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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. ...

By Janet Riggs

Dear Maggie,

I am writing in response to your letter regarding juicycampus.com. I appreciate your willingness to take a strong stand against this website which has had the attention of many of us (students, administrators, and faculty) over the last few weeks. All of those with whom I have talked agree that juicycampus.com is degrading, offensive, and inconsistent ...

By Julie Ramsey

Dear Members of the Gettysburg Community,

Over the course of the past two weeks, there have been many conversations on campus about the website juicycampus.com . This site provides a venue for anyone to anonymously post information about a particular college or university. Unfortunately, most of the people who post comments on the site focus on derogatory and ...

By Maggie Carter

Dear President Riggs,

I am writing to you regarding the recent controversy regarding the website www.juicycampus.com. I am a senior psychology major and have had a great experience at Gettysburg College thus far. I have kept a moderately low profile and I am not one to complain for frivolous reasons or to overreact. However, I find that this ...

By Owen Carhart

Cindy McCain’s visit, on Oct. 19, to campus brought out both McCain sympathizers and protesters on.

Many students must have noticed the Facebook group that announced the protest for the event. All said and done there were around 24 student protesters outside of the CUB, showing their disapproval for the McCain campaign.

While these protesters were absolutely within their rights ...

By Beth Leamy

Last Sunday, an organized protest of Cindy McCain’s visit to campus was orchestrated, and I now feel it necessary to respond to a few of these student’s actions.

Before I begin, I would like to state, I do appreciate that it was the protester’s constitutional right to express their views contrary to the ones being expressed in the CUB ...

By Hanna Ackerman

At the pro-McCain Rally that the “future first lady,” Cindy McCain came to speak at, this past Sunday, I was one of the 5 protesters inside the rally itself. We were joined by twenty some odd Obama supporters outside, holding posters, chanting, and handing out informational flyers to attendees of the rally. To these supporters, I offer my ...

By Kriscinda Meadows

When we became aware, Friday morning, that Gettysburg College was to host the likes of Cindy McCain and Tom Ridge, my friend Kim Kupperman asked me if I would go with her to distribute flyers to attendees. I said yes. Unknowingly this tipped a tiny snowball over an edge and very quickly, over the next 48 hours, became ...

By Jaclynn Cross

When Tim Wise came to campus a year ago, for Fall Convocation, I witnessed plenty of disgruntled white students, angry about the way Wise made them feel. The Black students, on the other hand, mostly seemed happy that there was finally a white person saying all the things that they had been feeling and thinking about white privilege ...