TU comedians advance in national comedy competition

Four members in TUComedy advance to the next round of the RooftopComedy National College Comedy Competition.

TU comics take the stage in national competition

Temple sent eight stand-up comedians to the ‘Regional Rivals’ round of the national comedy ompetition.

Urban legends and Greek myths

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

Technology aids, guides students with disabilities

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 [...]

Class gifts from students: an abandoned tradition

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 [...]

A&P sues student over parody video

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 [...]

New service allows students to swap CD’s, DVD’s

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 [...]

Textbook rental still a thing of the future

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 [...]

Getting the most for bookstore buybacks

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 [...]

You say hero, I say hoagie: a clashing of dialects

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 [...]