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Volume CXVI, No. 8
This Week’s Top Stories
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Pair of poets share their latest works with G-Burg Oliver de la Paz and Jon Pineda read their reflections on childhood, family, small town life Photo Credit: www.masspoetry.org
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National
International Egyptian President Abdel Fattah elSisi claimed broad support from the international community for his vision of the future on Sunday, in a speech to an investor conference that saw billions pledging to boost the Egyptian economy, which was left battered by four years of turmoil following a popular uprising. el-Sissi acknowledged Egypt’s road to recovery will be long and costly, but described the three-day summit as an overwhelming s u cce s s , a ck n o w led ging the companies and governments that had given their vote of confidence. At the end of the meeting, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said the conference had netted $36.2 billion in investments that had been signed and were ready to be implemented, thanks to the support. Dozens of town residents drove up to the conference center as the meeting closed, waving Egyptian flags and honking their horns in celebration.
This week’s “Top Stories” were compiled by Brendan Raleigh with information from abc.go.com.
Poets Oliver de la Paz (left) and Jon Pineda read some of their latest works in Joseph Theater on Tuesday. The reading was sponsored by Writing House, EPACC, College Life and The Gettysburg Review. B y A nika J ensen epistillaries all addressed to Pineda remarked as he stood Pineda followed with have been the best idea.” Oliver de la Paz, the a figure named Empire. S taff W riter to present, though he ex- p r o s e p o e m s i n c l u d i n g The letters, he expressed his regret that he “Strawberries” and “Ceil - author of four collections Writers Jon Pineda and could not take the job. i n g a n d G r o u n d , ” w o r k s of poetry and a professor at plained, were based on postOliver de la Paz shared their The professor of cre- through which he intended Western Washington Uni- cards and images of war. “It poetry and prose on Tues- ative writing at the Univer- to increase the engagements versity and Pacific Lutheran was kind of a bummer of a d a y , M a r c h 1 7 i n J o s e p h s i t y o f M a r y W a s h i n g t o n of his readers by taking away University, was then intro- manuscript,” de la Paz said duced to share his work. He about “Post Subject.” Theater in an event spon- h a s p u b l i s h e d a n o v e l , a traditional punctuation. He finished with poems s o r e d b y W r i t i n g H o u s e , memoir and three collections “Ceiling and Ground,” began by reading two of his EPACC, College Life and of poetry and on Tuesday i n s p i r e d b y a t r i p P i n e d a newer poems, “Boy. Child inspired by his childhood in T h e G e t t y s b u r g R e v i e w . read a section of his novel took to Luray Caverns with Without legs. Getting off a Ontario, Oregon, where he D e l a P a z s e r v e d a s G e t - Apology. his wife and children, drew chair,” and “Nocturne with claimed there was “nothing tysburg’s Emerging Writer In a voice overflowing laughter from the audience a Stack of Trepanned Skulls to do but get into trouble, Lecturer from 1999-2000, w i t h e m o t i o n P i n e d a r e - as he described his young Facing Right,” both of which drink and bowl.” These fiand though Pineda was of- cited unadorned yet eloquent daughter removing a pacifier are inspired by the photogra- nal works included “School fered the same position, he prose following the love sto- from her mouth and promptly phy of Eadweard Muybridge. Years,” “In Defense of Small D e l a P a z a l s o r e a d Towns” and “Self Portrait did not accept. ries and essential moments hurling it into a dark chasm. “I know there’s a bag that comprise the lives of his Pineda commented that he from “Post Subject: A Fa- B e s i d e a D e a d C h e s t n u t of tomatoes in the back,” characters. realized the trip “might not ble,” a collection of poetic Horse.”
Alum recounts successful career in medical ed.
Michael Reichgott ’61 attributes success to the strength of a liberal arts education B y F rank A rbogast C ourtesy of GCC&M There is no better preparation for a fulfilling career than a liberal arts education, Gettysburg College alumnus and loyal supporter Dr. Michael Reichgott ’61 knows this well. After graduating from Gettysburg in May of 1961, Reichgott, a chemistry major, went on to earn his a Ph.D. in pharmacology at UC San Francisco and began a medical career in clinical research and practice at the University of Pennsylvania. There, he was appointed Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine and Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. But after time, Reichgott began questioning whether he really saw a future for himself in medical research. After a few heart-to-heart conversations with his supervisor, he decided to pivot away from his clinical Inside This Issue
A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting took place early on Thursday during heated protests outside the the police department. This was after the resignation of the city’s police chief, Tom Jackson, who stepped down in the wake of a Justice Department report that documented widespread racial bias in the city, biases that have gained national attention since the August police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown. Jeffery Williams was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action, said St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch. Williams was being held on $300,000 cash bond. Both officers are recovering, according to St. Louis County Chief of Police Jon Belmar.
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work and pursue medical education instead. “Along the way, there are people who influence your life and you have to be open to what’s going to happen,” he said of his supervisor. “From my experience in clinical research, there were a couple of things I learned: to be open to change, to be willing to take a risk on a change, and to have a sense of one’s self.” In 1989, Reichgott was appointed as Associate Dean for Students and the first Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. He then transitioned to Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in 1999, while continuing to serve as a designated institutional official for Einstein’s ACGMEaccredited programs. Since 2010, Reichgott has been responsible for conflict of interest oversight and human subjects protection at the college. Reichgott’s professional
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leadership has resulted a slew of awards over the past two decades. He was awarded the Medical Society, State of New York, Charles D. Sherman Award for Student Advocacy in 2001; Einstein’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011; the Liaison Committee on Medical Education’s Distinguished Service Award in 2014; and he’ll also receive Einstein’s Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award this June. Looking back on his career, Reichgott believes his success is rooted in lessons and skills he learned from his time at Gettysburg. “I think the most important thing for a college experience–from my perspective as an educator in a medical school–is to broaden your perspective,” Reichgott said. At Gettysburg, Reichgott enrolled in a music appreciation course during his freshman year, simply to fill an arts requirement. The course, which focused on opera,
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turned out to be one of his most memorable and influential experiences on campus. “Here I am this 17 year old naive guy and I come into the course and my reaction was just ‘wow, this is really something,’” Reichgott said. “I tell students to be open b e c a u s e y o u m i g h t d i scover that you want to do something different than you first thought.” Just as academic variety presented Reichgott with new experiences that s p a r k e d h i s in te l l e c tu a l curiosity, an appreciation for diversity proved to be integral to his personal growth.“Part of my experience at Gettysburg had to do with that sense of being part of a minority group,” said Reichgott, an active member of the Jewish Community. “From a life-learning perspective, it was helpful to me to be appreciative of cultural, racial, and ethnic difference and being able to factor that into the way I relate to folks now.” Reichgott has stayed
Students of Gettysburg, pg. 5
connected with his alma mater as a supporter of the Center for Public Service and Hillel ever since attending a reunion a few years ago when he learned that a new branch of Hillel had been established. He and his wife were already involved with social justice at a national level, but wanted to support Gettysburg College students as well, so they started work on a community service project through the two campus programs. “I wanted to be available to those who want to take advantage of this quality education and this quality co-curricular experience,” he said of Gettysburg College. “The reason why my wife and I have been so supportive of the Hillel program is to help support that diversity.” Reichgott’s efforts to support the undergraduate experience for current students are yet another example of his lifelong desire to help others—it’s who he is, not only as a professional but as a Gettysburgian.
Red v. Blue column, pg. 7
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