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One Billion Rising sparks action and conversation This Week’s Top Stories National Recently, a judge ordered Apple to help the FBI break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California shooters. Apple is now opposing this order, and believes the decision is “an overreach by the U.S. government.” Apple believes that in following these orders, they would be creating a “backdoor to the iPhone” which could compromise and threaten security advancements which currently protect Apple customers. There has recently been a significant amount of debate over the involvement of technology companies in the legal sphere. The government could theoretically use this power to access anyone’s phone information.
Students take part in the biggest mass action to end violence against women in history B y J ulia S ippel S taff W riter
On Friday, Feb. 12, students and staff gathered in CUB 260 to show their support for the One Billion Rising campaign. On Gettysburg College’s campus, the event is sponsored by the Women’s Center and is described as “a global campaign to end violence against women, rise for justice, and promote
gender equality.” According to their website, this movement is “the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history” (www. onebillionrising.org.) Since its 2013 inception, the movement has raised awareness for the over one billion (1 in 3 of 7 billion) girls who will be beaten or raped during their lifetimes.
The on-campus event started with a performance by the all-female acapella group, Upscale. Following the act, Esther Waybright of Gettysburg’s local Survivor’s Inc. spoke. This nonprofit organization provides support, discussion and, most importantly, action, to aid victims of assault. Waybright explained the Social Ecological Model
for understanding violence and assault. This simplified model shows all points of the spectrum, from the importance of individual understanding and self-care to an overall societal view of the issues at hand. “It’s learned behavior for people to be violent,” said Waybright, “so we can learn to be nonviolent.” From there, discussion
took a more creative direction with arts and crafts. Armed with One Billion Rising stencils, participants took to decorating brightly colored t-shirts to commemorate the experience and spread the word. Beyond being a fun freebie to take from the event, the shirts will serve as a conversation-starter outside of the formal setting. Photo Credit: Julia Sippel
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One Billion Rising was held on Friday, Feb. 12. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness for and end violence against women. At the event, Ester Waybright, who is involved with Gettysburg’s local Survivor’s Inc. nonprofit organization, spoke about supporting and aiding assault victims. T-shirts were handed out to spark conversation outside of the event.
Recently, when the Pope visited Morelia, Mexico, one of his worshippers grabbed his hand and would not let go. The force of the worshipper’s pull caused the Pope to land on a young man in a wheelchair. A video shows the Pope losing his cool and scolding the worshipper with a look of anger. The Pope typically rides in a vehicle with an open top, in order to have a closer connection with his worshippers. Soon, the Pope is to visit Juarez, Mexico, a very violent city where the homicide rate is high. The Pope Francis is also planning to say a prayer at the border fence in commemoration of the 6,000 migrants dead on the U.S. side of the border who passed away between 1998 and 2013.
This week’s “Top Stories” were compiled by Kayla Britt with information from CNN (www.cnn.com) and Project Syndicate (www. project-syndicate.org)
Lunar New Year unites the college community
American and international students shared their cultures in the Lunar New Year celebration B y N ora T idey S taff W riter Monday, Feb. 8 marked the official start of the Lunar New Year, and Gettysburg College celebrated with food, festivities and fun on Saturday, Feb. 6. The Ballroom was nearly filled as the campus community came out to celebrate a holiday not typically recognized in America. Celebrated in several A s ian co u n tr ies in clu d i n g China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia, the Lunar New Year signifies the first day on the lunisolar calendar, which follows the moon cycle as opposed to American calendars, which follow the sun cycle. The students and staff of the Asian Studies Department and the Chinese Club organized a campus-wide celebration that included a wide variety of food, music and student performers. From musical duets to belly dancing to traditional games, the Lunar New Year celebration brought together different forms of entertainment. Sophomore Ha Nguyen, who worked on and performed at the event, ex-
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plained that the students involved in the event decided on the traditional foods that would be served, some of which are complicated to make and involve daylong preparation processes. She also explained that in Vietnam, one of the most important traditions is dinner the night before the New Year begins when families gather to share the last meal of the year together. In addition, many aspects of the Lunar New Year are similar to the celebrations of the New Year in countries that follow the solar calendar, including the typical American New Year celebration. Ha added that while it can be difficult to be away from home during the Lunar New Year celebration, the students who worked on the event all had a lot of fun together and considered the event a great success. The event allowed t h e c am p u s c o m m u n i t y t o experience and appreciate both the similarities and the differences among cultural celebrations, all while relaxing and having fun.
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The students who worked to plan the Lunar New Year Celebration, held on Sat., Feb. 6, spent time making homemade dishes and practicing for the entertainment portion of the evening.
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Vibe makes their last appearance of the semester at Romanition
The event was a creative display of the meanings of love and romance during V-Day weekend B y V era E khator S taff W riter On Saturday Feb. 13, 2016 Romanition was held in the College Union Building. The event, a prelude to Valentine’s Day, was “an exposition on the topics of love and romance”. The event was the second annual one, with the first being held last year. All throughout the night, students performed acts that included spoken word, poetry, song, and dance. The night’s first act was a performance by student dance group, Zouave, to Laurel Downie’s a cappella rendition of “Earned It” by The Weeknd. This opening act
helped set the mood for the acts to follow. The most popular method of exposition was poetry/spoken word. One student performed a poem on romantic love during an apocalypse. Another student performed a poem on the love she had toward her parents, who sat in the audience. There was no topic that was off limits: the works performed by students covered everything from the proper way to refer to female anatomy to how hate could translate into love. Apart from poetry and spoken word, students displayed their understanding of love through music. One student sang of unrequited love while an-
other played moving pieces on the piano. There was even a freestyle dance to a hip-hop beat. The end of the night was a Burlesque performance by student dance group Vibe. Vibe’s intro act brought three members of the audience to the stage where they were each given personal dances. This into gave audience members a glimpse for the sultry performance that was to follow – a full on Burlesque show. The Romanition event succeeded in showcasing the various human perspectives on the enigma that is love.
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The Gettysburg dance group Vibe was one of the groups which performed at the Romanition event on Feb. 13.
Senate Update
By Kayla Britt News Editor
February 15, 2016 By Brooke Gutschick Student Senate Secretary
But First, Let Me Take a Selfie In a viral video which is circulating around the Internet, a sea lion named Milo is carrying a selfie stick to film his underwater environment as he swims. He carries the stick, which is attached to a GoPro camera, through the water at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. The stick was made by an aquarium volunteer who thought it would be fun. Politician... Hollywood Star... Now Snapchat King? In a snapchat which has been posted to YouTube by fans, Arnold Schwarznegger, former governor of California and Hollywood star recreates an iconic scene from The Predator by shouting “get to the chopper” when a helicopter appeared above a Los Angeles rooftop. The snapchat gives more props to Schwarznegger, who already has a long list of successes.
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Danielle Phillips from Residence Life held a discussion
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Black Student Union was allotted $1,972.99
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Colleges Against Cancer was allotted $5,555
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College Democrats was allotted $883.71
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College Republicans was allotted $1,182.96
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26th PCG was allotted $600
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Refugee Action Committee was recognized
Students are welcome to attend the weekly meetings of the Student Senate Mondays at 7 p.m. in CUB 260.
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Let’s talk about poetry: “You Auden Know”
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Remembering the life and legacy of W.H. Auden B y E mily P ierce C ontributing W riter On Feb. 21st, W.H. Auden will have his 109th birthday. Although he is not still around to celebrate it (having died in 1973), a retrospective is still in order. After all, his writing set the tone for many other works of literature prior to, during, and after the second World War. He is frequently overshadowed by greats of the modernist period like T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats; th e d if f e r e n c e l ies in h is work being more frequently broadcasted at the time of its inception. I first read Auden when independently researching the work of Christopher Isherwood--as one does--and stumbled across one of their collaborative plays, On the Frontier. The play itself did not grab my attention so much as the writing style did. I was familiar enough with Isherwood, but it was clear that Auden had his own significant impact on the text. Isherwood asserted that he “[Was] a Camera;” with that metaphor in min d , A u d en p r o v id ed innovative new angles and shots. Auden’s perspective and voice developed from his travels.
Born in England, he ended up going around the globe in order to expand his narrative abilities, going to places as diverse as China and Iceland. Having lived in Berlin before the war began (like Isherwood), he was able to encapsulate a very particular period of time unfamiliar to many outsiders. Eventually, Auden gained citizenship in the United States of America after working as a professor for several years. According to the Academy of American Poets, he split his time between his residences in Vienna and New York City in the years before he died. The poetry Auden wrote gained note for its unabashed nature, helping to make it more accessible than some of the other modernists’ work. Considered “the voice of his generation” by the New Yorker, he maintained a tether to human emotion (even in his reluctance to write poetry in the first place). “Funeral Blues” invokes a particularly dull pain; “The Unknown Citizen” stirs up particular pain connected to the postwar period. The subject matter of each poem changes, naturally, but several evoke images of anxiety, love, and religion. This helped establish Auden as one of the most prominent LGBT+ authors in
history who also identified as a Christian. Consider the following excerpt, taken from one of his most famous poems. “As I Walked Out One Evening:” “I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. ‘The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world.” While this portion alone does seem typical of a traditional love poem, the context of the poem creates a sense of finality through the continued motif of time. I would argue that the slant rhyme taking place between “hold” and “world” in the second stanza significantly contributes to that unease present in the rest of the poem. To be frank, the sentiments are beautiful, but it doesn’t feel like a love poem so much as a ticking time bomb. How should one celebrate Auden’s birthday? Read some of his poetry. Plan a trip, even if you can’t take one. Go in-depth on some research, just for fun. Refuse to become a poet. Do it anyways.
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Don’t miss out: upcoming book discussions cross our campus Opportunities for reading and discussion abound this semester. Check out the following upcoming book discussions. You’ve Gotta Read This: Student Book Discussion Join us for a discussion of Katherine Boo’s novel, Behind the Beautiful Forevers on Tuesday, March 15th, from 4-5 p.m. with Divonna Stebick, Associate Professor of Education. The author of the book focuses on a slum near the international airport in Mumbai, and introduces readers to some of the residents living there, highlighting issues relating to economics, education, gender roles, religion, and corruption. Interested in joining the conversation? Sign up to join the discussion of the book facilitated by Professor Stebick. The first twelve students will receive a free copy of the book courtesy of the Friends of Musselman Library. Priority is given to first-year students. Sign-up by Sunday, Feb. 28th at http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/information/ general/browsing/studentbookdiscussion.dot #GBCTalks Book Discussion on Race
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1 hour, 44 minutes – PG-13 Maggie “Downton Abbey” Smith stars in this touching comedy about a homeless woman, living in her car who forms an unexpected bond with the man whose driveway she parks in for 15 years. All-star British cast includes Jim Broadbent, James Corden, Frances de la Tour, Dominic Cooper and Russell Tovey. Friday - Saturday (2/19 - 2/20) - 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM Sunday (2/21) - 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM Monday (2/22) - 4:10 PM Tuesday - Thursday (2/23 - 2/25) - 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM 45 Years
1 hour, 35 minutes – R In the week leading up to their 45th wedding anniversary, a couple receives an unexpected letter which contains potentially life changing news. Starring Charlotte Rampling & Tom Courtenay. Friday - Saturday (2/19 - 2/20) - 4:15 PM and 7:15 PM Sunday (2/21) - 2:15 PM and 5:15 PM Monday - Thursday (2/22 - 2/25) - 4:15 PM and 7:15 PM
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Want to talk about race? Not sure where to start? Join #GBCTalks for a discussion of selected books to start the conversation. Sponsored by the office of Diversity and Inclusion and Friends of Musselman Lirary, discussion will be co-facilitated by a faculty member/administrator and a student Diversity Peer Educator. All levels of awareness welcome. Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) - Tue, 2/23, 4-5 pm (Glatfelter Lodge) – facilitated by Liz Berriman (Diversity Peer Educator) and Scott Hancock (History & Africana Studies) - Mon, 2/29, 7-8 pm (Glatfelter Lodge) – facilitated by Liz Berriman (Diversity Peer Educator) and Chloe Ruff (Education) Still need a book? Try the campus bookstore or online booksellers. (All free copies are gone, and all Musselman Library copies are checked out.) Questions? Email Janelle
“Photography in Mexico,” new exhibit at Schmucker Art Gallery B y K ira G oodwin S taff W riter This semester, the Schmucker Art Gallery welcomes a new exhibit titled “Photography in Mexico.” This exhibit, as the title would make it seem, displays photographs of life in Mexico. Combining photos by American photographer Paul Strand and Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, the exhibit was meant to showcase everyday life in Mexico. According to Shannon Egan, director of the art gallery, these photographers “sought to document Mexico’s ‘new’ national identity” after the Mexican Revolution. The two photographers both shared the “notion that the essence of Mexican national identity is shaped by its rural and indigenous cultures.” They go on to demonstrate these views through their modernist photography of everyday life and people. The exhibit contains numerous photographs that displayed powerful messages through their simplicity. For example, Bravo’s photograph El Perro Veinte shows a girl standing in a doorway with a dog at her side. It just depicts life, not
an extravagant life, but a life that finds beauty in its simplicity. Or there is Strand’s photo Church, which highlights cultural differences in that the Church is old and a little dirty, in fact the only reason that most Americans would be able to identify it as a Church is because of the cross that sits atop it. Yet it is a beautiful image that highlights cultural differences for those that belong to a different one. Other images of landscapes or buildings, such as Strand’s Lamdscape near Saltillo, and Plaza, State of Puebla, or Bravo’s Ventana Al Coro, depict the old architecture and the desert landscape that help to shape Mexican culture. They show how even apart from the people, the environment of Mexico has its own unique culture. The people, such as Strand’s Woman and Baby, Girl and Child, and Woman of Santa Ana, Michoacan depict the hardships of everyday life. The first showing a woman with a curious and slightly judgmental look on her face with a tired, sad-looking baby on her arm. The second showing a young girl with a menacing look on her face holding an even younger girl. And the latter depicting a large
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family experiencing poverty and hunger, depicted primarily through the facial expression of the women at center. The images are of real people and the real hardships in their lives, and it is heartbreaking to see them worn out and scarred. Another impressive photograph was Street Market, Amanalco by Anton Bruehl. This painting is unique in that it is taken at an arial view and it depicts people going about their daily lives with a simplistic beauty. Another snapshot of everyday life comes in Bravo’s Paisaje Chalma. This photo is more of a landscape photo where Bruehl’s focused on the people, but it does contain people walking through the desert. It depicts people going about their daily lives and feels alive because the people walk with a purpose that you can’t always see in paintings. That is where the power of these photographs comes from. They are real people experiencing real hardships as they go about their day to day lives, with the raw emotion on their faces perfectly captured. And it is that realism that causes the photos to leave a lasting effect.
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Never walk home alone Musselman lecture series again with Livesafe app inspires with RDS research By Erin Stackowitz Contributing Writer This is not a topic that is privy to political debaters. This is not an issue that should be discussed every four years or even after an incidence occurs. Hate crimes, gun violence, sexual assaults, etc. are issues that face every community in the world and with this new app, LiveSafe, crime can be prevented and reported productively and anonymously. LiveSafe is a free, mobile safety communications platform that encourages and enables discreet and secure bystander intervention by community members through information sharing with campus safety officials. Serving both iPhone and Android devices, students have the ability to report crime or suspicious activity by sharing pictures, videos, or audio clips with a geo-tagged location feature. What makes this app stand out from just simply dialing 911 is that this platform offers a twoway communication system. Safety officials can re-
spond to students, faculty, and staff using a cloud-based dashboard system. By utilizing a real-time, two-way chat, safety officials can investigate further using the information submitted and increase campus watch. There are four main functions of this app, which include reporting a variety of incidents such as a car accident or vandalism, viewing a map and a list of reported suspicious activity, broadcasting an individual’s location to family or friends for safety, and calling or messaging 911. Another feature, SafeWalk, virtually walks you home after a long night in the library. This app was the brainchild of Shy Pahlevani, who experienced sexual assault on campus and Kristina Anderson, who survived the infamous Virginia Tech campus-wide shooting. LiveSafe is designed with the intention that students can report crime anonymously and take more ownership in their campus’s safety. It is especially helpful in disclosing statistically under-reported crimes, such as
sexual assaults. This app is not only for heinous crimes; it also allows officials to report unsafe weather conditions, traffic areas to avoid due to construction, or even closed buildings. LiveSafe is expertly designed and even garnered the support- in the form of 6.5 million dollars- from the Internet conglomerate IAC as well as numerous other angel investors including CIT GAP Funds. Mr. Diller, the serving director at Coca-Cola Company and at Graham Holdings, states, “We now have the technology and infrastructure to make life safer for people as they go about their daily lives…LiveSafe is an excellent platform for putting safety directly in people’s hands, and has the potential for making individuals and communities far safer than they are today.” The promise in this app is growing and it has the potential to be brought out of schools and into sport arenas and shows. LiveSafe increases personal awareness, public safety and enhances everyday security.
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Brainchild of Shy Pahlevani, the LiveSafe app is the latest in safety technoloy. Features include information sharing with campus safety officials, crime reporting, suspicious activity maps, and safety walking home alone.
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Dr. Ka Yee C. Lee, above, was invited for the annual Musselman Lecture Series at Gettysburg College. Lee presented her research in Neonatal Repiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS). . B y A phra M urray C ontributing W riter In the spring of 1980, Clark. E. Bricker ‘39 became the first visiting scientist as part of Gettysburg College’s Musselman lecture series. Thirty-seven years later, in 2016, the annual lecture series still continues; this year the invited scientist was Dr. Ka Yee C. Lee. Once a PhD advisor to our very own chemistry professor Dr. Shelly Fry, Dr. Lee is an interdisciplinary scientist, who studies the interactions between biophysical science and physics. While the title of her presentation, The Physics of Breathing: Wrinkling to Fold Transitions in Lung Surfactant and Other Thin Elastic Sheets, is at first somewhat intimidating, it simply involves the understanding of the structure and function of lungs and the subsequent deeper study and research into Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS). The Musselman Foundation was founded by C.H Musselman and eventually continued by John A. Hauser, whose donation funds the visiting scientist program.
Due to Hauser’s friendship with the then chair of the Gettysburg College Chemistry Department, Dr. John B. Zinn, the college was gifted with $25,000 in 1977 and 1978. This money was to be used by the college to support visits by well-known chemists to lecture about a topic of current interest or their research. The faculty and students of the chemistry department are invited to attend these lecture series, typically three or four in a year. The goal is to increase general awareness regarding modern and industrial research and to engage the student population. Dr. Lee’s research into Neonatal RDS, encompassing the different fields of physics and biochemistry, focuses on developing some form of a cure to this relatively under-researched syndrome. The function of the lungs, as an organ, is to facilitate the process of breathing, allow the exit of water and toxins, and act as one of the first areas of host defense. While this comes naturally to most people, in cases of RDS, these processes become very
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Gravity Waves: It was recently reported that gravity waves were detected when two massive black holes collided deep in space. These observations confirm Albert Einstein’s theory of space-time developed last century. New Cancer Therapy: A novel type of cancer therapy involving genetically modified immune cells called T-cells produced promising results. Ninety-four percent of those given the novel treatment went into remission. Future trials of this treatment will focus on reducing potential side effects. IQ and Life-expectancy: As observed from a recent correlational study, it appears that those who have higher intelligence also live longer, on average. A measured difference of 15 IQ-points correlated with a 21% greater likelihood of survival. It is possible that this correlation exists as a result of better health habits maintained by those with higher IQs, or that IQ is a measure of the nervous system’s efficiency. Lyme disease bacteria: There appears to be another bacteria which can cause Lyme disease, which has the proposed name Borrelia mayonii. Since 2012, only six Americans have been infected with this bacteria, illustrating exactly how rare it is.
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difficult. Normally, the process of breathing is aided by a “surfactant,” which reduces the surface tension in the lungs and eases the work associated with breathing. In patients suffering from RDS, this surfactant is either entirely devoid or compromised. Currently, the treatments include forcing air into neonatal lungs, which unfortunately runs the risk of tearing delicate tissue, as well as the introduction of blood. Furthermore, the current cost for this treatment is roughly $800 per session. Dr. Lee and her team are therefore investing their research into the development of a more cost effective synthetic replacement surfactant. W h i le t h i s p r o c e s s will take more than a few years, it is inspiring to engage first hand with the minds that are able to design methods of furthering research in their field. It is my personal hope that all Gettysburgians glean all that they can from the motivated scientists brought to this campus as part of the Musselman lecture series and their, dare I say, Gettysburg Great work.
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Dieting in college without One Billion Rising event counting calories empowers students Part 4: Mentality (2/2) By K ira G oodwin F eatures C olumnist
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In last week’s article, I argued that counting your calories is not only not unhealthy but could actually be one of the better lifestyle changes you can make. With that idea cemented in our minds, we can dive headfirst into the instructional section on actually implementing an optimal dieting mentality. I will organize this by discussing four vital attributes of an optimal dieting mentality; I will briefly cover why they are important and how you can go about exercising them in your dieting efforts. 1. Your diet fits into your life, not the other way around. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I see peers’ diets fail before they even begin due to this one paramount mistake. The reason we see around 75% of dieters regain all the weight they lost, and then some in most cases, is not that “diets do not work,” but rather that people hold themselves to ridiculously high standards when it comes to dieting. Think about it like this. We know that even with the best study habits, we are not likely to earn a 100% in each class, because we are only human and some level of error is to be expected. How then could anyone go into a diet, with the limited dietary knowledge and experience symptomatic of most first-time dieters, expecting perfect compliance? Do not beat yourself up over days you overeat slightly, do not meet your protein goals, are not able to make it to the gym, etc. Concern yourself instead with the more general trends in the right direction like long-term weight loss or even simply long-term real-
istic diet adherence. Always remember to see the forest for the trees. 2. You are never “on the diet” or “off the diet.” Unless you have extensive experience in dieting and have a legitimate reason for it, dieting should never denote short bursts of perfect adherence to some arbitrarily stringent rules (i.e. no carbs before bed). Dieting is a long-term lifestyle change and should be something you can stick to without unnecessarily rigorous restrictions. It is absolutely imperative to learn the difference between “appetite” and “hunger,” and some level of self-restraint is going to be unavoidable in an effective diet. But a diet that, day in and day out, makes you dread getting through the day is destined to fail. 3. You practice dietary mindfulness. If there is one thing I would love for my readers to take away from my articles, it would be an increased sense of mindfulness in your eating habits. This is one of the biggest takeaways from caloriecounting for most people; they realize how much those high-calorie snacks and drinks add up and are more cognizant of their dietary choices. Enough cannot be said for the value of being mindful of what you put in your body. I resent the notion that we, as adults, cannot practice some basic self-control and moderation in our eating habits just because “college is stressful.” If your response to stress is actively making your body worse at dealing with stress, that is a problem. 4. You are not brooding over food all day. Getting through a diet means not always stuffing your face when you feel like
it; there is no way around this. If you are implementing all of the methods I have prescribed in the articles of this series and still find that you are constantly hungry, there is not much I can do that will magically make you stop thinking about food other than telling you to stop thinking about food. I can tell you that your fasted state, if you are following the guide outlined in this series, is the best time to be productive. If the meal times I laid out in Part 2 do not fit well into your schedule or you find you are craving another meal each night, consider pushing the meals back a bit (or whichever necessary accommodations are in order). Due to the neuroplasticity of our brains, the more often you practice self-control in your diet, the more habitual and effortless it will be to do so in the future. While I will admit that dieting itself, at the extreme levels at least, never gets easier per se, it can absolutely become something you need not apply much thought into each day; it eventually just becomes routine. As I mentioned in Part 1 of this mini-series on mentality, this does not do much to cover all there is to know about dieting mentality. Certainly, I have left quite a few stones unturned. But my hope is that I can shed some light on one of the more important aspects of dieting that so often goes unstated. This concludes the “Dieting in College without Counting” series, but there will likely be some addendums and responses to FAQs coming in the future. If anything throughout this guide was even slightly confusing, do not hesitate to contact me and ask for clarification. Stay tuned for more!
Fair Use week at Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library B y M eggan S mith M usselman L ibrary C olumnist
Understanding copy right law in the digital age can be challenging. Musselman Library will host multiple events the week of February 22-26 to highlight the ins and outs of Fair Use and to provide opportunities to engage in conversation with members of the college community. And there will be food! • M o n d a y , F e b . 2 2
– Fair Use Week kick-off: Cake for library visitors on the main floor at 3 p.m. Look for table-top information graphics about copyright around the library. • W e d n e s d a y , F e b . 24 – Showing of The LEGO Movie at 7 p.m., CUB 260. Fair Use discussion follows. Light refreshments and raffle for LEGO set. • T h u r s d a y , F e b . 2 5 – Brown Bag Lunch on Fair Use topic for campus staff in Library Room 014 at 12 p.m. Light refreshments.
Also: ACRL’s The Fair Use Factors webinar is in Room 018 at 2 p.m. • All Week – A good time to vote with LEGOs. An exhibit featuring three Fair Use questions allowing anyone to vote yes or no using LEGOs will be displayed the entire week behind the Research Help Desk on the main floor. Copyright Committee bookmarks will be available for anyone interested.
Recently, Gettysburg College hosted One Billion Rising, an event on campus hosted by the Gettysburg College Women’s Center and Survivors Inc. to shed light on the campaign in hopes of getting more people involved. One Billion Rising is a worldwide campaign meant to represent the fact that, at present, about one billion women in the world have been sexually assaulted in their lifetimes, and that number is still rising. The campaign is trying to spread awareness for this problem around the globe while simultaneously inspiring women. Gettysburg’s event opened with a performance from Upscale, the college’s all-female acapella group. They performed renditions of “What Kind of Man?” and “Boy,” both meant to be inspiring to females and thus working for the cause. Afterwards, student representatives from the Women’s Center came up and talked a bit about the campaign and what the goal for it was before they in-
troduced the representative from Survivors Inc. She went on to discuss the purpose of Survivors and some of the things it does. For example, it provides shelter to women who are running away from domestic violence; it also has a 24-hour helpline that victims of abuse or violence can call and get help from; and it offers regular support group meetings to survivors of sexual violence or people who know someone who has been through it. In other words, they acknowledge that abuse is difficult for those who go through it but also for those close to them. The representative discussed how although some may view it as unrealistic, they still retain their overarching goal of ending all violence. Violence should never be tolerated in any form, and although it may be hard to overcome, we should not grow so accustomed to violence that it becomes viewed as a way of life. The goal should always be to put an end to it, even if realistically it may not be feasible, at least in our lifetimes. They went on to discuss how this year’s theme for the
One Billion Rising campaign was Revolution. The idea was that people all across the country were rising together in support of victims of sexual violence, but they were not just gathering for support but rather uniting and fighting back. The final part of the event consisted of decorating T-Shirts in support of the campaign. They had stencils and fabric pens that could be used to write “One Billion Rising” or any other meaningful slogan on the shirts. Towards the end, they put on their video from last year, which consisted of people from all around the world gathering together and dancing. Overall, the event was empowering and served as a great introduction to what we need to be doing to put an end to violence against women and violence in general. But, it was also a reminder that while attending these types of events is important, to truly make a difference more must be done; these events are just the beginning.
Students of Gettysburg Mary Westermann ‘18 OMS major, English minor By Daniella Snyder Staff Writer “One of the best experiences I have had so far at Gettysburg is being a member of Smart Woman Securities. The organization focuses on personal investment and finance and I’ve been able to meet a lot of amazing people. Next month I’ll be flying to Omaha, Nebraska on the National Smart Woman Securities trip to meet Warren Buffett which I can’t wait for! I never would have thought I would get the opportunity to meet the “Oracle of Omaha” during college.” - Mary Westermann, Class of 2018, OMS
Gettysburg students help support the fight against children’s cancer Courtesy of Love Your Melon
Gettysburg College is very pleased to announce that our campus has officially become a part of the Love Your Melon crew! Love Your Melon is an apparel brand run by college students with a mission to donate a hat to every child battling cancer. The organization has donated over 1,000,000 hats thus far. Fifty Percent of net proceeds from the sale of each product is donated equally to CureSearch for Children’s Cancer and the Pinky Swear Foundation in order to fund cancer research initiatives and provide immediate support for families. The members of the Gettysburg College Love Your Melon Crew are ecstatic and passionate about being advocates for this exceptional cause. Their ultimate goal is
to reach the required number of sale credits and dress up as superheroes to personally deliver LYM beanies to local facilities! You can help them reach this goal! When purchasing a beanie, remember to credit the ‘Gettysburg College Campus Crew’ in the dropdown bar at checkout. Each sale corresponds to a crew credit. With more credits, the crew will have opportunities to plan events on campus, impact the community, win free hats for Gettysburg students and faculty, and more! In addition, the crew will be competing in a campus crew challenge this Friday! #ASHTAG FOR THE WIN CHALLENGE is the chance for all of the new college crews to connect other crews within the region and recognize the impact that social media can have on spreading the word!
The Love Your Melon campaign provides us with warmth as well as the honor to giving back to children who have shown tremendous strength. Love Your Melon will be releasing new beanie styles this Monday, February 22. They ask that the Gettysburg community, staff, and students band together and purchase some adorable Love Your Melon hats. Each hat, delivered by a loving and friendly face, can make a world of a difference to these children. Follow the Gettysburg College Campus Crew pages on Instagram (gburglymcrew), Facebook and Twitter for more information on the amazing things happening on our campus and across the country! Head over to loveyourmelon.com!
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Students prepare to perform The Vagina Monologues
Gettysburg College and the Women’s Center will begin showings of the play on Feb. 25 By Vera Ekhator Staff Writer The Vagina Monologues was first performed off-Broadway by author Even Ensler and has since become an international feminist phenomenon. It is a poignant, joyous and heartbreaking examination of women’s experiences on their journey through sexual discovery. By liberating just this one word, the play gives a voice to real women’s stories of moving past violence, rejection and shame, and reclaiming their sexuality. Gettysburg College students, in partnership with the Women’s Center, will be performing this ground-breaking, award-winning episodic play in the CUB Ballroom Thursday, February 25 and Friday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m.. Tickets and t-shirts may be purchased at CUB
tables beginning February, 16th, or at the door. A list of prices for tickets and items for the show can be found below: Performance Tickets $10 T-Shirts and Tank Tops: $12 Ticket/Shirt Combo: $20 Vagina Pops: $1 The proceeds for these various items will be donated to Survivors Inc., a local domestic violence shelter servicing the many women and families who have fallen victim to incidents power based violence global movement to end sexual violence. For more information on Survivors Inc. and its movement please visit http://enddvsa.org/ More information on the Women’s Center can be found at www.gettysburg.edu/women
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Fact checking the new Young Americans for Freedom anti-choice abortion posters B y I sabel G ibson P enrose O pinions E ditor The Poster Shows: A sonogram of a fetus photoshopped to be holding a sign reading “I Am A Person”. Science Shows: A more accurate sign would read “I Could Gestate and Develop into a Person, Eventually.” According to the Guttmacher Institute, one-third of abortions occur six weeks into the pregnancy or earlier (when the fetus is an embryo that consists of two layers of cells) and 89 percent occur within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy (when the fetus is about the size of a kidney bean). The depiction of women who get abortions as baby killers is both harmful and factually inaccurate. The Poster Says: “Every day in America, an average of 3,315 human beings lose their lives to abortion.” Facts Say: The statistic of 3,315 checks out as accurate – but is presented without context, when context is vital. There are around 1.2 million abortions performed each year in the United States, putting the abortion rate at about 20 per every 1,000 women aged 15-44. Worldwide the rate is higher, with 28 abortions per every 1,000 women aged 1544. America is not the lone country where abortions are performed, but we are lucky enough to live in a country where the abortions that are performed are safe and legal. Also, I feel it is important to reiterate, abortion is not synonymous with loss of life. It is a completely safe
and legal medical procedure that terminates a pregnancy that could have otherwise developed into a fetus. The Poster Says: “Abortion is the number one killer of black lives in the United States. More than HIV. More than diabetes. More than cancer. Abortion snuffs out more black lives than all other causes of death. Combined.” Facts Say: According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention the number one cause of death among black Americans is heart disease, while cancer is the number two cause. Diabetes is cause number six for black men and number four black women. HIV does not even crack the top ten, begging the question of why it was even included in the poster’s list. Abortion is not mentioned, because (I’ll say it again) abortion is not a killer. The Posters Say: “Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities.” Facts Say: Planned Parenthood provides a variety of services to millions of patients each year – according to the Washington Post abortion makes up about 12 percent of those services (they arrived at that statistic by dividing the 327,653 abortion procedures Planned Parenthood reported by the 2.7 million patients that visited Planned Parenthood in 2013). So yes, Planned Parenthood is a provider of safe and legal abortion services. The first sentence checks out!
The second one is a little less cut and dry. According to NPR, 60% of the approximately 1,700 clinics that provide abortion services are located in majority-white neighborhoods. This statistic also holds true of the providers that perform over 400 abortions a year – 58 percent are in majority white neighborhoods. According to the Guttmacher Institute fewer than one in ten abortion providers are located in neighborhoods where more than half the residents are black. Responding to requests for demographic information Planned Parenthood released information that showed in 2013, 14 percent of their patients in America were black – a number fairly proportional to the percentage of black people in the American population. The idea that 78 percent of Planned Parenthoods are in minority communities while only 14 percent of Planned Parenthood patients are black is absurd. Blackgenocide.org, the website where 78 percent statistic comes from, offers no sourcing and no evidence for their claim while NPR and the Guttmacher institute cite Planned Parenthood directly. The Posters Say: “Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America.” I Say: Don’t refer to black people as “blacks”. Facts Say: This checks out, sort of. Women of color are five times as likely to terminate a pregnancy as white women. However, this fact is also presented without
Bite-Size opinions: Big thoughts in small pieces Sometimes we don’t need more than a few words to give an opinion on something. Here are the easily digestiable thoughts of the week!
B y I sabel G ibson P enrose O pinions E ditor The Supreme Court and Senate This past Saturday Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away. Since then, all hell has broken loose. Senate Republicans have pledged not to nominate a replacement until the next president has taken office. Come on, Republicans in the Senate! This is why people hate politicians. You get elected by promising to do things and then when it comes time to actually do them, you balk. And this a really, really important thing to do. The Supreme Court is one of our most important bodies and a new justice could change the course of the Court for decades to come. Do your job, Senate. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been doing his unofficial job by fanning the flames of conspiracy theories about Scalia’s death. Just what a man needs while he’s trying to rest in peace. The Dive I won’t lie to you, The Dive – we’ve had some rough spots. When you changed your smoothie menu I swore I would never love you the same way again. But the sandwiches you have been putting out this semester have been unreal good. The Outside Smoke, the Hat Trick and the Triple Jump
are all mouthwatering and wonderful. Keep up the good work! Meghan Trainor My disdain for Meghan Trainor knows no bounds. From the unnecessary H in her name to her weirdly antiquated messages about gender roles, I do not like her. But this past Monday Trainor won Best New Artist despite the fact that she was up against some artists who fit “best” and “new” more than she does (Trainor was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 2015) and I am peeved about it. So peeved that maybe next year I’ll boycott the Grammys. It’ll be like the Oscar diversity boycott, except for something that doesn’t matter at all. Deadpool After grossing $135 million this past weekend there can be no doubt that Deadpool, a film that Ryan Reynolds has been working on for over a decade, is a hit. It’s funny, it’s gory, and it ends up being weirdly sweet. 10/10 would recommend. I also recommend the Deadpool press tour. Reynolds has been on a roll, recently offering up this gem: “I think it’s funny that the studios go ‘oh, how are we going to market this movie to women, we have to market the romantic angle’ and it’s like…no! Women love fucking superhero mov-
context – context that is once again key to understanding. In a powerful piece for the Washington Post Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore writes, “No one denies that the abortion rate in black communities is higher than in white communities, but failing to mention the underlying context behind these numbers demonstrates a disturbing lack of awareness of the impact of poverty and the realities faced by black women.” This is exactly where these posters fall shortest – offering statistic that have a place in the real world, instead of just the world of outrageous rhetoric. YAF wants to shame black women for having abortions, or rile people up into believing inane conspiracies about black genocide, but they don’t offer any viable solutions to problems like the poverty that impacts many black women in America. The Posters Says: “#blacklivesmatter” I Say: This is the worst invocation of the “Black Lives Matter” slogan I have ever seen. The Black Lives Matter Organization, founded by Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza, website states that BLM is “rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our dehumanization…[it] is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society.” Taking such an empowering message and twisting it in an attempt to further the oppression of black woman is
An alternative to the YAF posters, complete with quotes from people who know what they are talking about (Poster by Isabel Gibson Penrose) despicable. The Posters Suggest: Websites like blackgenocide. org, facebook.com/PersonhoodEducation, and abort73. com I Suggest: You stay away from these factually inaccurate and grossly offensive websites. If you’re interested in the Black Lives Matter movement I suggest you visit blacklivesmatter.com or check out Gettysburg’s own Black Student Union. If you’re interested in learning
more about keeping abortion safe and legal I suggest you visit prochoiceamerica.org. If you’re interested in staying informed about both Black Lives Matter and abortion I suggest averting your eyes when you pass these posters in the hall or cutting out the alternative poster I have presented alongside this article – but please, please, don’t tear YAF’s posters down. That is not a debate we need to have again.
How to find your frat soulmate in five easy steps Photo courtesy of Total Frat Move
ies! It’s sort of funny that the studios are sometimes the last to know that.” You tell em, Ryan. Beyoncé at the Super Bowl Everyone has already forgotten the details of that snooze of a Super Bowl game. Some team won and the audience lost – except when we were watching Beyoncé rock the halftime show. She performed her new song “Formation” surrounded by black women backup dancers wearing costumes that paid homage to the Black Panthers. It was an incredible performance that put Beyoncé as a black woman front and center. The backlash was quick, swift, and (unsurprisingly) mostly from conservative white people. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized the show saying, “I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers,” on Fox News. I think it’s outrageous that people can’t watch an empowered black woman perform and pay tribute to her blackness without being afraid. The backlash has been hilariously parodied by Saturday Night Live, who continue to kill it this season, in the sketch “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black.” The Weather Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. If I have to wade through one more puddle and wear my raincoat one more day I might cry.
Venture out on the dance floor and you may find yourself a young catch of a frat star, complete with Chubbies shorts, sunglasses worn inside, and a pastel button down #TFM Step Three: Your target k n o w I h a v e p i z z a i n m y By Madison Galdi is approaching- you lucky room.” Fair warning: the rest Contributing writer g i r l ! N o w t u r n a n d l o o k of the house smells the same Satire Step One: Wear your back at your friends. He may as the basement, the second shortest skirt and tightest manage to grunt out the few floor looks the same as the top… or jeans and tank top… words, “would you like to first and there’s no Domior sweat pants and t-shirt… dance?” However, if you par- noes awaiting your arrival. or pajama onesie- Frat boys ticularly fortuitous, he will By all means however, head are like bats, blind and rely spare you that time waster u p s t a i r s , m i s s i o n a c c o ms o l e l y o n e c h o l o c a t i o n t o and simply try to grab your plished! hips. Nothing says long-term Step Five: Congratulafind fresh blood. commitment like a stranger’s tions, all of your dreams have Step Two: Move into pelvis in your back! finally come true! Don’t worthe proper circular formation S t e p F o u r : A f t e r a ry when your target seems to on the dance floor and seek dancing to a few songs by have a look of terror when he out your prey. Maintaining the distinguished voices of spots you in servo and looks eye contact for six seconds our generation (read: Justin the other way. Many fratershows that you either want Bieber) your partner will be nity men seem to have amneto bang or murder him, so so inspired that he will ask sia Sunday morning through ramp your stare up to seven, y o u t o j o i n h i m u p s t a i r s . Friday afternoon. Never fear, eight, even fifteen seconds If he’s feeling particularly your name will be on the tip of unblinking focus. There’s witty he may not even ask of his fingers as he sends out nothing boys love more than fear. A potential love inter- outright! Expect some varia- his beautifully prosed text at est, or Amanda Knox? He’ll tion of “We should go get 1 a.m. on Friday night. be intrigued enough to find some air,” “Have you seen the second floor?” or “You out!
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Bullet Shot: Athlete of
Athlete of the Week the Week
Senior Abby Baigelman, photo courtesy of David Sinclair. B y J acob V erner S taff W riter This week’s Bullet Shot Athlete of the Week is Senior Abby Baigelman. This year the Lady Bullet’s Lacrosse, ranked number five in the preseason poll, team returns one of its key contributors from a season ago. Baigelman has improved her statistics in each of her first three seasons on the team. Last year, the talented senior finished with twentyeight goals and thirteen assists in nineteen games, averaging over two points per game. It was her most efficient season as she converted over fifty-one percent of her shots into goals. Baigelman is poised for another solid season and will look to build upon her already impressive career here for the Gettysburg Women’s Lacrosse team. This year Baigelman will look to, “Give everything [she] has since it is [her] last year.” An individual goal she has set out to achieve is to increase her goals and assists from previous years. As far as for the Lady Bullets, Baigelman believes the sky is the limit as long as they, “trust in our ability in every game we play and leave everything on the field.” Baigelman and the rest of the squad are looking to win the Centennial Conference and have their sights set on a trip to the final four. The Gettysburg College Lady Bullet’s hope to start out the season on the right foot on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Messiah. Look for Baigelman and the women’s lacrosse team all season as they try and make a run for the NCAA title.
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Wrestling takes third at CC Championships Six Bullets finish in top four of their weight bracket to boost Gettysburg team score
B y A ndrew M ilone S taff W riter The Gettysburg College wrestling team represented the blue & orange this past weekend as they finished with the highest placement in the Centennial Conference Championships within recent memory. The team finished in third out of eight with 50.5 points, something that had not been duplicated in 16 years. Six Gettysburg wrestlers finished in the top four of their weight bracket to propel the team into conversation for bigger things to come. Steven’s Institute of Technology was crowned champions of the conference for the second year running while the United States Merchant Marine Academy would finish second and prove to be a tough opponent throughout the competition for the Bullets. The story coming into the day was first-year Paul Triandilou who came into the competition as the top seeded heavyweight of the tournament and was ranked seventh in the nation. The day started off with a swift major decision win of 12-2 against New York University’s Kyle Paterson. It was then Brandon Joest of Merchant Marine got a crack at Triandilou and would end up coming away with the victory. This win against Triandilou ended his twenty-one match consecutive win streak to start his rookie career. He
Photo courtesy of David Sinclair,GCC&M
From left to right: sophomore Noah Malamut, sophomore Quinn Merrigan, sophomore Jake Bracken, sophomore Anthony Puca, first-year Colin Kowalski and sophomore Paul Triandafilou after placing third at the Centennial Conference Championships. won his final two matches to finish in third in the heavyweight bracket and now has a record of 23-1. Triandilou bounced back from the unusual loss to represent a team that is on the rise. He said, “The coaches kept reminding us of our team’s potential throughout the season. Conferences was our chance to prove ourselves and I think that is exactly what we did.”
Also finishing in the top four was sophomore Quinn Merrigan who finished as the runner up in the 149 pounds weight class. It was a bye in the first round, then a 12-4 major decision in the next round, and then a tough loss to Nathan Twito from Merchant Marine. It was a close match all the way around as the score finished up at 4-3 in favor of Twito. Merrigan has now reached the twenty win
plateau for the season. First-year Colin Kowalski stepped up in the 157 pound weight class to finish in second place and establish himself as one of the future stars of the Centennial Conference. Anthony Puca of the 197 pound weight class was the final Gettysburg wrestler to finish in second place. Puca said, “The team was happy with our third place finish, but we were not
satisfied. We lost some close matches that we shouldn’t have and even though we did well as a team those matches still stick out in our minds as things that could have changed the entire outcome of the tournament. The teams goals for the reminder of the season are to keep training hard and send a full lineup to the regional tournament in hopes of having another strong showing.” Puca was strong in his first two rounds of battle cruising through his first two opponents. The final round included a matchup against top seeded and 9th nationally ranked opponent Ricky Fisher of Merchant Marine. The final score was 9-1 in favor of Fisher. Sophomores Noah Malamut and Jack Bracken finished third and fourth respectively to round out the successful day for the Bullets. Braken said, “I think the highlight of the meet was the combination of some of our young guys wrestling the best that they have all season as well as the continued success of other wrestlers on the team.” The Bullets will next hit the mats on Feb. 27 and 28 at the NCAA Division 3 Eas t R eg io n al to u r n amen t hosted by Washington & Lee University.
Lacrosse looks to build on last year’s success Pre-season scrimmage against St. Mary’s gives Bullets opportunity to prep for 2016 season B y M eredith T ombs S taff W riter The 2015 team boasted a Gettysburg record for the longest winning streak at 201, losing only to Lynchburg in their final game in the postseason. The Bullets acquired the Centennial Conference title for their incredible 2015 season, and this year’s team is looking to continue that momentum. Last year’s post-season experience remains a great motivator for the 2016 team. “By playing deep into the playoffs last year, our team [this season] can carry over confidence and experience playing in big game situations,” said senior co-captain Mike Distler. “The most important thing our team is looking to carry over [from last season] is definitely the work ethic and sense of team that we created last year,” said senior Geoff Davis. “The culture and attitude on the team is important, and if we’re going to be successful, we will need to continue to create that mentality on the squad.” Co-captain Davis was recently named a Division III Preseason All-American by Lacrosse Magazine. The team lost ten seniors
from last season, and is working to integrate twelve firstyears into the 2016 squad. The returning players are excited to work on cultivating a positive attitude and successful season with this year’s team. However, eventually attaining those successes will require a little bit of rebuilding in the meantime. “We graduated a bunch of key seniors last year who led the team and created a great culture,” said Davis. “We’re going to have to overcome some inexperience at some positions this year and really come together as a team.” Distler agrees. He said, “The seniors last year were huge contributors to our overall success as a team. As a senior now, I believe it is my duty to lead the team [this season] as they did last year.” A scrimmage last Friday allowed the Bullets to continue cultivating teamwork and leadership on the field. Gettysburg hosted St. Mary’s College at Musselman Stadium on Friday, Feb. 12. While no scores or statistics were recorded at this scrimmage, it provided a great opportunity for the team to practice all the elements of their game in preparation for
Photo courtesy of David Sinclair,GCC&M
Senior Geoff Davis was named a Division III Preseason All-American by Lacrosse Magazine this winter. the upcoming season. “The scrimmage last Friday...helped highlight what we need to work on in order to be successful,” said Distler. “On the offensive side, we need to get better at moving the ball faster and more accurately, as well as communicating.” “Getting to play someone else for once was great, and it was good for some of the younger guys to get out there and get some experience,” said Davis. “Overall, I thought the
scrimmage was a good building block, and showed that we have a lot of potential and room to grow in the coming months.” In mid-January of this year, the G ettys burg Bul lets were ranked sixth in the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association/Nike Division III Preseason Coaches Poll. Lynchburg, who bested Gettysburg in their final game last year, was ranked at the top of the list.
“We are very optimistic about this season and as long as we do what we are capable of...we will go deep into the NCAA playoffs,” said Distler. Gettysburg will host the season opener Feb. 20. Come support the Bullets at their home game against Messiah at 1:00 pm on Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium. The team has been preparing all week for this matchup, and would love your support as they kick off the season.
This weekend in Gettysburg College winter sports: Friday, February 19: Wrestling at York- 7:00 p.m. Men’s and Women’s Swimming vs Centennial Conference Championship (Day 1)11:00 a.m./7:00 p.m. Saturday, February 20: Men’s and Women’s Track at Susquehanna Open- 9:30 a.m. Women’s Lacrosse at Messiah- 1:00 p.m. Women’s Basketball at McDaniel- 1:00 p.m. Men’s Lacrosse vs Messiah- 1:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball at McDaniel- 3:00 p.m. Men’s and Women’s Swimming vs Centennial Conference Championship (Day 2)10:00 a.m./6:00 p.m. Sunday, February 21: Men’s and Women’s Swimming vs Centennial Conference Championship (Day 3)10:00 a.m./6:00 p.m.
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