In Email To Gettysburg’s Senior Class, Iuliano Announces Plans to Maintain Traditions This Spring
By Jane Fitzpatrick, Assistant News Editor On the afternoon of Feb. 18, President Bob Iuliano wrote an email to the class of 2021. “Your class has been on my mind a lot this year, but especially as of late, as you settle into your final semester as Gettysburg students,” he began. Iuliano expressed sympathy for the seniors experiencing their final year far differently from what they may have expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “In...
Iuliano Updates Faculty on Vaccination Prospects, APPC Proposes Motion Expanding the S/U Grading Option
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief Feb. 18 Faculty Meeting Key Takeaways : Last week there were no new cases of COVID-19 among the student body. From what we know so far from this week’s testing, there are still zero cases on campus. President Iuliano is confident that faculty and staff working on campus will have access to vaccines when the state moves into vaccination Phase 1B. Provost Chris Zappe announced that professors...
Women’s Lacrosse Coach Carol Cantele Named To the IWLCA Hall of Fame
By David Goldman, Staff Writer Head coach of the women’s lacrosse team at Gettysburg Carol Cantele has received the greatest honor a coach can obtain. After twenty-eight years of heading one of the most successful lacrosse programs in the nation, Cantele has been selected to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Hall of Fame. With a career record of 422-110 and 12 Centennial Conference championships in the...
Amid Pandemic, First-Year Class Size Drops Lowest in Recent Memory
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief In 2018, 748 students matriculated at Gettysburg with their sights on being members of the class of 2022. This past fall, just two years later, that number dropped by more than 14 percent. There are 640 students in the current first-year cohort. “At our highpoint, in 2013, we had slightly more than 2,700 students enrolled,” Iuliano said in an address to the campus community on Oct. 29. “This...
Survivors Protest Draws Attention to Campus Sexual Assault Problem
By Katie Oglesby, News Editor Survivors of Gettysburg, an organization dedicated to the issue of sexual assault on campus, held a protest the second week of classes where students would order posters from them and hang them in their windows. These posters made statements such as, “Gettysburg College Has a Rape Problem” or “Gettysburg College Has a Stalking Problem.” “Our goal with this protest was to draw attention to the issue of...
NFL Season Recap: A Season Unlike Any Other Ends in a Familiar Way
By Jack Herr, Staff Writer When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March, the sports world, like many other aspects of life, ceased to operate for several months due to both governmental regulations and a general concern over how to contain transmission of the virus in high-contact play. The NBA was the first league to spur a successful return to sports, creating the well-known “bubble” in Orlando, FL, utilizing Disney World resources....
