February, 2011 - The Temple News

Driving off the streets and into the showroom

01 February 2011 Alexandra Olivier

Attendees and participants of the Philadelphia International Auto Show explain how car shows are an art form that everyone can enjoy. The Philadelphia International Auto Show takes art to new heights when it gives patrons

Track breaks school records

01 February 2011 Brandon Stoneburg

Men’s distance and women’s relay runners break school records. The men’s and women’s track teams came back from State College, Pa., with two new school records and a sense that things were starting to click.

Threats to state funding prompt rally

01 February 2011 Cary Carr

Temple Student Government is organizing a rally in Harrisburg on Feb. 15. While the university risks facing a cut in its commonwealth appropriations, Temple Student Government is fighting back by hosting the Rally for Higher

Owls beat down Atlantic Ten cellar-dwellers

01 February 2011

The men’s basketball team wins two games over last-place teams. The men’s basketball team performed about as well as anyone could expect it to against the Atlantic Ten Conference bottom-feeders Charlotte and St. Joseph’s this

Info-gathering takes new shape online

01 February 2011 Natsai Todd

While Wikipedia may tempt students as a legitimate resource, it presents a problem in actual research. Controversy has hovered around Wikipedia since its inception and has split professors and students on the debate of whether

Planning Ahead

01 February 2011 Editorial Board

Students must be responsible and use the new policies to graduate on time. Upon graduating high school, incoming freshmen leave behind four years of schooling to embark on what they hope will be no more

Snow Stumped

01 February 2011 Editorial Board

The university should use last Thursday’s snowfall as a lesson. As 15.1 inches of snow blanketed Philadelphia Thursday, students were forced to squirm out from underneath their blankets to trudge to class, as the university

Community Voice: Delayed traveling in snowy Philadelphia

01 February 2011 Josh Fernandez

Sharon Davis paid a neighbor to dig her car out of the 15.1 inches of snow lingering in Philadelphia since the “Thundersnow” storm struck Philadelphia, Wednesday into early Thursday morning. Davis, 44, laughed when asked

Street Sounds: Josh Ritter

01 February 2011 Kevin Stairiker

Josh Ritter is a singer-songwriter, but not the usual kind. He doesn’t write wimpy odes to love or the traditional cute whine-fest. Ritter is a songwriter in the classical sense – writing songs that could

Policy changes to be enacted

01 February 2011

To improve retention rates, several policy updates and revisions will be implemented by Spring 2012. For many college students, the four-year plan can seem like an unattainable goal. According to a study conducted by the