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By Marianne Florentino

Friday 15th – coffeehouse (Junction) from 10pm , artist: TBA

Friday 15th – Senior class gift campaign kickoff (Attic) from 5pm – 8pm

Saturday 16th – For Jake’s sake – 5 k Memorial run/walk

Saturday 16th – House of Blues series (Attic) from 9pm, artist: Stephanian

Saturday 16th – Midnight Madness (SERVO) from 11pm ...

By Thomas Paone

“Airbands” is an annual lip synching contest organized during Greek Week in which many sororities and fraternities compete to see who is the best. Each group is expected to lip sync, as well as put on some other sort of choreographed act. Although the sororities and fraternities, well, fraternity, did a good job this year, Airbands as a ...

By Caroline Kocher

On April 6th, members of the Gettysburg campus and community gathered on the steps of Musselman Library to participate in the annual Take Back the Night rally to end sexual violence. Take Back the Night originated in Europe during the 1970s. Women came together in countries including Belgium, Italy, West Germany, and Great Britain to gain “the right to ...

By Megan Bartlett

“Food is the vital way we celebrate anything that matters—a birthday, a new job, an anniversary; it’s how we mark the connections between us, how we celebrate life.” So says British author and cook Nigella Lawson in her latest cookbook, Feast. Her words call to mind wonderful images of close friends, laughter, and ...

By Maelina Frattaroli

This past Saturday, February 4th, the Campus Activities Board sponsored one of the most highly-anticipated events of the year: the Snowball. Correction: Masquerade Ball for Relief: just like the Snowball, but better. Enthusiastic Gettysburgians entered the Ballroom, dressed in semi-formal attire, and their faces creatively masked. Some masks were painted on students’ faces, some were purchased at the ...

By Jason Endres

Gettysburg College will host one of the regional Mock Trial Competition’s this weekend (February 11 and 12). The event brings together seventeen different colleges and universities including Cornell and the University of Virginia. The event titled “A Civil Battle: Gettysburg College Regional Mock Trial Tournament,” is sponsored by Gettysburg College’s Law and Justice Society. The competition is the ...

By Caroline Kocher

It’s that time of year again. This is the fifth year that the Gettysburg College Women’s Center has participated in the V-Day campaign and brought the Vagina Monologues to the college community.

This year’s Vagina Monologues are directed by Sarah Ede and Nadia Edwards and hosted by Kris Eyssell. They are also made possible ...

By Maelina Frattaroli

“We the undersigned are united under the common principle that Ike’s Hacienda must return. Too long has it been since the true flavor of the quesadilla has graced our beloved Gettysburg College Campus. We propose that Ike’s Fabulous Subs be changed back to its former glorious entity of Ike’s Hacienda,” wrote Paul Accomando, ...

By Caroline Kocher

On November 16th, Shirley Armstrong of Counseling Services came to the Women’s Center to talk to a small group about what she calls ‘Subversive Abstinence.’ Subversive Abstinence, she explained, is not necessarily virginity; it’s knowing the consequences and being active in your decisions, the feminist version of abstinence that puts the emphasis on the well being of women ...

By Hanna Ackerman

Last Friday, the Schmucker Art Gallery opened its newest installation: a joint exhibit of photographic works of Nate Larson and Will Shank. The theme of the exhibit was whether or not photographs are proof enough to believe in something.

Nate Larson’s half of the exhibit is much more visually diverse than Shank’s. There are ...