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By Jenna O’Connell 

If you were anywhere on campus during the past couple of weeks, you were bound to have noticed the strange occurrences that have been going on at Gettysburg College.

No, it wasn’t the Civil War ghost that haunts your dorm room switching off your lights; it was a power outage.

On Wednesday, Sept. 7, the campus was plunged into darkness.

The ...

By Liz Williams 

Students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered on the lawn in front of Penn Hall last Tuesday to join in commemorating the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The events of the day were organized by a 9/11 event committee led by Andrew Ferriera and Richard Aime.

Two services were held, one in the morning, and ...

By The Gettysburg Forum

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to welcome you to Gettysburg College. We hope that you enjoy your day, and are all looking forward to seeing you next year!

By Xavier Harding

Yesterday, February 19, the Majestic Theater hosted Gettysburg College’s 22nd Annual Winter Jazz Concert. Directed by John “Buzz” Jones, Gettysburg’s jazz ensemble played songs such as “Georgia On My Mind” by Hoagy Carmichael (1931), “Quien Sera” by Pablo Beltran Ruiz & Norman Gimbel (1954) and “I’m Beginning To See The Light “by Duke Ellington (1944). The students of ...

By Xavier Harding

Xavier: So you were the treasurer of student Senate. What did your job entail?

Molly: Right, I was the treasurer of student senate so I would hear requests from clubs and organizations looking for money and I would hold hearings to decide whether or not they should be granted that money and then I would transfer that into their ...

By The Gettysburg Forum

According to recently obtained information, and after speaking with the Department of Public Safety, Frank Klein, the much beloved Musselman Library security guard, friend to the many students who spend their nights in the library, has been fired. This comes as a shock to the many grateful students who have experienced ...

The Gettysburg Forum

An e-mail was circulated last week to all those registered within the Senate alias, detailing the resignation of Student Senate Treasurer, Molly Yingling. From that point, it was the primary concern of the Executive Council of the Student Senate to designate, presumably with the aid of representatives from each class year, a new treasurer to serve in her ...

By Gettysburg College Student Senate

Yesterday, the Student Senate revealed new stipulations concerning its fiscal policy bylaws for the year. These bylaws were discussed in a closed session on Sunday and disseminated amongst the student body at the Senate’s most recent open session. Below are the new bylaws in their entirety:

[FISCAL POLICY BYLAWS PROPOSAL FOR THE STUDENT SENATE] These bylaws were ...

By Julie Ramsey

I am pleased to announce that Andrew Hughes will be joining the College as the Director of our new Center for Leadership Development.  Andy comes to us from Rollins College, where he served as the Assistant  Director of their “Explorations” program for first-year students. He also served previously as the Assistant Director of Student ...

By Kevin Lugo

Gettysburg College has been pursuing a path of sustainability since its first serious energy conservation efforts began in the 1980s.  Water use is down 36.4% since 1996, even though the college has an expanded student body and new buildings.  By 2006, fossil fuels accounted for only 53% of the college’s overall energy consumption.  In 2007, this trend ...