IF YOU GO:
What: Luminescence
When: Sept. 15, 16 at 8 p.m.
Where: Conwell Hall
Cost: Free
With his boyish looks and sheepish smile, conductor Mark Doerries doesn’t seem like the revolutionary type. But Doerries,
a graduate conducting student in Temple’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, is on a mission to bring choir music to a new generation.
After he attended [...]

I presume most, if not all, of you are familiar with facebook.com. Commonly referred to as just Facebook, the site has become a staple of social networking scenes at the vast majority of stateside colleges. Students can create profiles, which other students can then browse through and add as friends, seemingly so they can keep [...]

At its inception, some time after the invention of the wheel, the Internet sprang forth, offering its abilities to strengthen the power of communication all over the world. It has created businesses, connected families and genuinely improved - or at least intensified - the way in which the world works.
The Internet has done it again. [...]

Boasting fully furnished apartments complete with flat screen TVs in every bedroom and concierge service, the 12-story Edge at Avenue North, located at 1600 N. Broad St., is the latest mega-housing project to accommodate the ever-growing student body at Temple.
But for many of the nearly 1,000 new residents, the luxuries advertised do not quite live [...]

After three years of debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptive drug, Plan B to women 18 years of age and older. Manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals hopes to make Plan B available in pharmacies by the end of the year.
Student Health Services currently provides Plan B at no [...]

“He’s just going to squash me like a little bug,” said senior Jack Posobiec, describing a professor whom he disagreed with politically.
“This is someone who has a Ph.D. in the subject. There’s not much I can really do to debate him.”
Posobiec, a political science major and chairman of Temple College Republicans, said he and other [...]

Leonard (Lenny) M. Donnelly, a junior tourism
and hospitality management major, died suddenly
on Aug. 21, 2006.
Mr. Donnelly, who was from Horsham, Pa. and graduated from Hatboro-Horsham High School in 2004, was a member of the Sig Ep fraternity.
In the fraternity, Mr. Donnelly’s “big brother,” Greg Germani, a senior history major, said Mr. Donnelly was always able [...]

Earlier this summer, two Temple employees contacted the human resources department to file reports for theft of identity and credit card information.
In order to prevent faculty and students from falling victim to identity theft, Campus Safety Services has issued several precautions that individuals should take to deter criminals from obtaining personal information.
The state of Pennsylvania [...]

Martavis Kee told Rivals.com he hoped this weekend’s visit to Temple would be his first and last official visit to any school recruiting the high school basketball star.
The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native made his wish come true.
Kee gave Temple’s men’s basketball program a verbal commitment Friday to play under coach Fran Dunphy beginning in the [...]

Irresponsible. Incredibly stupid. A real shame.
A few choice words from the Department of Athletics in response to our comments about the football program on the front page of our “Welcome Back” edition.
We don’t know if we’d go that far, but we think that those comments were well within our editorial right to question a football [...]