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Director of the Center for Leadership Development Named

By Julie Ramsey

I am pleased to announce that Andrew Hughes will be joining the College as the Director of our new Center for Leadership Development.  Andy comes to us from Rollins College, where he served as the Assistant  Director of their “Explorations” program for first-year students. He also served previously as the Assistant Director of Student Involvement and Leadership at Rollins.  Andy is a graduate of Spring Hill College ...

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Sustainability Common Hour a Success: Students Brainstorm New Sustainable Initiatives

By Kevin Lugo

Gettysburg College has been pursuing a path of sustainability since its first serious energy conservation efforts began in the 1980s.  Water use is down 36.4% since 1996, even though the college has an expanded student body and new buildings.  By 2006, fossil fuels accounted for only 53% of the college’s overall energy consumption.  In 2007, this trend continued when President Wills signed the President’s Climate Commitment, thereby obligating Gettysburg College to obtain ...

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A letter in response to Kevin Lugo’s article on sustainability

By President Janet Morgan Riggs

Dear students,

I am writing in response to Kevin Lugo’s article on sustainability at Gettysburg College.  Student support of the College’s sustainability efforts is essential to our success in reducing the College’s carbon footprint. Kevin mentions some of the most substantive accomplishments to date, but achieving true carbon neutrality will require a sustained campus-wide effort over many years.

Kevin’s report on the Sustainability Common Hour on April 15 suggests that we adopt ...

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Satisfaction at the Speak Up, Write Out Media Summit

By Josh Carmel

John Baer has a license to kill. As an award-winning columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News, Baer has provided political commentary for several years, tactfully illuminating the oftentimes ambiguous framework of public policy. His ability to, as The National Journal provided, “take the skin off a politician without making it hurt too much,” however, only marginally represents the faculties of a journalist. The presence of such attributes, Baer indirectly conveyed to a slightly ...

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Bruce Larson vs. the Germans: Pt. 4

By Brian Englesma

He started walking towards his car.  Bruce hated walking to Stone Lot; he always got scuffs all over his shoes.  Today he got lucky though, and he got a spot in Constitution.  It was a real nice spot, the kind of spot people dream of.  Easy in, easy out.  Even better was the parking job he did on it.  His spot wasn’t exactly the roomiest, the jackoffs on either side decided to flirt ...

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President Riggs Returns to the Classroom

President Riggs Returns to the Classroom

By Xavier Harding

The Forum’s Xavier Harding was lucky enough to interview Gettysburg College’s president Janet Morgan Riggs on her return to the classroom.

Xavier Harding: What exactly is the course you’ll be teaching? What parts of psychology will it cover?

Janet Morgan Riggs: I will teach Psych 214, Social Psychology.  The course focuses on the impact of other people on behavior and examines topics such as interpersonal attraction and impression formation, prosocial behavior, aggression, attitude formation ...

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Professor’s Beagles Go Missing: In Unrelated News, Recent Servo Casserole Tastes Delicious

Professor’s Beagles Go Missing: In Unrelated News, Recent Servo Casserole Tastes Delicious

By Sebastian DiNatale

In a sad turn of events today, Professor of Religion Stephen Stern called a press conference to announce a recent loss to the campus community.

“It is with deep regret and grave sorrow that my two children beagles, Sparky and Little, have gone missing for three days now. I have tried everything within my power to find them, but there is no trace of where they could have gone to.”

Such ...

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Bruce Larson vs. the Germans: Pt. 2

Bruce Larson vs. the Germans: Pt. 2

By Brian Englesma

click here to read part 1.

The mystery man led Bruce to Washington Street where a black sedan with tinted windows was waiting.  “Get in,” the mystery man said, opening the rear door.

Bruce didn’t know why he did it, he didn’t make a habit of getting into strange cars with mystery men, but there was something about this man, about this situation, that made it all different.  He seemed to know what he ...

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Dance Ensemble Wows

By Candise Henson

The Gettysburg Dance Ensemble—a student-run, freestyle dancing club—held its spring performances this past Friday and Sunday, March 26th and 28th. The program, entitled “Move It!,” included dancing styles of hip hop, contemporary, jazz, salsa, swing/blues, and several others. The club’s president, Jen Giambrone, opened the show with quick words of gratitude to the contributors, and then it began.

The first jazz dance, performed to “Tik Tok,” seemed disjointed and disorganized. Unfortunately, it was ...

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Dr. Peter Carmichael Appointed New Director of Civil War Institute

By James White

Dear Members of the Gettysburg College Community –

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Peter Carmichael as the new Director of the College’s Civil War Institute (CWI) and as the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies. He will begin his roles with the CWI and the Department of History in August.

Peter, currently the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University, earned his doctorate and a ...

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