Audra Foster
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Audra Foster is not actually Rosie the Riveter, but she'd sure like to be. She takes working for the Forum as seriously as anyone can--which is to say, with an incontrovertible sense of humor. She prefers her privacy to the extent that she seems a bit paranoid. She loves to write articles, but hates to write autobiographical statements.
Contact info: AudraF@GburgForum.com
Articles written by Audra
Four Twenty Days and Twenty Nights
April 20th, 2012
By Harry Paterra
Harry Paterra is a 6’2″ student from lush and beautiful Seattle, WA. He is of exotic skin tone, and was once told that he was a good kisser. He also needs to get married before the age of ...
PRESS RELEASE: Student Senate Stands Up for Easter Break
April 17th, 2012
By The Gettysburg Forum
This morning the Gettysburg College Student Senate lodge a formal complaint with the Provost’s Office concerning the recent handling of Easter weekend–April 8th through 10th–in the academic and auxiliary spheres of campus. Below you can read the ...
Five Reasons I Love LCWS
April 6th, 2012
By Abdur Rehman
For those of you considering studying off-campus, let me tell you about an excellent program that we have here at Gettysburg: Lutheran College Washington Semester (LCWS). In short, you will spend a semester in DC living in condo ...
The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Comes to Gettysburg College
April 1st, 2012
By Audra Foster
Darkness. Despair. Doom. Desolation. Death. Disorder. Destitution. Detention. Debilitating diseases. Deserted destriers. You know the drill. It’s coming. Definitely soon, probably. The day of judgment is practically almost at hand. All too soon civilization as we know it ...
Rick Santorum Comes to Gettysburg
March 22nd, 2012
By Audra Foster
In case you didn’t hear the cries and chants of democratic, Allied, and anti-Santorum rage echoing from Lincoln Square last night, here’s a little update: Presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke at the Gettysburg Hotel last night, amid ...
Pakistan’s First Oscar Highlights an Old Problem
March 8th, 2012
By Abdur Rehman
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Saving Face, co-directed with Denver-based American filmmaker Daniel Junge, won Pakistan’s first Oscar this year. It follows the heroic work of Pakistani surgeon Mohammad Jawad who tries to rebuild the face, and the lives, of ...
THE FORUM TAKES A BATH
February 10th, 2012
By Audra Foster
With more than half the staff of the Forum currently abroad in merry old England, exquisite India, or living among genial Germans, the Forum is, admittedly, struggling to stay afloat in this tsunami of loneliness. The ship has ...
Gettysburg College Celebrates 20 Years of Success as APPLE School
April 1st, 2011
By Audra Foster
Twenty years ago today, on April 1st, 2041, Gettysburg College signed itself away to the Apple Corporation, sparking a movement among hundreds of colleges across the nation to do the same. Apple, which has held the lead in ...
One Student’s Experience on the “Day of Rage”
February 23rd, 2011
By Audra Foster
Egypt, as anyone who keeps up with the world knows, has recently undergone some extreme political upheaval, starting with peaceful protests that quickly escalated to violent riots, and ending in the resignation of its President. We in ...
Torture Your Teachers, Win Big Prizes
February 21st, 2011
By Audra Foster
We at the Forum have decided that teachers have had enough fun torturing us with questions, pop quizzes, ridiculously difficult final exams, and generally expecting us to, you know, learn stuff. So we’ve decided to strike back, ...
