J. Carey Thompson Announced as Incoming VP for Enrollment and Educational Services
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief and Phoebe Doscher, Magazine Editor On Monday afternoon, President Bob Iuliano announced that J. Carey Thompson would serve as the next Vice President for Enrollment and Educational Services beginning July 1. Thompson, formerly Vice President for Enrollment and Communications and Dean of Admission at Rhodes College, replaces Barbara Fritze, who assumed the position in 2001 and announced her...
What We Learned From the Fall: Unpacking Gettysburg College’s COVID-19 Response
By Anna Cincotta, Editor-in-Chief On June 22, President Iuliano announced that Gettysburg College would reopen for an in-person fall semester after closing in the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By the time students were made aware of this plan to return to the residential model, intensive preparation was already well underway. The move-in process began in mid-August, and it seemed as though every aspect and inch of the college...
Professor Emerita Continues Support for Global Women’s Issues from Gettysburg
By Alicia Method, Staff Writer As Gettysburg students and community members filed through the farmers market this past autumn, they may have passed a small stand selling handcrafted purses and banners. If they stopped to read the sign, they would have seen the items were created by Bosnian women whose lives have been deeply affected by the Bosnian War and Siege of Sarajevo. Gettysburg College’s Professor Emerita Janet Powers set up...
International Students Spotlight: A Fall Semester During COVID-19
By Shanzae Sarwar, Contributing Writer Name: Ana Vashakmadze Class Year: Junior Major: Music; Business Minor Hometown: Tbilisi, Georgia “Being at home for almost six months helped me to reconnect with my friends and family more strongly. Since being home, I have attended open-air concerts including classical music concerts as well as the concert of the Georgian National Ballet Ensemble called ‘Sukhishvili,’...
Panel Discusses the Pivot in War History from Battle Lines to Abstraction
Professor Ian Isherwood By Garrett Adams, Staff Writer It is a general belief that war affects only those that are on the front line and the soldiers doing the fighting are impacted the most, both physically and mentally. However, in a panel discussion led by Professors Ian Isherwood ‘00, Dina Lowy, and William Bowman, the idea of the Front became fewer battle lines and trenches and much more abstract. The talk itself took place over...
The Eisenhower Institute’s Civil Discourse Series: Democracy in America: Past, Present, and Future
By Vanessa Igras, Staff Writer On Wednesday, Nov. 11th, viewers tuned in to the new webinar series, Civil Discourse, hosted by the Eisenhower Institute. Brendan Cushing-Daniels, Professor of Economics at Gettysburg College and the current Harold G. Evans Chair of the Eisenhower Leadership Studies, moderated this week’s discussion regarding the state of U.S democracy. Keynote speaker, William Hitchcock, is a Professor of History...
