Temple Talk

The Mr. Temple Pageant was the highpoint for me.
I think that the Elmarko Jackson tragedy was easily the low point.

Jeff Capella
Masters of Liberal Arts, Graduate Student

I had so much trouble with my financial aid this year. It was ridiculous.
This year I was able to take more interesting — no bullshit — classes.

Danielle Shaffer
Therapeutic Recreation, Junior

Getting into my core requirement classes was my highpoint.
No living on campus meant missing out on a lot of campus activities.

Despina Belsemes
Undecided, Junior

In my different classes I was able to meet different and diverse people and learn from them.
When the Temple football player Elmarko Jackson was stabbed, that was the low point.

Christine Madean
Computer Information Sciences, Senior

My professors, especially for IH, were really bad.
At the beginning of the year my dance class turned into a yoga class and my voice class turned out to be yoga-based as well.

Elizabeth Sunderland
Theater, Sophmore

My low points were: I found out that the Campus Grille closed, and this morning the power went out in Towers.
The high points had to be the success of the Temple basketball team this year and the building of Tuttleman.

Craig Rizzo
Film and Media Arts, Senior

I think the high point for Temple was when the Republican Committee and Philadelphia 2000 came to the Liacouras Center.
The violent incident with the football player Elmarko Jackson was definitely the low point.

Jaime Montgomery
Political Science, Senior

The high point was all the diversity and the way everybody got together so well. At my last university in Michigan a lot of different groups didn’t get along.
This year my classes were pretty tough and so were some of my professors.

Nilpa Patel
Public Information Services, Junior

The highpoint at Temple had to be the basketball season.
I had lots of friends who are students here who didn’t get housing; that was a low point.

Brad Ford
Music Education, Junior

All the events, concerts and comedy shows were a definite high point.
My low point was when my friend Elmarko Jackson was stabbed.

Nate Darwish
Film and Media Arts, Senior