suffered from a “crisis of confidence.” At the time, the western world endured an energy crisis derived from OPEC’s oil embargo and rampant inflation. With gas lines...
Opinion: Grief and Hope in the Aftermath of a Campaign
By Emily Dalgleish, Opinions Editor The end of Warren’s campaign marks the fifth losing campaign that I have worked on. Four of those campaigns were women getting beat by white men. You might think that defeat gets less soul-crushing after a few times, but I haven’t found that to be true. There is a unique type of grief that comes in the aftermath of a campaign. The loss feels personal: it feels as if the country rejected the values,...
Opinion: End the Culture of Humanities-Shaming
By Natalie Orga, Guest Columnist “If you’re a humanities major, you might fail this class, and you’ll be lucky to get a C. Don’t freak out — we don’t hand out A’s on this side of campus the way humanities professors do.” This is a comment made by a professor within the first session of one of the first STEM classes of my college career. Shocked, I studied the impassive faces of my peers, thinking that perhaps we’d all been...
