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Current Affairs examination reveals that Ursinus students aren't well informed about modern news events; it seems as though differing political opinions, and not ignorance, led to this result.

This article talks about the opinions of Ursinus students on problems that were relevant in 1932, foreign and domestic. These problems included: the progress of communism in Russia, Japan's unprovoked conquest of Manchuria, the execution of the…

The need for reform in Pennsylvania's relief operations, as well as Ursinus' F.E.R.A. program.

Ursinus' students hilariously miscall the outcome of presidential election, choosing Hoover and not FDR to be the victor. This does, however, indicate that conservatism was the popular political ideology on campus. Though there were students who…

FDR and the Democratic Party were assailed by Republican speakers at a political rally in the gymnasium at the height of the presidential election of 1932.

Professor Boswell discusses the policies and plans of socialism and anarchism, and then compares those to that of capitalism. In the end, Boswell used the example of capitalism to criticize the extreme stances taken by both socialism and anarchism,…

The Weekly provided a presidential straw ballot for the students to mark and sign and then submit for counting. The results of this ballot were later revealed.

The majority of Ursinus students, 268, voted for the Republican ticket (Hoover), while a strong minority, 154 in all, voted for the Socialist and Democratic tickets. This election marked a major shift in the political identity of the student body of…

This account of President Omwake's later years at Ursinus provides insight into the financial troubles the school had fallen into towards the end of the 1920s. The 1930s brought on many financial hardships for the school, which had just committed to…

These photos provide great insight into what Ursinus' campus looked like between 1930-1935.