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By Liz Williams 

Hundreds of students from Gettysburg and surrounding areas crowded into the ballroom Friday night for the college’s annual Fall Concert. This year’s show featured Chiddy Bang, a two-man hip-hop group that sprang out of Drexel University in 2008 and rose to popularity after being featured on the music blog, prettymuchamazing.com, in 2009.

The group is most well known for its ...

By Liz Williams

At the Student Senate meeting tonight, president Janet Morgan Riggs addressed those in attendance with a few of her goals for the college. The two main issues President Riggs is focusing on this year are Gettysburg’s academic reputation and the quality of resources available to students.

According to Riggs, the college’s academic reputation is not as high as it ...

By Liz Williams

Oct. 24, 7 p.m.: ALLies will give a showing of “Out in Silence” in Masters 208 to kick off ALLies week.

Oct. 24, 8-10 p.m.: The Attic will host a Fall Concert Weeknight with raffles and prizes.

Oct. 25, 7 p.m.: ALLies is sponsoring Safe Zone Training in CUB 260.

Oct. 26, 7-8 p.m. The Garthwait Leadership Center will host will host ...

By Emily Francisco

On Friday, September 16 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would pursue full membership for a Palestinian state within the United Nations Security Council. At this broadcast, Americans immediately felt uneasy, as the U.S. is still heavily involved in current Middle Eastern conflicts. The following week on September 23 Abbas formally requested membership in the UN, as ...

By Liz Williams

Oct. 3, 12-1 p.m.: The students of the Advanced Directing class will present three 10-minute scenes from Shakespeare plays outside the Science Center. The performance will be free and the rain location will be in Stevens Theater.

Oct. 3, 12 p.m.: There will be a planetarium show in Hatter Planetarium in Masters Hall. It will include a sky tour, astronomy ...

By Elizabeth Elliott

On September 28, the History Department and Intercultural Resource Center welcomed former Temple University professor John Raines to present a lecture entitled “A Freedom Rider Remembers: Or How I Became the Adult I Wasn’t Supposed to Become.”  His story concerned the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, a turbulent era of American history that some of us may ...

By Liz Williams

(continued from Uncovering Haiti’s Lost Artwork, part II)

The project is managed by the Smithsonian Institution and funded by the U.S. government and several arts organizations. According to Kurin, one of the first contributors to the project was the Broadway Theater League, whose members felt a connection to the people of Haiti after going through the trauma of the September ...

By Liz Williams

On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the nation of Haiti, reducing businesses, homes, and entire towns to ruins within minutes. Over one million people became homeless that day, and an estimated 300,000 lost their lives. Amid all the rubble, hundreds of years’ worth of Haitian culture was instantly destroyed, leaving the population of weakened survivors ...

By Liz Williams

Sept. 26, 12 p.m.: Nick Johnson ’90 will give an Alumni Career Talk on Digital Media in Masters 208.

Sept. 26, 12 p.m.: Richard Kurin, Director of the Smithsonian Recovery Project, will present “Restoring Haiti’s Damaged Art” in CUB 260. For more information, visit:  http://haiti.si.edu/activities.html.

Sept. 26, 3 p.m.: Nick Johnson ’90 will give an Alumni Career Talk on the ...