The CAFE Symposium: A Display of First-Year Accomplishments
By Ava Burchell, Staff Writer The Celebration of Academic First-Year Engagement (CAFE) Symposium took place on Feb. 7 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The event took place in the CUB Ballroom and was filled with first-year student presentations about the various projects they completed in their first-year seminars. Students described their projects to staff, faculty and students from across campus. Additionally, coffee and finger foods were...
The NFL’s Best Compete in the 2024 Pro Bowl
By Max Ferguson, Staff Writer With the end of the 2023-24 NFL season rapidly approaching, the league rounded up the strongest candidates to put on a spectacle of football in this year’s Pro Bowl. Each conference sent their best players, voted on by fans, to represent them in the Pro Bowl games. The Pro Bowl is no longer an organized game of the NFL, but rather a series of skill competitions occurring in between the quarters of a...
Wrestling Has Busy Weekend Against Conference Foes
By Joe Curry, Staff Writer The Gettysburg wrestling team had a tough weekend of competition, with a matchup against Johns Hopkins this past Friday and a Centennial Conference quad match against Ursinus and Merchant Marine on Saturday. These back-to-back matches against conference competition saw many great performances from the squad. To start the weekend, Gettysburg defeated Johns Hopkins on the road to take home their first...
Opinion: The Case Against Animal Consumption
By Leah Nath, Staff Writer In no way is the climate crisis a result of the common person’s actions, nor is it our individual responsibility to solve it. The culprit lies with the companies and organizations who directly benefit from the further degradation of the environment—thus in the capitalist system of America, they are only incentivized to continue destroying the Earth and convincing the world that climate change is not real....
Senior Spotlight: Charlie Wingert, Theatre Arts
By David Poulos, Contributing Writer Theatre Arts and Cinema & Media Studies double major Charlie Wingert ’24 delivered his senior capstone staged reading on Feb. 4 in Brua Hall. Wingert wrote the story, arranged the music and directed the staged reading, titled “This Love: The Musical.” Wingert narrated the story, and the songs were performed by Evan Hilborn ’25, Katie Poliero ’25, Elana Mandelberg ’27, Devyn Wesolwski ’25 and...
The 26th PCG: Connecting Gettysburg College to the Past
By Laurel Bennett, Features Editor The 26th Pennsylvania College Guard club (26th PCG/PCG) gives members the opportunity to attend Civil War reenactments and living history events around Gettysburg and at National Park sites. The club draws its name from the Pennsylvania College students who served their nation during the American Civil War and put their studies on hold. Each semester, the 26th PCG attends one to two events that allow...
