As the school year begins, AmeriCorps volunteers begin their assignments. However, due to the drastic funding cutbacks earlier this year, thousands of volunteers will not be reporting to their first day on the job. In
Temple University’s recent addition to unite more students through reading comes in the form of a Brown Bag Lunch book club. Born from the mind of Margaret Jerrido, Paley Library Administrator, Brown Bag Lunch’s objective
For Journalism professor Thomas Eveslage, being a faculty member has always been about teaching, not writing books or doing research. This summer, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication recognized his dedication to
History is not dead. That is the message Temple University’s History department hopes to send as its series of weekly teach-ins enters its second year. The teach-ins, which grew out of History professor Ralph Young’s
At its July 3 banquet in Louisville, Kentucky, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) presented its $3,000 scholarship to Harriet Go of Philadelphia, PA, who will be a senior majoring in elementary education at
For many of you reading this, your second week of classes here at Temple has ended. In case we haven’t said it before, welcome to Temple University. Our school can reach both dizzying heights and
American Splendor is an excitingly original foray into the world of comic book movies. Though the people and situations onscreen are taken directly from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic of the same name, don’t expect to
Be warned, partying personified is descending upon Philadelphia. On Thursday, September 11th, Andrew W.K. will sound the party alarm at the Theater of the Living Arts, where he and his band will bring to the
No matter how much students seem to save up over the summer their pockets always seem empty after being hit with tuition, fees and overpriced books. The beginning of every semester generally equals financial hardships,
The days of freely-given class withdrawals and endlessly repeated classes to get a GPA boost at Temple University are over. A series of new academic policies were implemented over the summer to curb abuses of