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	<title>The Temple News &#187; Opinion</title>
	<link>http://temple-news.com</link>
	<description>Weekly in print.  Daily online.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<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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		<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>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/a-400-word-answer-to-what-do-you-do-for-life/#comments</comments>
		<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>Dear prospective Temple students</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/dear-prospective-temple-students/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/dear-prospective-temple-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan A. Zalot</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[5-13-08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[University Housing and Residential Life]]></category>

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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>Hiring from the community changes fortunes</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/hiring-from-the-community-changes-fortunes-2/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/hiring-from-the-community-changes-fortunes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Zook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t mind Rev. Wright’s comments</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/don%e2%80%99t-mind-rev-wright%e2%80%99s-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/don%e2%80%99t-mind-rev-wright%e2%80%99s-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left Behind: The end to an academic year brings a host of memories graduates will leave behind.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/left-behind-the-end-to-an-academic-year-brings-a-host-of-memories-graduates-will-leave-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/left-behind-the-end-to-an-academic-year-brings-a-host-of-memories-graduates-will-leave-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next: President Hart should put her physical stamp on Main Campus.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/whats-next-president-hart-should-put-her-physical-stamp-on-main-campus/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/05/12/whats-next-president-hart-should-put-her-physical-stamp-on-main-campus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[­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 [...]]]></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>Change Staying: Two weeks from today, we’ll print a summer edition</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/change-staying-two-weeks-from-today-we%e2%80%99ll-print-a-summer-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/change-staying-two-weeks-from-today-we%e2%80%99ll-print-a-summer-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Temple News won’t print an edition next week.
This won’t be the last of the semester though. On May 13, we’re printing a summer edition, a return to an old tradition of ours.
It will be the last in what has been a year full of changes by the 86-year-old newspaper serving the broad Temple community.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Again: After poor turnout, a run-off tomorrow will be worse.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/vote-again-after-poor-turnout-a-run-off-tomorrow-will-be-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/28/vote-again-after-poor-turnout-a-run-off-tomorrow-will-be-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again – it’s time to go to the polls.
Don’t worry, this isn’t a misplaced editorial from last week. Tomorrow, students will cast their ballots for Temple Student Government’s executive board – again.
A provision in the group’s new constitution mandates that the winning slate must receive more than 50 percent of the ballots [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>Area student government leaders endorse Obama</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/area-student-government-leaders-endorse-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
We, the student government leaders of colleges in the Philadelphia region, endorse Sen. Barack Obama as the candidate of our choice for the Democratic candidate for U.S. president.
Firstly, we must note that we are speaking on behalf of our own views as prominent student leaders at our institutions, not on behalf of the student body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unearthed Promises: Hart&#8217;s garden still needs tending.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/unearthed-promises-harts-garden-still-needs-tending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Earth Day, Temple students! We thought you should know that Temple got a little overwhelmed with the anticipation and celebrated a bit early. Yesterday, President Ann Weaver Hart signed an important document that further sent the university down its lush, green path.
The American College &#38; University Presidents Climate Commitment is a written agreement that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endorse Free: Many newspapers have endorsed a candidate. We won’t.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/21/endorse-free-many-newspapers-have-endorsed-a-candidate-we-won%e2%80%99t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 17, the Daily Pennsylvanian endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, just days before the first meaningful Pennsylvania presidential primary in recent memory.
The University of Pennsylvania student newspaper is one of the few newspapers in the state to endorse Clinton over her charismatic rival, Sen. Barack Obama. He has been endorsed [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>Joe Frazier’s Gym is closing, not renovating</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/joe-frazier%e2%80%99s-gym-is-closing-not-renovating/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/joe-frazier%e2%80%99s-gym-is-closing-not-renovating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
[In response to [“Joe Frazier’s Gym closes for renovations,” Christopher Wink, April 3, 2008]
Speaking as boxer Marianne Marston, I can personally confirm I am not returning to London, whatever Mr. Leslie Wolff says (or might wish).
He might still be Joe Frazier’s manager, but he is most certainly not mine and does not have the authority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Owl: National campaigns remind us of municipal and state battles.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/president-owl-national-campaigns-remind-us-of-municipal-and-state-battles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every four years, presidential campaigning comes to Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia, to Temple and the student body manages to seem politically energized.
Sen. Hillary Clinton rallied in McGonigle Hall, and last week, Chelsea Clinton appeared in Mitten, as reported by The Temple News today [“Chelsea Clinton visits campus, talks foreign policy with students,” LeAnne Matlach, April 15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSG Unknown: Three slates is a start, but not enough students care.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/tsg-unknown-three-slates-is-a-start-but-not-enough-students-care/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/14/tsg-unknown-three-slates-is-a-start-but-not-enough-students-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple Student Government has a slogan – It’s all about you. But really, who is it all about? Who does the group represent?
The inclusion of three slates in his year’s TSG elections is a welcome hange, a shift toward democracy. Last year’s vote was essentially a formality. Only one slate, Owl Potential, ran for election.  [...]]]></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>Candidates battle campaign blunders, finances</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/candidates-battle-campaign-blunders-finances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by Michael N. Price
With the Pennsylvania primary quickly approaching, both Democratic candidates are doing their best to avoid a disastrous political slip-up that could cost them the all-important April 22 vote.
Both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have made their fair share of mistakes in recent weeks. From uproar over a fiery and controversial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Booze Bust: Temple’s alcohol amnesty policy fails in keeping</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/booze-bust-temple%e2%80%99s-alcohol-amnesty-policy-fails-in-keeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re underage and out for a night of drinking, it’s best that you drink to the point of hospitalization so that you won’t be punished by Temple.
That’s what Temple’s amnesty clause outlines in the student behavior code.
Of course, Temple would never endorse drinking to the point of hospitalization, but it’s not what an institution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean City: Philly Spring Cleanup stands as an example of the enthusiasm the city needs</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/07/clean-city-philly-spring-cleanup-stands-as-an-example-of-the-enthusiasm-the-city-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia has seen a wave of grassroots action in recent months. The tepid 10,000 Men organization held a community action fair this weekend in an effort to cut crime in the city’s most dangerous areas, as The Temple News reported today [“A renewed call for local action,” Brittany Diggs, April 8, 2008]. While men signed [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/04/02/urban-decay-crumbles-home-on-north-sixth-street/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<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>Graduates stay in Philadelphia, but not North Philadelphia</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/graduates-stay-in-philadelphia-but-not-north-philadelphia/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/graduates-stay-in-philadelphia-but-not-north-philadelphia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashwin Verghese</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of my senior year this past August, I finally relocated to a neighborhood in North Philadelphia more commensurate with all the stereotypes I’d heard about the area before I enrolled here. Ugly. Poor. Dangerous.
Well, maybe not entirely that last part, but after seven months, I still won’t walk home alone after 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PASCEP is community</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/pascep-is-community/</link>
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		<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>
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		<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>TSG Shift: Temple Student Government has unwisely moved back the elections.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/tsg-shift-temple-student-government-has-unwisely-moved-back-the-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/tsg-shift-temple-student-government-has-unwisely-moved-back-the-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Main Campus, long criticized for low levels of interest in student government, TSG has postponed their elections, scheduled for next week, as reported by The Temple News today.
Moving the dates from April 8 and 9 to April 22 and 23 risks further depleting involvement in the election. The delay was said to allow potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Rates</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/31/market-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding rent control is difficult these days. Despite national trends, real estate in Philadelphia is hot, and off-campus housing is no exception.
Temple students living off campus are facing rising rent due to the demands of a growing student body. Now the Board of Trustees has re-evaluated the university’s rental properties – the residence halls.
The board’s [...]]]></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>
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		<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>City Tuition: Temple’s funding of four scholarships for city</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/city-tuition-temple%e2%80%99s-funding-of-four-scholarships-for-city/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/city-tuition-temple%e2%80%99s-funding-of-four-scholarships-for-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, Temple will spend more than $41,000 on scholarships for four Philadelphia School District students as part of the new Temple University Philadelphia Scholars program.
Since beginning its capital drive in 2002, the university has raised more than $253 million in the school’s largest fundraising campaign in history.
The university deserves praise for creating this program, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debit Dont: Temple-issued debit card paychecks are headed your way.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/debit-dont-temple-issued-debit-card-paychecks-are-headed-your-way/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/24/debit-dont-temple-issued-debit-card-paychecks-are-headed-your-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Call us old fashioned, but we think paper paychecks are a pretty easy, efficient way to receive our work payments.
Clearly, Temple doesn’t think so. According to them, paper is nothing but bad news.
That’s why by mid-2008, both full- and part-time Temple employees who are not signed up to receive payment through direct deposit will no [...]]]></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>TSG and program board should remain separate</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/tsg-and-program-board-should-remain-separate/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/tsg-and-program-board-should-remain-separate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Editor,
In reading your recent editorial [“TSG Rewritten,” March 4, 2008], I was pleased to find an article highlighting just one of the recent changes at Temple that will enhance our university’s standing as a leader among institutions of higher education. The thrust of the article – that Temple Student Government should have a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towers Reborn: Temple Towers is facing major renovations, a smart, cost-saving decision</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/towers-reborn-temple-towers-is-facing-major-renovations-a-smart-cost-saving-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/towers-reborn-temple-towers-is-facing-major-renovations-a-smart-cost-saving-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has changed since 1971.
Temple has seen four university presidents, the rise and fall of the John Chaney era, and the complete metamorphosis of the university into a residential campus.
But one thing that’s remained the same is Temple Towers, the not-so-aptly named residence at 13th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue.
But the Board of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center Stage: Philly has become a political hotbed. Get involved</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/center-stage-philly-has-become-a-political-hotbed-get-involved/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/17/center-stage-philly-has-become-a-political-hotbed-get-involved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., told several thousand at a rally in McGonigle Hall last Tuesday that no state better deserved to decide who would be the next U.S. President than the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as reported by The Temple News [“Clinton stresses job experience at campus rally,” LeAnne Matlach, March 11, 2008].
It stung with the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/05/campaigning-change-but-for-whom/#comments</comments>
		<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>Some in Democratic Party doubt Obama</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/some-in-democratic-party-doubt-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/some-in-democratic-party-doubt-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
The candidacy of Barack Obama has excited a whole new generation of previously disinterested young Americans. And though this large and swelling involvement of youth should send Democratic Party members singing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” some regular and older members seem averse to joining the movement and instead expect these young people to temper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More presidential election coverage in TTN</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/more-presidential-election-coverage-in-ttn/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/more-presidential-election-coverage-in-ttn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
As the “the paper of record for the Temple University community,” I am disheartened by the lack of political coverage afforded by this paper, especially regarding the student vote.
Youth have mobilized in record numbers all over the country, yet there is no mention of these efforts, even though they are occurring on our campus. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student reacts to Northern Illinois shooting</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/student-reacts-to-northern-illinois-shooting/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/student-reacts-to-northern-illinois-shooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
I was almost too afraid to go to class today. Not because I hadn’t prepared for my math test or because of the latest crime statistics in Philly. It was because the door to my building opened so easily.
No one so much as glanced my way as I walked into my classroom full of students. [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/alumni-need-to-fill-seats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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>Campus hate crime needs to be questioned</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/campus-hate-crime-needs-to-be-questioned/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/campus-hate-crime-needs-to-be-questioned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
Is this really a hate crime [“Students arrested in connection with hate crime,” Morgan A. Zalot, Feb.26, 2008]? Or is this one brother trying to defend his little brother? It appears that the younger brother was beaten up by a member of the Jewish frat house. This is what started the whole thing. The older [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSG Rewritten: Temple Student Government changed its constitution, but it won’t create the change it wants</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/tsg-rewritten-temple-student-government-changed-its-constitution-but-it-won%e2%80%99t-create-the-change-it-wants/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/tsg-rewritten-temple-student-government-changed-its-constitution-but-it-won%e2%80%99t-create-the-change-it-wants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ll avoid the casual and compulsory references to Philadelphia’s long history of constitutional conventions.
On Sunday, Temple Student Government held a seven-hour meeting to rework its very foundation, for the first time in 25 years, as reported by The Temple News [“TSG discusses Constitutional Convention,” Rebecca Hale, Feb. 26, 2008].
And at its helm was TSG President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Hate: An alleged hate crime on Main Campus brings with it questions of its legislation.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/no-hate-an-alleged-hate-crime-on-main-campus-brings-with-it-questions-of-its-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/03/03/no-hate-an-alleged-hate-crime-on-main-campus-brings-with-it-questions-of-its-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Feb. 15 assault of a Jewish Penn State student on Main Campus, President Ann Weaver Hart issued a statement labeling the attack a hate crime.
Last Thursday, administration, faculty, students, a representative from the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish community leaders held a “town hall” meeting at the Temple Hillel to discuss the assault. As [...]]]></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>Anti-Semitic attack on campus continues hate</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/anti-semitic-atttack-on-campus-continues-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/anti-semitic-atttack-on-campus-continues-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
It never ends.
We live in a country, in a city, at a school where diversity is embraced. For the victim of last week’s anti-Semitic attack, I doubt that notion provides any consolation. Jews are no strangers to being hated, persecuted and physically attacked. However, it never occurred to me that it would stir up violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayoral Split: A potential rift in Michael Nutter’s coalition may have formed at Temple last week</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/mayoral-split-a-potential-rift-in-michael-nutter%e2%80%99s-coalition-may-have-formed-at-temple-last-week/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/mayoral-split-a-potential-rift-in-michael-nutter%e2%80%99s-coalition-may-have-formed-at-temple-last-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Glimmers of a fractious cobbling of elements in Mayor Michael Nutter’s coalition of dreams and reform showed through at our own doorstep last week.
As reported by The Temple News [“Law school hosts forum on city homicides,” Andrew Thompson, Feb. 20, 2008], high-level local politics played out in the background of a forum held in Klein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiki Whammy: A new Temple site will be slammed with feedback</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/wiki-whammy-a-new-temple-site-will-be-slammed-with-feedback/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/25/wiki-whammy-a-new-temple-site-will-be-slammed-with-feedback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple is in a self-reflective mood. It wants to take a look at what it’s doing right and how to make it better.
And it’s asked its students to help out.
As reported by The Temple News this week, the university has launched a wiki page, on which students can post their suggestions on how to improve [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Temple Feminists respond to calls of extremism</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/temple-feminists-respond-to-calls-of-extremism/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/temple-feminists-respond-to-calls-of-extremism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Letter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
Knitting. Fresh baked cupcakes. A neon pink Web site. Are these things typically associated with radicalism? We certainly don’t think so, but apparently Doanh Nghiem does [“University feminist group too extreme to debate,” Doanh Ngiem, Feb. 11, 2008].
Ms. Nghiem discussed Temple’s Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. We, as leaders of this organization, were disappointed to read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Un-equal Access: The Bush administration wants to veto a college aid bill for all the wrong reasons.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/un-equal-access-the-bush-administration-wants-to-veto-a-college-aid-bill-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/un-equal-access-the-bush-administration-wants-to-veto-a-college-aid-bill-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Presidents Day. And in this season where we celebrate the power and accomplishments of our chief executives past, our current president has given us more reason to remember how skewed his sense of responsibility really is.
After growing government spending astronomically, not to mention sticking a large finger in all American schools with No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic Alert: Temple can learn from another campus tragedy</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/tragic-alert-temple-can-learn-from-another-campus-tragedy/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/18/tragic-alert-temple-can-learn-from-another-campus-tragedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, Steve Kazmierczak opened fire on his fellow Northern Illinois University students, killing five and injuring 16 before turning his weapon on himself.
On Friday, Feb. 8, Temple tested TU-Alert, its new emergency alert system designed for situations exactly like the tragedy at NIU.
NIU has a similar emergency notification system and [...]]]></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>
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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>Cash Mail: anonymous donation deserves thanks.</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/cash-mail-anonymous-donation-deserves-thanks/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/cash-mail-anonymous-donation-deserves-thanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this age of e-mail, receiving a personalized letter in the mail can be quite exciting. It says that somebody other than the electric company thought enough about you to physically send you a message. So imagine how special Temple felt on Jan. 31 when it received an anonymous check for $5 million.
Along with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged Coverage: coverage of accusations of sexual assault is warranted</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/alleged-coverage-coverage-of-accusations-of-sexual-assault-is-warranted/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/11/alleged-coverage-coverage-of-accusations-of-sexual-assault-is-warranted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew J. Porter is, as of print, innocent of the crimes alleged against him.
Porter, 21, was arrested Jan. 30 and charged with two counts of rape and related offenses, as reported by The Temple News. We printed his name, his address and his photograph. It’s what we would do for any student who stands accused [...]]]></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>Photograph was insensitive and unprofessional</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/photograph-was-insensitive-and-unprofessional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
Today, like many students around the world, I woke up, brushed my teeth, took a shower, got dressed and put on my shoes, one foot at a time. I made sure to leave for class with plenty of time to spare, carrying my portable coffee mug filled with steaming liquid. I am a student at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unclear Clery</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/unclear-cleary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act was enacted in 1990 in an effort to expand the reporting of crimes on college campuses. It’s virtually impossible to argue with increased reporting and awareness of crimes on campus, but something is still wrong.
As The Temple News reported today, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loudest Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was just a five by seven photograph in the top corner of Page 3 in the Jan. 29 edition of The Temple News.
There was a fresh faced young woman dressed warmly to fight the cold on Market Street during a rally held by protesters in support of Palestinians.
There was another woman in the photo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AlliedBarton guards finally get their due</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/alliedbarton-guards-finally-get-their-due/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
As a member of the Student Labor Action Project here at Temple, I was overjoyed to stumble upon Thursday&#8217;s daily e-mail announcements. I learned that the Temple administration has finally granted the hard-working AlliedBarton guards on campus three paid sick days (replacing their previous policy which granted them none). Although elated by the news, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture was borderline slander</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/picture-was-borderline-slander/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Editor:I think that one of the greatest aspects of our country is our freedom of speech and press. We do not have to be afraid to express our opinions or fight for our beliefs. However, good journalists have a responsibility to write unbiased articles illustrating each sides&#8217; perspective objectively.
In your last issue, you included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo without explanation</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/photo-without-explanation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
Like many other Temple students, I was surprised to see a photo of a city protest you included in your Jan. 29 issue. I could not find the article on your Web site that was supposed to accompany the picture. I understand as a newspaper you are required to include the events of the city [...]]]></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>Picture made it appear as though The Temple News is anti-Israel</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/picture-made-it-appear-as-though-the-temple-news-is-anti-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/02/04/picture-made-it-appear-as-though-the-temple-news-is-anti-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
I would like to preface this letter by saying I am not a racist. I am, however, a Zionist. By definition, a Zionist would be an individual who believes the Jewish people deserve a homeland in the state of Israel. This definition does not include any mention of racism, or anything relating to the people [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/back-when-a-court-oath-meant-something/#comments</comments>
		<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>Reporter&#8217;s tactics were cruel, unwarranted</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/reporters-tactics-were-cruel-unwarranted/</link>
		<comments>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/reporters-tactics-were-cruel-unwarranted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor:
I read an article in The Temple News [“Singles get struck by Craigslist’s arrow,” Amanda Fries, Dec. 4, 2007], and I could not help but respond. I am a commuter student at Temple. This was actually the first Temple News I have ever picked up and read. I am also newly single after a five-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayoral Split</title>
		<link>http://temple-news.com/2008/01/29/mayoral-split/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Mayor Michael Nutter and Gov. Ed Rendell, one of Nutter&#8217;s predecessors in the mayor&#8217;s office, appeared together at City Hall to throw their endorsement behind Sen. Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bid for the U.S. presidency.
The scene was somewhat typical - establishment democrat mayor and governor praising the establishment democrat senator. Besides, Sen. Barack Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empty Seats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Katz wants you to support Temple athletics. He wants you to support Temple athletics so much, he is willing to put $10,000 on it.
Katz, a member of Temple&#8217;s Board of Trustees since 1998, has fronted the money for a competition soliciting suggestions on how to increase student, community and alumni attendance at the university&#8217;s [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Santos</dc