The Campus Community Receives News of College Employee’s Passing
By Laken Franchetti, Editor-in-Chief This afternoon, President Bob Iuliano sent an email to the campus community detailing the untimely passing of Assistant Director of International Student Services Sara Gifford. The College became aware of the news earlier this morning. “She died as a result of an automobile accident on Friday, December 22,” Iuliano wrote. “The news has come as a shock to our entire community, including her fellow...
Editorial: On Crafting the Academic Environment
By The Gettysburgian Editorial Board Colleges and universities are institutions that are meant to guide humanity into the future. Ideas—new and old—are exchanged, discussed, studied and analyzed in the pursuit of knowledge. The nature of academia is inherently divisive because of its role as a place for contradicting views and ideas to be challenged. This divisiveness is by design—existing knowledge, opinions and theories are meant to...
“From Mountains to Cities: East Asian Landscapes” Exhibit Opens
By Sarah Daniels, Staff Writer On Wednesday, Dec. 6, art history professor Yan Sun and the 10 students from her Art History Methods class opened their curated exhibit titled “From Mountains to Cities.” The students included Catherine Haley ’24, Conrad Martens ’25, Cyndy Basil ’25, Emma Wylam ’24, Isobel Debenham ’25, Katherine Tyson ’26, Lenna Kouzoujian ’25, Miriam Glatfelter ’24, Molly Griffith ’23 and Noelle Muni ’24. The exhibit...
The Multi-Faceted Approach for Textbook Affordability at Gettysburg College
By Ella Prieto, Managing and News Editor Last semester, Director of Scholarly Communications Janelle Wertzberger and Scholarly Communications Librarian Mary Elmquist shared the results from the Gettysburg College Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey conducted in the fall of 2022. The research was titled “Spend, Stress, and Struggle: Gettysburg College Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey 2022.” Their research provided...
The IT Department: A Resource for Student Technology Needs
By Sophie Lange, Assistant News Editor Gettysburg College’s IT Department, housed in the West Building, provides a wide variety of services to undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff. G-Tech is likely the most well-known and utilized of these College services with over 1,500 tickets in their system from the Fall 2023 semester alone. Run by Computer Support Specialist and Student Coordinator for Infrastructure and...
Juls Buehrer: Stitching Together Artistic Visions for the Gettysburg Stage
By Heather Wirick, Staff Writer The productions put on by the Gettysburg Theater Department bring a whirlwind of spectacle to audiences each year, and Juls Buehrer is a major contributor to this process. Serving as a painter for the department since 2010 and a costume designer since 2014, Buehrer brings a new, curated feel to each production, which is brought forth by her artistic training, inspirations and collaboration. Buehrer...
