Monique Heart of RuPaul’s Drag Race to Perform at Springfest 2020
By Maura Breth, Staff Writer American drag queen Monique Heart, from RuPaul’s Drag Race, will be the artist at Springfest 2020, according to an announcement at Snowball. Monique Heart, the stage name of Kevin Richardson, has competed on the tenth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the fourth season of the All-Stars edition of the show. In 2019, New York magazine named Monique Heart one of the top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in...
Student Senate Discusses Funding ROTC Ball with $30 Cover Charge
By Gauri Mangala, Managing Editor The Monday, Feb. 17 meeting of Student Senate opened with an announcement from President Pat McKenna ‘20 regarding the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Any senators who wish to take the IDI can sign up through Student Senate. Nataelle Pitts ‘22, a representative from the Center for Career Engagement came to talk to Senate about the summer externship program and urged students to consider...
Review: Symphony Orchestra Delivers Raw, Compelling Performance of 19th, 20th Century Repertoire
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Symphony orchestras across the country have been grappling of late with how to make their performances more accessible — and thus more marketable — to modern audiences, who seem less and less inclined to pay rapt attention to music written centuries ago by dead white guys. While repertoire choices themselves are one way that ensembles are striving to be more inclusive, perhaps more acute...
Weekend Sports Roundup: Big Weekend as Winter Sports End, Spring Sports Begin
By Garrett Glaeser, Sports Editor It was a busy weekend for Gettysburg College athletics as the Bullets played host to a quartet of games Saturday afternoon plus Centennial Conference championship competition in swimming all weekend. Centennial Conference Swimming Championships The Gettysburg College Bullets Pool has been a bustling venue since Thursday as the Centennial Conference Championships are three-fourths of the way complete,...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: February 20, 2020
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The faculty held its second meeting of the semester Thursday afternoon and heard a handful of presentations before returning to a trio of proposed amendments to the Faculty Handbook. Provost’s Report Provost Chris Zappe opened the meeting with a presentation that offered faculty members ways they could work to strengthen the college’s financial footing and “help the college thrive...
Spotlight: Troy Johnson Offers Sessions on LGBTQ+ Life at Gettysburg
By Kathy Scott, Co-Features Editor Troy Johnson, a private therapist at Gettysburg College, works with LGBTQ+ students one-on-one and also hosts a group session one night a week at the counseling center. Johnson also conducts workshops to help people outside of the LGBTQ+ communities learn to be better allies. In the support group that Johnson runs every Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., participants focus directly about LGBTQ+...
