Basement Fire in BWC
Cici Chagnon (cichagnon@ursinus.edu) On Wednesday, November 17, students living in Brodbeck, Wilkinson, and Curtis Halls (BWC) were evacuated due to a fire that erupted in the basement of Brodbeck. Campus Safety responded to the fire alarms around 6:00 p.m and discovered a water bottle lit on fire inside a recycling...
Bears Walk For Project Healing Hive
Morgan Mason momason@ursinus.edu The Ursinus College Peer Advocates welcomed Project Healing Hive to campus on Sunday, November 14th, to bring awareness to domestic violence. Students from across campus gathered on the Patterson Track in the bitter cold to walk “a mile in someone else’s shoes.” Students got to hear stories...
Mail Center Mishap
Ashley Webster (aswebster@ursinus.edu) On Friday October 29, 2021, the Ursinus College Mail Center sent out an email about deliveries made through third party services such as DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates. According to the original email, those services had been “dropping students’ packages all over campus.” They want students to specify...
December Editor’s Letter
Dear Ursinus Family, If I’m frank, I will not miss this semester. Leading a newspaper, balancing the demands of my course load, and learning In-Design (the layout program we use for the Grizzly) was no easy task. It sometimes left me pulling out the fine hair I do have. One...
How Should We Eat Together?
Evan Stinson (evstinson@ursinus.edu) Every day most students step into Wismer’s Upper or Lower, to the buffet or the kiosks, without much thought. This is where dining services are and so it’s the easiest and quickest place to get a meal. Through the pandemic, dining services have been challenged with keeping...
Bears Bring in Bucks for #Giving2UCDay
Amelia Kunko (amkunko@ursinus.edu) Ursinus College’s #Giving2UCday, an event focused on giving to the college’s Annual Fund and other areas of the college community, is being held on Tuesday, November 30th this year. “Our 8th annual #Giving2UCday is the college’s largest single-day giving event of the year, and coincides with internationally...
Ursinus College Democrats Making a Comeback
Jenna Smith (jesmith2@ursinus.edu) The Ursinus College Democrats are moving on to new endeavours. The group has been inactive since the 2018-2019 school year, but now they’re coming back better than ever. Ursinus Democrats is officially affiliated with the Pennsylvania Democrats and is meant to serve as a partisan voice for...
North Hall Gets Lit
Ashley Webster (aswebster@ursinus.edu) Around 3 pm on October 24th, the oven in the communal kitchen of the North/Richter dormitory caught on fire. According to Residence Life Assistant, Ashly Chavez ‘22, a student was using the oven and their food caught on fire. A charred aluminum pan, which is oven safe...
How are you better today than you were yesterday?
Julia Paiano (jupaiano@ursinus.edu) On September 13th 2020, Ursinus lost a new member of its community, Aidan Inteso. We lost Aidan to an undiagnosed case of cardiomegaly, a condition where the heart enlarges. Aidan had just recently entered Ursinus, coming in as a first-year student from Toms River, New Jersey. At...