Bar Guide: Diving into a different scene

Oscar’s Tavern 1524 Sansom St. 215-972-9938 Mon.-Sat.: 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Sun.: 5 p.m.-2 a.m. To many, the joy of turning 21 opens a new door to where one can legally drink alcohol. No longer are they condemned to spend their nights hunting for of-age people willing to purchase them alcohol, nor are they required to [...]

Cary Carr: Less extreme disorders often undiagnosed

Columnist Cary Carr talks about how she dealth with an eating disorder. When most people think of eating disorders, they think of extreme cases of bulimia and anorexia as featured on TV documentaries or in the pages of celebrity tabloids. But eating disorders are a lot more common than the dramatic examples portrayed in the [...]

Rome is home to more than Catholicism

Columnist Matt Flocco summarizes the history of christian denominations. Imagine being part of a religious cult that worships its god secretly in the dead of night. Imagine fearing for your life because the society in which you lived in said you were worshipping a false god. Imagine what it was like to be a Christian [...]

Sydenham Commons comes under new management

Sydenham Commons was sold to Signature Investment Realty, Inc. Sydenham Commons, a four-story, independently owned apartment complex, which exclusively houses Temple students, was sold to Signature Investment Realty, Inc., for $5.85 million. Corey Lonberger, the associate vice president of investments for Marcus and Millichap, and Wellar arranged the transaction. Although there has been a change [...]

Degree programs undergo changes

Some university degree programs are experiencing revisions. At the March 1 Board of Trustees Meeting, several degree programs were proposed to undergo changes or be terminated. Criminal Justice The Executive Master’s Degree Program in Criminal Justice was recently dropped after lacking the necessary progress to become a specialized-degree offering for graduate students. “The EMA was [...]

First provost dies at age 79

Barbara Brownstein, Temple’s first provost, died of heart disease. Last week, a memorial service was held for the university’s first provost, Dr. Barbara Brownstein, an internationally recognized geneticist and distinguished professor emeritus of biology and women’s studies. Brownstein died of heart disease at age 79, on Feb. 11, at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. [...]

Spin-Off Vinyl

TrickGo boutique exhibited revamped vinyl covers from more than 50 local artists. By 1991, vinyl records seemed to have met their maker with the rise of digital media. While they are still manufactured, records are usually only purchased by audiophiles and disc jockeys. However, vinyl records bring their users a nostalgic feeling, even for those [...]

Lavoy Allen goes down as one of the all-time greats

The senior forward’s career is one for Temple’s record books. TUCSON, Ariz. – The general opinion regarding senior forward Lavoy Allen of the men’s basketball team has always been that when it’s all said and done, he’ll go down as one of the greatest Owls of all time. Well, after last Saturday’s double-overtime loss to [...]

Going home empty-handed

The men’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament run ended against SDSU. TUCSON, Ariz. – After the men’s basketball team lost, 71-64, in double overtime to San Diego State in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, coach Fran Dunphy said he would rather not remember the game. “I’m not sure if I’ll watch the film. I [...]

Lee Miller: Earthquake scatters TU Japan students across Asia

Students at Temple’s Japan campus react to a semester abroad cut short. I waited eleven years for the chance to [live in Japan]. When it finally came, it came with an earthquake in hand, but I wasn’t afraid of the earthquake; I was more afraid of leaving,” said Kim O’Malley, a junior Asian studies major [...]

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