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Volume CXVI, No. 9
This Week’s Top Stories
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Writer John Hampsey reads his latest work
Hampsey reads excerpts from “Kaufman’s Hill: A Memoir” to students in the Lyceum Photo Credit: mustangnews.net
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International An airbus with 150 people on board crashed on Tuesday in the Alps of southern France. The airbus had two babies on board, the operating airline, Germanwings, confirmed. French President Francois Hollande said that the crash did not leave any survivors. The airline, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, said it cancelled seven flights today because crew members reported they were unfit to fly following the tragedy. The passenger jet, an Airbus A320, crashed near the town of Digne as it traveled from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. The plane was carrying 144 passengers -- in cluding 2 babies -- and six crew members, Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann said at a news conference today.
This week’s “Top Stories” were compiled by Brendan Raleigh with information from abc.go.com and The New York Times.
Writer John Hampsey presented his latest work to Gettysburg College students on Tuesday, titled “Kaufman’s Hill: A Memoir.” Hempsey’s reading looks back on his earliest experiences with literature and his relationship with his father. B y A nika J ensen Hampsey then read Hampsey actually began for a year of college tuition “a negative presence in [his] S taff W riter in the future. life” and someone whom he “The Rivers,” the chapter writing it 25 years ago and of his memoir that was pub- returned to it in 2004 after Hampsey dedicated his resented. Writer John Hampsey r e a d i n g t o S t i t t a n d T h e T h e f i r s t s e c t i o n h e l i s h e d i n t h e w i n t e r 2 0 1 4 the death of his mother, an read selections of his mem- Review, stressing “the mag- r e a d t o o k p l a c e a r o u n d issue of the Gettysburg Re- event that motivated him to write more liberally about o i r “ K a u f m a n ’ s H i l l ” o n nitude of the magazine and C h r i s t m a s o f 1 9 6 7 , w h e n view. The chapter portrayed his father and his family. Tuesday, March 24 in Penn what it has done to literary he stumbled upon his father On the topic of reHall Lyceum. Hampsey, who culture in America.” reciting lines of Shakespeare an incident with Hampsey’s has been published three He called it “a national to himself in the midst of a c h i l d h o o d f r i e n d T a d d y m a i n i n g t r u e t o t h e p a s t Keegan, who jumped off an when writing his memoir, t i m e s i n t h e G e t t y s b u r g treasure” and claimed that financial crisis. Review, was introduced by S t i t t a n d t h e G e t t y s b u r g I t w a s n o t u n t i l unfinished bridge in Pitts- H a m p s e y s t a t e d , “ I d o n ’ t Peter Stitt, retiring editor of R e v i e w “ c h a n g e d l i t e r a r y Hampsey studied literature burgh. Keegan, who hailed think you actually remember the Review. culture in just two years.” later in his life that he began from an Irish family, would dialogue; you go back into “This is a momentous Hampsey prefaced his to understand his father: “It h e l p H a m p s e y t h r o u g h o u t t h a t i m a g e , a n d y o u t r u s t occasion,” Stitt commented reading by saying, “I have let me love him like I never his years of being bullied. yourself, and it kind of just a n d p r o c e e d e d t o m a r k e t a hard time getting through d i d b e f o r e , ” h e s a i d ; “ H e “Taddy led me into a whole unfolds. “I never felt like I was Hampsey’s book to a chuck- this section” because it con- was a combination of Willy new phase,” the author said. T h o u g h “ K a u f m a n ’ s making anything up, just ling audience, claiming an cerned his father, an alco- Loman and a character from Hill” was finished in 2009, autographed copy could pay holic, who he described as a Greek tragedy.”
SAE expresses outrage over OK chapter’s racism
Sigma Alpha Epsilon addresses racist incident in SAE chapter at Oklahoma University By The Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon To All of our Gettysburg College Community, As Actives and Alumni of the Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, it is necessary that we address the recent incident that occurred at Oklahoma University involving members of that chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. We have been horrified and outraged that anyone, least of all persons affiliated with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon organization, would act in the manner in which the persons acted a few days ago. We want to assure the entire Gettysburg College community that such actions are not condoned by our Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon or by the National Organization. We are compelled to express our sincerest feelings because we know that here, at Gettysburg College, we are part of a much larger community than what the four walls Inside This Issue
Senator Ted Cruz became the first Republican to announce his intent to run for president in 2016. Cruise cited the determination of his immigrant father, the founding fathers, and his faith in “the promise of America” as the main influences for seeking the Republican candidacy. He announced his candidacy on Monday morning before thousands of cheering students at Liberty University. While an undoubtedly divisive figure, Cruz is a popular candidate among conservative and evangelical Americans. The senator also announced several of his intentions, should be be elected, such as repealing the Affordable Care Act and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service. President Obama has agreed, at Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s request, to slow the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, leaving 9,800 in place through 2015. While the U.S. will now leave more troops in place over the next several months than was previously expected, Obama said the decision “has not changed” his goal to end the war by the end of 2016. The pace of the drawdown in 2016 will be determined at a later date, Obama said, “to enable the U.S. troop consolidation to a Kabul-based embassy presence by the end of 2016.”
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon House at 41 West Lincoln represent. We consider ourselves, as actives and alumni, to be the ambassadors of what we all at Gettysburg stand for as we enter and influence the larger world community. This is why we find the actions of those young men to be completely reprehensible and inexcusable. Their actions offend human sensibilities at the most basic level. Their actions are not indicative of any Greek society organization and certainly are not indicative of our Chapter or any of us individually. In that we are a Regional Chapter of a larger national organization we cannot speak directly for our National Office or for any other chapters. We can represent to you, from the entire experience of our existing actives and alumni that our National has not condoned nor tolerated racially insensitive rhetoric or activity. In fact, the national pledge education materials that are part of all chapter education programs specifically address insensitivity and awareness training and condemn all discriminatory
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The brothers of Gettysburg’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon offer their take on the recent discriminatory practices uncovered in an Oklahoma chapter of SAE.
and defamatory actions and views. We have always sought young men for membership in Pennsylvania Delta without prejudice of any kind. We will not accept insensitivity or bias within the Brotherhood of the Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. While we cannot apologize for the actions of young men who have clearly demonstrated that they would not be accepted as Brothers in our
Chapter, we do sympathize with any person who has been harmed or offended by their ignorant and insensitive remarks and behavior. Given the completely intolerable actions of these few, we are glad that this came to light. If this type of belief and behavior still exists, anywhere, none of us should rest until these malicious and racist conceptions are completely eradicated. We consider our chapter
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to be a vital and beneficial part of the Gettysburg College Community and will continue to work to further and promote the College initiatives that address these issues within our membership and with all of our collegiate family. Sincerely, The Active and Alumni Brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
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