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Police raid “speak-easy” party

30 October 2007

Fifty-seven students were arrested Friday night for underage liquor consumption at a party at 1806 Diamond St. in what police are calling a “speak-easy bust,” WPVI-TV reported yesterday. A representative from Temple University Campus Safety

More stores to accept Diamond Dollars soon, according to TSG

30 October 2007

Temple Student Government Treasurer Brad Hoffman and his Finance committee members cleared up student’s questions about Diamond Dollar usage and expansion at Monday’s general assembly meeting. Soon students will be able to spend their Diamond

Placement tests include grad hopeful

30 October 2007

Christopher Paslay’s work appeared on the placement tests Temple administered to hundreds of incoming freshmen, but the university said that same work is not quite enough to secure him admission to its graduate school. Paslay,

Ambassador criticizes U.S. policies

30 October 2007

Venezuelan ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera eschewed elitism last Thursday with a word on the American electoral process. “You’re telling me that in a democratic country, if you want to be elected senator, you need to

A relationship rooted in community history

30 October 2007

North Philadelphia native Vince Griffin encountered his first experience with Temple 54 years ago. At the age of seven, Griffin participated in a summer preparatory program which partnered the College of Education with local North

Tuition rise is double the inflation rate

30 October 2007

Along with other universities around the country, Temple’s tuition and fees increased at double the rate of inflation, according to figures reported by the College Board last Monday. Since last year, tuition and fees at

Islamo-fascism week causes public uproar nationwide.

30 October 2007

Six years after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, concerns still linger of it happening again. From Oct. 22 through 26, the Temple College Republicans held two events on campus as part of the nation-wide

Islamo-fascism controversy

30 October 2007

“College kids are living in a fantasy world,” former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum told an audience at the Student Center last Wednesday “The world is changing, but you don’t see it because you don’t feel

Soy meat and the right kind of ‘dive’

23 October 2007

On my scavenger hunt for picks, I came across an area that often gets overlooked. It seems that everyone who parties in Center City hangs out on Chestnut or Walnut streets. Meanwhile, Sansom Street’s nightlife

Daring, hit musical will spark Broadway evolution

23 October 2007

REVIEW – On a Broadway of shows too timid to deviate from safe applause, Spring Awakening has defied every convention of the blockbuster formula. More importantly, it has drawn the line for the next evolutionary