Gettysburgian editors Ben Pontz and Gauri Mangala discuss the news and other items of interest on the Gettysburg College campus and interview campus newsmakers on the new On Target podcast produced in association with WZBT.
As College Guidance Shifted, Students Were Caught in the Middle
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief An email from President Bob Iuliano to the campus community Friday afternoon opened by quoting the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’s aphorism about life’s only constant being change. The consistency of that change manifested itself in the college’s posture towards public health warnings throughout the week about the novel coronavirus as one […]
‘I am missing many of my books and essentially everything else that I own’: Students Caught Off Guard by Governor’s Sudden Order to Close College
By Benjamin Pontz & Gauri Mangala They were coming from Atlanta and from Santa Fe, from West Chester and from Greensburg, to retrieve their belongings and move out when, just after 7:00 p.m. Thursday, an email from Dean of Students Julie Ramsey stopped them in their tracks. The college would close at 8:00 p.m. to […]
Breaking: Governor’s Order Will Prevent Students from Retrieving Belongings, But Students Approved to Stay Can Stay
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief An order from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf requiring the closure of all non-life sustaining businesses by 8:00 p.m. Thursday will require Gettysburg College to close. Students will no longer be able to return to campus to retrieve belongings, an email from Dean of Students Julie Ramsey said. Previously, the college had […]
Spouse of College Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19, But Risk to Campus Remains Low, College Says
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Adams County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the disease that stems from the coronavirus, is a college employee’s spouse, President Bob Iuliano said in an email to faculty and staff Thursday afternoon. The college emphasized that there is a “low level of risk” to those with whom the employee whose spouse was […]
In Just Over 24 Hours, College Raises More Than $50,000 for Gettysburg College Student Emergency Fund
By Nicole DeJacimo, Investigations Editor As of 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Mar. 19, the college has raised $56,510 in an urgent push to fulfill over $50,000 in student requests over the past several weeks to the Gettysburg College Student Emergency Fund. The campaign, launched in an email to alumni Wednesday by Alumni Board of Director President […]
