November, 2007 - The Temple News

AUD Wheelchair Basketball Tournament raises funds, awareness

06 November 2007

Two 5-on-5 teams rolled up and down the court in Pearson Hall. Fast passes, labored maneuvering and collapsing wheelchairs dominated the game. Coinciding with its purpose, Adaptation and Understanding for People with Disabilities – the

FMLA hosts sex toy party to support Planned Parenthood

06 November 2007

Nearly 80 Temple students and their friends poured into the Student Center Friday night for the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance’s sex toy party, in which half the proceeds benefitted Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania. Raffle tickets

LIFT dance festival commends, promotes adjunct faculty with a chance to perform

06 November 2007

Temple’s dance department is home to many outstanding faculty members who have helped to create the prestigious reputation the department holds today. Part of what has helped the dance department gain such a reputation is

Jessica Vale hits Billboard Music Charts

06 November 2007

Beneath Jessica Vale’s frizzy hair and dark eye shadow is the ideal product of Temple: diversified, independent and successful. Since graduating from Temple in 2000, Vale has released two albums under Explicit Records – which

Alum battles memories of WWII and lost love

06 November 2007

Bernard Bail and his brother went to war. He in the sky. His brother on the ground. World War II had a way of causing separation. Men from home, from family, from themselves. “I didn’t

Uglydelphia

06 November 2007

Philadelphia is used to criticism. From its yearly run as one of America’s fattest cities to its constant mocking in the media, the city is often bullied. But when harsh criticism comes from the city’s

Temple art students need your help!

06 November 2007 Letter

Dear Editor: My senior seminar art class has a problem: gallery space for our final art show. I am asking you and your readers for any potential spaces or suggestions on finding a large, decent

Temple’s own Progressive NAACP is campus model

06 November 2007

The members of Temple’s Progressive NAACP have learned how to take something old and make it new. The 50-student offshoot of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has not only reworked its

Green friendly should be ignored for Phila. Elections

06 November 2007

The 2007 Philadelphia mayoral election is today, pinning the favored Democrat, Michael Nutter, against Republican Al Taubenberger. Both candidates have focused their campaigns primarily on green issues, often neglecting more pressing topics. “That’s because they

Dissing Orientation

06 November 2007 Editorial Board

Temple has no rich activist heritage. There have been tremors to the contrary. Many of late. Last Wednesday, there was another. As reported on this edition’s front page, Temple’s Black Student Union joined with the