Up Hill battle for recovery

Charity Hill never played at 100 percent during the team’s run through the NCAA Tournament last season.
That’s because Hill was playing on a bum left ankle that never received proper medical attention. She was off to rehabilitation after surgery for her ailing ankle in the spring. Coach Bob Bertucci was worried this would take away [...]

Clubbing the competition

While Temple football is falling apart, it’s refreshing to know Temple’s ice hockey club has managed to bring home a title, despite going virtually unnoticed on campus.
Temple is a member of the Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference, a league belonging to the American Collegiate Hockey Association in which the club is the defending champions. Temple [...]

Men’s soccer: Feel-good story of the fall

The crowd tensely held its breath. The collision in front of the goal appeared to be a vicious one, as a George Washington attacker crashed violently into Temple’s junior goalkeeper, Patrick Hannigan. Hannigan struggled to his feet, but minutes later he crumpled to one knee during a stoppage in play.
Blood gushed from his nose, and [...]

Reality television running out of ideas

Once upon a time, five years ago, there were sitcoms.
Then the popularity of Survivor demonstrated how the American public inhaled and consumed reality television as if it were a gourmet meal.
Three years and 100 reality shows later, reality television provides an escape from everyday life as well as thousands of dollars in producers’ pockets. As [...]

The mouths of babes

“One nation, under God …”
Oh man, the clang of irrelevance is back, as the Supreme Court agrees to investigate the unceremonious heave-ho Gen. Jerry Boykin’s favorite deity got from West Coast classrooms last year.
You want to say, don’t encourage this national penchant for pointless distraction-our attention span for matters of real importance is too brief-but [...]

Simpson’s viewers feel smarter at her expense

They aren’t Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, and watching Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey’s MTV reality show Newlyweds is sometimes painful. Yet it is impossible to turn the channel.
The concept of the show seems simple enough: follow around two newlyweds, albeit famous ones, for six months after their wedding. It’s obvious that there will be fights [...]

What African Holocaust?

I recently had the opportunity to travel with a swarm of Honors students down to Washington D.C. to see some memorials, starting at the Vietnam War Memorial and working our way to the Holocaust Museum. But things got interesting when students found out that I wasn’t going inside. I am not anti-Semitic. I am not [...]

Evil’s newest member

The Axis of Evil has a new member. Nathaniel Heatwole, a 20-year-old college student, recently boarded four Southwest Airlines jets with box cutters and other banned items, hiding the bags of goodies for authorities to find once inside the airplane.
No, this madman isn’t a member of al Qaeda, nor does his face appear once in [...]

City watchdog has tough job

It is probably safe to assume that most Philadelphians knowledgeable about politics would not be able to tell you what the Committee of Seventy is if asked. But in the media’s focus on the mayoral race, the committee is their best-kept secret.
To make a long story short, the Committee of Seventy is the designated [...]

End the ban on war pictures

Nearly every day brings more bad news from Central Command in Iraq. Guerilla attacks happen with frightening regularity and we are no closer to forming a new government than we were at the beginning of the war. But it seems like the average person has no idea why this is, or even that between three [...]

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