2007 - The Temple News

Four-week fitness contest is in the cards

30 January 2007 The Temple News

In a city famous for cheesesteaks and ranked one of the nation’s fattest, about 100 Temple students will take on the challenge to lose weight and aid the university in hopes of being named “Philly’s

Alumna captures Darfur with art

30 January 2007 The Temple News

Debra Kapnek wants people to act. Inspired by stories and photographs taken by Brian Steidle, a former U.S. Marine stationed in Darfur, Sudan, the Temple alumna created “Out of Africa,” a collection of paintings of

Post grand-opening festivities, students eager to test lines, wait times at PNC bank

30 January 2007 The Temple News

Students no longer have to bear the long lines and wait when banking at the PNC Bank on Liacouras Walk. The vacant space that formerly housed Dunkin’ Donuts and Togo’s is now home to a

Taking money out of Monday meetings

30 January 2007 The Temple News

If there’s one aspect of Temple Student Government that student organizations love to hate, it’s the allocations process. Now with TSG’s “new look and feel,” which the body’s Executive Board spent its winter break working

Students get paid to talk diversity

30 January 2007 The Temple News

Beginning tomorrow, student organizations can earn 50 Diamond Dollars by participating in the Diversity Dialogues Series, a semester long workshop designed to engage student leaders in discussion on multiculturalism and diversity. The incentive was announced

Numbers Game

30 January 2007 The Temple News

There’s no better way to define an educational institution than by the students who walk through its doors. Or those who don’t, perhaps. For as many students Temple accepts yearly, nearly half of those very

Oprah’s Pick

30 January 2007 The Temple News

The queen of daytime talk has a history of doing things in grandiose style. Who can forget the sparkling diamond-drop earrings she surprised herguests with at the end of the star-studded Legends Ball? Or the

Why we should be tuning in to TU-TV

30 January 2007 The Temple News

It is no secret that Temple’s communications program is one of the best on the East Coast. But that is a hard pill to swallow when a smaller university in our own city is overshadowing

Teaching educators to help fight childhood obesity

30 January 2007 The Temple News

Your kid is fat. Imagine receiving a letter from your child’s school stating this. Not exactly in those words, but this is what Pennsylvania and New Jersey schools are now doing. During hearing and vision

Celebs too, can make mistakes

30 January 2007 The Temple News

What happened to that pleasant Koosh ball-slinging, “cutie patootie”-calling woman the American public knew as Rosie O’Donnell? In her recent mudslinging feud with Donald Trump, she has done nothing but cement herself as the judgmental