November, 2011 - The Temple News

Dating site attracts higher ed students

29 November 2011 Luis Rodriguez

DateMySchool.com, founded in November 2010, is a website exclusively for singles with an active .edu email address. Current college students can do anything online: Black Friday shopping, board meetings, ordering pizza and even speaking to

Sustainability office adopts car sharing

29 November 2011 Becky Kerner

Zimride strives to slash single occupancy vehicles and adopts a green initiative. The Office of Sustainability is driving a hard launch of Temple Zimride, a car share program started in April in an effort to

Gov. pushes for privatization

29 November 2011 Amelia Brust

Main Campus basks in a barren liquor desert, but lawmakers are pushing for change. A new report released by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s office on Oct. 3 outlines plans to privatize state-run liquor stores, which

TSG discusses reservations

29 November 2011 Amelia Brust

Last night’s TSG meeting addressed room reservations and committee activities. Student Center Director Jason Levy addressed student organizations at the Temple Student Government General Assembly Meeting on Monday, Nov. 28. Levy discussed concerns from organizations

Clarke may assume council presidency

28 November 2011 Sean Carlin

Darrell Clarke could be City Council’s next president, but that has some on Main Campus worried. Councilman Darrell Clarke’s fifth district is not only plagued with a poverty rate that hovers as high as 68 percent,

Working students fall behind

28 November 2011 Khoury Johnson

Students who work while enrolled in college classes tend to take extra semesters to graduate, data show. Besides commuting an hour from Upper Dublin, Montgomery County to Main Campus and working between 20 to 30

Greeks go green

28 November 2011 Kate Kelly

A fraternity is partnering with the Office of Sustainability to conduct energy audits. Members of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity participated in training that will enable them to conduct energy audits for fraternity houses around

Merit pay

28 November 2011 Khoury Johnson

Temple awards teachers for excellence, but tenured professors have an advantage. As a non-tenure track professor in the political science department, Alistair Howard knows he’s in good company. Howard said he believes that the professors

Giving this holiday season

28 November 2011 Kierra Bussey

This holiday season, there are several ways that the gift of giving can be shared in Philadelphia. Whether it is small or big, the gift is going to a child in need. Below are some

Shopping alternatives attract local

28 November 2011 Sarah Elizabeth Guy

Although Black Friday attracts millions of people to the stores, community member Jean-Francois Shahade has another tradition. On Friday, Nov. 25, 152 million people rolled out of bed and spent $9.7 billion on Black Friday,