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The Grizzly, February 23, 2012, Nick Pane, Liz Kilmer, Caroline Edler, James Noebels, Samantha Mascia, Lisa Jobe, Michael Schmidt, Sophie Zander, Sarah Bollert, Lauren Goldstein, Melissa Rutkowski, Anna Larouche, Anjali Patel, Victoria Cameron, Matthew Johnston, Shane Eachus

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Dates for Charity Event Breaks Record • Student Curates New Berman Exhibition • MajorPalooza Highlights Options • Grenade Found on, Removed From Campus • Judge Scirica Speaks to Ursinus • Emery Finds Internship at Career Services Fair • "Two Artist Talks" • Sankofa Umoja Nia Revitalized • Opinion: How to be Both a Woman and Funny; Controversial YouTube Video Causes Laughter, Reaction • Swimming Sets New Standards at Championships • Men's Basketball Sets Off Triad of Seniors • Women's Track Poised for Championship Run

The Grizzly, February 16, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Sara Hourwitz, Samantha Mascia, Lisa Jobe, Olivia Minick, James Noebels, Connor Gregory, Lauren Goldstein, Sarah Bollert, Anjali Patel, Taylor Sparks, Victoria Cameron, Matthew Johnston, Keith Baker

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Professor Debuts "A Bright Swarm of Beetles" • SPINTfest Offers Alternative Housing Options • S.U.N.'s Poetry Slam Entertains with a Variety of Guests • Commencement Awards to be Chosen by Students • UC Roller Hockey Program is Looking to Expand and Improve with New Recruits • UC Students Aid Spring-Ford School District after Tragic Suicide • Neuman Interns as Education Coordinator in Lancaster, PA • Opinion: Valentine's Day Hype is Overblown; Celebrate February 14 Regardless of Relationship Status • Coach Profile: Joe Groff, Women's Volleyball • Senior Spotlight: Lindsay Teuber, Women's Basketball • Senior Wrestlers Exemplify Leadership, Excellence

The Grizzly, February 9, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, James Noebels, Rosie Clark, Lisa Jobe, Lauren Goldstein, Sara Hourwitz, Melissa Rutkowski, Sarah Bollert, Olivia Minick, Arielle Ross, Allen Weaver, Satchel Summers, Shane Eachus, Riley Pembroke

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Fong Anticipates Strategic Plan Draft • Crigler Institute Seeks to Foster Community • Job and Internship Fair Returns • Relay for Life to be Held at UC in April • Fighting for Ophelia Combats Bullying • Kathleen Bogle Visits Campus for "Hooking Up" Lectures • Senior Sullivan Spends Summer Transcribing • Opinion: Sexual Assault a Problem on Campus • Club Sports Gaining Campus' Attention • Eachus Sounds Off: Fans Need to Get Real • Coach Profile: Katie Hagan, Women's Lacrosse

The Grizzly, February 2, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Caroline Edler, Melissa Rutkowski, Lisa Jobe, Lauren Goldstein, Sara Hourwitz, Sarah Bollert, Taylor Sparks, Kyu Chul Shin, Kelsey Mahaffey, Sarah Godfrey, Keith Baker, Matthew Johnston, James Wagner

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Birk Launches Graphic Novel at UC • Myrin Welcomes New Library Intern • Resumania Preps Students for Job, Internship Fair • Organic Farm Names New Student Director • Ursinus Introduces Zumba Class for Students • Jablonowski Gains Experience at Academy of Natural Sciences • St. Christopher's Offers Volunteer Opportunity for UC Students • Opinion: SOPA had Right Idea, but was Misguided; Major and Minor Expo Offers Great Information • Senior Spotlight: Sean Whelan, Football • Buckley's Bears Battle Through Adversity • Ursinus Community Remembers Daniel Glover

The Grizzly, January 26, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, James Noebels, Melissa Rutkowski, Lisa Jobe, Michael Schmidt, Sarah Bollert, Lauren Goldstein, Julia Fox, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Sara Hourwitz, Kyu Chul Shin, Victoria Cameron

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Celebrates Dr. King's Life • CAB Sponsoring New Spring Events • Alumnus Loses Battle with Cancer • Grizzly Update • Psychology Major Interns at Yale • Student Organization Raises Awareness About Safe Sex • UTD Finale Event Tonight • Collegeville Area Offers Dining Variety • Opinion: Facebook and Cell Phones Impede Learning; Mitt Romney Favorite for GOP Nomination • Life on the Road: Men's Basketball Travels to Las Vegas • Graduating Athletes Focus on Healthier Lifestyle

2012 Celebration Of Inquiry Program, Coastal Carolina University

Celebration of Inquiry

10th Celebration of Inquiry, March 29-31, 2012. Theme: From Curiosity to Exploration: Linking Knowing and Doing. 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Competition abstracts and schedule are included in the program.

Lawrence University Course Catalog, 2012-2013, Lawrence University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Systemic Functional Linguistic Discourse Features In The Personal Essay, Anna Jones Rollins

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this thesis is to look at published and student-produced creative writing, more specifically, personal essays, through the lens of discourse analysis theories in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). From the analysis of these personal essays, this thesis provides pedagogical insight concerning the linguistic features that are prevalent in published and student personal essays. Although research has been conducted looking at academic student writing through the lens of SFL, little research has been conducted looking specifically at the elements that make up pieces of creative writing. In fact, Blythe and Sweet (2008), with over seventy years of experience teaching …

A Descriptive Study Of Response To Intervention (Rti) Implementation At The Elementary Level In West Virginia, Sarah L. Lee

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this study was to describe levels of RTI implementation in West Virginia elementary schools. Little is known about the national efforts that states are collectively undertaking to scale up implementation of RTI (Hoover, Baca, Wexler-Love, & Saenz, 2008). West Virginia’s elementary schools were required by state policy to implement RTI in reading by July 1, 2009. A wide-scale implementation status check has not been conducted since that date. A cross-sectional research design using members of the school’s curriculum team to complete the RTI Implementation Inventory was used to provide a description of RTI implementation fidelity. All eight …

The Ruby Jubilee Chronicle: Forty Years Of Lawrence University London Centre Memories, Lawrence University

London Centre Publications

No abstract provided.

2012 Ruby Yearbook, Heather Hodges, Elle Kurz, David Artemis Lopez Fuentes, Geoffrey Swann, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2012 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Seeing With Feeling, Michael W. Higgins

Mission & Culture Publications

Book review by Michael W. Higgins.

Haughey, John C. In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011.

Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way To Mindfulness And Balance In Embodied Writing Pedagogy, Christy I. Wenger

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Breathing exercises constitute a method for helping students to attain a state of mindfulness in their writing—and their lives.

Connecting, Helen Walker, Carl Vandermeulen, Louise Morgan, Jill Moyer Sunday, Tony Mayo

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Connecting

Helen Walker - Trust, and Gaps

Carl Vandermeulen - Proverbs for Poetry Class

Louise Morgan - TJ, Whom I Like Very Much

Jill Moyer Sunday - History Lesson 101

Tony Mayo - Shawn

Outside The Box And Onto A Dusty Trail, Richard Leo Enos

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Archeological exploration has redefined research since this scholar became the Indiana Jones of rhetorical studies.

Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Lauren Dipaula, William Archibald, Noam Scheindlin, Martin Cockroft

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Book Reviews

Judy Halden-Sullivan - Paradigm Shifts

Lauren DiPaula - Price, Margaret. Mad At School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.

William Archibald - Thomas, Douglas and John Seely Brown. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011.

Noam Scheindlin - Vandermeulen, Carl. Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011.

Martin Cockroft - Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. and Bruce Novak. Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change. NY: Teachers College Press, 2011.

Reflections On Accidental Testimonies And Spectacular Witnesses, Lavinia Hirsu

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

When unplanned-for testimonies occur in class, how do instructors turn a disruptive moment into a teachable one?

Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy, Shelly Sanders, B. Cole Bennett

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Creative writing becomes a vehicle for community outreach in a Writing Center setting, bringing together town and gown.

The Communally Focused Writing Center, Tom Truesdell

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Can writing center administrators prepare student tutors to help transform faculty-student relations? Should they?

Renovating My Academic Administration, Elizabeth Vander Lei

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

A department chair dons a hard hat and begins to see her position through the lens of spiritual rebirth and figured worlds—as a portrait of Calvin looks on.