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John Corrigan: Fueling oil blame

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Debating who is to blame for high gas prices is doing little to solve the problem at the pump.
Freshman secondary education major Chad Edwards said he began to carpool from Bustleton to Main Campus because he “can’t afford to keep filling up [his] tank.”
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“I have missed classes and meetings because I didn’t have the gas or the cash in order to drive down to campus,” Edwards said.

Under the Radar

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The Things Spring Brings
April 9
5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
VIX Emporium, 5009 Baltimore Ave.
Free
http://www.vixemporium.com/

Artist Pragya Kothari is exhibiting some of her artwork at VIX Emporium to help welcome spring.…

Gymnastics earns second place at ECACs

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The team finished behind University of Illinois at Chicago on Sunday.
The men’s gymnastics team came away with a second-place finish in the final round of the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League Championships after trailing William & Mary by 2.200 points before entering the vault event on Saturday.…

Post Quake

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After experiencing disaster in Japan, the university should improve its planning process.
The world today is unpredictable, but contingency plans are all the more necessary because of it.
When a 9.0 magnitude quake devastated Japan on March 11, university officials began to evaluate the safety of its TU Japan students.…

Sodexo responds to tweet regarding poor services

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In response to poor service, a student’s tweet provoked a response from Sodexo.
A student’s tweet turned into a formal complaint with Sodexo when one of the company’s employees saw the tweet and responded, which led to a meeting on March 29.…

Greening the Job Market

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Van Jones spoke at Temple about the future green collar economy.
Despite the well-known controversy portrayed by the media during his time in the White House in 2009, Van Jones does not come off as an anti-American, conspiracy-theorizing communist kind of guy.…

Temple Tweets

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Now, more than ever, I am clinging to Twitter. In life, we all need a rock, and Twitter is mine. If I could give Mother Nature a big sloppy kiss for making the erosion of rocks a slow process, I would.…