November, 2007 - The Temple News

Arena turns 10 years old

06 November 2007

Year after year, John Chaney listened to the same question about his ambitious non-conference schedule. “Why don’t you play these games in our place?” Chaney recalled being asked repeatedly. For the men’s basketball team, “our

Dunphy stressing defense

06 November 2007

His name has popped up in almost every conversation about the men’s basketball team in recent weeks. Although much of the media’s focus has been on senior Mark Tyndale and junior Dionte Christmas, among Temple

Eaddy, Landry to assist Comfort

06 November 2007

The women’s basketball team has been accustomed to being the Atlantic Ten Conference favorite in recent years. But this season the Owls find themselves adapting to a new title, that of the underdog. The Owls

Ranked opponents fill teams’ schedules

06 November 2007

Atlantic Coast Conference teams were not kind to the women’s basketball team last season. The Owls lost four of the five games they played against ACC competition, dropping games to NCAA Tournament-bound teams Maryland, North

His grades secure, Mark Tyndale aims to refine his defensive skills.

06 November 2007

Mark Tyndale was deemed academically ineligible last season and missed the first six games. Fans might know Tyndale, a senior guard, rebounded to become the second-leading scorer in the Atlantic Ten Conference, averaging a career-high

Lady Comfort is the ‘go-to’ player after two seasons as a supplement.

06 November 2007

Senior year. It’s normally a time when students are frantically trying to graduate on time, aimlessly searching for jobs and generally enjoying their last year on a college campus. But for Lady Comfort, this year

Graphic pictures cause stir

06 November 2007

For two consecutive days last week, the Pennsylvania non-profit Generation Life displayed the Genocide Awareness Project, an outdoor exhibit featuring explicit photographs of fetuses and corpses from various genocides, at the Bell Tower. The Temple

Emergency notification sounds off

06 November 2007

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

Graduates struggle with rising debt

06 November 2007

The average debt for a 2006 graduate from Temple is $27,355 – up $1,862 from the previous year’s graduates, according to the Project on Student Debt that cited Temple graduates as some of the highest

Children’s Medical Center to close following $19 million loss

06 November 2007

Temple University Children’s Medical Center, after a decade of operating in the red and losing $19 million last year, will shut down and move its inpatient services to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, hospital officials