The Grizzly, April 20, 1999

Seventeenth Annual Airband Draws Crowd • Turnout Low for Ritter Rave • Medieval Sports Fest Continues Caring Tradition • National Poetry Month Celebrated at Ursinus • Ursinus Baseball Pitches in for Cancer • Myrin Library Holds Technology Day • Regal Marketplace 24 in Oaks: Off to a Disappointing Start • Softball Slips into Second • Baseball Bats Awake As UC Tops Centennial Conference • Lacrosse Downs Dickinson for 400th Winhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1441/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, December 8, 1998

Actual Implications of Student Evaluations • Students Debate Greek Life on Campus • Opinion: Letter to the Editor; Greek Life Controversy; Who\u27s Recycling? • Final Exam Schedule • Baseball Coach Discusses Return to Vietnam • New Law Helps College Students Manage Debt • WVOU Benefit a Success • High-Tech Cheating, For a Price • Panelists Square Off on Global Warming • Women\u27s Basketball Setting Their Mark • Men\u27s Basketball Opens League Play With Win • UC Swimming in Full Swinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1430/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, April 13, 1999

Recent Violence a Worry for Ursinus Administration • Tuition Increase for Fall 1999 • Former Rendell Aide to Speak • Students Answer Call to Help Refugees • Opinion: Editorial Response; Fight That Led to a Painful Assignment; Bathrooms, Respect Gone Down the Toilet; Why Kosovo is (but Shouldn\u27t be) Another Vietnam and Why our Hands are Tied no Matter What • Softball Steals First Place from Western Maryland • Cheerleading Squad Hosts Basketball Tournament • Lacrosse Remains Undefeated in Centennial Conference • Lax Wins National Recognition • UC Baseball Climbing to Top of Conference • Wiatrak Named CC Player of the Week • Ursinus Golf Challenges Conferencehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1440/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, March 2, 1999

Vaccination for Meningitis a Success • Dr. England to Speak on Social Crowds • Middle States Presents Findings • Ursinus Alum Named Principal of Vanguard Group • Ursinus Students Called to Aid Project for Peace • Middle States Team Praises Ursinus Students • Ursinus Students Battle Against Sickness • Dean\u27s Office Recognizes Resident Scholars • Opinion: Lessons From Space Ghost; Higher Education: Meal Ticket or Soul Food?; Dan Quayle: Eight Years Later, What has Changed? • Grizzly Wrestlers to Take Trenton State by Storm • Positive Outlook for New Field Hockey Coachhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1436/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, April 27, 1999

USGA Calls Do-Over • Faculty to Prepare for Laptops • It Happened One Wednesday • IR Club Encourages Global Awareness, Student Involvement • Dance at UC • STAR Raises Awareness of Sexual Assault on Campus • Scholar Speaks on African Women Writers • Opinion: Free Laptops, What Could Possibly be Wrong With That?; Administration Unresponsive to Student Problem; Don\u27t Be Too Quick to Name This Devil; Blood Lessons: How America Responds to Tragedy and Why we Don\u27t Learn From it • Final Exam Schedule • Student Art Exhibit Opens, Prizes Awarded • Restaurant Review: The Perk, A Taste of History • Ursinus Softball Suffers Through Wild Week • Wayne Gretzky Retires • Golf Takes on Centennial Conference • Baseball Drops Two, but Remains Atop Centennial Conference • Lacrosse Reigns in Centennial Conferencehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1442/thumbnail.jp

Three microarray platforms: an analysis of their concordance in profiling gene expression

BACKGROUND: Microarrays for the analysis of gene expression are of three different types: short oligonucleotide (25–30 base), long oligonucleotide (50–80 base), and cDNA (highly variable in length). The short oligonucleotide and cDNA arrays have been the mainstay of expression analysis to date, but long oligonucleotide platforms are gaining in popularity and will probably replace cDNA arrays. As part of a validation study for the long oligonucleotide arrays, we compared and contrasted expression profiles from the three formats, testing RNA from six different cell lines against a universal reference standard. RESULTS: The three platforms had 6430 genes in common. In general, correlation of gene expression levels across the platforms was good when defined by concordance in the direction of expression difference (upregulation or downregulation), scatter plot analysis, principal component analysis, cell line correlation or quantitative RT-PCR. The overall correlations (r values) between platforms were in the range 0.7 to 0.8, as determined by analysis of scatter plots. When concordance was measured for expression ratios significant at p-values of <0.05 and at expression threshold levels of 1.5 and 2-fold, the agreement among the platforms was very high, ranging from 93% to 100%. CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that the long oligonucleotide platform is highly suitable for expression analysis and compares favorably with the cDNA and short oligonucleotide varieties. All three platforms can give similar and reproducible results if the criterion is the direction of change in gene expression and minimal emphasis is placed on the magnitude of change

The Grizzly, November 17, 1998

Bring in the New Year with a New Problem • Airband: Still Searching for a Cause • Update: New Gym • Opinion: Opportunity to Gain a Degree Should be for Everyone • Full-time Students, Part-time Jobs • Is Anyone Listening?: WVOU • Swing Night at Ursinus • Eden Cinema: Paradise • Cross Country Sprints to End • Women\u27s Soccer Season Concludes • Seniors Step-Up on the Volleyball Court • UC Swimming Drops Home Opener • Ursinus Wrestlers Hungry to Regain Title • Field Hockey Struggles Through Rebuilding • UC Football Loses Final Battle of Season • UC Football Players Honored • Donahue and Bailey Represent UChttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1429/thumbnail.jp

Report of the Task Force on the Special Educational Needs of Women

On January 17, 1972 an ad hoc committee was appointed to evaluate the special educational needs of women within the University of Maine at Orono/Bangor and in the larger community served by this University. This committee was chaired by Dr. Constance Carlson. PROBLEM : The intellectual, social and professional climate of the University does not encourage women students (undergraduate, graduate, CED, and special) to realize their full intellectual, social and professional potential. SOLUTION: The University environment must become a vital catalyst encouraging each woman student to make the most of the educational opportunity and cultural freedom available at Orono/Bangor thereby achieving her unique potential and developing a self-vision of herself as a responsible human being both in personal and in public life

The Grizzly, October 27, 1998

Mischief and Mayhem Night • Big Brother\u27s in the Library • Rewind: Homecoming Alterations • Racism: One Piece of the Puzzle • The Democratic Dilemma of Legislating Hate • Are We Creatures of Habit? • A Look at What Ursinus Terms as Security • Students Voice Security Concerns • Borsdorf Spreads Fitness Message Over East Coast • Sculpture Depicts Trauma, Unity and Sacrifice of War Years • Ursinus Welcomes Savadove • Jeffrey Gaines Entertains Ursinus • Church on Film • McKellen Teaches Us a Thing or Two in Apt Pupil • The Big Fella\u27s Forum • Ursinus Destroys Gettysburg • Linebacker Vecchio Shines for Ursinus • Women\u27s Soccer Makes History • Cross Country Runs Over Competition • Soccer Falls Against Gettysburg • UC Volleyball Evens Out at .500 • Field Hockey Chalks Up First Victoryhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1991/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 29, 1998

Construction Begins for New Bookstore • Ursinus Students Named Smith Scholars • Econ. Students Apply Classroom Knowledge • Opinion: Terrorist Debate Continues; Ursinus Keeps up With the Times; Students Vote Two Thumbs up for Co-ed Living • Is Home the way you Left it? • Students Spending Weekends Differently • Hugs Help Pottstown Hospital • Family Day \u2798 = Success • Kelley on Photography • Berman Exhibits Not Well Attended • Volleyball Hit With Key Injury • UC Football Gets Terrorized • Men\u27s Soccer Drops Two • Women\u27s Soccer Shuts-Out Dickinson • Who\u27s in Charge Here? • Women\u27s Rugby Overpowered by Lock Haven University • Centennial Conference Newshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1425/thumbnail.jp