April, 2008 - The Temple News

Champion’s stride: The women’s lacrosse team captures their fifth A-10 Championship

28 April 2008

Last Wednesday, the Owls dropped their game to No. 6 Princeton, 15-7. The outcome wasn’t what they had hoped for on the team’s Senior Day. But Sunday was the day seniors Whitney Richards and Nicole

Single or taken, happy or not: You come first

28 April 2008

It is incredible that happy people always seem to be hiding something jaded under their smiles. Just when I started to get a tad jealous of people in relationships, I remembered some of the issues

Stimulants always a dangerous addition to finals studying plans

28 April 2008

Biology major Ashley Rutherford drinks three energy drinks while working on a paper for her American literature class. Freshman art and advertising major James Thompson said he prefers coffee and drinks it more than three

Puppy love, artist’s block on display this month

28 April 2008

Most people can’t become engaged in a work of art unless it speaks to them. It must be at least relatable, even if not completely realistic. Human nature renders most people emotionally distanced from things

Ms. Tootsie’s serves southern comfort pipin’ hot

28 April 2008

A restaurant doesn’t need rarities or refinements in order to be successful. Ms. Tootsie’s Soul Food Café may not wow you with foreign ingredients or the artistry of its presentation, but it has a knack

Summer in the city means rock ’n’ rolling wheels

28 April 2008

Summer is almost here, and I couldn’t be more excited. Despite how fun the warmer months are in Philadelphia, I’ll be headed out West on a cross-country bike ride from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Anacordas,

With Northern Liberties, corsets and coffee for all

28 April 2008

First things first: yes, the Market-Frankford Line does go past Second Street. It stops at Spring Garden and Girard.

The distance between business, community

28 April 2008

News flash: a laundromat opened up recently. There’s plenty of space and a nice-sized seating area with convenient folding tables, and it offers free wireless Internet, which makes it attractive to college students. One minor

Vonnegut offers one last gasp of literary genius

28 April 2008

Just more than one year ago, America lost one of its finest writers – one of the world’s finest writers – of the 20th century. Kurt Vonnegut’s death on April 11, 2007 did not exactly

The search for the next best Hooters

28 April 2008

For everyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to be Temple’s mascot, Hooter the Owl, or thought that it’s something they’d be good at, this could be your big break. Much like