Steven Holmes’ sentencing was a strong statement by the city’s court system.

After assaulting a Temple student in Anderson Hall last November, Steven Holmes was sentenced Friday.

Three of the most beautiful places on an urban campus offer plenty of peace and quiet for busy students.

Despite the media attention Temple received for the November assault in Anderson Hall and the February anti-Semitic hate crime, Campus Safety Services Executive Director Carl Bittenbender said the numbers for this year look good.
Part I offenses for 2007 on campus, including murder, manslaughter, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, auto theft and arson, dropped from 367 [...]

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 [...]

On Valentine’s Day, students at Northern Illinois University witnessed yet another college shooting. According to the New York Times, a lockdown and notification system was put into effect immediately, similar to the TU-Alert system that university officials recently tested.
“I don’t know very much about their system,” said Temple communications director Ray Betzner, whose son was [...]

Reality struck again Thursday evening.
And it struck hard.
With all of the fancy bells and whistles Temple has added to campus in recent year, it’s almost too easy for students to forget that this is still North Philadelphia.
But Thursday night’s assault was a devastating reminder of what can happen if you fall into a complacent mind [...]

The new emergency contact system has now been installed throughout the entire university.
The system is called the MiR3 and it is a two-way notification system that will alert students and faculty in the situation of any campus-wide threat.
This alert will be disseminated through the university by e-mails, voice mails and text messages.
Although Temple’s Main Campus [...]