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John Chaney, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Over the past week I have been looking for the time to write about the incident involving John Chaney. I have also been thinking about the incident and trying to clarify my thoughts on the matter. The more I think and the more time passes I find myself with less clarity, rather than more clarity on the matter.

The Grizzly, March 3, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Megan Helzner, Jaclyn Partyka '06, Toyna Towles, Defne Sarsilmaz, Katy Diana, Jonathan Gagas, Dave Marcheskie, Matthew Pastor, Joseph Davido, Kevin Murphy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students Connect at the Job and Internship Fair • Who's Teaching Your Class Today? • Jet Heiko of Turn Your Back on Bush Visits UC • Davis Lecturer Stresses Oral Tradition • "The Stories of Our Lives": Presentation by Reverend Doctor Claudia Highbaugh • Finding the Goddess Within: Exploration of the G-Spot • Straight from the Detention Center: Review of The Face in the Mirror • Opinions: Borgata Bans Belly Bulge; Laundry Isn't That Hard!; Selfish Fun or Selfless Act? What to do on Spring Break • Bears Down F&M for a 72-70 Centennial Conference Victory • Men's Lacrosse 2005 …

The Grizzly, February 24, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Megan Helzner, Jenn Mccann, Kristin Carter, Matthew Pastor, Christine Vanselous, Toyna Towles, Michael Graham, Matt Krolikowski, Matthew Jost, Dave Marcheskie

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Spring Break Closing Information • Board of Trustees Meet to Discuss Issues on Campus • Fundraising Facts: Numbers Increase for Airband and Tsunami Relief Effort • Negro Spirituals Celebrate Black History Month • The Face in the Mirror: A Groundbreaking New Play for Ursinus • Competing Condoms: Consumer Reports Rates the Efficacy of Various Brands • Opinions: On the Look-out for a Boat Anchor?; Does UC Give Enough Charitable Support? • Wrestlers Grapple Conferences and Nationals • Bears Clinch Playoff Berth

The Nhl's Lost Season, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

As demonstrated yesterday with the sad attempt to resurrect the hockey season, the differences between owners and players is greater than a few million dollars of salary cap or the personalities of Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow. As usual the press oversimplified things and any number of people, including Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, fell for their lazy analysis. This is a war, not a collective bargaining process.

The Grizzly, February 17, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Heather M. Trefsger, Lynn Jusinski, Karl Michener, Jenn Mccann, Matthew Jost, Heather Turnbach, Megan Helzner, Darron Harley, Rachel Daniel, Hunter Berry, Maria Deoliveira, Dave Marcheskie, Kevin Murphy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC Students Tour Washington D.C. to Prepare for Model UN • Wismer Music Makes a Comeback • Problems with New Member Education • Ursinus Students Sprint into SPINT Housing • Leaders Wanted: Do You Have What it Takes? • Sexual Physical Fitness • Dramaturgy: New Course for Theater • Philadelphia Gets Closer for Ursinus Students • Opinions: Speak Up, It's Your Right; God in the Government: Can we Escape Him?; What Rules the Media, Entertainment or Information? • Track and Field Team Headed in Right Direction • Lady Bears Dominate Bryn Mawr • Murray Helps Wrestling Team Remain Undefeated

Canseco And Steroids, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The appearance by Jose Canseco on CBS's "Sixty Minutes," and the publication of his book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big has called forth another round of hypocrisy in the official and unofficial world of baseball. It is difficult to determine any winner in the hypocrisy sweepstakes, as the competition is stiff.

Million Dollar Baby (Spoiler Warning!), Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

I will start today with a warning, something that perhaps I should do more often. The subject today is the film "Million Dollar Baby." If you have not seen the film and intend to see it you may want to stop reading now. Reading this will reveal things you don't want to know before you see the film.

The Grizzly, February 10, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Jenn Mccann, Megan Helzner, Katy Diana, Hilary Mcnamara, Cecily Macconchie, Esther Kim, Bart Brooks, Defne Sarsilmaz, Kevin Murphy, Matthew Pastor, Dave Marcheskie

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Project Pericles: Ursinus Students Serving the Community • Break Out Your Microphone and Your Best Spandex: Here Comes Airband • USGA Updates • Burning Question: How to Prevent a Urinary Tract Infection • Literary Side of Music • Red-and-Golds at Ursinus • New Member Education: Three Weeks of Boredom for Non-Greeks? • Opinions: TheFacebook.com, I Hate You: A Victim's Story; How Great is the Nuclear Terror Threat?; Iraqi Election: Why I Really Hate Bush • Wrestling Team Continues Annihilating its Opponents • McGarvey, Smith Rally Bears Past Washington • Daley and Guntli Come up Big

Max Schmeling, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The death of Max Schmeling on Friday has been much commented upon over the past few days. I take this to be a recognition of the significance of this man and the memories he evokes around the world. For Americans these memories center on his relationship, both personal and athletic, with Joe Louis.

Super Bowl Hype, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale once claimed that if Jesus were alive today he would be at the Super Bowl.

The Grizzly, February 3, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Megan Helzner, Heather M. Trefsger, Jaclyn Partyka '06, Karl Michener, Defne Sarsilmaz, Matthew Jost, Hilary Mcnamara, Darron Harley, Ashley Higgins, Christine Vanselous, Maria Deoliveira, Dave Marcheskie

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students Videoconference with Sri Lanka • Forensics Team Coach-less • Where Have All the Trees Gone? • It's Cold in Here • Learning the Roots and Aspects of Freedom of Expression: Special Topic Course • Contraception and the Y Chromosome: Male Birth Control Options • Influenza: How to Survive the Yearly Epidemic • Where in the World is Your Study Abroad Application? • Opinions: Random Rantings of Racial Relations; Law Should not Justify Artificial Survival • Gymnastics Team Ranked First in Nation • Fourth Time's the Charm • Gaining Ground in the Ranks of the Collegiate Wrestling World

The Australian Open, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is the week before the week before the Super Bowl. The beauty of the week is that there is no football, a relief after the emotional roller coaster of the three weeks of playoff football, ten games played at an intensity level worthy of brain surgery. It is a perfect time for a change of pace; the perfect time for a little tennis. Thus the Australian Open, the first grand slam event of the year, this year celebrating its 100th Anniversary.

The Grizzly, January 27, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Katy Diana, Lynn Jusinski, Heather M. Trefsger, Megan Helzner, Amanda D'Amico, Heather Turnbach, Cecily Macconchie, Amanda Bryman, Bart Brooks, Jennifer Cohen, Matthew Pastor

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ashley Lynn McCaleb: Scholar, Daughter, Friend • I Want to be Made Into an RA • Students Take Action at the Presidential Inauguration • New Member Education Returns • Fatal Blow • Myrin Undergoes Major Changes • Tsunami Relief Efforts Taking Shape at Ursinus • Ursinus Students Make Requests for The Facebook • Opinions: Is Mother Nature Trying to Tell us Something?; Bush's New Cabinet Appointments may not be the Wisest • Bears Battling Without Stanton • Dedication and Attitude Forms a True Competitor

Sport And War Don't Mix, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The Army-Navy football game this year opened when the President of the United States tossed a coin brought in from Fallujah for the ceremony. Much to my surprise there was little comment on the coin, or the story of what led to it being chosen for such an honor. Clearly what we have here is another mixing of the idols of war and the idols of the playing field, a potent mix in many quarters. Teddy Roosevelt found football appealing as a candidate to serve as James' "Moral Equivalent of War," as have many others over the past century. He …

The Ncaa Winter Meetings, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Early January following the conclusion of the money collection phase of college football season comes the time when the NCAA holds its annual meetings. This invariably results in a deluge of unreality from the President of the benighted organization and some futile gestures of reform flowing from the meeting halls. Meanwhile in the corridors and backrooms the real work of protecting and expanding the revenue streams proceeds unimpeded.

New Year's Nonsense, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

As the calendar turns over from 2004 to 2005 we are back where we were a year ago with the BCS. Once again the "C" has been removed. At the end of the regular season there were five undefeated college football teams. In the meticulously constructed world of the BCS only two of those five teams played each other in bowl games negating the claim of a national championship although there certainly is a BCS champion.

Stops And Starts: Ideology, Commercialism And The Fall Of American Women’S Hockey In The 1920s, Andrew C. Holman

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Jack Hopkins' Civil War, Peter C. Vermilyea

Adams County History

In the 1862 Pennsylvania College album there is a photograph of John Hopkins, who that year was entering his fifteenth year of service as the college's janitor. In one student's book, the portrait of Hopkins jokingly refers to him as the school's "vice president." This appellation speaks volumes about the life of the African-American custodian, for while it was clearly made in jest as a token of the students' genuine affection for Hopkins, it symbolizes the gulf between the white students and the black janitor. It goes without saying that the students found the picture humorous because they understood that …

Mt. Pleasant Church, Conewago Township, Larry C. Bolin

Adams County History

About two miles south of McSherrystown and a similar distance southwest of Hanover, in Conewago Township, lies the small village of Mt. Pleasant. The community developed at and near the intersection of State Route 194, commonly called the Hanover-Littlestown Pike, and Legislative Route 01005, known in days past as the road from McSherrystown to Gitt's Mill and its segment south of the intersection called in recent times Narrow Drive. In the eastern quadrant of the intersection, a church was built in 1878; nearby and adjacent to the crossroads sat a public school, which had been built sometime before 1858. The …

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The Boom Of Testimony After Communism: The Voices Of The Holocaust Survivors In Romania: 1989-2005, Stefan Cristian Ionescu

History Faculty Articles and Research

"In this article I intend to deal with the relation between Jewish survivors and Holocaust remembrance in post-communist Romania. Therefore I will investigate the consequences of the Holocaust experience on Jewish survivors from the perspective of how, when and why they remember the catastrophe. My investigation will not particularly focus on the level of the trauma and sufferings they have to live with, but rather on how the political, social and cultural factors have managed to influence the public recollection of the war sufferings and the survivors’ attitude towards Holocaust remembrance. I am interested in discovering mainly the way these …

Hogging The Limelight: The Queen's Wake And The Rise Of Celebrity Authorship, Jason N. Goldsmith

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the following essay, Goldsmith argues that The Queen's Wake is commentary on the literary name branding inaugurated by the periodical culture of Hogg's day. For Goldsmith, the "crisis of reception" staged in the poem--sixteenth-century provincial bards in a first encounter with royal spectacle--is not unlike the uneasy celebrity Hogg experienced as the Ettrick Shepherd of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Hillbilly: A Cultural History Of An American Icon, Anthony Harkins

History Faculty Book Gallery

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from …

Han Shu, Chapter 56: Biography Of Dong Zhongshu, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

Draft Translation of Ban Gu, Hanshu 56

Reconstructing Early Historical Landscapes In The Northern Santa Clara Valley, Alan K. Brown

Research Manuscript Series

The following essay, which is not a finished treatise upon any aspect of the early environmental history of the northern Santa Clara Valley, is also not intended to be a manual of procedures for investigating that subject. Although I would hope that elements ofboth purposes can be found here, the intention, more generally and tentatively, is to point out a few possibilities that may be incorporated into more rigorous and, in terms of practical consequences, more important future investigations by others. Because of the variety and incompleteness of the approaches that are followed here, no attempt has been made to …

Adams County History 2005

Adams County History

No abstract provided.

Rain In The Valley, Helen Papanikolas

All USU Press Publications

Three generations of the Demas family face the ups and downs of the twentieth century after their fathers leave the coal mines that drew them from Greece to America, become wool growers and small businessmen, and Americanize their Demopoulos name. As the years pass, the family accumulates untidy lives and tragedies. Parents seek to keep their children tightly bound by old-country customs, to arrange marriages, and to foist their views of women's inferiority on their daughters. Lia Papastamos in particular, child of a forced marriage between her Greek father and Amerikanidha mother, pulls away from the stifling burden of family …

Fishing Booths And Fishing Strategies In Medieval Iceland: An Archaeofauna From The [Site] Of Akurvík, North-West Iceland, Colin Amundsen, Sophia Perdikaris, Thomas H. Mcgovern, Yekaterina Krivogorskaya, Matthew Brown, Konrad Smiarowski, Shaye Storm, Salena Modugno, Malgorzata Frik, Monica Koczela

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Excavations in 1990 in North-West Iceland documented a stratified series of small turf structures and associated midden deposits at the eroding beach at Akurvík which date from the 11th–13th to the 15th–16th centuries AD. The site reflects a long series of small discontinuous occupations, probably associated with seasonal fishing. The shell sand matrix had allowed excellent organic preservation, and an archaeofauna of more than 100,000 identifiable fragments was recovered. The collections are dominated by fish, mainly Atlantic cod, but substantial amounts of whale bone suggest extensive exploitation of strandings or active whaling. This paper briefly summarizes the excavation results, presents …

White County Heritage 2005, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by Dewitt Yingling
White County Publications
The McDaniels at Russell in 1898 by Laura Lafferty
Curtis' Illusive Little Rock by Scott Akridge & Emmett Powers
May 29, 1930, News
Aunt Lucy and the Ladies' Aid Society by Ray D. Rains
1915 Edition of Pangburn News
White County Word Hunt by Lucille Smith Harris
They Called Me Lucky by Robert James Palmer
Walker School 1929-30 (submitted by Bill Leach)
A Son Remembers the Song Writer by Leister Presley
Searcy Memories by Lucille Smith Harris
May 30, 1940, News
Rose Bud Cotton Gins by Milton Davis May …