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‘Love at first sight’ doesn’t have a fairytale ending

09 February 2011 Alexis Sachdev

Columnist Alexis Sachdev explores the non-meaning behind love found at a party with jungle juice. Cassie, what do you think of this watch?” I asked my best friend as I held up my wrist to

Bruce Chubb: Toiling with tattling

01 February 2011 Bruce Chubb

Situations like the one faced by former Philadelphia police officer Ray Carnation shows there’s a proper time for snitching. No one likes to be the snitch – the person who is willing to dime out

Allen’s play is fading

24 January 2011 Kyle Gauss

Senior forward Lavoy Allen has not played up to expectations. Uh oh. Things are starting to get scary for the men’s basketball team. With Saturday’s loss to Xavier, the Owls have now lost two of

Reaction and reflection on Al Golden

13 December 2010

Well, this was bound to happen. The more games Al Golden would win for the Cherry and White, the more notoriety he would gain in the college football world and it would be only a

The years change, but the team stays the same

10 December 2010 Kyle Gauss

Wow. December sure is good for the men’s basketball team, isn’t it? Two years ago, a Dionte Christmas-led Temple team upset No. 8 Tennessee. Christmas scored 35 points to lead the Owls to a 88-72

Eating healthy means avoiding the ‘food trap’

06 December 2010

Columnist Sarah Sanders explains uncontrollable, unhealthy eating habits. Since the birth of this column in September, hopefully I’ve made you think more than you wanted to about food – at least once. Maybe you were

Small towns progress in different ways

29 November 2010 Brandon Baker

Every Tuesday and Thursday, I venture deep into the Gayborhood to hop various coffee shops. There are two reasons for this: because quite simply, I get more work done when I’m away from Main Campus,

Owls’ loss not a cause for panic

17 November 2010

This entire game can be summed up in two words: Missed opportunities. Missed opportunities on offense contributed to the big missed opportunity: a chance to go to the Mid-American Conference Championship in Detroit. The Ohio

Temple Tweets

08 November 2010 Samantha Krotzer

I am absolutely dying for someone to ask me if there is something in my pants or if I am just happy to see them. Because you know what, there is something in my pants

Slackers’ syndrome strikes ‘super seniors’

08 November 2010 Maria Santilli

Just like the endless drama of high school, the plague of senioritis doesn’t disappear. Instead, it takes an approximately four-year hiatus until we are a new kind of senior. But the title of “super senior”