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By President Janet Morgan Riggs

Dear students,

I am writing in response to Kevin Lugo’s article on sustainability at Gettysburg College.  Student support of the College’s sustainability efforts is essential to our success in reducing the College’s carbon footprint. Kevin mentions some of the most substantive accomplishments to date, but achieving true carbon neutrality will require a sustained campus-wide effort over ...

By Audra Foster

The Office of Residence Life has announced they are not renewing the leases for four off-campus houses next year. It doesn’t mean people are being asked to move out this very moment, but that next year there will be that many less off-campus houses to choose from. Which, if you’re an up-and-coming upperclassmen and you’re tired of dorm ...

By Evan Petrack

Mary Magdalene, supposed prostitute, would have been so proud of our very own Stine Hall this past Monday (November 30 th). Why? Well, because on this specific Monday, some residents decided to make it a “Monday Funday.” It’s not that I disagree with this behavior, but I do have an early morning class on Tuesdays, and I’m not ...

By Jaimie Garrett

I remember when I first got my license back in November of 2006, I was so stoked because after 16.5 years of waiting I could finally be independent, at least to some extent. No longer would I have to wait around for rides or feel constricted. I was no longer an animal who had to be told when ...

By Kyle Lawson

As you must be sure by now, this year’s Fall Concert CAB got for us the band Sister Hazel. Now for anyone who was too young to really remember them, Sister Hazel had a hit back in 1997 “All for You.” Thank God they have continued making music, since I truly look forward to the day when I ...

By Audra Foster

If you are an upperclassman, then please, read this and reminisce fondly of your first year. But if you are a freshman, like myself, then please, WHINE WITH ME! Are you tired of having to sacrifice your evenings and weekends? Are you sick of wasting your time talking about time management when you could be actually working or—God ...

By Kyle Lawson

As a somewhat concerned editor, I felt I needed to bring to the attention of this campus, that pornography will turn male students gay. This stirring announcement was made by Michael Schwartz, the Chief of Staff for Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn at the Values Voters Conference held this past week in Washington D.C. Mr. Schwartz, who by his ...

By Evan Rothera

Gettysburg College likes to talk about how everyone lives in a globalized world and that students receive the benefits of a liberal arts education to succeed in this globalized world. Yet, for all of this fine talk, it seems that there is a new push to alter the Foreign Language requirement of the Gettysburg Curriculum. Many people profess ...

By Evan Rothera

In an e-mail to the student body, President Riggs delineated several items in the fiscal year 2010 budget; one of the said items included the following statement:

“Comprehensive fee—Because we recognize that many families have concerns about the affordability of college during what could be a prolonged recession, the Board approved the lowest comprehensive fee increase in more than ...

By Hanna Ackerman

I came to Gettysburg for the first time ever under slight duress. It was the summer after junior year of high school and my dad, adorable as he is, decided that he had been remiss as a parent by not bringing the family to Gettysburg as his father had every summer when he and his siblings were young. ...