It seems Sen. Hillary Clinton is under constant attack, columnist Chris Stover notes how it affected yesterday’s primary.
Posted on 22 April 2008 by Chris Stover
It seems Sen. Hillary Clinton is under constant attack, columnist Chris Stover notes how it affected yesterday’s primary.
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Police Reports
April 14
Presser Hall Library
Employee reported an unknown person removed the glass to the library door between 4 p.m. April 13 and 6:45 a.m. April 14. Nothing reported missing.
1250 W. Oxford St
Window broken on a 2003 Chevrolet with text books taken between 7:40 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. April 14.
1250 W. Berks St.
Student reported receiving harassing e-mails [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Tyson McCloud
John Marzano, a former Temple baseball player who played 10 years in the Major Leagues, died on Saturday, April 19 after falling down a flight of stairs in his South Philadelphia home. He was 45.
As of late Saturday night, the exact cause of Marzano’s death was not immediately clear, the Associated Press reported.
Marzano, a catcher [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Greg Adomaitis
President Ann Weaver Hart signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment at a ceremony held in Mitten Hall yesterday. In signing, Temple joins 521 other colleges and universities across the country that have expressed concern about climate change.
Representatives from the Sustainability Task Force and members of Students for Environmental Action were all in [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Morgan A. Zalot
A lawsuit filed by a former graduate student has Temple in the midst of a legal battle over students’ First Amendment rights.
On April 10, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Temple appealed a March 2007 ruling that the university’s old sexual harassment policy was too broad and unconstitutional. Temple amended the [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Kriston Bethel
“Day 100 is quite exciting, and we’re only halfway there,” Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said, speaking to a group of mostly students and professors at the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
The event, titled “The First 100 Days: The Mayor and the Media,” was part of an Urban Studies Conversation series that is open to the [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Julio C. Nunez
Just four days before the April 22 primary in Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama made another campaign stop in Philadelphia. This time, the turnout was higher than expected.
Frank Friel, director of security at the Independence Visitor Center, estimated that 35,000 people attended a rally for the senator Friday night. This turnout has been [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Victoria Oravec
AMBLER – Ambler students were recently honored at the 17th-annual Student Leadership Awards banquet.
The Friday night event to honor students who have shown leadership at Ambler Campus was held at the Doubletree Hotel in Plymouth Meeting.
The event began with the singing of Temple’s alma mater, led by Student Government Association President Staisha Stephens-Brown.
Dr. Wanda Lewis-Campbell, [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Jessica Lawlor
For the first time in 30 years, Temple is changing their grading system.
Starting this semester, Temple professors will submit their grades electronically, eliminating paper forms. This is the first time since the 1970s that Temple has changed their grading system. Previously, the university used mark sense grade forms, which some professors compared to a Scantron [...]
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Rebecca Hale
Temple Student Government held its first debate last Wednesday for the April 22 and 23 executive board elections. But few students attended the event in the Student Center Atrium.
The debate had two rounds of questioning. In the first, the slates were asked the same four questions, but in the second, they were asked two specific [...]