Community - The Temple News

Reducing the “Red Zone”: How Temple responds to sexual assault cases

02 November 2024 Evelyn Blower

Campus resources and departments are working together to help lower sexual assault rates during the time period.

SEPTA’s largest union votes to strike

27 October 2024 Nurbanu Sahin and Evelyn Blower

Transport Workers Local Union 234 voted to strike before their old contract with SEPTA ends.

SEPTA to add full-length gates at Cecil B. Moore station, proposes increased fares

25 October 2024 Nurbanu Sahin

A “successful pilot” at 69th Street Transportation center will bring full-length gates to nine other stops.

TUPD outlines training for demonstration protocols

08 October 2024 Evelyn Blower and Aubren Villasenor

Arrests at a career fair protests prompted concerns on how TUPD enforces protest guidelines.

Questions arise as UArts redirects endowments

24 September 2024 Samantha Morgan

UArts filed a petition for Temple to receive 44% of their endowment and has now filed for bankruptcy.

1700 block of Montgomery Avenue unveiled as Christopher Fitzgerald Way

15 June 2023 Samuel O'Neal

Gov. Josh Shapiro, Acting President JoAnne Epps and other leaders spoke at the unveiling ceremony.

Temple evaluates traffic control measures following pedestrian death

30 January 2023 Justin Roig

The university has not yet outlined a timeline for the project which would be carried out by Temple’s project delivery group.

Kerry Washington joins local politicians at Temple’s campus ahead of midterms

07 November 2022 Shriya Gohel

Actor and activist Kerry Washington and Jabari Banks joined local political leaders to encourage audience members to vote for Democrats in Tuesday’s election.

Xylazine overdose rates increasing in Philadelphia

11 October 2022 Devon Russell

Xylazine was found in 90 percent of heroin and fentanyl tested by the City of Philadelphia.

Wingard bikes through North Central to meet community leaders

06 April 2022 Eden MacDougall

President Wingard spoke with community leaders about how Temple students can improve their behavior and how the university can give back to the neighborhood.