Rush Week Changes- Yay or Nay?
Ava Compagnoni (avcompagnoni@ursinus.edu) Fall 2022 Rush Week has come and gone. In the midst of the first few weeks of school, Greek Organizations scrambled to put together a successful week of events, and sororities and fraternities across the board have deemed this Rush Week successful. It began Friday, September 9th...
Fire in Wicks
Erin Corcoran (ercorcoran@ursinus.edu) On August 31, a peaceful evening in the first week of classes turned into a chaotic one for residents of Wicks. The Main Street house’s oven caught fire after a student heated it with a metal soup can on a plastic plate inside. The student, who was...
New Organization on Campus – UC VFOR
Marie Sykes (masykes@ursinus.edu) 2022 has been declared a “historic” year, just like the last few before it. However, Ursinus places a firm emphasis on its responsibility to improve the world around us, and so when Roe vs. Wade fell, three students decided to take action, hoping to curate change. Hence...
September Editor’s Letter
Layla M. Halterman (lahalterman@ursinus.edu) Dear Ursinus Family, Ah, September! The summer festivities have come to a screeching halt. While (most) kids are sad, (most) parents feel relieved and elated. But now that we are slowly adjusting back into our familiar routines of school, work, and extracurriculars, what a great time...
Local Thunderstorm Destroys Ursinus’s TriCaster
Chase Portaro (chportaro@ursinus.edu) A tricaster is a television studio computer vital to a number of departments at Ursinus. Athletics, Theater & Dance, and the Communications Department all rely on it to produce and stream broadcast-quality content. But after a transformer on campus was struck by lighting two weeks ago, the...
The COVID Spike
Marie Sykes (masykes@ursinus.edu) Across campus and the northeast, Covid cases have once again gone up thanks to the latest BA.2 variant. After the lifting of the mask mandates and relaxation in protocols, what does this mean for the Ursinus student body? When asked what Ursinus is doing to reduce the...
The Grizzly Special Report: A Look Into Ursinus’s “Quest” for an Inclusive Campus
Chase Portaro (chportaro@ursinus.edu) In March, The Grizzly was allowed four hours of one-on-one interviews with three members of Ursinus’s adminstration: Dr. Heather Lobban-Viravong, Vice President of Inclusion and Community Engagement, Dr. Mark Schneider, the Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Shannon Zottola, Vice President of Enrollment. The lengthy conversations were...
$3 Million Donation Creates Andrews Family Fellows
Amelia Kunko (amkunko@ursinus.edu) Dr. Arlene Andrews McLean ‘62, has pledged $3 million to establish the Andrews Family Fellows Fund. Thanks to the Andrews Family Fellows, STEM students pursuing advanced degrees will have the chance to partake in career-enhancing opportunities such as research. This fellowship honors McLean’s parents, who drove her...
Bidding Alvert Hernandez Farewell!
Jenna Smith (jesmith2@ursinus.edu) Alvert Hernandez joined Ursinus in 2019 where he resided in the Freshman center. Many of us know him from working with housing, conversing with him when we were figuring out where we were going to live. His first year he focused on freshmen and their housing, but...