Swinging into the season: Women’s golf has success in first tournament
By Claire Healey, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College women’s golf team is off to another impressive start with its 2016-2017 season beginning last weekend. Coming off a huge Centennial Conference victory, the Bullets continued to lead in their first tournament of the fall season. For the third season in a row, Gettysburg captured a team victory in its opening tournament Saturday, September 10, at the Lebanon Valley College...
Bullets Shut Down Blue Jays Women’s soccer: First years make impressive debuts on the field
By Maddie Brown, Contributing Writer The Gettysburg College Women’s Soccer team beat Elizabethtown College 1-0 Saturday, to make a 2-1 record for the start of the season. With a scoreless first half, the Bullets had to fight to earn a victory in the last half hour of play. Four starters were absent from the field Saturday, making for new formations all around. Gettysburg outshot Elizabethtown 16-6 and earned its second shutout of the...
Bullet Shot: Athlete of the Week
By: Elizabeth Hilfrank, Sports Editor Senior Danny Thompson has made a return to his old role as quarterback for his final season as a Gettysburg College Bullet. Serving as wide receiver since the 2014 season, Thompson has been seen across various parts of the Musselman Stadium field. This season, with the loss of quarterback Sam McDermott to graduation, Thompson and junior Justin Davidov have shared the quarterback title in the...
How to stop screwing up on your diet (part 3)
By Ari Snaevarsson, Features Editor Last time I ended on the first two important questions in analyzing what went wrong. If you think you have isolated the specific thought that set things off, and you have identified a trigger food (or determined that is not the problem), there is still another question to bear in mind. What environment were you in? Even more superficial than the foods themselves is the environment where this...
Fitness Class Review
By Meredith Cox, Staff Writer One of the great things about Gettysburg’s campus is the free and easily accessibly Jaeger Fitness Center. The gym has great hours, top of the line equipment, and my favorite: amazing workout classes. This week I am featuring some classes the gym is offering this semester, which are really unique because they are taught by current students of the college. Cori Bonaddio is a senior who teaches a class...
This Week’s Top Stories
By Nora Tidey, News Editor National President Obama is expected to veto a bill unanimously passed by Congress that would allow families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks to sue the Saudi Arabian government. The bill would “let courts waive claims to foreign sovereign immunity in cases involving terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.” Obama has opposed the bill over concerns that foreign governments may exploit the move to...
