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By Andrew Arenge

Gettysburg College announced Thursday that the comprehensive fee for the 2010-2011 academic year will raise 4.9 percent from $48,050 to $50,880. Though the entire operating budget for the college is only raising 2.5 percent, to $110.8 million, President Janet Morgan Riggs justified the increase in tuition by pointing to underperforming aspects of the college’s funding portfolio.

“We are still ...

By Alex McComas

The Civil War Institute has been in the process of selecting a new Director of the Civil War institute since the start of the year with the retirement of renowned historian Gabor Boritt the previous summer. Interim director Michael Birkner, having assured that he would “keep [his] hand at the tiller until Gettysburg College has selected a worthy ...

By Alex McComas

Feminist, sociologist, and, above all, artist Ipek Duben gave a presentation of her work on Monday, February 8th to an audience of students and professors. The presentation focused on three main projects through a PowerPoint slide show at Bowen Auditorium, focusing on the principles of women’s rights and the self actualization of one’s beliefs.

The Turkish woman, born to ...

By Janet Morgan Riggs

Dear members of the campus community,

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Christopher Zappe as Gettysburg College’s next provost, effective July 6, 2010. Chris is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bucknell University, where he has also been a faculty member in the Management Department. Chris emerged from a rich applicant pool of highly qualified ...

By Josh Carmel

Day by day Gettysburg College is changing, stepping forward into growth, as Abraham Maslow contended, and retreating from her contentious sanctuary of safety. The College has systematically instituted policies, some which have garnered praise and others which have been affronted, in an overarching attempt to both modernize and maintain the campus. Such instances ...

By Ryan Kosyla

If you check out the basement of Eddie Plank Gym, you won’t find much. Peering through the fading windows to the old underground work room, you’ll find it nearly deserted, save for a chair, a few books, and stagnant cooling fans. The aroma of dried sweat with a tint of moisture still seeps through.

Since the $25 million Center ...

By Josh Carmel

The poet Theognis noted that, “the eyes and tongue and ears and intelligence of quick-witted man [and all individuals for that matter] grow in the middle of his chest.” While it may be a bit hyperbolic in comparison, such a sentiment properly embodies the current struggle for a reformatted curriculum at Gettysburg College.

Amongst an ostensible thicket of superficial ...

By Sebastian DiNatale

The Fall 2009 Student Senate had its final meeting of the semester last Monday. Since there are to be no more monetary transaction for the rest of the semester, The Forum decided it would be helpful to let the students in on where the majority of their Student Activity Fee went in terms of funding.

The Senate starts the ...

By Josh Carmel

Few individuals have been as privy to the extensive nuances, and hotly contested crucible, of homeland security as Secretary Tom Ridge. The Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995-2001, Director of the Office of Homeland Security from 2001-2003, and Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush from 2003-2005, Ridge’s corpus of political endeavors run an impressive gamut of ...

By Josh Carmel

Howard Fineman cuts a striking image. Relatively tall, hair peppered with gray seniority, and smug confidence cradled in the indelible wrinkles of Washington politics, all converge to grant Fineman a commanding persona. Such were the scene and somber man, greeted by students in Shirley Anne Warshaw and Kenneth Mott’s Political Science freshmen-year seminars, concerning the judicial branch and ...