Facebook takes over CNAV!

By Emily Francisco

The day has finally come! Over the past few months CNAV has undergone tremendous renovations. Now, when you sign in to your Gettysburg account to check your dining dollars (or to do some casual “C-stalking”), you can see the navy webpage replaced by a strangely familiar powder blue and white webpage. Yes, CNAV’s new network is none other than Facebook itself.

When asked the motivation for the change, President Andrew Ferrara explained, “CNAV was originally established to keep up with the times and to make Gettysburg more up to date, technologically speaking. Now, Facebook is the network system on many college campuses. It’s what the students want… It was Gettysburg’s time to enter the mainstream.”

Some of the first colleges to conform to the Facebook system include: Dickinson College, University of Pittsburgh, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of California, Los Angeles. They all report satisfied feedback, saying it has made student course registration and management easier across campus. Meanwhile, Harvard University refuses to join the Facebook system as a result of its strenuous past with college dropout Mark Zuckerberg. Allied in this fight against a mass Facebook take-over are Stanford University and Middlebury College.

At Gettysburg College, though, students are enjoying the change.

“Before we changed the network, I had to Facebook-stalk and then C-stalk people. Now I can do both at the same time!” said Sophomore Connor Lees.

“I can play Farmville, Gettysburg-style,” commented Sophomore Alex Thompson. “It’s so much fun!”

Student pages on the new Facebook-version of CNAV now include relationship status, cell phone number, favorite color, music taste, eating habits, and many other fun features. There is indeed a Gettysburg version of Farmville, where students can raise virtual cows and cornfields on plots of battlefield land.

The administration of Gettysburg College reports complete satisfaction with the change. Rumors are currently circulating that Gettysburg’s next technological advancement will be a Google version of Angel. Sources say that this development will allow students to search a multitude of online study tools, ranging from academic journals to amusing cat photos.