Omeka - Digital History at Ursinus

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Pledging Under Siege.jpg
An argument by an Ursinus professor on why the pledging tradition has to be reformed in order to preserve Ursinus's Greek culture

pfahler night and day.png
Pfahler Hall in the mid-autumn sunshine (left) and all lit up at dusk (right).

inner lab 1.png
Rusted desks are piled high on the muddy ground inside one of the two sealed radioactivity labs.

lab entrance.png
With the 'Radioactivity Laboratories' label still intact, the entrance to the labs requires a ladder to climb down to the doorway - it's never easy to get to the best secrets!

inner lab 3.png
Looking up shows just how old these labs are - the ceiling is exposed while students clamber up and down the stairs directly above us.

inner lab 4.png
This image provides a better look at the full lab. The rusted desks and crumbling cement shows both the age and the isolated nature of this location. It's exactly how many people picture the ideal living space of a ghost!

pfahler tunnel.png
This is one of the tunnels under the grounds of Ursinus College, but it is no longer in use.

006_L.jpg
This article written by President George Leslie Omwake brings up the issue of the school's lack of funding for its new library. The building had been constructed with the aid of workers from F.E.R.A. (a New Deal program), but at the time found itself…

Presidents View Pledging.png
Presidents look to pledging and alludes to Rutgers incident

Pledging Threatened.png
Pledging policy changes
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