The Grizzly, February 11, 1991

Fraternity Pledging Returns Again • Wachtel Explains the Poverty of Affluence • The Changing War • Peer Educators and Community Service • Alumni Visit the Ballet • Study Abroad Memorable • A Valentine History • Side Winders • Dance Marathon • Get Shorty • Triumph of the Spirit • Gymnasts Fare Well at Ithaca, Reach Team Goal • Track Women Place Third at PAIAW Championships • Hoopsters Rounding Out Season • Fro Scores Point, Swimmers Wash Out Widener • Wrestlers Excel • Letters: Bring Becker Back; Praise From Florida; Oh no, Mr. Bill!; Respect Yourself and Your Major • War: A Personal Experience on the Homefront • Who Wants the Persian Gulf War? • The Mephisto of Calculus • This Spill No Mistakehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1270/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 9, 1990

Student Activities Reorganized • Homecoming 1990: Student and Alumnae Festivities • LaRouche Supporter to Speak • Pledging Rules In Effect • EcBa Club Holds First Meeting • The Path to Opportunities • Ursinus Goes South of the Border • Olin Brick Explained • Esther Remembered • Homecoming Festivities • Comedy Brightens Wismer • Pennsylvania Impressionist • Acting Sports • Presenting ProTheatre • Russian Trumpeter • Soccer Team Gets It Together • Grubb\u27s Fearless Predictions • Football Impresses • Field Hockey Rebounds • Harley\u27s Haven • Letters: RAs Question Editorial; Congrats, Now be Quiet! • Classics: Guaranteed to Improve Your Life • Losing Traditions • Grading Our Food Service • Middleton: Man of Many Projectshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1260/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, March 19, 1991

New U.S.G.A Officers Appointed • Pennsylvania Pro-Life Convention Held • Rare Israeli Exhibition Arrives Safely • Village Idiots Compete at Pitt • Tenure Candidates Approved for Next Year • Alcohol Recovery Group to Start • Seniors Prepare for Graduation • Just Do It -- The Nautilus Connection • Flags: The Collegeville Connection • U.S.G.A Minutes • The Knack is Bnack! • Ursinus Students in Indonesia for a Day • Julian\u27s House • Meistersingers • Talking With Betty Boop • Bowie: Something Old and Something New • City of David at Berman • Men\u27s Lacrosse Club Wins Season Opener • Tennis Teams Begin Season • Five Named to MAC Honor Roll • Softball Starts Season • Baseball World Tour \u2791 • Indoor Track Finishes Season • Letter: On Teaching Catalan • Student Apathy is Growing • Consider Women\u27s Studies Next Semesterhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1273/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 13, 1990

Clergy Assembly Meets Ninth Consecutive Year • Career Day: An Information Session for Students • U.S. Energy Policy Anti-American? • The Ursinus Tutoring Program • Being British Without Being English • Election Results • Students React to Reimert Security Doors • Greeks Sponsor Halloween Party • F.W. Olin Foundation • Wilk 3 Protest • The History of Olin Grant • The Changeling • INXS • Television: Whose Reality is it Anyway? • Swimmers Wash Out Washington • Cross-Country Team Pleased with Regionals • Steimy Starts Club • Men\u27s Basketball Looks for Improvement in 1991 Season • Football Finishes Season with a Loss • Letters: No Defense for Personal Abuse; Zeta Chi Missed the Point! • Uncle Sam Wants Everyone • Pre-Med Prognosis Improving • Ursinus Grad in Sticky Situation • Brownback-Anders Meetinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1264/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 19, 1990

Frat Pledges\u27 Academics • Where Does Your Student Activity Fee Go? • Foreign Policy and the Press • Thanksgiving Food Drive • Date Rape Discussed • New Food Plans Developed • Campus Jobs = Easy $$$ • The Musser Experience • A Legend Lives On • Economics Conference Returns • Language Labs: Olin Addition • Television: Whose Reality is it Anyway? • Berman Art • Ursinus Band • Men\u27s Basketball Plays in Scranton Tournament • Gymnasts Prepare for Season • MAC Academic Honor Roll • Swimmers Waste Time at Kings Meet • Ski Club Plans Trip • All-Star Baseball Clinic to be Held at UC • Letters: Is the Grizzly Still a Newspaper?; Support our Positive Efforts; Bring Back our Salt • A Meal Choice? • Slinging Mud to Win • What was the Question? • A New Dimension to Medicinehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1265/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 19, 1990

Election 1990: Hafer Speaks • Bon Voyage, Richter! • Meistersingers in England • Ursinus to Recycle? • Persian Gulf Dialog • Convocation 1990 • Ursinus Receives Japanese Grant • Slightly Steamed • The Phantoms of Ursinus • Ursinus Students Study in France • Red and Gold Hosts and Hostesses Needed • Berman Catalog Awarded • Urban Art • Bears Hound Hoyas in Opener • Field Hockey on the Ball • Bruins Club to Hold Fifth Bear Pack Run • Lady Bears Start Fast • Netters Improving • Score!! • Encourage Diversity • On Censoring Art • Not Oil Only • Prediction: War With Iraq • Going with the Flow • Bolt to Latest Discoverieshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1257/thumbnail.jp

Prevalence of Alternative Diagnoses and Implications for Management in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Patients

BACKGROUND: Following Bayes theorem, ventriculomegaly and ataxia confer only a 30% chance of idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). When coupled with positive responses to best diagnostic testing (extended lumbar drainage), 70% of patients recommended for shunting will not actually have NPH. This is inadequate clinical care. OBJECTIVE: To determine the proportion of alternative and treatable diagnoses in patients referred to a multidisciplinary NPH clinic. METHODS: Patients without previously diagnosed NPH were queried from prospectively collected data. At least 1 neurosurgeon, cognitive neurologist, and neuropsychologist jointly formulated best treatment plans. RESULTS: Of 328 total patients, 45% had an alternative diagnosis; 11% of all patients improved with treatment of an alternative diagnosis. Of 87 patients with treatable conditions, the highest frequency of pathologies included sleep disorders, and cervical stenosis, followed by Parkinson disease. Anti-cholinergic burden was a contributor for multiple patients. Of 142 patients undergoing lumbar puncture, 71% had positive responses and referred to surgery. Compared to NPH patients, mimickers were statistically significantly older with lower Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score and worse gait parameters. Overall, 26% of the original patients underwent shunting. Pre-post testing revealed a statistically significant improved MoCA score and gait parameters in those patients who underwent surgery with follow-up. CONCLUSION: Because the Multidisciplinary NPH Clinic selected only 26% for surgery (corroborating 30% in Bayes theorem), an overwhelming majority of patients with suspected NPH will harbor alternative diagnoses. Identification of contributing/confounding conditions will support the meticulous work-up necessary to appropriately manage patients without NPH while optimizing clinical responses to shunting in correctly diagnosed patients

Improving numeracy through values affirmation enhances decision and STEM outcomes

<div><p>Greater numeracy has been correlated with better health and financial outcomes in past studies, but causal effects in adults are unknown. In a 9-week longitudinal study, undergraduate students, all taking a psychology statistics course, were randomly assigned to a control condition or a values-affirmation manipulation intended to improve numeracy. By the final week in the course, the numeracy intervention (statistics-course enrollment combined with values affirmation) enhanced objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and two decision-related outcomes (financial literacy and health-related behaviors). It also showed positive indirect-only effects on financial outcomes and a series of STEM-related outcomes (course grades, intentions to take more math-intensive courses, later math-intensive courses taken based on academic transcripts). All decision and STEM-related outcome effects were mediated by the changes in objective and/or subjective numeracy and demonstrated similar and robust enhancements. Improvements to abstract numeric reasoning can improve everyday outcomes.</p></div