OPINIONS

Liam Reilly (lireilly@ursinus.edu) At the end of each semester, many students are left with a collection of hundreds of unused dining dollars. By paying for friends' food, splurging at the C-Store, and just accepting that you’re never getting the money back, you can distract yourself from this issue, but it’s...

Katie Cressman (kacressman@ursinus.edu)  The first year of college can be a time of excitement and possibility. However, for some, it can be an overwhelming and stressful time, too – even without the world- wide pandemic, which erupted in full force almost two years ago. In other words, some first-year students...

Morgan Mason (momason@ursinus.edu) Not a creature was stirring – only the CHEM students at Ursinus The IDC, Pfahler, and Thomas are no strangers to the hustle and bustle of students studying seven days a week, often into the late hours of the night. Yet, some Chemistry students are not too...

Abby Peabody (abpeabody@ursinus.edu) Course registration is the time of the year when every social media story is filled with a random schedule full of green, yellow, or red boxes. The student posting is either upset or thrilled with their schedule. As an International Relations major there are several requirements I...

Brooke Hurley (brhurley2@ursinus.edu) The holidays are in full swing on this bustling campus. The ability to travel home and visit family mid-semester is an exciting development for students.  As most would agree, the last few weeks of the semester are a grind. This time of year can be mentally and...

Cole Gannon (cogannon@ursinus.edu) As the fall semester winds down, seniors all over campus are confronted with the reality that they will soon leave Ursinus. I and my fellow classmates are constantly faced with the question: What will you do after graduation? Questions like this are incredibly big and scary, especially...

Sean McGinley (semcginley@ursinus.edu)  Shannon Henes (shhenes@ursinus.edu) This year, Ursinus’s Homecoming celebrations took place on the weekend of Halloween. This by no means was done on purpose, as the Homecoming date was already set in stone. However, many students agree that having Homecoming on the same weekend as Halloween was a...

Chase Portaro (chportaro@ursinus.edu) Routine trips to supermarkets and stockpiles of frozen pizzas -- the drastic measures taken by school cafeterias across the country to feed students amid nationwide supply-chain disruptions and labor shortages caused by aftershocks of a global pandemic. During the early stages of COVID-19, cafeterias like Wismer navigated...

Olivia Fiorella (olfiorella@ursinus.edu) On October 24, Ursinus’ head strength and conditioning coach, Michael Moronese, sent out an email in which he announced an Open Gym Block for “all students, staff and faculty that do not identify as a cisgender man.” Many students were excited at the prospect of having a...