Opinion: Without a Call for Change, Solidarity Is Silent and Inconsequential
By Nicole DeJacimo, Guest Columnist Solidarity marches are irrelevant without a concrete call for change. Last Friday, over 150 Gettysburg College students, administration, faculty, and community members stood in front of Penn Hall in solidarity with the thousands of marches around the world calling for government officials to address climate change. The universal strike came three days before the United Nations climate summit, where...
From the Editor: A New Chapter
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief I have a friend on campus who frequently prods me with the question: “How’s print media doing?” The implication, of course, is that it is a dying breed, that people prefer to read news digitally on their own terms rather than wait for a periodical aggregation on paper with a shelf life that lasts only until the next development, which, in our fast-paced world, tends to be measured...
Opinion: Arming Teachers Is Not the Answer
By Emma Canfora, Guest Columnist In the time that it takes me to write this, eight people will be shot and four of them will die. According to the Gun Violence Archive, 10,289 people have been shot and killed in America this year. From the period of January 1, 2009, to May 21, 2018, America has had 288 school shootings. The other G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom) have had a total of three...
Opinion: From the Diaries of a Weary STEM Student
By Olivia Chatowsky, Guest Columnist It was a week into classes, and I had already spent a Saturday brooding. I finally broke down and decided I had to tell someone—I couldn’t keep it in any longer. My mom told me not to call her to complain or cry. This is college, after all. I have come home and told my friends that I’m having an existential crisis so many times I’ve lost count. Each time it’s the same: am I on the right track? Is...
Opinion: The Time for Gun Safety Reform is Right Now
By Emily Dalgleish, Columnist After years of training, I know what to do if a shooting began at school. I’ve never practiced a shooting drill at a concert, a festival, a grocery store, or walking around my town. The tragedy of mass shootings is not simply a problem with school safety, it is a problem with guns. It is a problem with our legislators’ inability to choose the safety of our people over the support of gun lobbyists. It is a...
A Note from the Editor: Reflections on Year One
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The world has a strange way of humbling people. Last May, I took over as editor-in-chief of The Gettysburgian brimming with confidence and excitement about what the future would hold. I had inherited leadership of a newspaper whose organizational structure and capacity I had helped build, but whose focus and temperament I knew needed to be refined. One year later, it has become clear that, as much...
