After the initial excitement of learning that I was accepted to Temple in 2003 had subsided, I felt myself falling into a daily conversation regarding my future.
Once many of my neighbors, coaches and other acquaintances had found out where I was attending college, almost every one of them followed with a statement that sounded a [...]

I searched the Princeton Review and simply could not find a single list that ranked a school based on the acts of one of its basketball coaches and an alumnus. Why is that?
It doesn’t reflect the quality of the school.
In the Feb. 28 edition of the Philadelphia Metro, Clark DeLeon wrote a column titled, “Temple [...]

John Chaney has only read two books since graduating from Bethune-Cookman College in 1955: “Savage Inequalities” by Jonathan Kozol and “The Shape of the River” by Derek Curtis Bok.
One is about inequities in the school systems; the other affirmative action.
He loves both of them to death.
“I have them for sale for about $1,000 a piece,” [...]