Dating site attracts higher ed students

DateMySchool.com, founded in November 2010, is a website exclusively for singles with an active .edu email address. Current college students can do anything online: Black Friday shopping, board meetings, ordering pizza and even speaking to a Temple librarian are only a mouse click away. Dating, with its constantly changing norms, has become time-consuming. Meeting someone [...]

Sustainability office adopts car sharing

Zimride strives to slash single occupancy vehicles and adopts a green initiative. The Office of Sustainability is driving a hard launch of Temple Zimride, a car share program started in April in an effort to cut down the university’s carbon footprint. “This is our big push,” said Kathleen Grady, sustainability coordinator for the Office of [...]

Gov. pushes for privatization

Main Campus basks in a barren liquor desert, but lawmakers are pushing for change. A new report released by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s office on Oct. 3 outlines plans to privatize state-run liquor stores, which could bring one or more liquor stores closer to Main Campus. A handful of corner stores sell beer around Temple, [...]

TSG discusses reservations

Last night’s TSG meeting addressed room reservations and committee activities. Student Center Director Jason Levy addressed student organizations at the Temple Student Government General Assembly Meeting on Monday, Nov. 28. Levy discussed concerns from organizations about the Student Center’s ability to process room reservation requests and showcase the updated reservations website. He noted that room [...]

Clarke may assume council presidency

Darrell Clarke could be City Council’s next president, but that has some on Main Campus worried. Councilman Darrell Clarke’s fifth district is not only plagued with a poverty rate that hovers as high as 68 percent, but it’s also riddled with crime and drugs and holds onto some of the most dense amounts of property tax [...]

Working students fall behind

Students who work while enrolled in college classes tend to take extra semesters to graduate, data show. Besides commuting an hour from Upper Dublin, Montgomery County to Main Campus and working between 20 to 30 hours per week, sophomore political science student Ethan Penning is part of Temple’s Diamond Marching Band and said he prefers [...]

Greeks go green

A fraternity is partnering with the Office of Sustainability to conduct energy audits. Members of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity participated in training that will enable them to conduct energy audits for fraternity houses around Main Campus on Nov. 5. The Greeks Go Green initiative is part of a recent partnership with the Office of [...]

Merit pay

Temple awards teachers for excellence, but tenured professors have an advantage. As a non-tenure track professor in the political science department, Alistair Howard knows he’s in good company. Howard said he believes that the professors Temple provides for its students are well-qualified, and he has good reason. “For example, the political science department has some [...]

Giving this holiday season

This holiday season, there are several ways that the gift of giving can be shared in Philadelphia. Whether it is small or big, the gift is going to a child in need. Below are some of the organizations hosting toy drives in the area. Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office New and unwrapped toys are being accepted [...]

Shopping alternatives attract local

Although Black Friday attracts millions of people to the stores, community member Jean-Francois Shahade has another tradition. On Friday, Nov. 25, 152 million people rolled out of bed and spent $9.7 billion on Black Friday, according to Reuters and the National Retail Federation. But not every American considers Black Friday a yearly tradition. “I slept [...]

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