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A Message to the Inattentive Public
September 12th, 2007
By Anonymous Submitter
To the Inattentive Public:
We write to you in response to the overwhelming amount of apathy the public has begun to slip into.
For as long as man has lived, so have his ideas, thoughts, and passions, all sprung from his own being. From the moment he is brought into this world, so is a pristine new life. A man ...
Letter to the Editor: Addressing the Mr. Fraternity ‘Controversy’
November 27th, 2006
By Miriam Parson
After a late Sunday morning and a few hours of work I picked up the Gettysburgian this week to find a piece titled “Anonymous Gburg Forum Article Sparks Controversy.” I read all three submissions and then the submissions on the Gburg Forum, including an alumnus’ words and the editor’s words. We need to address ...
Letter to the Editor: Go Greek or Go Home, Seriously.
November 15th, 2006
By Gretchen Hansen
“Anonymous,” I am a sorority girl who has been “taught the importance of diction when expressing oneself verbally,” and I believe the unintelligible sound you hear is the echo of deafening BOO’s in your direction regarding your latest opinion piece: “A Grecian Tragedy: Mr. Fraternity.” I’d commend you on the clever title, but unfortunately my sorority status ...
Letter From the Editor: Regarding the Mr. Fraternity Article
November 15th, 2006
By Kim Tenure
Dear Readers, Recently, an article was published on this site, A Grecian Tragedy: Mr. Fraternity, as an anonymous opinion piece. As editor in chief, I would like to address several issues that the article has raised.
The first being that this article was sent to me via campus mail with no handwriting on it. It was submitted to the ...
Response to Mr. Fraternity…
November 14th, 2006
Dear Anonymous~
On behalf of the Chi Omega Sorority, I would like to thank you for the $5 donation to the Make a Wish Foundation that you made by attending Mr. Fraternity. Your charitable donation, along with the other $4,700 Chi Omega raised, will surely make some terminally ill child’s dream come true. If you would care to see where ...
Letters to the Editor
November 14th, 2006
Dear Kim and advisor,Kim, first off you know that I respect you profusely for all the work you do for the Gettysburg community with res life and with all the work you’ve done with the Forum in past years. I also know that a lot of my sisters have commented on the anonymous article written in regards to Mr. Fraternity. ...
Letter to the Editor: A Tragedy of Another Sort
November 14th, 2006
By A Sorority Girl
This is addressed to the author of the op-ed article entitled “A Grecian Tragedy: Mr. Fraternity.”
Dear Anonymous,
For the intent and purpose of this response I am going to call you… hmm, let’s say Aeschylus (my personal favorite ancient Greek author of tragedies). My dear friend Aeschylus, “any idiot can play Greek for a day ...
A Grecian Tragedy: Mr. Fraternity
November 7th, 2006
By Anonymous Submitter
The unintelligible sound of hundreds of girls screaming at the tops of their lungs echoed through the cavernous room. Was it a horror film? Was it a nightmare? No, much worse, much more terrifying
Letter to the Editor of the Opinion Section of The Gettysburgian
February 15th, 2006
By A Conservative and a Liberal
Letter to the Editor of the opinion section of the Gettysburgian in response to “The State of Bigotry Part II.” Writers wished it to printed in both publications. It has been submitted as is and the editor they address is the opinions editor Jaimie Schock.
Dear Editor, We are writing in response ...
Letter to Editor Rebuttal
May 3rd, 2005
By Kim Tenure
I wish to respond to the recent Letter to the Editor submitted by Mandi Magruder. It is in some ways useless to argue the first and main point that she makes in her letter that I, “missed of misconstrued several key points of Michelman’s lecture.” I attended the lecture with an open-mind and reacted ...
