Columnist Jeff Appelblatt is graduating. One thing he has learned is that networking is important, but he says it goes beyond just important people who can help with your profession.

When you meet someone new, one of the first questions you’re asked is an obligatory, “What do you do?”

I know it’s an innocent query, but that question always makes me a little uneasy. What do I do? I do many things.
Of course, the expected response is merely a profession, but answering that way feels limiting. […]

Standing in the middle of Temple’s campus, you’re confused — you wonder how you’ll learn the streets, whether you’ll meet friends, how many times you’ll change your major if you can even figure out what to declare in the first place.

Maybe Temple is your first choice. Maybe it’s your safety school. Either way, it isn’t […]

I am graduating. After four years on North Broad Street – two more than you – I have plenty I want to share with you. Space is limited, so forgive my suddenness.
Throw your students into the surrounding communities.
For 45 years, this university has tried to figure out how to trick middle-class students into studying amid […]

Alphonso Richardson swam through his summers in the pool on 16th and Berks streets. His pastime led to a college scholarship, and he is hoping to inspire this community’s next generation to follow his tracks.
I interviewed Richardson earlier this year for an article on Temple’s outreach to the community [“Hiring from the community changes fortunes,” […]

Editor:
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of talk from talking heads who are decidedly not working class telling me that white working class people have a problem with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Apparently, as a group, we’re all going to ditch Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign because we don’t have the finesse, education and social grace of our […]

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 […]

I am not from Pennsylvania, and it’s ridiculous that residents throughout the entire 45,308 square miles get in-state tuition.

This is Chink’s Steaks, a restaurant with a reputation of great food and an infamously controversial name.