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Networking extends beyond the powerful to the meaningful

Posted on 13 May 2008 by Jeff Appelblatt

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.

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A 400-word answer to what do you do for life

Posted on 12 May 2008 by Ashwin Verghese

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. […]

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To President Ann Weaver Hart

Posted on 12 May 2008 by Christopher Wink

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 […]

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Distance, not state, should determine tuition

Posted on 30 April 2008 by Jeff Appelblatt

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

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Northeast cheesesteak joint shows prejudice

Posted on 28 April 2008 by Doanh Nghiem

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

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Forget group projects

Posted on 28 April 2008 by Morgan Ashenfelter

As students, we’ve all been in the situation before: the stress of end-of-the-year papers, projects and upcoming finals is exacerbated by those annoying group projects. There’s that one member who bails every time the group gets together, and the other who can only get together on Wednesdays between 2 and 5 p.m. Even if […]

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New Gen Ed classes need world affairs requirement

Posted on 28 April 2008 by Shannon McDonald

When it comes to the improvement and expansion of Main Campus, students tend to focus on housing and technology. But academics – the real reason you’re paying tuition – often go ignored.
Journalist and professor Ted Gup addressed this in his April 11 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“I find it profoundly discouraging to encounter […]

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Cosby not around for my commencement

Posted on 28 April 2008 by Sean Blanda

I was an eager freshman in 2004.
That fall, Bill Cosby, Board of Trustees member, alumnus and longtime university advocate, held his second annual “Cosby 101” event, during which he lectured to incoming Temple students on life, the city and education.
There he promised the graduating Class of 2008 – my class – he would speak at […]

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Is that bias for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?

Posted on 22 April 2008 by Chris Stover

It seems Sen. Hillary Clinton is under constant attack, columnist Chris Stover notes how it affected yesterday’s primary.

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Refuse to choose from the lesser of two evils

Posted on 21 April 2008 by Ashwin Verghese

Every four years, the country, the international media and the students on this campus become absorbed with a presidential election that’s always said to be of monumental import.
As much as the political experts are attesting to the significance of today’s statewide Democratic presidential primary, I can remember being harangued by a number of sources about […]

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