Students Celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility
By Kyle Beatty, Staff Writer On Saturday, Mar. 27, those taking advantage of the warm weather by taking a walk down Carlisle Street were greeted with blue and pink decorations on the porches and front yards of six College Houses, with a few more scattered across campus. House Leaders and members had set up stands for an early celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility (Mar. 31st), an event dedicated to celebrating the lives and...
Student Senate Gears Up for Elections
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor The first Senate meeting of April began with a discussion about technocratic elections as well as presidential and vice presidential elections. They began to accept applications for technocratic positions on Tuesday, the same day as the forum for the presidential and vice presidential elections. Student Senate President Kurtis Grey ‘21 announced that student organizations are allowed to host outdoor...
Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith on How to Put ‘Guardrails’ on the Presidency
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor On Thursday, Mar. 25, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and co-founder of Lawfare Jack Goldsmith joined the Fielding Center for Presidential Leadership Study to discuss his book After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency. The discussion was moderated by political science professor and Director of the Fielding Center Shirley Warshaw. Goldsmith...
Editorial: Strengthening Gettysburg College During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By The Gettysburgian Editorial Board Long before 2020, Gettysburg College faced serious financial challenges stemming from an impending demographic cliff that promises to complicate future class sizes at liberal arts institutions. This past October, in a prelude to the college’s next strategic plan, President Bob Iuliano underscored these economic uncertainties. “Before COVID hit, national projections estimated that the college-bound...
The Women’s Center’s Presents “Our Voices are Vibrant”
By Victoria Staub, Contributing Writer On Saturday, March 19, the Gettysburg College Women’s Center virtually presented “Our Voices are Vibrant” via Zoom. Gettysburg students Ellie Boye ’22, Ericka Parra ’21, and Caoilainn “Kiki” McKenna ’21, as Women’s Center Program Coordinators and Co-Directors of “Our Voices,” were responsible for coordinating this project alongside 11 participants from the Gettysburg College community. This...
Doing Great Work: Building a Tiny House in a Pandemic
By Gauri Mangala, Managing Editor After learning that studying abroad would likely not be an option for the fall semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental studies and music major Zach de Besche ‘22 decided to take on a unique project: building a tiny house on wheels. Tiny houses tend to hover around 100 to 400 square feet in terms of size, and promote sustainability and simple living. These independent structures are also...
