Student Senate 2/12: Addressing Student Concerns and Holding a Goal-Setting Session
By William Oehler, Contributing Writer Officer Reports President Andrew Lemon ’24 opened the meeting with the announcement of the Franklin Moore Award. The award is presented to a Senior undergraduate student who “has shown the highest degree of good citizenship.” Senators were asked to vote for their candidate during the meeting through a posted link. Vice President Geoffrey Meadville ’25 Reminded everyone about the rules of...
Opinion: Student Senate on Establishing Reasonable Grading Practices
Framework and Basis The below opinion (S/RES/2401) was amended and approved by the Student Senate during its weekly meeting on February 12, 2024. The opinion was drafted by the Student Senate Opinions Committee during the week of February 4, 2024. The Committee found that, in general Students are dissatisfied by the current system of grade posting and the timeliness of grade returns. There exists inconsistencies in how professors...
Opinion: The United States Must Act to Protect Human Rights in Palestine
By Vincent DiFonzo, Staff Writer Since Oct. 7, over 30,000 people have died as a consequence of the Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli assault on Gaza. No matter how you feel about the long and divisive Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is no question that the world faces a massive humanitarian crisis—civilians on both sides are dead, millions are displaced from their homes and basic human rights have been repeatedly...
Problem of the Week: Spring 2024, Number 4
Editor’s Note: The Department of Mathematics at Gettysburg College hosts a problem of the week challenge to determine each semester’s Paul Mugabi problem-solving award recipient(s). Each week’s entries are scored by a faculty judge, and winner(s) from each week will receive a Problem Of the Week (P.O.W.) button. The Gettysburgian is not involved in or responsible for accepting or evaluating students’ submissions to this contest....
The CAFE Symposium: A Display of First-Year Accomplishments
By Ava Burchell, Staff Writer The Celebration of Academic First-Year Engagement (CAFE) Symposium took place on Feb. 7 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The event took place in the CUB Ballroom and was filled with first-year student presentations about the various projects they completed in their first-year seminars. Students described their projects to staff, faculty and students from across campus. Additionally, coffee and finger foods were...
The NFL’s Best Compete in the 2024 Pro Bowl
By Max Ferguson, Staff Writer With the end of the 2023-24 NFL season rapidly approaching, the league rounded up the strongest candidates to put on a spectacle of football in this year’s Pro Bowl. Each conference sent their best players, voted on by fans, to represent them in the Pro Bowl games. The Pro Bowl is no longer an organized game of the NFL, but rather a series of skill competitions occurring in between the quarters of a...
