College Institutes Reduced Hours, Furloughs To Address Budgetary Gap Caused by Coronavirus
By Benjamin Pontz and Gauri Mangala Gettysburg College will furlough a “small number” of administrative employees, reduce the hours of some support staff, and reduce its contribution to employee retirement accounts to help offset financial effects of closing campus due to COVID-19. The announcement came Monday afternoon in a message to all employees. “We will be more closely aligning the pay with the actual working...
Cincotta, Mangala, Neiman to Lead Gettysburgian in 2020-21 Academic Year
Staff Report Anna Cincotta ’21 will serve as editor-in-chief of The Gettysburgian for its 123rd volume during the 2020-21 academic year. She will be joined by managing editors Gauri Mangala ’21 and Maddie Neiman ’21. The trio — along with the rest of the editorial board for the upcoming academic year — was elected unanimously by The Gettysburgian‘s staff Sunday afternoon. Cincotta, who served as...
Great Work from Home: Day 26
Welcome to the twenty-sixth edition of our “Great Work from Home” daily bulletin, an initiative of The Gettysburgian during this season of social distancing. Each morning, we will present a curated playlist, a favorite Gettysburg campus photo, and hometown spotlight, each submitted by a different Gettysburgian. This is a way to start our days together. We’ll present these features on Instagram, on our website, and,...
Great Work from Home Week 6: Books and Walks
By Lauren Hand, Magazine Editor We are now entering our final week of classes, and with that, our last week of the Great Work from Home initiative. The past five weeks, we have asked you to share little aspects of your daily lives—what you’re listening to, what it looks like outside your back door—as wells as photos from life in Gettysburg, all with the goal of keeping us connected. Last week, we partnered up with the Library...
Review: Pandemic
By Ethan Cannistra, Staff Writer The Netflix show Pandemic provides an interesting look at the threat of a global pandemic. The series looks at how quickly a pandemic can occur and how underprepared nations around the world are. However, the series mostly focuses on the threat of a flu pandemic. It also examines the hope for a universal flu vaccine that can hopefully abolish the flu for good. Pandemic is a timely look at the threat of...
From the Editor: A Change to How We’ll Handle the Crime Log
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Since the fall of 2016, The Gettysburgian has, on a weekly or a biweekly basis, published the Daily Crime and Fire Logs exactly as reported by the Gettysburg College Department of Public Safety (DPS) both in print and on our website (and exclusively on our website since fall of 2019). This is not the first time in the publication’s 122-year history that some facsimile of the crime log has been...
