Op-Ed

By Connor Lees

It seems like the world is becoming more and more apathetic.

What I mean is this: it just seems like people have stopped caring about the world around them. The startling obliviousness to what is happening in the world is shockingly vast. How do we expect to be the leaders of the future if we don’t really care how ...

By Elizabeth Elliott

Last week, the City University of New York (CUNY), one of the largest public university systems in the country, voted on a total campus-wide ban on cigarette smoking.   This ban will make all outdoor areas smoke-free, even open playing fields and greens.  According to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, CUNY is not alone, as over 400 colleges have considered ...

By Robert Kellert

My apologies for the delay in publishing this article. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse decided to hurl every disease known to man at me in the past month. Nevertheless, here it is.

Tissues, humble pie and strait-jackets were the order of the night at Democratic headquarters across the country on Election Day, as Republicans dominated in House, Senate, ...

By Connor Lees

Alcohol is consumed by teenagers everywhere, despite the restriction on consuming it until the age of 21. For that reason, measures are often taken to attempt to hide activities or parties that involve drinking. In these unrestrained and hidden parties, teenagers are free to drink as much and as often as they please, and they do so far ...

By Alex Milano

Recently, in the midst of the nine-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks, two controversies arose from opposite sides of the religious spectrum.

The first originated in New York City, where plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero have ignited a fire of criticisms and emotions. The Imam pushing for the center, Feisal Abdul Rauf, ...

By Rob Kellert

Not even halfway through his first term, President Barack Hussein Obama, the narcissistic former community organizer and masterful teleprompter reader, has wrecked the nation with more success than others could by trying. Many were warned of what was coming; most were too excited to care. Many wanted hope and change. They got change that has forced us ...

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 Inez Milholland

For those New Yorkers not in the loop, there has been a great storm of debate raging in a little restaurant called Polly’s down on Sixth Avenue. Discussion about suffrage, labor, and the values of a bohemian lifestyle have dominated the forefront thus far, but things seem to be coming to a head as the final sessions draw ...

By Kyle Lawson

In the never-ending debate over same sex marriage Maryland was brought to the forefront recently when attorney general Douglas Gansler stated that Maryland would recognize out of state same sex marriages. This has of course upset Republicans and conservative Democrats in the Maryland legislature who are claiming that Gansler is ignoring the law. I could less about this ...

By Colleen Cable

Bush-era politics, government invasion of privacy, and the destruction of civil liberties are the foremost images when the Patriot Act comes to mind. The Patriot Act is so mired with these negative images that any mention of the act will immediately repel most Americans. Beyond these off-putting associations, the Patriot Act is not all it’s accused to be. ...