Long-time members resign at last TSG senate meeting

On Monday, Dec. 6 Temple Student Government met for its seventh and final senate meeting of the semester. Senate President Colin Saltry began the meeting by introducing TSG’s goals for next semester and a plan to focus on short-term improvements. “Our short-term efforts are limited to small numbers of students and small numbers of student [...]

Service group builds its second wheelchair ramp

In the summer of 2008, a group of architecture students created Freedom By Design, a community service branch of the American Institute of Architecture Students. According to its website, Freedom By Design hopes to improve “the safety, comfort and dignity of the home’s occupants.” To date, the organization has completed one project – a wheelchair [...]

World AIDS Day shows outreach

Even after World AIDS Day passed, Temple Hospital health care professionals continue their year-round efforts to help address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Philadelphia. Director of TUH’s Comprehensive HIV Program Dr. Ellen Tedaldi and her team have been working on HIV awareness and prevention in the community for the last three years in hopes of reducing [...]

TSG leaders discuss changes in structure

As Temple Student Government wraps up the fall semester, its members are planning for the future by focusing on creating new programs, policies and proposals to better student life. TSG President Colin Saltry said in an e-mail that there has been a “culture change” in the way TSG does business. He said researching and testing [...]

Living far off-campus

For some students, getting to school isn’t as simple as rolling out of bed and walking to class. Seda Gok, a junior psychology major and one of many commuter students, lives in Brookhaven, Pa. It takes her as many as 35 minutes to drive to school every day. Gok pays $825 for rent and utilities [...]

Campus Safety problem-solves underage drinking

An increase in alcohol-related incidents has caught the attention of the Board of Trustees’ Campus Life and Diversity Committee, as well as Campus Safety Services and the division of Student Affairs. In a memo to Chief Financial Officer Anthony Wagner, Carl Bittenbender, executive director of CSS, reported that 28 students within CSS’s boundaries were arrested [...]

Adjunct ‘layoffs’ increase concern

As the Fall 2010 semester comes to an end, not all professors are gearing up for spring classes. Of the 59 adjunct professors who taught courses in the First-Year Writing Program this semester, only 14 will be teaching in Spring 2011. This news came to the 45 adjunct professors, who will lose their current appointments, [...]

Housing stirs development: Off-campus factors

Click here to read about student-community relations in this two-part series. With pockets of Temple students residing throughout Philadelphia’s many neighborhoods, it seems there’s no wrong way to live off campus. Should they decide to leave the confines of the residence halls or remain until they’re chased out at the end of sophomore year, there [...]

Housing stirs development

Click here to read about factors in off-campus housing in this two-part series. Jen Singley, a sophomore business major, moved into her apartment on North 17th Street in August 2010. Singley, who pays approximately $600 per month, plus utilities, has never met her landlord. “There are five of us living there with four bedrooms,” Singley [...]

Students overshare on social media

Leaving a Facebook profile public could lead to identity theft among students. At any given moment, a person’s Facebook profile is likely to be filled with the seemingly pointless pictures of family gatherings, posts about pets and birthday congratulations. The 2010 Social Network Fraud Survey, released by research company Harris Interactive, shows that despite numerous [...]

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