In season two, episode sixteen of “On Target,” Pontz and Mangala discuss the recent announcement of Gettysburg College’s fifteenth president. Then, they sit down with Associate Professor of Health Sciences Amy Dailey to discuss her epidemiological research on food insecurity in Adams County.
Bullet Points
Discussion of Robert Iuliano’s first visit to campus (1:20)
Recap of this week’s faculty meeting including a vote to make first-year seminars mandatory and discussion about hybrid summer courses (16:55)
Bullet Report: Update on Gettysburg College Athletics (see more in our sports section) (31:15)
Benjamin Pontz '20 served as Editor-in-Chief of The Gettysburgian from 2018 until 2020, Managing News Editor from 2017 until 2018, News Editor in the spring of 2017, and Staff Writer during the fall of 2016. During his tenure, he wrote 232 articles. He led teams that won two first place Keystone Press Awards for ongoing news coverage (once of Bob Garthwait's resignation, and the other of Robert Spencer's visit to campus) and was part of the team that wrote a first-place trio of editorials in 2018. He also received recognition for a music review he wrote in 2019. A political science and public policy major with a music minor, he graduated in May of 2020 and will pursue a master's degree in public policy on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Manchester before enrolling in law school.