Gettysburg College

Somebody still enjoys getting the newspaper delivered in Gettysburg, Pa., where the "smack" of the bundle landing on the ground was so loud that it prompted a Gettysburg College student to report gunfire on campus. Before you could say "stop the presses," safety officials had locked down the campus in the city famous for the bloody and pivotal Civil War battle. Thankfully, this time there were no shots fired -- just copies of newspapers landing outside shortly before dawn on Saturday.

Somebody still enjoys getting the newspaper delivered in Gettysburg, Pa., where the "smack" of the bundle landing on the ground was so loud that it prompted a Gettysburg College student to report gunfire on campus. Before you could say "stop the presses," safety officials had locked down the campus in the city famous for the bloody and pivotal Civil War battle. Thankfully, this time there were no shots fired -- just copies of newspapers landing outside shortly before dawn on Saturday.

Colleges have tried many tactics to attract capable minority students and make them feel welcome. They've offered scholarships, started support groups, hired counselors, overlooked low test scores. At Gettysburg College, they're about to try genealogy. Starting in March, this Lutheran-affiliated liberal arts school, where just 40 of 1,850 students are black, is opening an "intercultural resource center" where all students, but especially African-Americans, can learn how to research their roots.

Here, in alphabetical order, are 10 places I'd like to see in 2013. Several are cities, one is a state, three are entire nations, and all have interesting things happening in the weeks and months ahead. Will I get to them all? Probably not. But if I did, in alphabetical order, come December, I'd be able to swagger into some stylish Seoul watering hole, possibly limping slightly from a sled-dog mishap under the northern lights, but gamely standing rounds and spinning yarns of Ecuadorean trainspotting and what I learned from the reenactors at Gettysburg, Pa. Would you listen?

Humorist Garrison Keillor plans to produce a "second annual farewell radio show" in June, he announced Friday. Keillor, speaking at a news conference at Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College, said the show will be produced through Minnesota Public Radio, which handled his "Prairie Home Companion" radio show for 13 years.

Sharon D. Herzberger, a psychology professor and administrator at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., has been chosen as president of Whittier College. Herzberger will join the 2,500-student campus in July after finishing the school year at Trinity, where she is vice president for institutional planning and administration. She will replace Katherine Haley Will, who left to become president of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, born 100 years ago Sunday, was remembered in a celebration as the consummate American who set the nation's standard of patriotism. About 1,500 people, including former President Gerald R. Ford, paid tribute to the World War II commander and 34th President of the United States in a ceremony at Gettysburg College, near where Eisenhower retired after his second term ended in 1961. In Abilene, Kan.

Burns Wins History Prize: Filmmaker Ken Burns, who brought the Civil War to life in an acclaimed PBS documentary series, on Saturday won the inaugural $50,000 Lincoln Prize for his work. The prize, presented by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, Pa., for scholarship on Abraham Lincoln or the war era, "reflects a recognition that fine history need not be confined to books or to the academy," Burns said.

Colleges have tried many tactics to attract capable minority students and make them feel welcome. They've offered scholarships, started support groups, hired counselors, overlooked low test scores. At Gettysburg College, they're about to try genealogy. Starting in March, this Lutheran-affiliated liberal arts school, where just 40 of 1,850 students are black, is opening an "intercultural resource center" where all students, but especially African-Americans, can learn how to research their roots.

Toy makers appear willing to aim their boy-oriented toys at girls, but aren't so eager to depict boys playing with "girl toys," a pair of researchers say. Pamela Rosenberg, a sociology professor at Gettysburg College, and her husband, Lawrence, a professor at Millersville University, studied 250 toy catalogue photos that included children. Half showed toys associated with a specific sex, such as dolls, guns, trucks and kitchen sets.

An 18-year-old college student surrendered to authorities Thursday on charges he helped his girlfriend murder her newborn son. A frightened-looking Brian Peterson Jr., accompanied by his lawyer and mother, waded through a crush of media and turned himself in to the FBI on a fugitive warrant. He was transferred to police in Newark, Del., for processing on first-degree murder charges. A judge later ordered him held without bail.