NEWS

Jenni Berrios (jeberrios@ursinus.edu) On January 20, the campus received devastating news about the passing of Assistant Dean of Students, Terrence Williams. The atmosphere immediately changed as the whole campus grieved. The Field House was filled with students, faculty, friends and family mourning the loss of a great leader on campus...

Ava Compagnoni (avcompagnoni@ursinus.edu) Each day of the COVID pandemic brings another new challenge to Ursinus College. As we all know very well, students were required to be vaccinated before returning to campus in Fall of 2021. The vast majority have been vaccinated, with only a few exceptions. However, faculty and...

Brooke Hurley (brhurley2@ursinus.edu) Morgan Mason (momason@ursinus.edu) Amidst the bitter cold November weather, Ursinus's very own local sorority, Phi Alpha Psi, held their annual philanthropy event, Pie a Phi Psi, on November 17th. During the event, the members of Phi Alpha Psi gathered together outside Olin Plaza.  Friends, classmates, and faculty...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...