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Apple, the FBI, and

cybersecurity, pg. 4

Money in American politics

- Democracy Matters,

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Weird News,pg. 2

Let’s Talk About Poetry

column,pg. 3

The Fight for Reproductive

Justice, pg. 7

Managing pots-break

stress, pg. 7

This Week’s

Top Stories

The U.S. has felt t he shock o f the t e r -ror i s t a t tacks abroad, and cities are currently tightening security stan-dards in response. Presi-dent Obama has said the U.S. “will do whatever is necessary to support Belgium.” New York, for instance is increas-ing security in high-risk areas in the state and has increased the i r coun-terterrorism resources. Other major U.S. cities l ike At lanta , Chicago and Philadelphia have heightened their secu-rity, even though there are currently no exist-ing threats. Both major Democratic and Repub-l ican candidates have publicly denounced the a t t a c k s a n d d e c l a r e d support for Belgium.

National

A s e r i e s o f t e r -rorist attacks have oc-curred internationally in the past few weeks. In Belgium, two suicide b o m b e r s d e t o n a t e d . They have been identi-fied as El Bakraoui and K h a l i d E l B a k r a o u i , although two other men still have yet to be iden-t i f i e d , o n e o f w h o m is on the run . Sadly , 31 people were killed and 270 were wounded. There is a potential link to the Paris attack sev-eral months ago where 130 people died. Some of the individuals in-volved in the terrorist attacks resided in Bel-gium for some time, in-cluding the sole surviv-ing member of the Paris a t t acke r s . Cur ren t ly , Belgian officials are on high alert and the U.S. is now warning citizens to be careful when trav-eling to Europe in the wake of these incidents.

International

This week’s “Top Stories” were compiled by Kayla Britt with information from CNN (www.cnn.com) and Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)

Series of laptop thefts reported on campusThe campus is on alert after a total of five laptops were stolen in the past month

By Jamie Welch

WeB manager

Students at Gettysburg College are on high alert this week after a series of laptop thefts around campus have shaken the communi ty of trust on campus to its core.

The thefts occurred at various locations on campus in the period from Feb. 10 to March 17, according to the Gettysburg College De-partment of Public Safety. A total of five laptops were stolen.

The first incident oc-curred on Feb. 10 in Bream Gym.

A student said that his laptop was stolen from the second floor men’s locker room between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The lap top had been left unattended. The laptop s t o l e n f r o m B r e a m G y m has been recovered and the

responsible person has been identified.

According to DPS, the person identified was a Get-tysburg student who is being dealt with through the col-lege’s judicial process.

Since criminal charges were not filed, the name of th is s tudent i s not publ ic information.

The next three thefts occurred in Musselman Li-brary in the evening hours of March 3. In all cases the laptops had been left unse-cured and unattended at the time that they were stolen.

No suspects have been identified in this case. DPS declined to comment on the status of the investigation into these thefts citing the fact that this is still an active DPS investigation.

Most recently, on the evening of March 17, a lap-top was reported stolen from

an unsecured vehicle parked outside the College Union Building.

DPS sa id tha t inves-t iga t ion in to th i s thef t i s ongoing and that a respon-sible party has not yet been identified, but did comment that they do not believe there is any connection between this incident and the library thefts on March 3.

T h e s e t h e f t s f o l l o w a series of thefts between Oct . 2014 and Dec . 2015 involving i tems including a ring, pendant, bracelet, a te lev is ion , camera equip-ment , gaming equipment , and games that were stolen from residential facil i t ies, a n d o v e r 1 0 0 D V D s t h a t were stolen from Musselman Library.

The two employees be-lieved to be responsible for a majority of these thefts are no longer employed by the

College. Executive Director of

Public Safety William Laf-ferty said in an email to the Ge t tysburg ian tha t some , but not all of these recent thefts were reported to the Borough police department, which is conducting its own investigation into the matter.

Lafferty said the de-cision of whether or not to report the incident to Bor-ough police was solely up to the student, and in many cases the student opted not to report.

L a f f e r t y a l s o s a i d , “Laptop thefts are crimes of opportunity and in nearly all cases, the laptops were left unsecured and unattended.”

Lafferty told the Get-t y s b u r g i a n t h a t D P S h a s stepped up patrols of com-mon spaces where students ga ther and s tudy and has c o m m u n i c a t e d w i t h e m -

ployees of those areas to be vigilant and report concerns immediately.

He also offered several tips to help students reduce the likelihood of theft.

First and foremost, do not leave personal items of value in unattended or unse-cured offices or spaces.

Students should take i tems wi th them or ask a trusted friend/colleague to watch over the items.

S e c o n d , s t u d e n t s should lock their devices in a safe place when not in use or use a cable lock that wraps around a desk or chair leg.

Lafferty also suggested applying dis t inct ive paint mark ings ( such a s inde l -ible markers) or engravings to one’s laptop to make it unique and easily

Activists clash over local Confederate Flag rally

By Jeffrey lauck

contriButing Writer

On Saturday, March 5, hundreds of protesters gathered beneath the Eternal Peace Light Memorial in support of and op-position to the Confederate Flag.

The Gettysburg chapter of the Sons of Confederate veterans acquired a permit to hold a rally in support of the flag, prompting Gettysburg College history pro-fessor Dr. Scott Hancock to get a permit for a counter protest at the same time and place.

Roughly 20 anti-flag pro-testers, including a handful of Gettysburg College students and professors, met near the Abraham Lincoln statue outside Stevens Hall at 1 p.m. to meet before heading to the rally.

These protesters, led by Dr. Hancock, took this opportu-nity to prepare their message for the pro-flag demonstrators.

Striving for a more holis-tic interpretation of the flag’s his-tory, the demonstrators agreed with individuals’ first amend-ment right to fly the flag, but stressed that the flag has a history rooted in racism and oppression.

The protesters posed for a picture next to the Lincoln statue before marching over a mile to the Eternal Peace Light Memo-rial on Oak Hill.

When the anti-flag pro-testers reached the Peace Light, they were met by an unexpected group of other protesters who had also come to oppose the continued use of the Confeder-ate flag.

These protestors, dressed mostly in black and hiding their faces while flying black flags, were a collection of activists who had heard of the Confeder-ate flag rally and organized their own counter-protest through Facebook.

They came from all over the region – Baltimore, Freder-

ick, Altoona, Carlisle, Reading and even Washington, D.C. – to protest against racial hatred and stand in solidarity with those who believe the flag is a symbol of oppression.

This group, lacking a lead-er or a name, took to the mega-phone to voice their opposition to the Confederate flag, often doing so with the use of expletives and vulgar language, much to the chagrin of many of the pro-flag demonstrators and other anti-flag protesters.

Altogether, about 50 peo-ple came out to protest the Con-federate flag rally. “There’s a reason the KKK and Dylan Roof use that flag – it’s because they know the history of that flag,” Dr. Hancock said at the protest.

“If the Sons of Confeder-ate Veterans would be honest and recognize that history and wanted to change the symbol that would be one thing. But that’s not what they’re doing,” he continued.

An African American pro-tester with the Facebook activist group said that she sees the Con-federate flag as a symbol of hatred and oppression – not freedom.

“I hope that one day we won’t have to stand out against this. Someday I just want to come here to enjoy the park,” she said with a laugh.

About 50 yards away, the Sons of Confederate Veterans held their own rally in support of the flag. The group listened to speeches from members of the group and even broke out into singing “Dixie” and shouting the “rebel yell” at one point.

“This flag is a part of our nation’s history,” remarked one pro-flag demonstrator who at-tended the event dressed in a blue officer’s frock coat, portraying Union general John Newton.

Another pro-flag demon-strator from Lynchburg, Virginia explained that he was there to cel-ebrate his family’s heritage in the

29th Virginia infantry, a unit that served in the Confederate Army.

“We want unity – not divi-sion,” he said. “That’s why we’re under the Peace Light.”

At times, the protests seemed far from peaceful.

At one point, chants of “Black Lives Matter” from the anti-flag protesters were an-swered with chants of “All Lives Matter” on the pro-flag side.

Members of the Facebook activist group used their mega-phones to shout phrases like “The South will not rise again! Your heritage is hate!” and “Hey hey! Ho ho! Your racism has got to go!”

Following a violent dem-onstration by the Ku Klux Klan a few weeks ago in Anaheim that left fivepeople in critical condi-tion with stab wounds and other injuries, tensions were high for many of those present.

“The 1st Amendment pro-tects the freedom of speech for

Students and professors oppose a rally celebrating the flag at the Peace Light Memorial

both groups,” said Chief Ranger Jeremy Murphy of the National Park Service.

“We have two separate areas for the two groups to keep the demonstration peaceful. We also have federal law officers, Cumberland Township police, Pennsylvania State patrol, and the Gettysburg Borough police here in case anything happens.”

In between the two bar-ricades, an older woman stood flying an American flag that she said was her father’s burial flag. “My father served at Okinawa in World War II, and this is his flag,” she said.

“I’m here because we should be united. We are Ameri-cans first – we are Democrats, Republicans, Northerners, and Southerners second.” She wanted demonstrators on both sides to remember that “this flag is why we are able to protest.”

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Photo Credit: Democracy Matters

Photo Courtesy of Jeffrey Lauck

A group of Gettysburg students, faculty and other community members, led by Dr. Scott Hancock, prepared a message for the pro-flag demonstrators. They are pictured in front of Stevens Hall.

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Student Senate Bullet Points

• Servo Discussion Night will take place next Tuesday,

March 29 from 5:00-8:00pm. The night is meant to foster

discussion about the campus climate, serve as an extension

of the Town Hall meeting, and create conversation amongst

strangers and acquaintances.

• Vibe was allotted $297

• College Democrats was allotted $1,000

• Young Americans for Liberty was allotted $1,000

• China Culture Club was re-recognized

• Rotaract Club was re-recognized

• ACM was re-recognized

• Cooking Club was re-recognizedStudents are welcome to attend the weekly meetings of the Student

Senate Mondays at 7 p.m. in CUB 260.

Senate UpdateMarch 21, 2016By Brooke gutschick

student senate secretary

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Weird News of the WeekBy kayla Britt

neWs editor

Don’t Try This One at Home52-year-old Ricky Charles, who is the owner of the In-

ferno’s Challenge entertainment company, was injured in a freak accident while performing fire breathing at a high school pep rally. Apparently he used a new lighter fluid, which he had not practiced with. Thankfully he is in recovery at Delray Medical Center. Practice next time, please?

The TreehuggerAn unidentified man is reportedly refusing to get down

from the top of an 80-foot Sequoia tree in Seattle, Washington. His appearance has been likened to that of Yukon Cornelius in “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, although no one has seen him up close and personal. Local officers have attempted to coax him to climb down, but believe it is in everyone’s best interest to take it slowly so no one is hurt. He’s certainly tak-ing the term “treehugger” to the next level.

Money in politics: discussing “name your price” democracy

By Julia sippel staff Writer

As c lass resumed on March 14 and 15 after spring break, students involved in Democracy Matters as well as students in a few classes were able to meet Dr. Joan Mandle, the executive direc-tor of Democracy Matters.

A Colgate University professor and founder of the school’s Center for Women’s Studies, Dr. Mandle is pas-sionate about issues of policy and democracy, particularly in regards to the economics of politics.

At present, a small portion of wealthy individu-als provide the funding for e lect ions--- total ing more than eight billion dollars for the upcoming presidential contest.

“The amount of money we’re spending on this elec-tion is. . . absurd.” Less than .25% of Americans are con-tributing to this vast amount of financial resources.

In the light of a cyni-cal populous , Dr . Mandle affirms that awareness and recogni t ion can lead to a newfound hope in American politics.

She presents an alterna-tive that is already happening in places like New York City: public financing. Public fi-nancing could break down to about six dollars per person per election cycle.

As more people rec -ognize their dissatisfaction with the state of funding for American politics, exchang-ing a McDonald’s meal for democracy is a hopeful al-ternative.

“ Y o u n g p e o p l e c u r -rently outnumber senior citi-zens,” Dr. Mandle said of the electorate. She emphasized the importance of finding the positive than just voting to say “no.”

“ I l e a rned a l l t ha t I know from Mart in Luther King,” she elaborated. Look to the “I Have A Dream” speech and realize what the

country could be. It comes down to asking the general people, “What’s bothering you?” she explained.

“The b ig funder s do not give you money without wanting something back.” In turn, their benefits come before those of the people -- case in point, the preva-lence of seemingly avoidable student debt and a political disconnect regarding climate change.

Students looking to con-tribute to the discussion of these issues can join Democ-racy Matters and about 200 other organizations on April 17 for a “Democracy Awak-ening” in Washington D.C.

Change will not be im-mediate, of course, but each step--- each individual’s par-ticipation--- will prove cru-cial. In turn, a “new dawn-ing of awareness” can arise, bringing back the govern-ment “of the people, by the people, and for the people” to America.

Democracy Matters executive director Dr. Joan Mandle talks about politics

Dr. Joan Mandle is the executive director for the national Democracy Matters organization, and is also a Colgate University professor and founder of the Center for Women’s Studies.

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String of laptop thefts occur on Gettysburg campusMusselman Library, Bream Gym, and student vehicle robbed of valuable electronics in the past months

identifiable. When it comes to re-

cover ing s to len proper ty , comparing ser ial numbers may be the only way for po-lice to positively identify a computer, so it is essential to have a list of serial numbers of high-value property that is maintained separate from the equipment.

Additionally, Lafferty urged students to be aware that if their computer is sto-len, automatic log-ins can make it easy for a thief to access information or send

inappropriate messages with their account.

S t u d e n t s s h o u l d u s e password protection and re-quire a person to log in every time the computer goes to sleep or powers down.

Lafferty said that com-m u n i t y m e m b e r s s h o u l d report anything that seems out of place or suspicious immediately to DPS at 717-337-6911 or to the pol ice at 9-1-1 as this could aid in the identification of the person(s) responsible.

“If you see something, say something,” he said.

Senior Hayley Jacob-sen , who was work ing in the l ibrary when two s tu-dents reported that they had their laptops taken, said that thefts definitely changed the way she feels about safety on campus.

“I never thought twice about leaving my computer a r o u n d b e f o r e . I w a s s o shocked I actually thought they were kidding.”

Bream Gym (left) and Musselman library were both the sites of laptop thefts over the past few months. Gettysburg College and the borough have been looking into these incidents since then.

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WZBT: Gettysburg College’s V e r y O w n R a d i o S t a t i o n

The most wonderful thing about literature is its ability to elicit emotions from readers. This facet of its nature is also absolutely terrifying. After all, why should words arranged on a page have any effect on us? That big, scary “real world” everyone always talks about should be more than enough to satisfy us. The difference lies in that we choose to read, for a variety of reasons. I would argue that all literary pursuits across history, from epics to novellas to the Sunday morning comics, are created with learning and catharsis in mind. Those end goals do not become artificial merely because a human intends to generate them in readers through their work. Rather, there’s almost something more tangibly real about seeking truth and comfort outside of the life one leads. Both the creators and the seekers of literature, then, ought to be considered remarkably brave. As c rea tu res who base perception in aspects of ego, readers naturally seek reflections of themselves in any particular text. I look

back on binge-reading the saddest love poetry I could find after the realization that my “flirtationship” was a bust, finding kinship in the historically brokenhearted. Granted, I think Edna St. Vincent Millay would probably roll her eyes at my borderline melodrama. But it was what I needed at the time: tangible proof that I wasn’t alone. So, too, do many others seek themselves through the words of another. There is comfort to be found in closure, as poems and books will always end while our only guarantee of finality is in death. Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow morning, readers will project (whether consciously or not!) themselves onto their reading material, searching for answers. Isn’t it also intriguing to find similarity even through differences? Frankly, I’d find it very boring to read only about people who look or think as I do. In seeking emotional resonance through reading, we can also be transported into different places, times, and mindsets. Reading is more than just a cheap travel substitute; it is an all-too-important tool for the expansion of minds. Luckily, the initiative for promoting self-discovery a n d s a t i s f a c t i o n t h r o u g h

literature frequently starts when readers are very young. Indeed, children are probably the bravest readers of all, having devoted part of their short time on Earth to discovery for discovery’s sake. The self-preservation provided through reading and writing allows us a better picture of our youth. Even as we cross the bridge between childhood and adulthood, never to return, we can still look back and wave at who we used to be; this act becomes easier and easier as we read. T h e d e m a n d f o r diversity in children’s literature becomes louder and louder, with good reason. Marley Dias, an eleven-year-old from New Jersey, told her mother that “[she] was sick of reading about white boys and dogs” (Jezebel) as the only protagonists of books marketed towards her age group. The young activist started a movement called #1000BlackGirlBooks and travels throughout America to discuss the importance of emphasizing diversity in education. Certainly, Dias is one of the bravest readers I have heard of, making it her mission to give all children an opportunity to connect with the literature they are offered.

By emily pierce

staff Writer

F o o d f o r T h o u g h t :The Bravery of Reading

Time for a slightly c o n t r o v e r s i a l o p i n i o n : there’s nothing wrong with poetry that rhymes. R h y m i n g g e t s a b a d r e p u t a t i o n . I g e t i t . You don’t want to feel like you’re in a Dr. Seuss story on your quest for emotional fulfilment through poems. Shakespeare seems like fun from the outside, but if you wanted to hear words in rhythmic sing-song you’d have to just put on your copy of The Phantom of the Opera. T r u s t m e , I c o m p l e t e l y u n d e r s t a n d where you’re coming from. I tend to avoid rhyme in my poetry, mostly because I h a t e b e i n g a c c u s e d o f pedantry. At this point, i t is h o n e s t l y k i n d o f a n e g o th ing. I f so many people ha te rhyme, though, why does it still pervade through even today’s poetry? T h e a n s w e r i s b e c a u s e i t ’ s o n e o f s t o r y t e l l i n g ’ s o n l y t r u e constants. Granted, the reason why we tend to associate h e a v y u s e o f r h y m e i s because of i ts prevalence in material aimed towards children. B u t r h y m i n g t e x t is proven to be helpful in

aiding memory retention in children. While the specific r h y m e s o n l y r e a l l y s t a y i n t he ch i ld ’ s sho r t - t e rm memory, word association sticks more permanently in long-term memory. W e t e a c h k i d s “ n u r s e r y r h y m e s ” f o r a reason, not “nursery bits of prose that sound kind of nice but are difficult to remember in the long run.” The former seriously sticks longer. It’s science. Let ’s look back a t Shakespeare. While not all parts of his plays and sonnets are written in characteristic i a m b i c p e n t a m e t e r , t h e “A-B-A-B, C-D-C-D, and so forth” rhyme scheme remains frequently associated with his work. I t ’ s no t j u s t t he re to g ive the Bard room to f l e x h i s c h o p s . R h y m i n g was a s ign i f i can t a r t i s t i c c h o i c e t h a t p r o m o t e d access ibi l i ty to audiences in the Elizabethan age who would usually only be able to access entertainment from peers or from passion plays. T h e p r o l e t a r i a t d e f i n e d S h a k e s p e a r e ’ s s u c c e s s , a r g u a b l y contributing to the lasting p o w e r o f h i s w o r d s - something that would never h a v e h a p p e n e d w i t h o u t rhyme. By discounting the v a l u e o f r h y m e , w e a l s o

f a i l t o a c k n o w l e d g e t h e artist ic aspects of popular songwriting. Certainly, there are a few songs with no internal r h y m e s c h e m e . B u t t h e completeness of ideas within the small space of a musical piece is arguably the utmost priority in creating songs. Moreover, a good rhyme—a n d a g o o d l y r i c i s t — c a n make significant waves. The core of hip-hop and rap music, some of the most popular genres around today, lies in the structure of each piece’s lyrical content; e v e n s l a n t r h y m e , w h e r e the parallel between words m a y n o t b e i m m e d i a t e l y concise, makes an enormous difference. A l t h o u g h r h y m e w i t h i n p o e t r y m i g h t n o t be your par t icular cup of tea, i ts value as a l i terary device within both art and entertainment as a whole is undeniable. R h y m e h a s b e e n used to he lp the bra in in development , break down classist social barriers, and provide entertainment and introspection through song and spoken word. W h e n y o u n e x t choose to write fair words, consider rhyme with which to be heard.

Le t ’ s Talk About Poet ry : T h e R e a s o n f o r R h y m e

By emily pierce

staff Writer

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Page 4 ♦ Thursday, March 24, 2016MONEY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

THEGETTYSBURGIAN

By eileen gazzola staff Writer

Apple has progressed tremendously over the past decade, and it is not stopping anytime soon. Government pol-icy and technology sometimes find themselves in disagree-ment as evidenced by Apple’s rapid expansion and subsequent conflicts.

Currently, Apple has used encryption technology that protects users information on their iPhone. However, the FBI wants to gain this otherwise unauthorized access. They have tried many times to break into phones- and failed.

This is why they are ask-ing Apple to create a special version of iOS that allows the unlocking of the iPhone of a criminal or terrorist, and they are using the All Writs Act Law of 1789 to argue their point. This is being run through the federal court. They mainly want this access so that they

can break into Syed Farook’s phone, and for other similarly watched individuals.

However, this could be a slippery slope if the FBI wins the case. Other states and fed-eral judges will face the same problem wherein governments demand the same access. This brings to the table controversy regarding privacy and how much control the government can have over personal infor-mation.

But, we do not have to worry about this just yet. Apple has not given in to this demand quite yet and they are still producing iPhones that are strongly encrypted and cannot be broken. The government, too, cannot crack the codes.

Creating a loophole for the government to use as a peephole into personal infor-mation can cause less obvious problems too. It requires tech-nology providers to change all of their products, in addition to

having the government change their laws regarding privacy and information access.

As for the future, hacking into computers and iPhones will only get more difficult due to new technology of quantum computers. This type of com-puting is different from digital computers, because instead of formulas using 1’s and 0’s, these computers will use qu-bits, which can represent many values at the same time.

It will be interesting to watch who is crowned victori-ous in this battle. Either Apple will compromise the privacy of its customers, or the govern-ment will gain access an even larger and more fragile sum of digital data.

Apple puts up a fight with FBI, protection questioned

A 3D printed jaw bone and ear; bioengineeers at the Waske Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created functioning cartilage for mice with hope for human patients soon.

Pregosaurus-rex: research allows for gender identity in fossils

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AppTeezrByte-size reviews of the latest apps

By marli horWitz

ms&t editor

Bitmoji Keyboard by Bitstrips, Inc. Size: 35.0 MB $FREE Compatability: Apple Devices, IOS 7.0 or later

Emojis just took on a whole new level. Now, you can send emoticons that look just like you, based on your own design. Create an expressive cartoon avatar, choose from a growing library of moods and stick-ers, featuring you, and use it in iMessage, WhatsApp and more.

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By aphra murray staf Writer

Bone fragments of an-cient organisms or fossi ls are sometimes considered to have little to no information; they provide insight into the build of the creature and also provide an interesting display at a museum.

However, recent discov-eries of the remains of what is understood to be Tyrannosau-rus Rex show that she was in fact pregnant when she died. This interesting discovery has allowed paleontologists and archeologists alike clues as to how to distinguish between male and female carnivorous dinosaurs.

The discovery of the massive fossil itself, in 2005, was almost entirely acciden-tal. Bob Harmon, one of the excavators working at a site in Montana, sat down for a break and felt the fossil jutting into his back.

These happy accidents then lead to three years of

digging and excavation of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, which upon closer inspection, turned out to have calcium deposits indicative of a female egg-laying organism. Both chemi-cal testing and microscopic works were done on the 2005 bone sample and showed that the predictions were indeed correct.

Because the technology has only recent ly become available, these discoveries are coming years after the bones were first excavated. Furthermore, the accidental discovery became even more interesting because these bone deposits are only present in females in the egg-laying period, making them extraor-dinarily rare. That they were discovered on a break is al-most fairytale like.

Unknown by mos t of the public, prior to this discovery, paleontologists found it near impossible to distinguish between male and female carnivorous dinosaurs.

Despite the fact that both the male and females have unique sexual signaling traits such as whistles, colorful crests and horns, scientists were unable to assign those attributes to a specific sex.

This discovery therefore has some much larger conse-quences and implications in the world of paleontology.

Firstly, it has given rise to the development of analyti-cal techniques in the exami-nation of fossils but has also proven to give light to at least two other remains of Tenoto-saurus and Allosaurus, that died either just before, during, or just after laying eggs.

Furthermore, these tech-niques have laid the ground-work for returning to previ-ously discovered fossils and beginning the processes of identifying whether they were male or female, and thus con-tinuing to learn more about these ancient creatures.

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Research asks if Alzheimer’s is a communicable disease

By erin stackoWitz staff Writer

Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that impairs cognitive functioning and ultimately leads to demen-tia, affects five million people annually and is the cause of eighty-three thousand deaths per year, according to The Center for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC estimates that by 2050, the number of people annually affected by Alzheimer’s will nearly triple to fourteen million.

Due to the disease’s te-nacity and constant increase researchers are working tire-lessly to find a solution to this pervasive disease.

Recently, a controversial study published by Nature has suggested that the neurode-generative disease might be transferred from one person to another through medical pro-cedures and surgeries involv-ing contaminated implants or injections.

John Collinge, a research-er a UCL Institute of Neurology, found evidence that abnormal brain proteins known as amyloid

fibrils and prions that are associ-ated with Alzheimer’s disease could have been transmitted to healthy patients by specific medical procedures that took place in the early 1980s.

Collinge studied the autop-sies of four patients that received hormonal injections from human cadavers and found that the prep-arations were contaminated with a mis-folded protein, a prion, that causes a rare and deadly condition called Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), which subsequently lead to all of the patients dying in their late 40s. Not only did the autopsies of these patients contain the prions, but they also contained white plaques (deposits of amyloid-B protein) unique to Alzheimer’s disease.

These findings were re-markable because all of the pa-tients died at a relatively young age and had no history of genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s in their families, two conditions that are normally requirements of Alzheimer’s disease.

The findings have prompt-ed researchers to question wheth-

er or not the disease is now something that is transmissible and is a result of medical proce-dures inadvertently transferring amyloid-B protein.

To further support this theory, Collinge repeated his findings in animal studies but was not able to definitively prove whether or not transmission through a medical procedure did in fact cause the amyloid pathol-ogy in humans.

Collinge also was not able to diagnose the patients with Alzheimer’s disease because the disease was not able to progress due to the fact that the subjects died from CJD.

Currently, there is no evi-dence that any medical proce-dure used today, including blood transfusions and routine surger-ies, can transfer these amyloid proteins from one person to another, but research on the dan-gers of amyloid proteins are be-ing examined and hopefully this will allow scientists to become one step closer in determining the cause of this debilitating and destructive disease.

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Health or Hoax? Judging the ZMA supplement

By ari snaevarsson

features editorF o r t h i s e d i t i o n o f

“Health or Hoax?” I wanted to cover a supplement that had p iqued my in teres t a while back when a trial run of it gave me some of the s t r a n g e s t , m o s t r e a l i s t i c dreams I had ever had.

The supplement, Zinc Monomethionine Aspartate (or ZMA for short), is said to boost testosterone, improve sleep, and aid in recovery and muscle building.

These are the supposed bene f i t s I w i l l be exam-in ing and cha l l eng ing in today’s article. I will also briefly touch on the effects on dream state I mentioned, but I will focus the article on its primary benefits.

F i r s t o f f , w h a t i s ZMA?

Put plainly, it is a com-p o u n d s u p p l e m e n t , c o m-posed of zinc in monomethi-onine and aspartate forms, magnesium in its aspartate form, and vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxine hydro-chloride.

I mention the respec-tive nutrients’ forms for the sake of explaining the sup-plement’s name; do not get too hung up on them.

B e f o r e I g e t i n t o look ing a t the d i rec t ev -i d e n c e f o r s u p p l e m e n t a l ZMA, le t us examine the main functions of each of its ingredients.

Zinc plays vital roles in cell division, cell growth, clotting, antioxidant defense (as well as general immune sys tem func t ion ing) , and c a r b o h y d r a t e b r e a k d o w n (accompanied by its enhanc-ing of insulin action).

Foods high in zinc in-clude seafood, chicken, red meats, green leafy vegeta-bles, nuts, and seeds.

M a g n e s i u m h e l p s maintain normal nerve and muscle function, promotes a healthy immune system, helps regulate blood glucose levels, and plays an essential role in muscle protein syn-thesis.

A s w e c a n s e e , t h i s

By meggan smith

musselman liBrary columnist

In celebration of National Library Week, Musselman Library will be hosting its 3rd annual Edible Books Festival on Monday, April 11th from 2-4pm in room 18 of the Library.

This year participa-tion is open to all students and employees of the College. If you’re an avid reader, baker, or humor-ist then this event is for you!

Just think of your favorite book title and get ready to show off your culinary skills.

There will be prizes awarded for the Best Taste, Best Look, Punniest, and Best in Show.

If you are interested in participating, go to the Google form (http://goo.gl/forms/5Fpdet2Q7D) to indicate your intention to participate.

Create an edible book!

mineral shares many of the same functions as zinc. And, as we might imagine, it is found in many of the same foods.

The final component of this supplement is vitamin B6, which functions as an impor t an t co - enzyme fo r m a n y f u n d a m e n t a l m e t a -bolic reactions and helps the body produce important neu-rotransmitters, like serotonin and norepinephrine.

And, once aga in , we find this in the same types of foods.

T h e s i m i l a r i t i e s i n these nutr ients’ funct ions and sources speaks to the probable intent ion behind combining them.

So what does the actual science say?

I t proves dif f icul t to f i n d b i g , c o m p r e h e n s i v e s tudies or reviews on the supplement that provide any promising answers.

The one major s tudy I was ab le to f ind , look -ing at the effects of ZMA supplementation on training adaptation, found absolutely no correlation between the two.

My one major concern with the supplement in its current form is the possibil-ity of supplemental zinc and magnesium (note: in synthet-ic form, not natural) compet-ing for absorpt ion, which does seem to be grounded in empirical evidence.

W i t h t h e l i m i t e d amount of support behind its proclaimed benefits and this potential issue existing, t h e s u p p l e m e n t ’ s c l a i m s should be met with heavy skepticism.

Before wrapping this up with my takeaway mes-sage, I want to briefly men-tion the topic of ZMA’s ef-fects on dreaming.

A n e c d o t a l l y , i t h a s been brought up by users that oddly vivid dream ex-periences were elicited when taking the supplement.

It appears that this ef-fec t s tems f rom the pyr i -doxine (v i tamin B6) , and evidence points to it lead-

ing to an increase in corti-c a l a r o u s a l d u r i n g R E M sleep, the stage during which dreaming is most vivid.

That said, it is impera-tive to read between the lines in such studies, as further inspection tells us far greater amounts of the nutrient than can be found in the typical serving of ZMA are required to elicit such an effect.

The anecdotal preva-lence of these weird dreams when taking the supplement may still hold some weight, as lower dosages might still cause a low-grade cortical response, but this is entirely conjecture.

T h e t a k e a w a y : C e r -tainly, the claims made for ZMA supplementation can be ascribed to intake of each of its individual ingredients, but no current merit stands for i ts use as a compound supplement.

Furthermore, the com-b ina t ion o f supp lementa l zinc and magnesium, even in the i r supposed ly mos t “bioavailable” forms, poses the potential issue of com-petitive inhibition, meaning both nutrients mar one an-other’s respective absorption rates.

Want to boost testos-terone?

E a t a d i e t h i g h i n healthy fats, get plenty of s l e e p , p r a c t i c e t o o l s f o r stress management like mind body relaxation, and hope you won the gene t i c lo t -tery.

W a n t t o i m p r o v e sleep?

Turn off all electronics at least 30 minutes before bed and maybe consider pur-chasing a blue light-filtering pair of glasses or a s leep mask.

W a n t s o m e t h i n g t o aid in recovery and muscle building?

Make sure you are get-ting an adequate daily ca-loric and protein intake, im-prove sleep habits, and work o n m o b i l i t y a n d s t r e t c h -ing.

By meredith cox

health &Wellness columnist

Papers, projects, presenta-tions, oh my. Spring Break is officially over. Professors are assigning work like there is no to-morrow and Musselman Library is now the most crowded place on campus.

We have officially reached crunch time and need to power through to the end of the semes-ter, which is less than six weeks away! Stress can be unavoidable, but is also manageable. Here are some ways you can stay sane over the next few weeks while also remaining productive and successful.

Identify Your Triggers. One of the easiest ways to man-age stress is to just avoid it in the first place.

Being able too recognize the factors that make you feel stressed will make it easier to avoid that anxious state. The next time you feel swamped, think about what led you to that feeling.

Maybe it was putting a paper off until the last minute, having a disorganized calendar, or even talking to someone who

makes you feel frazzled and uneasy.

Learn to identify the signs that lead to that overwhelming feeling and try to avoid them. If you cannot avoid the stressors, plan ahead and mentally prepare a plan on how to tackle them.

Breath. Practice meditation. Get a massage. Even drink a warm cup of tea. Practicing soothing activities has been shown to be a great stress management tool. This allows you to exercise your mind-fulness, become aware of your body and center yourself in a place of calmness and relaxation.

Take ten minutes each day to shut down and focus on the present. You can even try talking to someone about your stressors, becoming aware and actually listening to your inner self.

Be picky with what you eat. Some foods are proven stress re-lievers. Many people feel instantly relieved when they eat crunchy foods. The aggressive nature of biting down onto something al-lows you to get out some frustra-tion in a healthy way. Try reaching for some carrots, nuts or pretzels the next time you feel a wave of stress coming over you.

Also, make sure you are getting enough antioxidant-rich

foods, as they are proven to lower cortisol levels, the stress hormone, and blood pressure. Try to incorporate berries into your diet to prevent stress from rising, and even freeze them to get the added crunch factor!

Exercise. One of the best ways to let some steam off is to get moving. Physical activity pro-duces endorphins, or those happy hormones that make you feel so good after a tough workout.

However, even something as simple as going for a walk is enough to stimulate the release of endorphins. If your stress levels have you feeling tight and edgy, try stretching to relieve some muscle tension.

Make sure you pick a form of exercise you like, as you are more likely to stick with the routine if you enjoy it. Exercise should not be yet another stress factor in your life.

Stress is a common and standard part of the college expe-rience. However, it can be limited and controlled if you take the right steps. So the next time you are on high alert, try one of these activities to prevent you from crashing and burning.

More details about your creation will be re-quested closer to the event, so you do not need to have your specific idea to sign up.

If you’re curious and want some examples of “edible books” you can check out last year’s sub-

missions in The Cupola: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/edible/.

We hope you will sign up now to contribute an edible creation to the event. You must register by Thursday, March 31 in order to participate.

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Crime in GettysburgBy andreW milone

features columnistIn October, armed robbers

hit Laslow’s Pharmacy in Get-tysburg, a place where not a lot of crimes happen. This drug rob-bery caused owner Dona Laslow to hire regular security. Gettys-burg Borough Police Chief Joe Dougherty believes a crime like this is rare.

In fact, he moved to Get-tysburg for a reason. He said, “Of all the places I could have chosen to retire, this is where I wanted to retire to. I never expected to be a cop again, and here there really is nowhere in town that I’m fearful of letting [my son] go.”

The store owners will hear about the occasional car being broken into or occasional alcohol or drug related mishap, but over-all many of store owners speak of Gettysburg as a safe place to live and run their businesses. The shop owners don’t consider stealing a threat.

George Lower, who helped in founding Lord Nel-son’s Gallery on Chambersburg Street, has lived in the area his entire life. “I’ve never even given [stealing] any thought,” he

said. “The little bit of shoplifting I’ve seen, after being in business in this area all my life, is very minor.”

Scott Weiksner, who has worked at A Little Irish Too for over a year has never heard of alcoholism as being an issue in Gettysburg. “No more than any other town,” he said. “There are a lot of bars, a lot of tour-ists but never really gets out of hand.”

Crime in Gettysburg includes disorderly conduct, loud noises, underage drinking, and public intoxication. “There is a homicide every ten years or so while burglary and theft are not common,” said Chief Dough-erty. “The average person never even comes into contact with a cop during their time in Gettys-burg.”

He settled in Gettysburg after 31 years in Reading, which is known to be one of the crime capitals of the nation. At one point, it was on a FBI list of the most dangerous cities in the US. At times in Reading, Chief Dougherty would come across two shootings at once, but in Gettysburg there is almost a guarantee that a similar event

would never occur.“One of the things that I

think you can judge a commu-nity by, is some of the strange things that it does,” said Chief Dougherty. “Something I have never seen in all the time that I’ve ever been here was a car parked at a fire hydrant. Even on duty or off duty, I’ve never seen it but if you go to other cities that’s just reserved parking, and I think that’s really emblematic of the fact that we got some really good people around here.”

Alyra Parker, a sopho-more at Gettysburg College, is from Reading and has heard stories of crime that goes on in center city but has never experienced crime. “In the city, crime happens every day,” said Parker. “Robberies, murder, things like that but crime within the school, I think we had the reputation of being the danger-ous school.”

Over 7,000 people reside in Gettysburg. Chief Dougherty said, “one of the things, if you look at today’s media, you don’t realize as an average person that 99% of the people you meet are decent people.”

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mate of some here at Get-tysburg, but in all honesty, it shouldn’t have to be this way. I shouldn’t feel any insecurity and ought to delight in ruf-fling those feathers and piss-ing of those oppressive preda-tory birds. A large swath of Gettysburg students whether white, black, Hispanic, inter-national, gay, straight – they get it. Some students actually get it. I mean, the fact that I was elected is evidence that many on campus believe in me despite my differences from them.

Dear o ther o ther mi-nority leaders in other over-whelmingly oppressive col-l eg ia t e c l ima tes , such a s myself, who face prejudice due to their ethnicity or their parent’s annual income: you are allowed to move on up in the world. It once seemed to me that success was like a mountain, the higher up you got the whiter it appeared. Inevitably if people aren’t familiar with your culture then they are going to appear ignorant, because they are. Period. The responsibility of those who are ignorant is to get educated and if the op-pressed and misrepresented want to be understood then we must seek to understand those who oppress and mis-represent and educate them.

Now I understand that fear is really at the root of t hese i s sues , pu t t i ng mi -nor i t i e s and the major i ty al ike into boxes based on what they look l ike , how they talk, what the color of their skin is, in order to feel more comfortable in our own clothes, speech, skin color, and culture. When multiple cultures are placed into a box together,from considerably different worlds it’s (sadly) instinctive and all too famil-iar to become afraid. So we label people that are different from us in an effort to make ourse lves fee l more com-fortable in our own worlds. This is normal. But, students shouldn’t be afraid of each other. Instead, we ought to learn from one another. We

ought to embrace differ -ences and celebrate them.

When I competed at the University of Pennsyl-vania’s Wharton School of Business during Wharton’s annual investment compe-ti t ion (shoutout to Aber-deen Asset Management), I learned lots from the teams from India, as they did from me. We came from different levels of education, had dif-ferent religions, spoke with accents that were alien to one another – we were cul-turally different. However, we were competing in the same competition and were united by our common val-ues and passions associated with our mutual interest . Without openly engaging one another we could not be [truly intellectual] lead-ers driven by curiosity and diversity in the hopes of learning from one anoth-er, and with the ambitions of bettering ourselves and the world around us – we weren’t afraid to learn.

As col lege s tudents and responsible citizens of the world, we should strive to ex is t in a communi ty where differences in color, language, sexual orienta-tion, our preferred personal pronoun and the l ike are celebrated. We cannot be afraid to learn and to accept. Equal opportuni ty is the first step towards initiating the next big change in our world. Without it, millenni-als are in for a troublesome cycle of history as it will, yet again, repeat itself due to a simple lack of effort to learn from it.

Gettysburg is a stark example of how change is possible -- that it can hap-pen, but is also the poster child for why it needs to happen. To the oppressed: let’s go ruffle some feath-ers, educate the ignorant, and make America great again. To the oppressors: expand your minds, open your hearts and grow the f*ck up.

By anthony Williams

contriButing WriterI attend Gettysburg Col-

lege on a full scholarship and the professors are excellent here and the campus is quite scenic. But social life here at Gettysburg, if you’re a minority, has the potential to leave you feeling like an outsider. When a heteronor-mative, classist and culturally appropriating Greek system hosts a “Ghetto Fabulous” mixer where students excit-edly don baggy clothing or a “Pocahontas” bash where party goers arrive in “festive” Indian costumes (among oth-er pernicious and downright disgusting “themes”), this is a problem.

Hearing comments from peers l ike “nobody real ly cares about black people”, is a problem -- because in a class of 694 at a PWI (pre-dominately white institution) E V E R Y O N E h a t e s g a y s , blacks, and Latinos for in-stance, right? That’s how I was elected of course. *insert overly passive aggressive emoji here*. Taking the big-ger picture into account, as someone who would like to rush a fraternity, I understand that not all who exist in the Greek system at Gettysburg College fit this troubling im-age. I also understand that not all of the students in the general student body share this tragic ignorance. It is the minority of the oppressors which disturbs the majority of the oppressed.

My acceptance to Get-t y s b u r g w a s a m i l e s t o n e which came to me as no prize for being a minority, nor did the full scholarship. As a gay, black, and Latino minority at Gettysburg and as the active class president of a class of 694 strong at a PWI, I have often felt insecure and have wondered about how some feel about a triple minority such as myself representing them. Now I kind of l ike the badass idea of someone with my profile ruffling the feathers of the political cli-

Bite-Size Opinions: Big thoughts in small piecesSometimes we don’t need more than a few words to give an opinion on something. Here are the easily digestiable thoughts of the week!

God has a sense of humor or that karma is not real. I’m not sure which is right but I know that those compassion-ate Syrian refugees would be better at serving the people of Germany than Stefan “In-tegration is Genocide” (one of his more infamous anti-refugee statements) Jagsch, who re leased a s ta tement saying he cannot comment on his rescue because he was unconscious at the time, will ever be.

Make America…more slut shame-y?

The anti-Donald Trump polit-ical action committee Make America Awesome released a meme style ad this week with a picture of Trump’s wife Melania posing nude (origi-nally shot for British GQ in 2000) but for some jewelry and lying on what appears to be fur. The ad reads “Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could sup-port Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”Look, Make America Awe-some; this meme/ad combo was really stupid. Like, un-believably stupid. There are a million and one reasons not to vote for Donald Trump. To name a few: he’s sexist, racist, blustering, bigoted, a liar, a failed businessman who has run several ventures into the ground and he has no political experience. But the choices of his wife have literally nothing to do with him as a presidential candi-date. I am as committed to stopping Trump as any good liberal, but slut shaming his wife for posing in a magazine without clothes? Do better. Let’s find a way to campaign without being sexist dirtbags, o k a y ? T h a t w o u l d r e a l l y make America awesome.

Delayed Sequels Are Everywhere

There are trailers circulating

for Bridget Jones’s Baby, the first Bridget Jones film to be released since 2004 and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is coming out this week, four-teen years after the original was released. I love nostalgia but this is ridiculous. What possible reason could there be to pick up the story of Toula Portokalos besides to bring a paycheck to the actress from My Big Fat Greek Wedding (and nothing else notable) and the guy who played Aidan on Sex and the City, who has been paying his bills by narrating Applebee’s commercials dur-ing the last few years? There isn’t one. The early 2000s were terrible and everyone should stop indulging trips to back then.

Special Session in North Carolina

Lawmakers in North Carolina called a special state legisla-tive session this week so they could get to the very impor-tant task of blocking anti-discrimination legislation. The city of Charlotte recently passed a bill expanding their civil rights statute to include protection of people based on their marital status, sexual orientation and gender iden-tity and expression. Clearly such horrifying measures as letting people exist in a city without being discriminated against because of who they are or who they love could not be allowed to stand, so t h e S o u t h C a r o l i n a s t a t e legislature is s tepping in. Thanks guys, the bigots and homophobes really needed a win this week.

Springtime

Shoutout to you, springtime. Sundresses and pastel shorts are back and I am 100% here for it. Go outside, everyone!

By isaBel giBson

penrose

opinions editor

Starring Judge Sarah Palin

Reports have emerged that Amer ican po l i t i ca l punch line and general nut job Sarah Palin is in talks to develop and star in her own court-room reality show. Despite not having anything even remotely resembling a law degree (except potentially a fake printout framed on her wall next to so many stuffed moose heads) Palin may soon serve as a television figure of judgment. I l ike 2016 because i t ’s a year that Saturday Night Live stopped having to write any original content. The premise of Sarah Palin’s judge TV show is so unbelievable and hilarious that it totally makes sense for the time that we’re in . The way th is e lec t ion cycle is going I wouldn’t be surprised if in 2017 Donald Trump is president and by 2020 we see “judge” Sarah Palin nominated to the Su-preme Cour t . I wonder i f Senate Republicans would stop sitting on their hands and hold some hearings if the personification of all their nightmares was nominated to the high court.

Refugees Rescue Politician

German r ight wing poli t i -cian Stefan Jagsch, who is sometimes referred to as a “neo-Nazi” and is staunchly anti-refugee, crashed his car into a tree and was knocked unconscious this past week. Two Syrian refugees rescued him from the accident that reportedly left Jagsch seri-ously injured, performed first aid, and waited with him until an ambulance arrived. This incident either proves that

Women’s Issues: Continuing the fight for access to abortion and expanded reproductive justice

not become a fetus. Her re-ply came swiftly, “Well, if I hit you over the head with a hammer, you wouldn’t grow anymore.”

I was blown away, both by tha t v io lence she was evoking and by her sheer unwillingness to understand what abortion really was, but that I should not have been surprised. To quote a recent article authored by a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, “To keep it simple, life begins at conception.” This rhetoric is the end all, be all of the anti-choice move-ment’s. Fetuses are people, women who get abortions are murderers, blah, blah, blah, l i fe begins a t concept ion. Unfortunately, this scientifi-cally and factually inaccurate s ta tement i s anything but simple.

Imagine for a mo-ment that life did begin at conception and that the mo-ment a fetus is conceived it is a person in the same sense that I am a person. Even this imaginary scenario would not justify the criminalization of abortion. It would not, be-cause of the concept known as “bodily autonomy.” Bodily autonomy (also sometimes referred to as bodily integri-

y o u n g – e v e r . T h e y a l s o didn’t acknowledge that 61 percent of women who get abo r t i ons a l r eady have a child, and that maybe there are legitimate reasons to want to get an abortion. They were solely focused (almost to a forceful degree) on encourag-ing women to have children, which is one of many tactics employed by the anti-choice movement.

Other tact ics include pass ing laws tha t res t r ic t abortion under the guise of protecting women’s health. Texas i s one of the mos t r ecen t s t a t es to pu t an t i -choice views into law, with HB2. HB2 was challenged by Whole Women’s Health and the case has gone to the Supreme Court for a deci-s ion. A few weeks ago, I attended a rally outside the Court to show my support for Whole Women’s Health and the women of Texas. While I was there I encountered some anti-choice pushback.

On my way to the rall,y an older woman stopped me on the street and asked me how I would define abortion. I replied that abortion was a procedure to remove a cluster of cells from a uterus so they do not grow anymore and do

By isaBel giBson penrose

opinions editor

Over the summer I attended an event put on by a group known as Feminists for Life. Their tagline is “Refuse to Choose – Women Deserve Better Than Abor-tion.” I went to their event because I was genuinely in-terested in what they wanted the feminist movement to be, and what their alterna-tive to abortion was. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised (would they talk about more education? Free condoms and birth control for every-one?) I went in with an open mind.

O v e r t h e c o u r s e o f the af ternoon four moth-ers spoke, each spinning a tale of how wonderful their l i fe as a mother was and how glad they were to have refused to get an abortion. They intoned that society tells young women they are not ready for motherhood, but that every young woman is ready. Bizarrely, none of the speakers mentioned a single form birth control. Even more bizarrely, none of the speakers acknowl-e d g e d t h a t m a y b e s o m e women don’ t want to be mothers. Not when they’re

ty) is the cultural concept that emphasizes the importance of a person’s control over their own body.

Because o f bod i ly autonomy the government c anno t f o r ce someone t o use their body in ways that person does not want. If my brother was dying of a rare kidney disease and I had the only kidney in the world that would save his life, nobody could force me to donate that kidney. It would be illegal to force me to donate that kid-ney. I could choose to, if that is what I wanted to do with my body – but here again is that pesky concept of choice, of letting women decide what they do with their own bod-ies.

In the same way that the government cannot legally make me donate a kidney, they cannot force anyone to donate blood or even to do-nate their organs after death – and even after death the person had to consent to be an organ donor in life to make any donation possible. That’s right, dead bodies get more bodily autonomy than women in Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kansas, Arizona and all the other states that have restricted abortion ac-

Our moment of imag-ing life begins at concep-tion is now over. We are back in one of the countless moments where medical sci-ence has proven “life begins at conception” to be nothing more than a fallacy designed to manipulate women into carrying out pregnancies they do not want and fre-quently cannot handle. The anti-choice movement ac-tively and aggressively tells women all across America that they must give up their bodily autonomy, a r ight that every American has, for nine months, all for the sake of something that those anti-choice individuals view as “life”. This is obviously, painfully, disgustingly un-ethical and it must stop.

The battle against anti-choice people is going to be an uphill one but I know I will never stop fighting. We, as women need as much (if not more) control over our bodies than corpses. Women a r e m o r e t h a n u t e r u s e s . We are allowed to choose whether or not we have chil-dren. We demand to choose, because women deserve the right to reproductive justice.

cess. In the last five years, 300 abortion restriction laws have been passed. The anti-choice movement’s goal to take away every pregnant woman’s bodily autonomy is clear.

It’s clear because you d o n ’ t s e e a n y o n e o u t o n the streets harassing people who walk past blood centers without donating. You don’t hear conservatives call ing for more forced kidney dona-tions. You definitely don’t see any legis la t ion in the works to get r id of organ donor labels on driver’s li-censes. These things dem-onstrate that in the eyes of the anti-choice movement, dead bodies are actually more worthy of control over their bodies than living, breathing women are.

When you accept a l l these facts the issue driv-ing those who limits access to abortion becomes clear. Restricting abortion access is not about saving babies and it is not about helping women. It is about control. It is about eliminating choice. The ugly truth behind the anti-choice movement is that they are not interested in anything besides keeping women from making choices about their bodies.

A message from a minority class president of a PWI

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Women’s lacrosse start off season at 5-1 Lady Bullets employ motivational one word strategy for successful 2016 season

Athlete of the Week

Photo courtesy of David Sinclair,GCC&M

Photo courtesy of David Sinclair,GCC&M

By claire healey staff Writer

The Gettysburg Col-lege men’s swim team finished thirty-four out of fifty-seven at the NCAA Di-vision III Championships, with only one swimmer competing.

Sophomore Tyler Dougherty represented the Bullets in an outstanding meet, where he competed against the best of Division III swimming.

To begin the week-end, Dougherty competed in the 50-freestyle, one of the most competitive events of the entire meet.

He finished thirteenth with a time of 20.51, which was only 0.16 seconds away from his career best time. By placing in the top six-teen, Dougherty was also able to earn his first All-American honorable men-tion of the meet.

On day two of swim-ming, Dougherty’s com-petitive spirit really shined. Going into prelims in the 100-breastroke he was seeded twenty-second, well out of finals contention, but with a school record setting performance, he placed sixteenth and made it back for the finals.

During finals he placed fourteenth, which earned him another Honor-able Mention All-American recognition.

Dougherty continued this streak in the 100-free-style. In prelims, Dougherty was able to place eighth with the second fastest time of his career, which earned him a spot in the champion-ships final. With a time of 44.88, Dougherty placed seventh and earned his sev-enth All-American honor.

“He had a great meet and he’s progressing. He’s faster than he was last year. He’s got a couple of more years and I think he’s going to keep doing great things for us,” said head coach Mike Rawleigh.

Gettysburg will look to Dougherty to be a strong competitor again next sea-son. Congrats to Dougherty for being this week’s “Bul-let of the Week!”

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Sophomore Tyler Dougherty, courtesy of GCC&M.

Women’s lacrosse ranked sixth in the latest IWLCA Division III Poll.

So, you know, [I’m] just trying to throw strikes and get ground-balls and get outs and that’s what I did,” said Brown, who struck out six Lions, only running into trouble in the seventh inning.

Guiding Brown through the windy conditions was his catcher, junior Will Anderson.

“Eric threw great. He was hitting his spots all day, keep-ing them off balance with his off-speed stuff. I just told him to focus up, throw strikes, and let the defense make the plays for him,”

By sean BroWer

contriButing Writer

The Gettysburg College baseball team started its home season on March 18, with a dominating 13-2 victory over the Penn State York Nittany Li-ons. Every player in the starting lineup recorded at least one hit, all of which supported junior Eric Brown, who turned in a strong performance, going seven innings and allowing only two runs.

“It feels good. I mean, the guys behind me played great.

said Anderson, who recorded three hits, three RBI’s, and three runs. He fell a home run shy of hitting for the cycle.

The most notable highlight of the afternoon was sophomore Logan Sneed, who tied a school record with five hits.

“I’ve been seeing the ball well, and trying to stick with what I’ve been trying to do, hit the ball the opposite way, and I’ve been able to see some fastballs, put some good swings on the ball, so I feel pretty confident out there

right now,” said Sneed, who, as with Anderson, scored three runs and fell a home run shy of the cycle.

Anderson, Sneed, and the rest of the Bullets’ offensive went to work immediately. In the bottom of the first, senior Luke Lawrence and Sneed both singled, before Anderson hit a towering two run triple off the right field fence.

Before the inning was over, two more runs scored. Seniors Henry Klimowicz, Andy Kel-

ley, and Steve Wright each had productive at bats, producing the third run. The fourth scored on two errors by York shortstop Nicholas Schuler, allowing Kel-ley to score from third.

The Bullets would also score in the second, third, sixth, and seventh. In the latter inning, Sneed, junior Connor Tom, and Anderson recorded consecutive hits to start the frame to produce the team’s twelfth run. The thir-teenth and final run scored, cour-tesy of an RBI double by Wright,

driving home Tom. The Bullets would have

caused more damage, had York center fielder Jonny Stratton not robbed Klimowicz of extra bases with a great running grab.

“It’s just great to be able to put some runs on the board and get a win for Eric Brown, who’s been pitching well and I think everyone’s been hitting well, so it was a nice team win,” said Sneed.

Come support the Bullets at their next home game this Friday, March 25 at 3:30 p.m.

helped me to stay focused on, and to not lose sight of, the per-son and the player that I wanted to be right from the beginning of the season.”

The girls continuously motivate each other to stay true to the word they picked, both on and off the lacrosse field. They hold each other accountable to their word when it becomes hard, and motivate each other in both practices and games.

Jenna said, “Choosing this one word has definitely created a strong team mentality in all of us because even though we all have our own specific and personal words, the reason we want to live them out in our play is because of each other.”

First-year midfielder, Steph Colson, was also able to give her perspective on the one word mentality the women’s lacrosse team holds.

Steph said, “My word is believe. As a freshman, I really wanted to come into the season believing in myself and my abilities and believe in my other teammates which is a big part of being a part of a team. I love the one word because it holds each of us accountable for not only ourselves but others as well.”

Day after day the wom-en’s lacrosse team inspires each other to live out the meaning of their word both for themselves, and the good of the team. It is

By emily sheehan

staff Writer

The Gettysburg women’s lacrosse team is no stranger to success. With fourteen straight trips to the NCAA tournament and a 2011 national champion-ship under their belt, Coach Cantele and the 2016 Bullets seem to know just what they are getting into.

In the preseason poll the Bullets were ranked first in the Mid-Atlantic division, and after a 5-1 record to start the season off, Gettysburg is ranked sixth in the nation.

But how do the Bullets achieve such abundant success?

Teamwork is the biggest factor in the Bullet’s success, and this year they are achieving that success through a collection of words. Each player on the team has chosen a specific word to live by for the season, and the words are meant to become a reoccurring theme to the girls throughout the season.

In a recent interview, first-years Jenna Letigeb and Steph Colson were able to share their feelings on how the one word policy has impacted their season thus far.

Jenna said, “My word, resilient, is very personal and definitely has a lot of meaning to me. I think that choosing one specific word to come back to throughout the season has really

through the strength that they get from each other that they are able to come together as a unit and be so successful.

As for the rest of the season the team has very high hopes. Jenna said, “I see big things for our team just because

of how hard every single person is willing to work for the girl beside them!”

Steph said, “Our team is so strong this year and I’m so excited to see where the year takes us.”

Next the Bullets take on

Haverford at Clark Field for a home game this Saturday, March 26 at 1 p.m.

Good luck to the women’s lacrosse team on a successful rest of the season!

base in bunches, while Pitcher A’s runners are more spread out over the course of games.

Pitching with runners on base certainly has some skill in-volved; the fact that certain pitch-ers are better than others at getting out of jams is not a pure chance. Therefore, WHIP cannot be used as a perfect measure of luck.

It can be an excellent mea-sure of sustainability. All of the base runners allowed by a pitcher with a high WHIP but low ERA are bound to catch up with him, and his ERA, eventually. Like-wise, if a pitcher has a relatively high ERA but low WHIP, it is probable that the pitcher has had some misfortune but that his ERA has some good karma coming for it.

All of that being said, it

By Jason heath

contriButing Writer

Two common aphorisms in the baseball community are that “good pitching always beats good hitting” and that “pitching wins championships.”

With these thoughts in mind, Gettysburg College has good reason to be optimistic this season. They currently possess the lowest earned run average (ERA) in the Centennial Confer-ence and are second in strikeouts per game.

While terms such as “strikeout” have garnered enough popularity to become incorpo-rated into every day conversation and most common baseballs fans are familiar with ERA, one more obscure statistic used to measure a pitcher’s efficiency is walks and hits per inning pitched, or WHIP.

As the name suggests, WHIP is calculated by adding up the walks and hits a pitcher has allowed and dividing that sum by the amount of innings he has pitched. Although less popular than other statistics, WHIP is useful if one knows how to use it.

One of the best uses of WHIP is for analysis of luck. If Pitcher A has a lower ERA than Pitcher B but Pitcher B has a significantly lower WHIP than Pitcher A, it is likely that Pitcher A is getting luckier than Pitcher B.

Although Pitcher A is al-lowing more base runners than Pitcher B, fewer of A’s base run-ners are coming across to score. Hence, it is likely that Pitcher B’s base runners just happen to get on

Bullets’ pitching staff WHIPping the competitionAnalysis of pitching rotation sheds light on Gettysburg College’s depth and strength

Junior pitcher Rich Power is leading the Bullets to victory this season.is no fluke that Gettysburg’s arms rank first in the Centennial Conference in ERA. The Bullets also boast the top WHIP in the conference, which is at a superb 1.21. To put that into context, the Chicago Cubs had the MLB’s lowest WHIP at 1.15 in 2015 and the Colorado Rockies had the highest at 1.51.

In the Centennial Confer-ence this season, the next low-est WHIP is 1.38, belonging to McDaniel College. The highest WHIP in the conference is that of the Muhlenberg Mules at 1.65.

An additional benefit of WHIP is that it directly takes into account walks surrendered, unlike most common pitching statistics.

Limitation of bases on balls can sometimes go unnoticed to the common fan, but as Rich

Power, junior pitcher, puts it, “Limiting walks is definitely ev-ery pitcher’s goal.” In this regard, Gettysburg has been excellent. On average, they give up only two free passes per game.

Power, who has averaged just one walk surrendered per start and has not walked a batter over his last two outings, attributed much of the pitching staff’s suc-cess to “simply throwing strikes,” a fundamental which often gets lost in the world of blazing fast-balls and biting breaking balls.

In addition to pounding the strike zone, Power accredited the staff’s success to its competitive nature and depth.

“We are a very competitive group of guys who push each other a lot in practice...Everyone on the staff has the ability to go

out and there and shut the oppo-nent down.”

Statistically, Power has seen the most success among Bullets pitchers this season. The southpaw is 3-0 in his three starts, including two complete games, one of which was a shutout against Rivier during the team’s spring break trip to Florida. His ERA and WHIP both rest at a remarkable 0.90, and he strikes out, on average, about a batter per inning. He has a Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Week award to show for his perfor-mance. His key to success this season? Focus.

“My mindset on the mound is just to focus on the batter,” he said. “I try not to worry about who’s on deck or on base or what the batter has already done. I just like to focus on the present.” When it comes to his success in limiting walks, Power also ac-credited concentration.

“I try not to take my eyes off the pocket of the catcher’s glove and have had some suc-cess with it so far,” he told the Gettysburgian.

It is said that numbers never lie, and the numbers clearly show that the Bullets’ pitching staff is the best in the Centennial Confer-ence this season.

Although Power is just focusing on the present, Gettys-burg’s low WHIP indicates that there is more excellence on deck for the Bullets pitching staff.

If pitching really does win championships, Gettysburg could be in store for a special season.

Photo courtesy of David Sinclair,GCC&M

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