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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Smoking ban should be enacted here</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/smoking-ban-should-be-enacted-here/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/smoking-ban-should-be-enacted-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[9-30-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[smoking ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ban, which was enacted at all 14 state universities and colleges, would create a better atmosphere on Main Campus. ]]></description>
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		<title>Police not just saving students</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/police-not-just-saving-students/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/police-not-just-saving-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan A. Zalot</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[9-30-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Police]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Officers work for everyone, but may need to pay extra attention to students new to Philadelphia.
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		<title>Voter registration equals gift of power</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/voter-registration-equals-gift-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/voter-registration-equals-gift-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[9-30-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[voter registration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voter registration volunteers may be annoying, but they allow students to gain more leverage with today’s politicians. ]]></description>
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		<title>Telefund offers glimpse of alumni</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/telefund-offers-glimpse-of-alumni/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/30/telefund-offers-glimpse-of-alumni/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Finkbiner</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[9-30-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Telefund]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Between pressuring recent grads to give money to Temple and dealing with skeptical parents, Telefund allows student workers a look at the financial innerworkings of Temple. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer attacker shouldn’t have been on the street</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/23/hammer-attacker-shouldn%e2%80%99t-have-been-on-the-street/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/23/hammer-attacker-shouldn%e2%80%99t-have-been-on-the-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan A. Zalot</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[9-23-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hammer attack]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEPTA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Scantling, who attacked a subway rider with a hammer, would not have been on the streets if the healthcare system had paid closer attention to his case. ]]></description>
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		<title>Textbooks too heavy for students’ wallets to carry</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/23/textbooks-too-heavy-for-students%e2%80%99-wallets-to-carry/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/23/textbooks-too-heavy-for-students%e2%80%99-wallets-to-carry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan MacNamara</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[9-23-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[textbooks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Buying used is the only immediate option for students.]]></description>
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		<title>Dining services aid in healthy eating</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/23/dining-services-aid-in-healthy-eating/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/23/dining-services-aid-in-healthy-eating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trenae McDuffie</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[9-23-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[campus dining]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you can’t take any more greasy noodles or pizza, the best place to go might be the Johnson &#38; Hardwick cafeteria. ]]></description>
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		<title>Owls wide-eyed enough already</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/16/owls-wide-eyed-enough-already/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/16/owls-wide-eyed-enough-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Quinn</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[7-eleven]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Fresh Bytes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[starbucks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Starbucks is coming to the Shoppes at Avenue North. Temple has more urgent needs.]]></description>
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		<title>Going the distance</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/16/going-the-distance/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/16/going-the-distance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[9-16-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making a long-distance relationship work in college takes trust and communication, but it can still be accomplished.]]></description>
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		<title>Pa. abstinence-only education a risk to young adults</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/16/pa-abstinence-only-education-a-risk-to-young-adults/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/16/pa-abstinence-only-education-a-risk-to-young-adults/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Sen</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania recently applied for $1.7 million from the]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=9004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania recently applied for $1.7 million from the government for abstinence-only education. The money will only further an already-dangerous ideology.
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		<title>Home sweet hotel: living as a nomad</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/home-sweet-hotel-living-as-a-nomad/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/home-sweet-hotel-living-as-a-nomad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Finkbiner</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[9-9-08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Off-Campus Living]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Landlord-Tenant Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lack of permits and delayed construction forces one student to share personal space — and a bed — with her roommates.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics, conventions are misleading signs of unity</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/olympics-conventions-are-misleading-signs-of-unity/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/olympics-conventions-are-misleading-signs-of-unity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Sen</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention Convention]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent displays of national pride and party unity belie internal conflict and tension.]]></description>
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		<title>Katy Perry not helping gay rights</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/katy-perry-not-helping-gay-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/katy-perry-not-helping-gay-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Lord O'Neill</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Britney Spears]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Katy Perry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[College is a time for experimentation, but glamorizing sexual expression may do more harm than good. ]]></description>
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		<title>Local change not always inspiring</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/local-change-not-always-inspiring/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/08/local-change-not-always-inspiring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Manor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[yorktown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Residents in some of Temple’s surrounding neighborhoods came together in a meeting to discuss the issue of students illegally living off campus. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lowered drinking age not a frothy issue</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/lowered-drinking-age-not-a-frothy-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/lowered-drinking-age-not-a-frothy-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Ciccarelli</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Amethyst Initiative]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[College presidents are campaigning for 18-year-olds having the right to drink alcohol on and off campus.]]></description>
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		<title>Put kids first in Catholic schools</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/put-kids-first-in-catholic-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/put-kids-first-in-catholic-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Other Sports]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rev. Dennis Killion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A priest accused of child molestation continued to teach after church knew of allegations.]]></description>
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		<title>Crunched campus needs space</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/crunched-campus-needs-space/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/crunched-campus-needs-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey Granger</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[tyler school of art]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With continued construction at Temple's main campus, art students will find more space in Elkins Park where they've always been.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Tyler with open arms</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/welcome-tyler-with-open-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/welcome-tyler-with-open-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In their first semester at main campus, students at Tyler should be welcomed to the Temple family. ]]></description>
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		<title>Polls show Obama getting GOP support, law professor says</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/obama-polls-show-gop-support-law-professor-says/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/09/01/obama-polls-show-gop-support-law-professor-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/?p=8721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the most recent Pew Research Center poll, Barack Obama has less support today among Democrats and Independents than John Kerry had four years ago. But he's making up that ground in an unlikely territory. ]]></description>
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		<title>No TU-Alert a louder message after shooting</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/17/no-tu-alert-a-louder-message-after-shooting/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/17/no-tu-alert-a-louder-message-after-shooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 17:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/2008/05/17/no-tu-alert-a-louder-message-after-shooting/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Temple tested TU-Alert, its emergency alert system, on Friday, May 9. Students who have registered with the system received a text message, phone call and e-mail explaining that the message was only a test.
On Tuesday, May 13, shots were fired at 15th and Norris streets. No one got a TU-Alert message.
The shooting occurred around 11:30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking extends beyond the powerful to the meaningful</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/13/networking-extends-beyond-the-powerful-to-the-meaningful/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/13/networking-extends-beyond-the-powerful-to-the-meaningful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://temple-news.com/2008/05/13/networking-extends-beyond-the-powerful-to-the-meaningful/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>A 400-word answer to what do you do for life</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/a-400-word-answer-to-what-do-you-do-for-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashwin Verghese</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To President Ann Weaver Hart</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/to-president-ann-weaver-hart/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/to-president-ann-weaver-hart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distance, not state, should determine tuition</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/30/distance-not-state-should-determine-tuition/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/30/distance-not-state-should-determine-tuition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not from Pennsylvania, and it’s ridiculous that residents throughout the entire 45,308 square miles get in-state tuition.]]></description>
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		<title>Northeast cheesesteak joint shows prejudice</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/northeast-cheesesteak-joint-shows-prejudice/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/northeast-cheesesteak-joint-shows-prejudice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doanh Nghiem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Chink’s Steaks, a restaurant with a reputation of great food and an infamously controversial name.]]></description>
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		<title>Forget group projects</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/forget-group-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/forget-group-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Gen Ed classes need world affairs requirement</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/new-gen-ed-classes-need-world-affairs-requirement/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/new-gen-ed-classes-need-world-affairs-requirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosby not around for my commencement</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/cosby-not-around-for-my-commencement/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/cosby-not-around-for-my-commencement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Blanda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is that bias for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/22/is-that-bias-for-hillary-clinton-or-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/22/is-that-bias-for-hillary-clinton-or-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stover</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Sen. Hillary Clinton is under constant attack, columnist Chris Stover notes how it affected yesterday's primary.]]></description>
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		<title>Refuse to choose from the lesser of two evils</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/refuse-to-choose-from-the-lesser-of-two-evils/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/refuse-to-choose-from-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashwin Verghese</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plans for new Tyler School parking crunch established</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/plans-for-new-tyler-school-parking-crunch-established/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/plans-for-new-tyler-school-parking-crunch-established/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
With all the publicity about Temple’s explosive student growth, along with all the new construction on campus, students often wonder how housing could possibly be keeping up.
After all, before the surge in students, Temple didn’t even guarantee housing to juniors and seniors. And in the midst of all this comes the move of Tyler students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconsidering dress for modern funerals</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/reconsidering-dress-for-modern-funerals/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/reconsidering-dress-for-modern-funerals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The deceased have always been buried in formal clothing in the past. It made the dead body “presentable.”
But now, changes are coming.
“We just buried a girl today in jeans and sneakers,” said Vince N. Baker, the owner and supervisor of Baker Funeral Home at 2008 N. Broad St., on Friday. “Years ago, it was customary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ownership program benefits middle class</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/ownership-program-benefits-middle-class/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/ownership-program-benefits-middle-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[City universities are unwelcome pariahs who gentrify and litter as they go, or economic saviors who enhance a neighborhood, depending on whom you ask.
As with most controversies, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Joyce Dennis, an assistant in Paley Library, occupies that uncertain middle ground. She was looking for a home with more space than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone loves Philly art, music until graduation</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/everyone-loves-philly-art-music-until-graduation/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/everyone-loves-philly-art-music-until-graduation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Root</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ There’s a lot to complain about in Philadelphia these days, and it’s getting harder to find any legitimate points of pride. Sure, we may be on the brink of hosting the to-be third-tallest building in the United States, but what’s that going to do for the city?
It sure won’t fill the massive black hole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEPTA attacks bring security too late</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/septa-attacks-bring-security-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/septa-attacks-bring-security-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It took three attacks and a funeral to increase security on Philadelphia’s sole public transportation system.
The subway attacks of March 26, April 2 and April 4 occurred within blocks of each other – some in broad daylight – and have highlighted the need for increased security on SEPTA’s tracks.
“We’re taking special note of what’s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach us religion earlier</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/8364/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/8364/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sanders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
I didn’t grow up with God in my house. Or Muhammad or Buddha or Krishna. I went to a public school, so they didn’t show up there either. Some people would say I’m lucky to never have been influenced by a religious household. I’m a totally unbiased scholar, right?
Guess what I’m reading now in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media callousness in California bicycle deaths</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/media-callousness-in-california-bicycle-deaths/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/media-callousness-in-california-bicycle-deaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doanh Nghiem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent fatal accident in Santa Clara, Calif., is sparking controversy between cyclists and motorists all over the nation. In a biking city like Philadelphia, we ought to pay attention.
Kristy Gough and Matt Peterson were killed when a deputy police sheriff’s cruiser collided with them on a Bay Area road. A third cyclist was seriously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding poverty by how the police see you</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/understanding-poverty-by-how-the-police-see-you/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/understanding-poverty-by-how-the-police-see-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two police cruisers pause side by side on a one-way street, waiting to pull into the intersection, even though they have the green light. A white car behind them waits quietly. This is one time you won’t hear impatient honking.
This scene is not an unfamiliar one, taking place only blocks from a police station. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania’s nuclear energy should be model</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/pennsylvania%e2%80%99s-nuclear-energy-is-model/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/pennsylvania%e2%80%99s-nuclear-energy-is-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Better than a third of Pennsylvania's energy is nuclear, far above the national average. Columnist Morgan Ashenfelter wants us to lead the way.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Kind Einstein Bros. employees won’t last here</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/kind-einstein-bros-employees-won%e2%80%99t-last-here/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/kind-einstein-bros-employees-won%e2%80%99t-last-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lana Adams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The food service employees in the Student Center’s Valaida S. Walker Dining Court do not have pleasant attitudes at all, a phenomenon that has found its way into the commentary pages of The Temple News before.
However, the customer service at Einstein Bros. Bagels, which replaced Taco Bell this semester, as reported by The Temple News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheerleading ‘flexibility’ just too sexy for my tastes</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/cheerleading-%e2%80%98flexibility%e2%80%99-just-too-sexy-for-my-tastes/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/cheerleading-%e2%80%98flexibility%e2%80%99-just-too-sexy-for-my-tastes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ The only people more important than cheerleaders at center stage of a college sporting event are the teams, the coaches and the referees.
A cheerleader’s job is to cheer all game. No matter the deficit.
And cheerleaders try to do more than just cheer. They try to entertain. Something that some say has evolved over time.
“I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Street Bridge plans auto-centric shift</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/south-street-bridge-plans-auto-centric-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Street Bridge, an 80-year-old span across the Schuylkill River, is falling to pieces and must be replaced, but the plans for its reconstruction have left much to be desired. The new bridge will effectively be a gussied-up highway overpass, designed for cars first, and the pedestrian as a distant second.
Sadly, while Philadelphia may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban decay crumbles home on North Sixth Street</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/02/urban-decay-crumbles-home-on-north-sixth-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latter building fell just a few weeks ago, on March 6. The contractors have cleaned up the debris, but the chain-link fencing is still there.]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton comes to Temple, shows cowardice</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/01/hillary-clinton-comes-to-temple-shows-cowardice/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/01/hillary-clinton-comes-to-temple-shows-cowardice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Benesby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. held a rally at Temple in McGonigle Hall during Spring Break. Some think it a staged act that speaks to her broader campaign.]]></description>
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		<title>PASCEP is community</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/pascep-is-community/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/pascep-is-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jena Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Working boring nights in Anderson Hall has shown me there are still community outreach programs that are actually successful. Like clockwork, the lobby of the building transforms into a bustling marketplace of kinship each night.
After 6 p.m., Dottie Jewels begins selling jewelry and other unique figurines, down the hall from Noah Nature, who will give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commerce Center to change Philly for better</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/commerce-center-to-change-philly-for-better/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/commerce-center-to-change-philly-for-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Philadelphia has belabored for all too long under its reputation as a second-class city. Poverty, economic deterioration, abandonment and crime have overshadowed our history and size. A proposed 1,500-foot skyscraper, termed the American Commerce Center could change all that.
As superficial as it may seem, skyscrapers lend legitimacy to downtown areas. They are not mere buildings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geraldine Ferraro isn&#8217;t the racist you think she is</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/27/geraldine-ferraro-isnt-the-racist-you-think-she-is/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/27/geraldine-ferraro-isnt-the-racist-you-think-she-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments made by Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate and former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser, about Sen. Barack Obama benefiting from his race aren't off base.]]></description>
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		<title>Black Jesus: creating God in our own image</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/black-jesus-creating-god-in-our-own-image/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/black-jesus-creating-god-in-our-own-image/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Soaring brick-and-mortar tributes to God can be found in any community. Churches especially permeate places that test faith and offer little hope, places like North Philadelphia. The imagery inside, however, shows that the God these houses are dedicated to may not

be as universal as we like to think.
The Bright Hope Baptist Church sits at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase our speed limits</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/increase-our-speed-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the problem for me. I’m not hitting 100 on the speedometer often, but it’s difficult to drive the speed limit. When a road is empty, it’s not only hard, but also unnecessary.
When I’m on the Betsy Ross Bridge at 3 or 4 a.m., I don’t want to drive 45 mph. But the speed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning through hip-hop</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/learning-through-hip-hop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jena Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hip-hop is an imperfect, but charming, language.
It is derogatory toward women, it thrives off power, sex and money, and it’s all one big bleep after all obscenities are taken out. But what great cultural movement in history didn’t have its kinks?
Hip-hop surrounds us. It blares through the headphones of the kid walking on the street, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Dougherty: a first rate Senate mistake</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/john-dougherty-a-first-rate-senate-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/john-dougherty-a-first-rate-senate-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Philadelphia’s own State Sen. Vincent Fumo, among his other distinctions, sits on the board of trustees for the National Constitution Center, a museum enshrining the most sacred government document in the land. The man ought to know a thing or two about constitutional political conductSadly, the 30-year representative of Philadelphia’s 1st district has proven time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yorktown: the neighborhood, its history and rebirth</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/19/yorktown-the-neighborhood-its-history-and-rebirth/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/19/yorktown-the-neighborhood-its-history-and-rebirth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1959, Yorktown, the neighborhood directly south of Main Campus, did not exist.]]></description>
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		<title>When that voice in your head is some foreigner</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/when-that-voice-in-your-head-is-some-foreigner/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/when-that-voice-in-your-head-is-some-foreigner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashwin Verghese</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not unusual to speak to yourself in your head. It might be a bit stranger to do so in a foreign accent. Yet, I can remember choosing my words in my mind using the voice, expressiveness and intonation of an Englishman as a child.
My reasons were naïve and innocent. I desperately wanted to sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dad: you’re Dylan to me</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/dad-you%e2%80%99re-dylan-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/dad-you%e2%80%99re-dylan-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sanders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dad,
I always thought it was strange that you never really dug Bob Dylan.
Especially because a major quality of his music, for me, was how he was reminiscent of you. I thought that if you became a folk protest singer when you were young, you’d make the same allegories and facetious jokes about hunting “reds” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop-and-frisk plans start, will only increase hate</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/stop-and-frisk-plans-start-will-only-increase-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/stop-and-frisk-plans-start-will-only-increase-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lana Adams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyron Franklin took his last breath in a local fast food restaurant on Jan. 7, 2007, as four bullets ripped through his flesh.
Reportedly, Franklin was shot two more times for being a Patterson, N.J.  police officer. This instance only emphasizes the fact that there are people in the world who generally loathe police officers.
Philadelphia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and cash needed at Temple Hospital</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/love-and-cash-needed-at-temple-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/love-and-cash-needed-at-temple-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, I found myself in Temple University Hospital’s emergency room with two roommates and a sick friend. While waiting to see the doctors, a middle-aged woman wandered over to us and asked my friend what she had.
“I looked just like you this morning,” the lady said, referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaigning change, but for whom?</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/05/campaigning-change-but-for-whom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malaika T. Carpenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of political party, every candidate in this presidential election is running under the banner of change. In a time when Americans seek recovery from the last dreadful eight years of the Bush administration, any candidate offering a sharp contrast to Bush will do.
Of all the candidates, however, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring from the community changes fortunes</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/hiring-from-the-community-changes-fortunes/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/hiring-from-the-community-changes-fortunes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alphonso Richardson first tried to get a job with Temple University in 1980, the year he graduated high school. It was 27 years later that he finally secured employment, taking a job with maintenance and housekeeping. Richardson’s story underscores why Temple can never be an economic lifeline for North Philadelphia. At the same time, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alumni need to fill seats</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/alumni-need-to-fill-seats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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Then $10,000 was gone, just like that, drained into novelty checks to be dispensed at center court of the Liacouras Center during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Charlotte last Wednesday.
Lewis Katz, a 1963 Temple graduate and current Board of Trustees member, offered the money for the best student suggestions for a problem he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Philly recycling will streamline our green city</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/north-philly-recycling-will-streamline-our-green-city/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/north-philly-recycling-will-streamline-our-green-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to eco-friendly cities, the “Filthadelphia” nickname is accurate. As any citizen who tries to start recycling in this city knows, even small, environmentally friendly tasks are complicated here. But our mayor is trying to change that.
Mayor Michael Nutter has new intentions to make Philly one of the greenest cities in America. Though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City zoning board fights Society Hill growth</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/city-zoning-board-fights-society-hill-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/city-zoning-board-fights-society-hill-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Society Hill Civic Association held a meeting to vote whether or not to approve a proposed 15-story, 150-room hotel to be built in a vacant crater near Front and South streets. The meeting ended with a tie vote of 12-12, and left the SHCA bitterly divided, with neighbors shouting and hurling personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How company inaction led to two city slayings</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/how-company-inaction-led-to-two-city-slayings/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/how-company-inaction-led-to-two-city-slayings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Treating people right means we believe in respect for the individual and that we owe our teammates a clean, safe work environment.”
That’s one of the values that Loomis, a security company whose employees include guards who transfer cash between banks, boasts on its Web site. What a shame that those values aren’t being upheld.
On Oct. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why a front runner?</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/why-a-front-runner/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/why-a-front-runner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia – growing up in an area without a winning professional sports team can be difficult. But game after game, season after season, you retain your loyalty and cheer for your teams. One bad season means you expect a better one next year. Your dedication to your teams never budges.
I’ve always been a New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity reality TV strikes as meaningful</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/celebrity-reality-tv-strikes-as-meaningful/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/celebrity-reality-tv-strikes-as-meaningful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A porn star in a pool with a wife-beater, a Baldwin brother complaining about boobs and is that the guy from Grease – not John Travolta of course – screaming?
Certainly, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew couldn’t get more tasteless, but before you dismiss it as another useless reality show, take a second look.
The show airs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer industry in Philadelphia grows by one</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/beer-industry-in-philadelphia-grows-by-one/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/beer-industry-in-philadelphia-grows-by-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
After months of taking on the important issues, I’d like to address a subject far more universal in our society than politics: beer.
Yes, the sweet, simple beverage whose daily reward has made mind-numbing toil all too bearable. Social lubricant, engine of the American workforce, and finely crafted delicacy, beer is a delightful chimera.
For those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A subway with a Port Richmond Puerto Rican</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/a-subway-with-a-port-richmond-puerto-rican/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/a-subway-with-a-port-richmond-puerto-rican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike came to me.
The platform at City Hall station doesn’t afford much room to maneuver.
Before I knew his name, I knew he was Puerto Rican and friendly, with a bag of CDs and dirt under fingernails that needed attention by anyone’s standards.
After we formally introduced ourselves, he let me in on a secret.
“I just tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let students boost economy</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/let-students-boost-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/let-students-boost-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan A. Zalot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple economics professor Edward Tomczyk said he’d probably save most of his extra cash from the government, but that he might spend some on dinner out.
Nick Florentino, a junior business major, said he’d spend it on books for school.
This spring, the federal government is planning on handing out checks to millions of Americans in hopes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Hall renovation plans a Nutter victory</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/city-hall-renovation-plans-a-nutter-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/city-hall-renovation-plans-a-nutter-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stover</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Architect John McArthur intended Philadelphia’s City Hall to be the tallest structure in the world by the time construction began in 1871.
However, in the 30 years it took to be built, it had already been overshadowed by the Eiffel Tower and the Washington Monument.
That’s no reason why City Hall shouldn’t strive to be the best. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutter’s budget proposal risky, challenged</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/nutter%e2%80%99s-budget-proposal-risky-challenged/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/nutter%e2%80%99s-budget-proposal-risky-challenged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Mayor Michael Nutter unveiled the 2008 City of Philadelphia budget, complete with risky new fiscal policies and some long needed funds.
The biggest revelation to come out of Nutter’s financial think tank was an announcement that the city would borrow $4.5 billion in order to relieve the burden of its pension payments to retired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The discomforts of Valentine&#8217;s love</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/14/the-discomforts-of-valentines-love/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/14/the-discomforts-of-valentines-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Feb. 14th. All of you gentlemen who are fortunate enough to have someone you actually want to buy a gift for know what that means. It means you go places you never imagined yourself going. For me, that place was Victoria’s Secret.
Why there, you ask? Well, I couldn’t go to someplace like Bed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give me a room on the 13th floor</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/13/give-me-a-room-on-the-13th-floor/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/13/give-me-a-room-on-the-13th-floor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I could never understand why the number 13 is seen in such a bad light. It can’t be too unlucky—it was the number chosen by legends Wilt Chamberlain and Dan Marino, it’s the number on the jerseys of future Hall of Famers Alex Rodriguez and Steve Nash, and there are 13 stripes on the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University feminist group too extreme to debate</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/university-feminist-group-too-extreme-to-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/university-feminist-group-too-extreme-to-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doanh Nghiem</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Note: A correction for this article has been issued.
The waves of the feminist movement have long been waning. Once eagerly sought-after privileges like suffrage, comparable worth and birth control are now casual liberties. The once enthusiastic feminists of the 1960s have become the disenchanted women of today, passively accepting morsels of overdue rights. Today’s active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions of my future are only mine to ask</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/questions-of-my-future-are-only-mine-to-ask/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/questions-of-my-future-are-only-mine-to-ask/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benae Mosby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time graduation day rolls around in May, I estimate that I will have been peppered no less than a million times with a series of questions that sounds something like:
“What will you do after you graduate?”
“Where will you live?”
“Don’t you want to go back to school?”
“Are you going home to live with your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philly slots lose hand</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/philly-slots-lose-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/philly-slots-lose-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Benesby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Gov. Ed Rendell lambasted Philadelphia City Council members for delaying the progress of the Foxwoods and SugarHouse casinos, calling them a “City Council with no guts that can be extorted by community groups.” If it were not for Mayor Michael Nutter’s revoking of the SugarHouse building license just prior to this statement, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union white and suburban? Come to Philly</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/union-white-and-suburban-come-to-philly/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/union-white-and-suburban-come-to-philly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  Last Tuesday, the city’s unions and City Council took the first tentative steps toward ending a standoff over the billion-dollar, four-block expansion to the Convention Center. City Council had resisted contracting out the multitude of jobs associated with such a massive project to unions because of their lack of city-resident or minority status. Unions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alumna fights disparity with Teach for America</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/alumna-fights-disparity-with-teach-for-america/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/alumna-fights-disparity-with-teach-for-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessica Gasper
Op-Ed
Take a closer look at North Philadelphia. Slow that hurried walk to Tuttleman and make eye contact with those bright-eyed students waiting for the crossing guard to escort them across Montgomery Avenue. These are our nation’s children. These children need you.
Students in low-income communities, like your neighbors around Temple University, face daunting obstacles from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business privilege tax corrodes commercial growth</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/business-privilege-tax-corrodes-commercial-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/business-privilege-tax-corrodes-commercial-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Business is the heart of any city. It provides the rhythm a city needs to survive and prosper. Philadelphia policymakers do not seem to understand this. They have been taxing businesses out of the city limits for decades.
The tax in question is the Business Privilege Tax. The first part of the BPT taxes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamah’s nightmare</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/dreamah%e2%80%99s-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/dreamah%e2%80%99s-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ She was young and energetic and fun.
And then she was dead. Ejected through a windshield and pronounced dead on the pavement of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, amid broken glass and unlived expectations.
It is so rare that we are affected by what we expect. Much more often it is what blindsides us on an otherwise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Spot the Asian’ again</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/%e2%80%98spot-the-asian%e2%80%99-again/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/%e2%80%98spot-the-asian%e2%80%99-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Santos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Do you want to know how Comcast will celebrate Asian American History month in April? By pulling the plug on AZN Television, a network dedicated to providing content for Asian Americans.
Comcast announced last week that they cancelled the program because it wasn’t profitable enough.
Wasn’t profitable enough? If you’re going to squeeze money out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sensible policing a start of positive change</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/sensible-policing-a-start-of-positive-change/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/sensible-policing-a-start-of-positive-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey unveiled his new policing strategy for Philadelphia last Wednesday, receiving thunderous applause from the legion of assembled officers and cadets at the Wachovia Center. Their cheers were for something rarely seen in bureaucratic tangle of Philadelphia government: simplicity.
In essence, Ramsey’s plan is to steer Philadelphia Police back to some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armbrister will put Temple in focus of City Hall</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/armbrister-will-put-temple-in-focus-of-city-hall/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/armbrister-will-put-temple-in-focus-of-city-hall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Clarence Armbrister paid nearly $200,000 for the 10-minute trip down North Broad to City Hall.
Armbrister, the former chief operating officer of Temple, accepted a nearly 50-percent pay cut to accept a role as new Mayor Michael Nutter’s chief of staff, as reported by The Temple News last November. The mustached man with lightly salted black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New research Dean promises growth in funding</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/new-research-dean-promises-growth-in-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/new-research-dean-promises-growth-in-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Lemanski already has a Temple lapel pin. It comes free when you shake the foundation of professorial research at a university.
The man with the thick gray goatee joined Temple on Dec. 1, ditching a stint he had Florida Atlantic University. In a November interview with the Temple News, President Ann Weaver Hart was awfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phanatic praise and &#8216;Idol&#8217; worship help</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/phanatic-praise-and-idol-worship-help/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/phanatic-praise-and-idol-worship-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of fighting a reputation of being dangerous, dirty and unattractive, Philadelphia is finally getting positive attention.
Recently, Forbes.com named the Phillie Phanatic as the top mascot in the country. The decision was based on the characters&#8217; appeal, endorsement and trendsetting, among other things. Though there was never any question about this city&#8217;s love for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back when a court oath meant something</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/back-when-a-court-oath-meant-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the course of investigation into illegal steroid use in baseball, players and trainers will be forced into court to testify next month. The biggest name talked about since the infamous Mitchell Report has been seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens.
Clemens, who denies ever using steroids, was originally scheduled to testify Jan. 16. Days before, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEPTA goes green, but for the right reasons?</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/septa-goes-green-but-for-the-right-reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/septa-goes-green-but-for-the-right-reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEPTA took its first tenuous steps toward becoming an environmentally friendly transportation network by finally placing an order for 400 hybrid diesel buses, the first hundred of which will go into service in July. In addition to the 32 proof-of-concept hybrids already in service, this will create one of the largest fleets of hybrid buses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>During break, Temple loses chair, gains another</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/during-break-temple-loses-chair-gains-another/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/during-break-temple-loses-chair-gains-another/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple has been making progress in interfaith dialogue recently, which is something the university could benefit from itself.
As reported in today&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Philly hurting, can Nutter heal pain?</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/black-philly-hurting-can-nutter-heal-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/black-philly-hurting-can-nutter-heal-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benae Mosby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In December, the Philadelphia branch of the National Urban League released a report titled &#8220;The State of Black Philadelphia.&#8221;
It was by no means a pleasant holiday surprise.
In areas of economics, education, health, civic engagement and social justice, researchers found there are still notable disparities in quality of life for blacks in comparison to whites.
Under former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube comes out</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/youtube-comes-out/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/youtube-comes-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Santos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People are watching. People are discussing. People are curious.
The most popular, the most discussed and the most viewed videos on YouTube come from openly gay users who produce all of their own content. You Tube, the popular video sharing Web site, continually empowers
its users to broadcast original content that can&#8217;t be seen on television.
For gays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutter starts by tossing out the cookie man</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/nutter-starts-by-tossing-out-the-cookie-man/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/22/nutter-starts-by-tossing-out-the-cookie-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year of 2008 has offered a glimmer of hope for a city long on its knees. Michael Nutter, the 92nd mayor of our fine city, was sworn in Jan. 8, and with him came the promise of long-deferred reform for a metropolis mired in corruption
and mediocrity.
 A deli to the board
The most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging erodes meaning of information</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/blogging-erodes-meaning-of-information/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/blogging-erodes-meaning-of-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Krier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Although they have existed in several forms for many years, 2004 was a breakthrough year for the blog.
If accepted language is the hallmark of legitimate culture, being named Merriam-Webster&#8217;s &#8220;Word of the Year&#8221; in 2004 signified the blog&#8217;s stature in the modern world.
Since then, it has become commonplace for corporations and traditional news outlets to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street can go to lots of places, but not here</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/street-can-go-to-lots-of-places-but-not-here/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/street-can-go-to-lots-of-places-but-not-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple announced last month that Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street will become an adjunct professor of political science on Main Campus for the Spring 2008 semester.
Despite being highly criticized during his two terms as mayor, Street is slated to instruct two sections of an urban politics and policy class. My initial reaction to this was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial entertainment</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/racial-entertainment/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/racial-entertainment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malaika T. Carpenter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I shook my head, not in disbelief, but in disappointment when I saw a noose dangling from a so-called &#8220;white only&#8221; tree in Jena, La. It was the final frame of a video about the injustices done to the highly publicized Jena Six. The video was my introduction to the case, which, at the time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philly&#8217;s 10,000 Men initiative begins 50 strong</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/phillys-10000-men-initiative-begins-50-strong/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/phillys-10000-men-initiative-begins-50-strong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terrance McNeil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Movements are begun in a day.
They are not completed in a day.
Take a look at any worthwhile movement and you&#8217;ll see that it takes time.
Witness the civil rights movement, which is still an ongoing battle.
The initiative to unite 10,000 black men in patrolling the streets of Philadelphia will not break the mold.
The initial rally for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small businesses keep holiday buying local</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/small-businesses-keep-holiday-buying-local/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/04/small-businesses-keep-holiday-buying-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you prepare for your much-deserved winter break and, no doubt, begin holiday shopping for your loved ones, I would ask you to please keep in mind the importance of buying locally. Be it products produced in Philadelphia or sold from independently owned shops in the city, nothing is more important to our economy than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Cosby isn&#8217;t speaking to us anymore</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/03/bill-cosby-isnt-speaking-to-us-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/12/03/bill-cosby-isnt-speaking-to-us-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite repeated attempts to ask for an interview with Temple alumnus, booster and Board of Trustees member Bill Cosby, we, the 86-year-old newspaper of the community for which he is, invariably, the most public figure, haven’t heard back.
Even though we want to promote his new book, “Come on People,&#8221; which The Temple News reviewed without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next top cop a miss</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/next-top-cop-a-miss/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/next-top-cop-a-miss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor-elect Michael Nutter has chosen Charles Ramsey, former police chief of Washington, D.C., as Philadelphia&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo mom, thanks for my birthday this year</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/yo-mom-thanks-for-my-birthday-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/yo-mom-thanks-for-my-birthday-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Appelblatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My birthday is coming, but I haven&#8217;t been thinking about presents.
See, I&#8217;ve been questioning when birthday celebrations, the way we are accustomed to seeing them today, with parties and gifts and cards and cake, even came into play in America? Why are birthdays supposed to be so fun and exciting?
I think the meaning of birthdays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pending Blue Horizon sale is only for looks</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/pending-blue-horizon-sale-is-only-for-looks/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/pending-blue-horizon-sale-is-only-for-looks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t involve yourself in Philadelphia boxing, then you&#8217;ll never find a boxer you&#8217;ve heard of fighting at the 1,200-seat Blue Horizon.
The money isn&#8217;t there.
Instead, you&#8217;ll find two fighters respectfully trying to beat the hell out of each other for a couple hundred bucks. For purists, there simply isn&#8217;t any other place like it.
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A review of the semester&#8217;s city development</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/a-review-of-the-semesters-city-development/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/27/a-review-of-the-semesters-city-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Briggs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The semester is ending, and, with just one more edition left after this, I thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the major events of the last 10 weeks that shaped where we stand today.
OUR POLITICAL ENVIRONS
Clearly, the biggest event was the election of Michael “DJ Mixmaster Mike” Nutter to the office of mayor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drexel student on TTN presidential debate coverage</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/13/drexel-student-on-ttn-presidential-debate-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2007/11/13/drexel-student-on-ttn-presidential-debate-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a student at Drexel University, almost every assumption and comparison you have made with Drexel [Oct. 30, "DNC presidential hopefuls more Dragons than Owls" by Stephen Zook] is wrong. The biggest factor for NBC and the DNC choosing Drexel is&#8230;MONEY! Except for the $300,000 that NBC spent on the event, Drexel has footed the [...]]]></description>
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