Opinion: Consider Your Impact for Collective Health
By Emma Armstrong, Guest Columnist During the week leading up to spring break, the coronavirus epidemic seemed distant to me. It only existed in casual speculative chit-chat amongst teachers and students. Questions like “Will the American Chemical Society Conference get canceled?” and “Should I go visit my sister in California and spend time on an airplane?” were some of the conversation fragments I heard. I don’t think that any...
Gettysburg Students Petition to Come Back to Campus, Others Argue Return is Unsafe
By Katie Oglesby, Assistant News Editor Delaney Etzkorn ‘23 has formed a petition asking for Gettysburg College to allow students to return to campus at the end of the extended Spring Break. The petition outlined a number of reasons students should be permitted to return, including that campus has better internet access than rural areas that students may come from and that students with learning disabilities may struggle in online...
Opinion: Gettysburg Must Prioritize Public Health for People Like Me
By Joshua Gonzalez, Guest Columnist It seems hard to believe that the world as we know it feels so much different than it was before spring break began. There were rumblings of a disease emerging in China that did not seem to be too large of a threat to the United States or Europe. All of the sudden, I read headlines from major world news organizations that the Italian government is sealing its borders. France is beginning to ban...
What to Watch and What to Read During Spring Break
By Jane Fitzpatrick, Features Editor Spring Break offers students a chance to catch up on TV shows and dive into a good book that wasn’t assigned for class. The library’s web resources, e-book collection, and streaming services remain available, and, of course, there’s always Netflix. For anyone who forgot to make a list of binge-worthy series and interesting pleasure-reads, here are some recommendations from other...
Opinion: Coronavirus, a Crisis of Confidence
By Wellington Baumann, Columnist As I watched President Trump’s Oval Office address on the coronavirus, I was left with the impression of another presidential address given in that same room 40 years ago. Then-President Jimmy Carter told an apprehensive nation that it suffered from a “crisis of confidence.” At the time, the western world endured an energy crisis derived from OPEC’s oil embargo and rampant inflation. With gas lines...
College Setting Up Isolation Zones in Residence Hall Rooms on Outskirts of Campus
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief About ten students returning from college-sponsored spring break trips who would be on campus Friday received phone calls directing them to vacate their rooms in buildings that are on the outskirts of campus so the college can use those spaces as potential isolation zones. According to three students who received the calls, they were told to remove their belongings from the residence hall rooms and...
