“Here in Philly, I don’t see anything for the kids,” she said. “Maybe in other neighborhoods, but here, it’s really sad. All you see is kids playing in the street.”

 
After too many swigs from the bottle, some students dial only the more familiar numbers in their cell phones. Many of them don’t know that they can also contact Temple’s Emergency Medical Services – without harming their disciplinary reputations.
The school’s student code has an amnesty clause that withholds punishment from any student seeking medical treatment [...]

History professor Ralph Young can’t forget the time Jay Leno went to Beverly Hills.
“He was asking people when women got the right to vote in America,” Young recalled. “These women in their fur coats and expensive cars – none of them knew the answers. At the end, the last woman got it correctly. And she [...]

After more than two years of planning and an “insane” amount of training, the students finally got what they wanted — bicycles packed with oxygen tanks and automated external defibrillators.
The Temple Emergency Medical Services organization is now riding alongside Campus Police to assess and treat student injuries.
The 10-member student EMS force began patrolling on Jan. [...]

Meghan Essman stood before a group of 15 college-aged women, glancing at the batting cage behind her.
“Don’t kill the ball,” she said. “Don’t hit me. I’ve been hit twice already by the last group.”
This was the tail end of the Phillies ballgirl tryouts at Citizens Bank Park on Nov. 9, the last of the 100 [...]

Venezuelan ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera eschewed elitism last Thursday with a word on the American electoral process.
“You’re telling me that in a democratic country, if you want to be elected senator, you need to first have $15 million?” he asked a packed room of over 130 students, educators and activists at Tuttleman Learning Center.
Speaking at [...]

Diplomacy hasn’t curbed Iranian nuclear expansion, former United States Treasury analyst Jonathan Schanzer said Monday.
Schanzer, the director of the Jewish Policy Center, a think tank located in Washington,
D.C., addressed terrorism financing to an audience of 30 at the Fox School of Business at an event sponsored by Temple Students For Israel.
During his speech, Schanzer advocated [...]

There was a time when Temple students could walk comfortably down 13th Street to get to the Student Center. That era has been replaced with the reign of the construction worker, the man pounding steel three stories up and scuffing his boots off the benches of Montgomery Avenue. Yet despite his daily presence on campus, [...]