The second article in a series In 1988, the Rev. Jesse Jackson defended the term African American to describe blacks living in America. “To be called African Americans has cultural integrity. It puts us in
At the academic freedom hearings held in January on Main Campus, academic reform activist David Horowitz said during his testimony before a panel of state legislators that current professional standards were “violated every single day,
Graduate student employees may be eligible for refunds after an arbitrator ruled that the university violated their contract by not paying for summer health insurance. The debate between the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association and
An assistant professor in the College of Liberal Arts is at the center of a controversy involving Temple University Press, the Philadelphia Irish underworld and a book about a crime gang that has been a
If the debate over academic freedom in higher education is a T-bone steak, it’s mostly fat. The most recent example: Conservative activist David Horowitz’s recently released book The Professors, which is a guide to unmasking
The Enigwe sisters live by individuality. “[We are] trend setters, not followers,” the older sibling said. So it’s ironic that the sisters and fashion design partners, Chidelu and Chigozi, both go by Chi Chi, a
We’ve all seen the shirts before: “Kiss me, I’m Irish.” No, thank you. I’d rather kiss a frog than someone tacky enough to wear the most unoriginal T-shirt on St. Patrick’s Day. With each holiday,
Jazz musician Adam Unsworth has combined two interestingly different music genres, chamber jazz and French horn jazz, with his recently released CD, excerpt this! Unsworth, an eight-year member of the Philadelphia Orchestra as a French
Look at me wedged all up in here. Can I get some space? Can I? All this St. Patrick’s Day nonsense. There’s not even room for my hair. Oh, the aggravation. As if none of
“Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?” So begins Upstate, the poignant debut novel from New York’s Kalisha Buckhanon. The classically haunting tale of