Temple has been making progress in interfaith dialogue recently, which is something the university could benefit from itself.
As reported in today’s issue of The Temple News, an offer of $1.5 million toward the creation of a chair in Islamic studies was withdrawn after President Ann Weaver Hart decided to neither accept nor reject the offer [...]

Mayor-elect Michael Nutter has chosen Charles Ramsey, former police chief of Washington, D.C., as Philadelphia’s next police commissioner.
Ramsey has a long history as a police officer and chief, and helped lower crime in Washington. However, his record also has blemishes, which Philadelphia should recognize.
Ramsey has been accused of civil rights abuses in the past.
In 2002, [...]

When Jack Klotz arrived in London in July 2005, his first day did not go quite the way he expected.
Klotz, a Main Campus faculty member, arrived in London the morning of the subway attacks that struck London July 7. Eighteen Temple students were also going to England for the communications school’s summer program.
“One of our [...]

Tonight, one of six Democratic presidential debates will take place at Drexel University. Not at Temple.
Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, said Drexel has the positive attitude about politics that the DNC was looking for.
“Drexel students are excited about the issues,” LaVera said.
There is no doubt the Drexel community is politically active, [...]

Temple’s foreign programs are wide-ranging and popular, and you don’t even know about Chinese law reform.
Temple has been running a program for almost a decade in Beijing. The Temple-Beijing Rule of Law program, housed in Tsinghua University, teaches a 15-month course on American law.
“It is the first and only program to offer a foreign law [...]

For years now, the American presence in Iraq has been providing questions asked too often to be answered.
The U.S. Congress has been awaiting answers all summer. This past week the time came. Gen. David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Iraq, offered their own reports on Iraq in a highly anticipated special session [...]

People are getting killed in Philadelphia. This isn’t news. What isn’t so obvious is that the nearly 300 victims of violence
this year, most of them shot to death, died because of an ideology.
City government can’t make its own gun control laws. Due to the wording in Pennsylvania’s state constitution, as well as rulings handed down [...]

On August 2, a black man was shot in Oakland, California. He had just left a McDonald’s, and was walking to work. Another man, wearing dark clothes and a mask, walked up to him and fired three shells from a shotgun, hitting him in the chest. The victim died on the sidewalk.The victim was not [...]

Science is not a popular subject. Whether it is served up as chemistry, biology or physics, students tend to have an aversion to anything that might involve glass beakers or laws of motion.
“Whenever I tell people that I work in chemistry, they say ‘Ew, that’s hard,’” said Hai-Lung Dai, the new dean of the College [...]