Dr. Stephenson is the Chair of the Physics Department at Gettysburg College. She was gracious enough to share the below story with The Forum, with the consent of the student involved, and we are grateful for the opportunity to publish it.
On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving I met with a frazzled first-year physics student who had been juggling her ambitious courseload with her cheerleading obligations. I assumed she was in my office, ...
By The Gettysburg College Fencing Club
Last Sunday, Gettysburg College’s Fencing Club went to its second competition against Wilson College. This competition also marked the Club’s first “away” game, with the Club members driving up to Wilson’s campus in order to compete. The Fencing Club managed to get a head start winning bouts in the beginning but struggled towards the end of the competition as Wilson College picked up the pace. Nonetheless, after some intense fencing, ...
By Emily Francisco
Music was a major component in the staging of Blood Wedding. The use of music made the production unique, but at times the music became distracting. In Scene 1, the Groom talks with his Mother in his home. Professor Babatunde Lea, who did the percussion for the show, was featured in this scene with regular sequences on a bongo drum, which were interjected into the dialogue. Had this technique been used more sparingly, ...
By Emily Francisco
Last week the Department of Theatre Arts presented its first Mainstage production of the year: Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding.
In the program, Susan Russell noted that the play is distinguished by its characters’ feelings of being trapped; the Mother of the Groom is trapped in her hatred of the Bride’s former sweetheart’s family, Leonardo and his Wife are trapped in unhappiness, and the Bride is trapped in her father’s bidding. This is a ...
By Emily Francisco
The evening officially began at 6:00 with an introduction by the Provost of Hood College, who then led a brief interview session with Hosseini. Questions she asked pertained to his founding of the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, his books’ familial themes, and his approach to writing.
“I rarely make concrete decisions on my writing ahead of time,” The author confessed. “Things happen accidentally, and then I find the purpose in them.”
Following the one-on-one session, the ...
By Emily Francisco
Last Wednesday, October 26 at 4:15 p.m. fifty lucky Gettysburg students were bused to Hood College for a very special lecture. Given by none other than Khaled Hosseini, author of international bestsellers The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, the lecture addressed not just the success of his books, but also his background, his acquired writing process, and the current state of affairs in Afghanistan.
Hosseini grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan. In 1965 ...
By Ja(y)ne Freeborn(e)
Rachel Weisz is Kathy Bolkovac, a real-life policewoman on whose book the film is based, who traveled to post-war Bosnia as part of the UN International Police Force and found a deepset and far-reaching web of sex slavery. For an excellent, concise and historical perspective on the ethnic aspect of Bosnia's problems, read Patrick Geary's introduction to his 2002 book, The Myth of Nations (http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7124.pdf ). For an emotional but unflinching approach, watch ...
By Ja(y)ne Freeborn(e)
Through a barrage of 70s color and film pastiche, The Guard tells a story somewhere between a western, a Greek myth and a Wodehouse story, about Gleeson, an Irish policeman (a member of 'the Guard') and his ill-matched FBI partner (Cheadle) who must contend with a trio of philosophizing drug barons, corrupt police, and the inhabitants of Galloway. It is a well-trod path but an immensely enjoyable one, which manages to be unique ...
By Ja(y)ne Freeborn(e) Real Steel. I wasn't good. Maybe it would have been good if I had felt any investment in the characters, or even liked any of them. Maybe it would have been good if I felt the robot boxing element was in any way plausible (not technologically speaking, I have no problem suspending that disbelief, but I just couldn't buy that no spectators die while watching several tons of steel careen around a fighting ...
On Friday, September 16 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would pursue full membership for a Palestinian state within the United Nations ...
This month the Schmucker Art Gallery features the works of Ronald Gonzalez, a sculptor with unique visions. Approaching the concept of found objects ...
Ronald Gonzalez: Private Collection in Schmucker Gallery
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