Common misconceptions of campus Greek life fail to sway the opinions of interested students and new recruits.

Michael Mathis wasn’t satisfied with the career options available to him after receiving his high school diploma.
“I was the manager at Foot Action, selling shoes like Al Bundy,” he said.
When the store closed five years later, Mathis switched jobs.
“Then I worked in a factory,” he said. “I was a helper. That wasn’t fun.”
Mathis, a senior [...]

An oddly angled, neon cherry emblem stands proudly outside the perimeter of Johnson & Hardwick halls.
“Main Campus Class of 1987,” the statue reads.
While its message gets across, the statue’s meaning may be lost for anonymous passersby.
Various class gifts – also known as “markers” – were donated by graduating senior classes throughout Temple’s recent history. Each [...]

Founded in 1859, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company is a mega-company, operating retail titles like Pathmark, Waldbaum’s The Food Emporium, Super Fresh, A&P Super Foodmart and Food Basics.
In 1961, John Updike wrote a short story called A&P. The story ends when narrator Sammy quits his cashier job and reflects, “My stomach kind [...]

Trade ya.
An electronic refuge has come for those needing to purge their cluttered stores of books, CDs, DVDs and video games, or for those needing to stock up their shelves with various media outlets.
Swaptree.com is an online trading platform, which traders use to exchange pre-owned merchandise with one another, as long as their used belongings [...]

The dawn of a new semester brings quick change and hard work for all, but for a couple new textbook rental companies with innovative missions, the work is especially stressful in these crucial first weeks of courses.
Just nine employees run WhyRentBooks.com, a textbook rental company that started in its founder’s living room a few weeks [...]

The homepage of the Temple bookstore’s Web site currently features an urgent message headed by the words “Attention Faculty” in the upper-left corner of the page: “Place your request for Spring Semester textbook NOW.”
The sooner the store gets the orders, bodes the flyer, the more books it can stock next semester. Most importantly, the less [...]

Anyone who’s ordered a hero in Philadelphia knows that culture shock can start with a slip of the tongue.
Each year, throngs of out-of-towners come to Main Campus to realize diversity is not always marked by ethnic backgrounds or unfamiliar upbringings. It lives in the way people speak. People fall victim to the pitfalls of regional [...]