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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 Emily Francisco

Massive protests erupted on January 25, 2011 as Egypt, the most heavily populated nation in the Arab world, lashed out against the dictatorial presidency of leader Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak, who assumed the presidency in 1981 after the assassination of President Sadat, served five terms to date. Though Mubarak’s regime improved Egyptian relations with other Arab countries in addition ...

By Brian Engelsma

flows through it, it rarely experiences flooding, because Ravi has been dry for many years.

B: Is there much that the Gettysburg community can do? A: I am planning a fundraiser so students can volunteer hours to arrange and attend it. Spreading the word, even if it means tweeting/facebooking “Text FLOOD to 27722”, can go a long way.

Currently ...

By Kyle Lawson

On Sunday October 11, members of Allies, Gettysburg’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight Alliance went down to Washington D.C. for the National Equality March. The sixteen students who went down as a group and the other students and professors who went on their own were just a small part of a crowd of 200,000 individuals of all ...

By Brian Englesma

Leaders from some of the world’s largest economies met last Thursday and Friday to work towards resolving the worldwide economic crisis. The conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is following on the heels of a G-20 conference in April held in London. Originally planned to be held in New York to coincide with the opening of the UN General ...

By Evan Rothera

Leahy-Specter Motion—Habeas Corpus Restoration Act: In a relatively important yet unnoticed battle in the chamber of the United States Senate, a bipartisan motion co-sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D—VT) and Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA) failed; when the votes were counted the final total was 56 in favor and 43 opposed. The ...

By Evan Rothera

If Thompson Runs, NBC will pull Law and Order Episodes:

If former Senator Fred Thompson (R- TN) decides to run for president in 2008, some television stations will find themselves with a slight problem, they will have to “suspend reruns of the show if [Thompson] makes a bid for the White House.” This suspension would be due to the ...

By Thomas Paone

Before the midterm elections, the state of New Jersey passed a measure that may forever change our country. Although many states voted to ban gay marriage during the recent elections, New Jersey’s highest court on October 25 paved the way for lawmakers to legalize gay marriage, making it only the second state in the United States to do ...

By Thomas Paone

One must pay careful attention nowadays as they watch daytime television. For if they do, they will witness the ending of an era. While most people were paying attention to unimportant things like midterm elections, television history was announced and almost forgotten. Bob Barker, the legendary host of the infamous daytime television game show called The Price is ...

By Tom Paone

An American soldier has finally returned home. Not from the sands of Iraq or Afghanistan. Not from the jungles of Vietnam. Not from the beaches of Normandy. Private Francis Lupo, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has returned from the fields of France. After 90 years, Francis Lupo, one of the first soldiers from the First World War to be excavated, ...