I shook my head, not in disbelief, but in disappointment when I saw a noose dangling from a so-called “white only” tree in Jena, La. It was the final frame of a video about the
Movements are begun in a day. They are not completed in a day. Take a look at any worthwhile movement and you’ll see that it takes time. Witness the civil rights movement, which is still
As you prepare for your much-deserved winter break and, no doubt, begin holiday shopping for your loved ones, I would ask you to please keep in mind the importance of buying locally. Be it products
Despite repeated attempts to ask for an interview with Temple alumnus, booster and Board of Trustees member Bill Cosby, we, the 86-year-old newspaper of the community for which he is, invariably, the most public figure,
Mayor-elect Michael Nutter has chosen Charles Ramsey, former police chief of Washington, D.C., as Philadelphia’s next police commissioner. Ramsey has a long history as a police officer and chief, and helped lower crime in Washington.
My birthday is coming, but I haven’t been thinking about presents. See, I’ve been questioning when birthday celebrations, the way we are accustomed to seeing them today, with parties and gifts and cards and cake,
If you don’t involve yourself in Philadelphia boxing, then you’ll never find a boxer you’ve heard of fighting at the 1,200-seat Blue Horizon. The money isn’t there. Instead, you’ll find two fighters respectfully trying to
The semester is ending, and, with just one more edition left after this, I thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the major events of the last 10 weeks that shaped where we stand
As a student at Drexel University, almost every assumption and comparison you have made with Drexel [Oct. 30, “DNC presidential hopefuls more Dragons than Owls” by Stephen Zook] is wrong. The biggest factor for NBC
When Jack Klotz arrived in London in July 2005, his first day did not go quite the way he expected. Klotz, a Main Campus faculty member, arrived in London the morning of the subway attacks