Angelo Fichera - The Temple News

Setbacks affect Bowl winners

22 February 2011 Angelo Fichera

The 2010 winners of the Be Your Own Boss Bowl are experiencing unforeseen challenges. Four Temple students started an engineering company that produced a shock-absorbing product for motorcycles, entered it into an entrepreneurial contest and

Taking it to the Capitol

22 February 2011 Angelo Fichera

Students from Temple, the University of Pittsburgh, Lincoln University and Penn State University came together on Feb. 15 in Harrisburg, Pa., to rally the support of state politicians for state funding. Joining under the Pennsylvania

Aggressive advising

08 February 2011 Angelo Fichera

New programs aim to restructure the inner workings of academic advising. Across the board at Temple, the retention rate for freshmen is approximately 85 percent, which means 15 percent of first-year students will drop out

Foundation recognizes community engagement

25 January 2011 Angelo Fichera

Temple’s integration of community needs and curriculum receive classification. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently recognized Temple, among another 115 colleges, in its 2010 Community Engagement Classification. The classification required institutions to

Transportation program helps patients

18 January 2011 Angelo Fichera

A nonprofit organization’s new program is assisting cancer patients. Getting cancer patients onto a path toward healing is a battle in itself, but one often overlooked struggle is getting patients onto the road and to

Matching results with TSG’s intentions

06 December 2010 Angelo Fichera

Temple Student Government should focus less on in-house policies and more on issues students can relate to. For the better half of the Spring 2010 semester, I spent my Monday nights drowning in the sound

‘Thug Life’ T-shirt creator receives cease-and-desist order

15 November 2010 Angelo Fichera

University officials requested Greg Gant stop using the Temple “T” in his shirt designs.

Nov. 2 shooting near Main Campus results in death

05 November 2010 Angelo Fichera

Updated on Friday, Nov. 5 at 7:27 p.m. A 25-year-old man who was found shot in the chest multiple times on the edge of Main Campus on Tuesday, Nov. 2, was pronounced dead Wednesday, Nov

Pharmacy students offer awareness, statistics

22 October 2010 Angelo Fichera

Wearing their white lab coats, professional students from the School of Pharmacy held their “Giving Back to the Heroes” event for the third year in a row, but, for the first time on Main Campus,

Students protest controversial anti-Islam speakers

11 October 2010 Angelo Fichera

Stop Islamization of America speakers ignited student debate.