Freeland’s finish highlights Penn Relays

Senior sprinter Emmanual Freeland led a comeback win. In one of the last races of his collegiate career as a sprinter for the track team, senior sprinter Emmanual Freeland seized the moment and emerged victorious. Freeland is the last leg of the Owls’ track and field 4×100 meter relay, which finished first in the Intercollegiate [...]

Opening Up

Temple needs to embrace its characteristics as a public institution. This school year, Temple has faced some setbacks, to say the least. Beyond facing sizeable financial setbacks when Gov. Tom Corbett proposed to cut slightly more than 50 percent of the university’s commonwealth appropriation in March, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Temple Japan Campus and forced [...]

Federal budget includes Pell Grant program

After expecting cuts, the Pell Grants survived the federal budget process. The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations recently approved a new federal budget for the Department of Education that includes the single largest source of grant aid for postsecondary education, the Pell Grant program. The program has financially assisted more than 10,000 full- and [...]

Lacrosse falls to Richmond

The Owls lost in the opening round of the A-10 Tournament. For the second straight season, the lacrosse team had a first-round match go down to the final minutes with the Richmond Spiders, and for the second-straight season, the Owls had their season ended in the Atlantic Ten Conference Tournament by the Spiders. Despite holding [...]

Joel Faltermayer and Phillip McCausland: Consistently incorrect rhetoric

In the final installment of “Private Matters,” Joel Faltermayer and Phillip McCausland discuss the worth of a Temple degree moving forward. There is no doubt Temple is changing. Whether you talk to a tenured professor in the liberal arts, a naive freshman who’s just encountering his or her first taste of academic bureaucracy or an [...]

Uncovering art, culture in Rome experience

The study abroad program in Rome offers artistic opportunities for students. Students studying within the Temple Rome program, which ended on April 23, have been slowly trickling back into the United States. While a majority of the 200-plus students in the program will call Temple their alma mater, students from Penn State, Fordham and Boston [...]

Dropouts attributed to finances as national debt rises

The total national student loan debt is nearing $1 trillion, according to PIRG. Last year, the national student loan debt exceeded the national credit card debt for the first time in history.  Now, student loan debt is nearing $1 trillion, according to the United States Public Interest Research Group. According to an AP-Viacom poll, money [...]

Justice in Palestine group protests ‘Apartheid Wall’

Students for Justice in Palestine hosts a “wall” protest at the Bell Tower. In a peaceful demonstration, members of Temple Students for Justice in Palestine and other activists sat in front of the Bell Tower April 29 where they constructed an 8-foot model of the wall that exists throughout Palestine. The student organization said the [...]

Street Sounds: Find Vienna

Philadelphia’s Find Vienna finds inspiration by clapping to the band’s own beat. Venturing off the beaten path, Philly-based band Find Vienna has an edgy way of delivering pop-rock in a new, refreshed fashion. With sweet lyrics placed over biting beats, Find Vienna’s latest extended play, “In Your Favorite Colors,” pitches eight tracks that dominate the [...]

Golf team takes fourth in A-10 Tournament

Senior Andrew Mason shot four-over-par 220 in Florida. As its captain’s career at Temple came to a close, the golf team finished the season strong with another Top 5 finish. The Owls traveled to Orlando, Fla., for the Atlantic Ten Conference Championship this past weekend and came out with a fourth-place finish, making it the [...]

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