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Gaining Speed

29 November 2010 Stephen Rose

When Michaela Albanese brought her longboard skateboard to Main Campus with her, she did so mainly for its convenience as a mode of transportation. “I started [longboarding] a couple of summers ago when I lived

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15 November 2010 Samantha Krotzer

You’d think by the time I was a senior I would be over the fact that Temple doesn’t give us a fall break. But I should have known myself better than that. I’m still pissed

All work and no play is the American Way

15 November 2010 Priscilla Ward

Evidence shows that once students graduate and finally land a job, they may find they have little time for anything else but the workplace.

Evolution produces US sweet craving

15 November 2010 The Temple News

Columnist Sarah Sanders warns readers against mass-produced sweet snacks.

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”

College students take their chances on the Web

08 November 2010 Haley Kmetz

Zak Dombrowski a sophomore criminal justice major, and Jovan Hernandez, a senior human resource management major, are online poker players, and just may be part of a growing trend among college students in the United

Western ideas take backseat in Japan

02 November 2010 Lee Miller

Columnist Lee Miller explains Japanese culture dominates despite Western influences.

Smoker extinguishes a habit for four-day challenge

01 November 2010 Alexis Sachdev

In the final edition of “Vices,” Alexis Sachdev calls it quits on her nicotine love affair.
“Vices” is a four-part column that challenges what we think we need. Each week, a different writer will give up something he or she “can’t live without.” We watch them land safely or crash and burn.

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25 October 2010 Samantha Krotzer

People have their own perspectives on the word “global.” Some might think about traveling “Eat Pray Love”-style, some Debbie Downers might think about global warming and people like me might think of the size of