The Grizzly, March 28, 1995

1995 Ursinus Model U.N. Delegation • Japanese Shocked by Gas Attack • Ursinus Spring Service Day Update • Letters to the Editor: Regarding the Core; They Might be Giants ... or not?; Looking for a Perfect Friend? • Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Stephen Hood • Men\u27s Tennis Team Comes Close • Sammartino, Keith Named Co-Players of the Week • Baseball Team 4-0 Since Coming North • Lacrosse Team Opens With a Win • Softball Team Extends Winning Streakhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1357/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, March 1, 1994

Up \u27Til Noone to Play at The Trappe • Last Semester\u27s Blood Drive a Success • Kane Encourages Support for Blood Drive • CIA Officer and his Wife Accused of Spying • Professor Profile: Keith Brand • Broughton Exhibit to Open in Berman • Senior Profile: Alan McCabe • The Snow Closing Debates, Continued • Letter to the Editor • To All Administrators, Faculty, Staff, and Other Interested Parties • Women\u27s Hoops Have Best Season Everhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1332/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 17, 1989

Inspired Voices Speak Out Nationally • Appealing for Unborn Lives • Boorstin Speaks at U.C. • Letters: Pledging Under Siege; Grizzly Growls; Did Berman Ask You?; Doctors do it Right; Only Doug; Wipe Mud From Shoudt\u27s Face; Wrong!; GDI Promotes Disunity • Changing Dining Atmosphere • Save a Forest: Recycle! • Career Day • Running Bears Finish Strong • Grizzlies Downed by Devils • Ladies Finish Winning Season • Praise Hockey Team • Swimming Prospectives • Greek News • Stroke on A\u27Bears • Don\u27t Talk Dirty to Me • Top Ten Things Loved at U.C.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1247/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, 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

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

The rapid disruption of tropical forests probably imperils global biodiversity more than any other contemporary phenomenon¹⁻³. With deforestation advancing quickly, protected areas are increasingly becoming final refuges for threatened species and natural ecosystem processes. However, many protected areas in the tropics are themselves vulnerable to human encroachment and other environmental stresses⁴⁻⁹. As pressures mount, it is vital to know whether existing reserves can sustain their biodiversity. A critical constraint in addressing this question has been that data describing a broad array of biodiversity groups have been unavailable for a sufficiently large and representative sample of reserves. Here we present a uniquely comprehensive data set on changes over the past 20 to 30 years in 31 functional groups of species and 21 potential drivers of environmental change, for 60 protected areas stratified across the world’s major tropical regions. Our analysis reveals great variation in reserve ‘health’: about half of all reserves have been effective or performed passably, but the rest are experiencing an erosion of biodiversity that is often alarmingly widespread taxonomically and functionally. Habitat disruption, hunting and forest-product exploitation were the strongest predictors of declining reserve health. Crucially, environmental changes immediately outside reserves seemed nearly as important as those inside in determining their ecological fate, with changes inside reserves strongly mirroring those occurring around them. These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.Keywords: Ecology, Environmental scienc

Brave in Season

Set in 1950 in the rural Midwest, and inspired by real events, this gripping novel explores what happens when an African American railroad repair crew is dropped into a tiny, tight-knit farm community. Will frictions build to an all-too familiar American tragedy, or can tensions be overcome in that uniquely American way, with balls and bats and a field of green? Seventeen-year-old Carlin Littman has big dreams, much bigger than will fit into sleepy Julian, Nebraska, population 172. She has set her sights on college, Chicago, and beyond. The arrival of the rail workers, known as gandy dancers, is an interesting distraction in the bored summer days where her only job is looking after her little brother, Timmy. When she befriends Sam Washington, the awkward, bookish gandy a year younger than she, neither of them have any idea what they have set in motion. Many decades later, Tim returns to Nebraska, attempting to recover the lost history through interviews with the few surviving seniors who might remember. These encounters provide the basis for a story that lies somewhere between myth and memory. A story where the mutual respect between the oldest gandy, Jerome, and the store owner, Dave, offers townsfolk an alternative to stereotype and prejudice. A story where the new rail line is being built over the route of the underground railroad, challenging a new generation of farm families to live up to that heritage. A story where an unlikely pick-up game propels players on both sides to epic performances. Race, railroads, and baseball are iconic themes that come together in this moving story of the American heartland.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/faculty_books/1043/thumbnail.jp

On the Weenieology of Morels by Friedrich Quichtzche

On the Weenieology of Morels was an entry in Myrin Library\u27s 6th Annual Edible Books Festival at Ursinus College.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ebf/1111/thumbnail.jp

ALONG THE NEBRASKA COAST, AN HISTORICAL NOVEL. (ORIGINAL WORK)

To a wild frontier riverport of civic hucksters, slave runners, muleskinners and bullwhackers, a New York inventor brings the gigantic steam wagon. If the machine can haul trains of freight wagons across the prairies, its backers can beat the railroad to the opening of the West. John Boulware, former soldier, frontiersman and founding settler, doesn\u27t think much of the new contraption, but becomes an unwilling detective when he stumbles onto a plot to destroy the machine. His allies include the clever politician J. Sterling Morton, and a young bullwhacker (newly promoted to steam wagon fireman) named Jeremy Talbot, who is in love with Boulware\u27s spirited daughter Christina. Unravelling the steam wagon conspiracy sends Boulware on a tangled quest involving renegade Oto Indians, abolitionists, and a 400-mile chase of a murderer along the Oregon Trail and into the desolate badlands. In the end, a lynching is prevented as the final piece of the steam wagon puzzle falls into place--and Nebraska City and its steam wagon are doomed to perpetual anonymity. This novel explores the meaning of civilization. The principal characters all want Nebraska City to grow out of its frontier wildness, but what does it mean to be civilized, and at what cost is it achieved? The question centers on John Boulware, the once idealistic settler grown mean and cynical as he sees what has become of his town. Does civilization mean temperance and religion, as the freight king Alexander Majors insists? Is it tied to the law of the land, as Morton contends, even to the point of capturing runaway slaves and deporting Indians? Is commerce alone the answer, and the steam wagon the key to making Nebraska City the new Chicago? Or perhaps, as the novel attempts to suggest in the end, it is simply a matter of human decency and courage. The novel is based on a true story. Many of the characters are drawn from the pages of history. We\u27ll never know the full story of the failure of the great steam wagon experiment, but it might have happened something like this