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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 America watched on YouTube as protesters went from demonstrations in Tahrir Square to looting museums, as Egypt attempted to contain ...

By Troy Candiotti

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Supervisor of Direct Services at Survivor’s Inc., a local organization dedicated to assisting and advancing victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.  Growing up, my mother would tell me stories about how her father would abuse his wife and children on a regular basis.  In an ...

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 ...

By Josh Carmel

Christopher Zappe cuts a striking figure. The photograph on Bucknell University’s personal website details a jovial man, sharp jaw, eyes alight in academic invitation, and fingernail smile cocked amiably. The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Bucknell, and recently designated Provost here at Gettysburg, has his B.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences. As ...

By Colleen Cable

Sitting around a table talking about Plato and The Republic, student Abraham Apfel never felt more like the stereotypical college student. “We didn’t have any iced mochas though,” said Apfel. “We didn’t have berets either,” replied Professor Brett Rogers. Although discussing Plato may seem like the pinnacle of the classic college experience, the class Democratic Labors in Athens ...

By Colleen Cable

While some people can’t even remember what they ate for lunch, freshman Mike Schneider can remember up to 600 digits of the natural log e. In order to facilitate Schneider’s hobby of memorizing, he began the Gettysburg Memory Club, which is headed to the national competition in March.

Memorization is not nearly as simple as most people believe it ...

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 Josh Carmel

Dr. Brett Rogers was not born, contrary to the dubious implication of the headline, under any remarkable circumstances. His life sprang into existence as most do, the perfunctory mechanisms of peculiar biological plotting, with the firmaments of family already established in a California suburb.

“I was born in Escondido, California, it’s a terrible suburb northeast of San Diego, in ...

By Katie Eissler

I sat down with seniors Courtney Small and Carolyn Perrotti, Co-Presidents of Gettysburg’s Chapter of “Colleges Against Cancer,” to get some more information regarding CAC and their presence on Gettysburg’s campus. What are the goals of CAC? CS: We want to educate the campus regarding the ways in which they can help the fight against cancer, such as through volunteering, ...

By Hanna Ackerman

1) What are the goals or mission statement of Sigma Chi?

The goals of the international fraternity are the cultivation of friendship, justice, and learning among its members. The fraternity also strives to be the preeminent college leadership organization. Locally, we hope to develop ourselves as students, citizens of the world, and leaders within our organization, on campus, and ...