A new year brings new issues, as well as some old ones with fresh angles. Housing on campus is a hot topic, especially as we face another increase in university enrollment. It is up to
On August 2, a black man was shot in Oakland, California. He had just left a McDonald’s, and was walking to work. Another man, wearing dark clothes and a mask, walked up to him and
We are destroying family-friendly institutions. Young adults, to be specific. Our tools for destruction? Obscene language, crass t-shirts, and an all-too carefree attitude. Children are being exposed to inappropriate behavior and language in places like
There are a lot of stories The Temple News has missed in the past. There are community stories that matter to this university, that matter to this city, that matter, if only by the trends
I was just waiting for someone to come down and bother me from the highest floors in the building. It was inevitably going to happen. I had already seen students – some embarrassed, some flat-out
“Great cities need great universities, and great universities need great cities,” was one of the first sound bites President Dr. Ann Weaver Hart gave us when she arrived for her first tour of Main Campus.
A once rare creature on college campuses, the super senior has become a new strain of student. Every year, it seems more and more seniors spend more than four years in college because of switched
When Philadelphia is down, the kicking begins. It kills me to see my beloved hometown be the subject of so much negative coverage and ridicule over our high murder rate. I’m betting that New Yorkers
Philadelphia has it pretty tough. It exists in the shadow cast by New York City in the north and is often overlooked due to the fact that Washington, D.C., is so close in the south.