Opinion - The Temple News

Josh Fernandez: Addressing adjuncts’ needs

01 February 2011 Josh Fernandez

The focus of the recent job loss of 45 adjuncts demonstrates their need for unionization. At the end of the Fall 2010 semester, 45 of the 59 adjuncts in the First-Year Writing Program were informed

Planning Ahead

01 February 2011 Editorial Board

Students must be responsible and use the new policies to graduate on time. Upon graduating high school, incoming freshmen leave behind four years of schooling to embark on what they hope will be no more

Snow Stumped

01 February 2011 Editorial Board

The university should use last Thursday’s snowfall as a lesson. As 15.1 inches of snow blanketed Philadelphia Thursday, students were forced to squirm out from underneath their blankets to trudge to class, as the university

Community Voice: Delayed traveling in snowy Philadelphia

01 February 2011 Josh Fernandez

Sharon Davis paid a neighbor to dig her car out of the 15.1 inches of snow lingering in Philadelphia since the “Thundersnow” storm struck Philadelphia, Wednesday into early Thursday morning. Davis, 44, laughed when asked

Grace Dickinson: Trendy dieting

01 February 2011

Vegan and vegetarian diets have advantages over diets include meat, but only if the individual eats wisely. Ellen DeGeneres, the former United States president Bill Clinton and, the star of “Black Swan,” Natalie Portman are

Letter to the Editor: Animal rights as a case for veganism

25 January 2011 Letter

Dear Editor, Two paths, A and B, will get me to point C. Both A and B have the same physical obstructions I will have to navigate past. A has one additional obstruction, however: a

Lauren Hertzler: Butts out

25 January 2011 Lauren Hertzler

Smokers should respect their peers’ lungs and smoke in the properly designated areas on Main Campus. Will there ever be a day when someone can walk to class and not lose a lung on the

Zachary Scott: Regulating reality

25 January 2011 Zachary Scott

If tighter gun regulation is not considered, politicians will prove no one thus far in history has learned tragic events in the past. What followed the Tucson, Ariz., shooting on Jan. 8 was a giant

Letter to the Editor: “TSG committee change causes controversy”

25 January 2011 Letter

Dear Editor, Last year, we in Temple Student Government had the opportunity to work with Students for Environmental Action on a project commonly known as the green fee. For nearly eight months, people in TSG

Necessary Precautions

25 January 2011 Editorial Board

Taking extra measures is about keeping safe, not living in fear. On Sunday, Dec. 19, three students on the 2200 block of North Camac Street were the victims of another armed robbery close to Main