The Grizzly, October 14, 1988

Task Force Committee Trims Curriculum • Gender, Class and Race Addressed at Conference • Awareness Week on the Wagon • Letters: Some Sobering Thoughts for Students; Interdepartmental Cooperation Stressed • And the Band Played On... • A Voice of My Own to Air • Wellness Week Results • Rice Cooks Up Recipe for Art • Bears Take Homecoming Thriller in Final :33 • Soccer Kicks Into Winning Gear • X-Country Runs \u27Round Alumni • Hockey Unpredictablehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1220/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 11, 1988

Bush Takes Election: Republicans Win Four More • Students Voice Concerns: Richter and Kane Listen • Letter: Beam The Grizzly Up, Billy • Finzi\u27s French\u27s Forte • College\u27s Music Program Reviewed • The Pack is Back with 5th MAC Title • Ladies Take Seventh • \u27Mers Open Season • Soccer Booted in ECAC • The Grizzly Presents our Champion Team • Red and Gold Days: A Big Hit • Presenting Women\u27s Achievementhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1223/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 7, 1988

Berman Art Center Breaks Ground • Pledging Undergoes Changes • Welcome Home Alumni! • Letter: Honor Code Discussion Revived • Giving Garbage the Dump • Jazz: Basie Style • Ursinus Presents: A Voice of My Own • On the Forum Front • Mistake Free Bears Get First Win • Field Hockey Making Gains • Soccer Gains Respect • Annual Run Offers Health and Fun • 1988 Homecoming Queen Candidates • Sherman Strutting Stuff • Intramural Results Announced • U.C. Welcomes Gilbert\u27s Enthusiasm • Cycling Club Returns • Campbell: Not Your Typical Bowl of Soup • Econ: Economopolis • Professor LoBue Introduces New Chemistry in Pfahler • Discover Discover! • U.C. Students Study Better Late Than Neverhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1219/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, December 2, 1988

No Longer Stoned by Administration: Charges Dropped • 145 Chickens of Chadwick Chain Check In • Letter: Cross Country Earns Kudos • Lantern Thrives at Fifty-five • Peace Hosts a Challenge • Happy Hanukkah! • Happenin\u27 Holidays • Hallelujah to Handel\u27s Messiah Performance • Hermann and Murphy Take Grizzly Reins • Crossroads Debuts • Ursinus Hoopsters\u27 Clutch Plays Lift Bears\u27 to Fast Start • \u27Mers Sunk by W.C. • Ursinus\u27 Lady Bears Riding 4-Game Win Streak • Ursinus Gymnasts Open Season at Navy • Bravo! Bravo! • Speth Sets Better Limit • Dean Nace Leads MBA Race • Outstanding Alumnae Address Whitians • Maintenance Maintains Ursinus • Final Exam Schedulehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1225/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 4, 1991

Ursinus Celebrates Black History Month • Welcome Back President Richter • Noted Psychologist to Speak at Ursinus Forum • Kirstin Border Crowned • Sophomore Scholarship Competition Announced • Operation Ursinus Cares • Peace Activist Speaks • Veteran Leads Discussion • King Swamp • The Dark Half • Organ Recital • Fact vs. Fiction • Wrestlers Take It To the Mat • Football Players Honored at Banquet • Swimmers Drown E-town • Martin Scores 1,00th Career Point • Hoopsters Fall to Hopkins • Donald R. Groff Named New Softball Coach • Peace Movement Needs Agenda • Why we are at War: The Opinion of One Informed Layperson • Garbage: A Terrible Thing to Waste • Chemistry of the Gulf Warhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1269/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, January 28, 1991

Policies and Statistics, A Security Concern: New Quad Regulations; Crime Report Released • Sonia Sanchez: Poet for Peace • Gulf Dialogue Continues • Independence Dogs • Financial Aid Month • You Asked for it: You Got It!! • New Quad Policy • Presidency Symposium • When is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u27s Birthday? • Who\u27s Who Announced • Mission Conference Held • Back to the Basics • The Innocent • Swimmers on Win Streak • Women Hope for Good Things to Come • A Roller Coaster Season for the Hoopsters • Women Rounding-out Season • The Dream Lives On • Letter: Bundle Up! • Researchers Psyched Out • The Technology of War • A Wasted Solution?https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1268/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 19, 1991

Wismer Renovations • Movies Moved • Clark Wins NEH Grant: Travels to China • Teaching Catalan, An Alternative Language • Book Fair Comes to Ursinus • Italian Market: A Way of Life • Unchangeable South Street • Screaming Trees • Death of a Salesperson • Murder at Toranno\u27s • Swimmers Prepare for MAC Championship • Men\u27s Basketball Finishes Season with 11-14 Record • Black History Month • He\u27s Back! David Lee Roth, Stud or Stroker? • Modern Shakespeare • Wrestlers Romp • Schafer Tells of Track Troubles • Women Race at MAC Championships • Gymnasts Having Fun • Letter: Olin, for Students or Posterity? • Domestic Policy: A Matter of Perspective • Ah, Um, Uh... • An Elegantly Simple Plan • Radioactivity at Ursinus Collegehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1271/thumbnail.jp

Multi-centre randomised controlled trial of a smartphone-based event recorder alongside standard care versus standard care for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with palpitations and pre-syncope: the IPED (Investigation of Palpitations in the ED) Study.

Patients with palpitations and pre-syncope commonly present to Emergency Departments (EDs) but underlying rhythm diagnosis is often not possible during the initial presentation. This trial compares the symptomatic rhythm detection rate of a smartphone-based event recorder (AliveCor) alongside standard care versus standard care alone, for participants presenting to the ED with palpitations and pre-syncope with no obvious cause evident at initial consultation

Utilisation of an operative difficulty grading scale for laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Background A reliable system for grading operative difficulty of laparoscopic cholecystectomy would standardise description of findings and reporting of outcomes. The aim of this study was to validate a difficulty grading system (Nassar scale), testing its applicability and consistency in two large prospective datasets. Methods Patient and disease-related variables and 30-day outcomes were identified in two prospective cholecystectomy databases: the multi-centre prospective cohort of 8820 patients from the recent CholeS Study and the single-surgeon series containing 4089 patients. Operative data and patient outcomes were correlated with Nassar operative difficultly scale, using Kendall’s tau for dichotomous variables, or Jonckheere–Terpstra tests for continuous variables. A ROC curve analysis was performed, to quantify the predictive accuracy of the scale for each outcome, with continuous outcomes dichotomised, prior to analysis. Results A higher operative difficulty grade was consistently associated with worse outcomes for the patients in both the reference and CholeS cohorts. The median length of stay increased from 0 to 4 days, and the 30-day complication rate from 7.6 to 24.4% as the difficulty grade increased from 1 to 4/5 (both p < 0.001). In the CholeS cohort, a higher difficulty grade was found to be most strongly associated with conversion to open and 30-day mortality (AUROC = 0.903, 0.822, respectively). On multivariable analysis, the Nassar operative difficultly scale was found to be a significant independent predictor of operative duration, conversion to open surgery, 30-day complications and 30-day reintervention (all p < 0.001). Conclusion We have shown that an operative difficulty scale can standardise the description of operative findings by multiple grades of surgeons to facilitate audit, training assessment and research. It provides a tool for reporting operative findings, disease severity and technical difficulty and can be utilised in future research to reliably compare outcomes according to case mix and intra-operative difficulty

Explaining the rank order of invasive plants by stakeholder groups

Debates surrounding the use of policies to avoid further spread of invasive species highlight the need to establish priorities in public resource allocations. We explore the consistency or discrepancy among stakeholder groups involved in the risk and control management of invasive species to identify the extent to which different factors influence stakeholder choices of major relevant plant invaders. Based on stakeholder ranking of invasive plants, we explore the reasons behind stakeholders' support for policy management. Data were collected in Galicia, Spain, where a catalogue of prohibited entry and trade of invasive species is currently under debate. We estimate a rank ordered logit model using information from semi-structured interviews conducted with respondents from four stakeholder groups: public administration sector, ornamental sector, research and social groups. The characteristics of plant invaders that provoke stakeholders to rank a species more highly are wide distribution of plant invaders, existence of public control programmes, use and sale of species in the ornamental sector and media coverage. The influence these aspects have in the selection of top-ranked invaders varies across different stakeholder groups and with stakeholders' level of knowledge, awareness and attitudes towards different potential policy measures. A small group of invaders are perceived as top rated by all stakeholder groups