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Volume CXVI, No. 4
This Week’s Top Stories
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
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College pushes for “sustainable excellence” President Janet Morgan Riggs announces plans for improved sustainability efforts Photo Credit: gettysburg.edu
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International Last year, members of the Sudanese army raped at least 221 women and girls in a Darfurian village during a series of house-to-house attacks, according to a report released on Wednesday. Daniel Bekele, the director of Human Rights Watch, the organization that released the video, called it “a new low in the catalog of atrocities in Darfur.” Another mass rape occurred in late October and surfaced via radio broadcasts by Sudanese overseas. The United Nations Security Council has since demanded that Sudan allow full investigation of such incidents. Instead, President Omar al-Bashir ordered the U.N. mission’s human rights office to close and has refused to allow the peacekeeping mission to visit the village.e This week’s “Top Stories” were compiled by Brendan Raleigh with information from abc.go.com.
Gettysburg College President Janet Morgan Riggs talked to the Student Senate recently about plans for improving the college’s sustainability efforts. The school has raised $86 million so far in its efforts to meet its goal.
B y B ethany H oltz MS&T E ditor With the “value-toprice equation” of higher education in the national forefront of debate, President Janet Morgan Riggs addressed the Student Senate recently to discuss how Gettysburg is positioned as an institution and the school’s plans to provide sustainable excellence. In a room filled with attentive students, Riggs explained how students, along with instructors, advisors,
faculty and parents can help Gettysburg College remain ‘Gettysburg Great.’ In the United States today, liberal arts colleges constitute 250 academic institutions, making Gettysburg students among three percent of undergraduates who will earn degrees from a residential liberal arts college. Part of what makes Gettysburg so distinctive is the diverse range of experiential learning opportunities housed both within and outside the classroom, as
well as personalized learning opportunities and student oriented faculty. In order to ensure that Gettysburg continues to be a premier educational institution in a rapidly changing economy, the school has engaged in a campaign geared towards providing sustainable excellence. As envisioned by Riggs, sustainable excellence is “the sustainability of an excellent education for our students even in the face of a challenging economic climate.”
In order to attain this goal, Riggs points to the need for a strong resource base. To date, the school has raised over $86 million in cash and commitments in hopes of meeting this objective. In addition to the campaign, Riggs and her team are also looking for ways to reduce some of the school’s already-existing costs. This may mean cutting programs no longer in use, combining programs that have similar goals or extending the service lives
of college-owned computers from four to five years. The college has also joined a consortium with ten other institutions that all want to work together to share resources or participate in bulk buying programs. As Riggs emphasized in a follow-up interview on Monday, Gettysburg wants to ensure that it can continue to offer financial aid, recruit great students, offer unique programs, and create Continued on page 2
Philadelphia drug ring leaders receive sentences Members of the drug ring that sold to Gettysburg College students are sentenced B y B rendan R aleigh N ews E ditor On Monday, Jan. 26, students who were involved with a prep school drug ring were sentenced for allegedly selling drugs to high school and college students in the Philadelphia suburb area. In April 2014, two Gettysburg College students admitted to purchasing drugs from the ring. Andrew Boone Lewis and Cheston Andrew Simmons both admitted to buying drugs from drug ring leader Neil Scott and reselling them to students in Gettysburg, according to an affidavit from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office. Lewis testified that he had purchased cocaine four times throughout the 20132014 school year. Several of the deliveries were delivered to Lewis’s fraternity house
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Saying the government cites “national security” too often to shield information from scrutiny, four U.S. senators urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to divulge more information about the rules it follows when it makes U.S. citizens the target of anti-terror drone strikes. The filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan supported arguments made in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times. The litigation already has forced the release of a heavily redacted July 2010 41-page memo that said a targeted killing of a U.S. citizen is permissible under a law passed by Congress shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. But other memos are sought and the appeals court is reviewing whether they must be turned over. The United States military is ending its Ebola relief mission in W. Africa, as the last Americans are now scheduled to depart from their posts in Liberia by April 30. This announcement was made as the number of Ebola infections has decreased dramatically in recent months. The mission began in September when President Obama announced the deployment of U.S. troops to help stem the tide of the Ebola epidemic.
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Timothy Brooks, Neil Scott and Christian Euler led a drug ring in the Philadelphia area. They helped sell and distribute marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy. The ring was discovered by police last year and Brooks and several others have recently been sentenced. in January and February. Timothy Brooks and Neil Scott, both graduates of The Haverford School were the primary leaders of the ring. Brooks recently pleaded guilty last fall to participation in a corrupt organiza-
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tion, conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute. On Monday, Brooks was sentenced to nine to 23 months. Scott was sentenced previously to five to 15 years. Another of the lead-
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ers, Christian Euler pleaded guilty last Aug. 20 under a negotiated deal to three misdemeanor counts, court records show; he faces sentencing scheduled Feb. 11 in Montgomery County Court. John Rosemann also pleaded guilty to misde-
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meanors last fall in Montgomery County, court re cords show. He was sentenced on Jan. 20 to probation, said his attorney, Steven Fair lie, who noted prosecution dropped the most serious charges.
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