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By Colleen Cable

Floating beer cans in the sink, a slippery film of brown sludge coating the floor, and questionable looking stains on the walls. No, it’s not a truck stop bathroom. That is a description of Gettysburg’s fraternity bathrooms. Girls need to know what to expect from each frat bathroom because, as we all know, going to the bathroom isn’t ...

By Colleen Cable

As freshman Teddy Moses feels the top of his head, instead of pulling his fingers through his typical curly hair, he now skims over his freshly buzzed head. “It still surprises me when I look in the mirror,” said Moses. As a new recruit into the Reserve Office Training Corp., Moses is already adapting to a more military ...

By Colleen Cable

A toga is not the usual classroom attire. In Professor Brett Rogers’s new class, however, dressing in costume is not only encouraged, but required.

The class, Democratic Labors in Athens and America, “combin[es] role playing and history,” said Rogers. Over the course of the semester, the students will participate in two simulations or “games” that correlate to their readings ...

By Ryan Kosyla

If you check out the basement of Eddie Plank Gym, you won’t find much. Peering through the fading windows to the old underground work room, you’ll find it nearly deserted, save for a chair, a few books, and stagnant cooling fans. The aroma of dried sweat with a tint of moisture still seeps through.

Since the $25 million Center ...

By Andrew Arenge

Last fall when President Janet Morgan Riggs reversed the decision that had been made previously to remove the ESPN cable package from the channel offerings at Gettysburg College, members of the college’s student media inquired as to where the administration planned on finding the reported $34,000 to fund this reversal. At a Blue Crocodiles press conference where Riggs ...

By Josh Carmel

A number of weeks ago I was stricken with the very illness that I repudiated in my first article. Indeed, as my companion in New York had presciently uttered, I had been “swined.” Amidst an eclectic swirl of Nyquil, Motrin, and Robitussin, I began to contemplate a common inquiry among my floor-mates, who had previously contracted the illness: ...

By Josh Carmel

A collection of circular tables supplemented the conventional rows and chairs, their martial flank tapering off toward the far end of CUB 260. The stiff atmosphere of the afternoon dovetailed nicely with the subject matter present and mirrored ominously the trenchant din of conversation within. An eclectic group of individuals gathered, some bearing the amiable grin of colleagues ...

By Colleen Weldon

Dear Forum Readers,

Since this article will mark the beginning of the Women’s Center’s weekly contribution to this publication, I feel it necessary to begin by introducing who I am, who my colleagues are, and what the Women’s Center’s mission is for this upcoming academic year.

My name is Colleen Weldon, and I am a senior whose interest in ...

By Kyle Lawson

To all incoming First Years let me just say welcome. No longer high school students you are about to become engaged in the experience that is college. Over the next year, many of you will experience problems with roommates, insane demanding classes, seemingly crazy teachers, and the scariest thing of all college food. Rather than going out and ...

By Kira Nightingale

Anyone who has been at Gettysburg College for more than two weeks knows that the town of Gettysburg isn’t exactly the most “happening place” at night, which is especially unfortunate when it comes to weekends. Those who have found themselves getting bored with frat parties and sitting around their rooms know just how ...