The Class of 2008 is packing its bags. The graduates are moving out and pressing ahead to start careers. But as is usual when one checks out of a hotel room, they’ve inevitably left some things behind. That’s what we’re doing at The Temple News. We are leaving behind some thoughts that we’d like the […]

­Recent graduates usually scoff at the university’s attempts to solicit donations on graduation day.
But while loans and interest may seem more pressing than giving back to the university, the Class of 2008 has reason to consider a donation.
In the last four years, we’ve seen the most vibrant development in North Philadelphia in five decades. Former […]

The Temple News won’t print an edition next week.
This won’t be the last of the semester though. On May 13, we’re printing a summer edition, a return to an old tradition of ours.
It will be the last in what has been a year full of changes by the 86-year-old newspaper serving the broad Temple community.
The […]

Here we go again – it’s time to go to the polls.
Don’t worry, this isn’t a misplaced editorial from last week. Tomorrow, students will cast their ballots for Temple Student Government’s executive board – again.
A provision in the group’s new constitution mandates that the winning slate must receive more than 50 percent of the ballots […]

Happy Earth Day, Temple students! We thought you should know that Temple got a little overwhelmed with the anticipation and celebrated a bit early. Yesterday, President Ann Weaver Hart signed an important document that further sent the university down its lush, green path.
The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment is a written agreement that […]