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temple-news.com
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010
VOL. 88 ISS. 17
Students
focus aid
Slumcat
Millionaires
locally
Elliot Griffin continues
to serve an organization
she interned with to
give back to the city.
Students
rescue
strays
Rachel Riback saved
a stray kitten after its
mother abandoned it.
IAN ROMANO
The Temple News
REBECCA HALE
The Temple News
Though conservatives rejoiced after the special Massachusetts election in January, Elliot Griffin said she’s confident
that the healthcare bill will still
pass. Griffin, the communications director of Temple College Democrats, has made it
her full-time job to get others to
consider the issue.
“You would be surprised
how many [students] are unaware that once they graduate,
they’re taken off of their parents’ coverage,” the sophomore
journalism major said. “This is
a topic that they should be concerned about because it will affect them sooner than they can
imagine.”
Because of Republican
Scott Brown’s victory in January, the GOP can now create a
partisan filibuster to block any
bills in the Senate. But liberals
at Temple said they are not worried, since the health care bill
passed the Senate in December.
The club sets up a table
Rachel Riback rushed
home from campus every
five hours when she adopted
an abandoned kitten seven
months ago. She held the little
black kitten, named Tux for her
markings, in her hands and fed
her with an eyedropper.
Tux was one of a litter left
by her mother when she was
young. Riback’s co-worker
found the litter and asked Riback if she wanted to take in
one of the abandoned kittens.
Riback, a senior elementary
and special education major,
agreed.
“Every cat I’ve ever had
was a stray,” Riback said.
Tux was only three weeks
old when Riback took her in.
The vet told Riback that, although Tux was healthy when
Riback adopted her, kittens
that young usually do not survive away from their mothers.
“She was the smallest cat
I had ever seen,” Riback recalled.
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WALBERT YOUNG TTN
More than a dozen stray cats live near campus. Temple Cats, a new organization, is working to find them homes.
Students and employees are organizing to find homes for strays from the cat colony near campus.
ANDREA HANRATTY
The Temple News
At 9 o’clock on the bitter winter mornings in North Philadelphia, as students, staff and faculty hustle from the train to the
warm buildings on Main Campus, little wet noses peak out from
under Philadelphia Housing Authority buildings, awaiting their
morning meals.
These noses belong to a dozen or more cats that have taken
up residency underneath public housing near campus.
They are easy to miss. They keep their distance from the
traffic of the morning rush. But there are two voices that can
draw them out. The first belongs to recent Temple grad and current Web master for the College of Engineering Alanna Burke.
“That one we named Bunny,” Burke said, pointing to a
small, gray spotted cat behind a fence. “His back legs don’t move
independently from one another. I think he was born that way.”
Soon after, Terri Martin, director of recruitment at the College of Engineering, arrived dressed for a day at the office but
carrying a tote full of cat food.
“They are starting to recognize my voice,” she said.
As she called them, popping open several cans of wet food,
they began to venture out.
The first to arrive was aptly named Bunny, hopping awkwardly to the fresh food from behind the gate. Soon, a few other
felines ventured slowly from under a rusty broken grate that
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CATS PAGE 3
Program pays for weight loss
OWLS, a program spearheaded by a Student Health Services dietician,
teaches participants to make healthy food choices and lifestyle changes.
MICHELLE PROVENCHER
The Temple News
A new study being conducted at Temple affords students the chance to learn how to lose
weight and get paid for it.
Onward to Weight Loss Success is an 11week group meeting throughout the semester.
Nicole Patience, a clinical dietician at Student Health Services, started the program five semesters ago.
“It started out as a co-ed group, but over the
last year, we have offered [men’s and women’s
groups],” she said. “We had been finding some interesting results and thought, ‘Why don’t we get
some [Institutional Review Board] approval and
turn this into a formal research program?’”
The IRB works to protect participants’ rights
and other interests during a study.
“Based on last year’s appointments, about
half of them are spent with students who have
weight loss goals,” Patience said.
The University of New Hampshire conducted
a survey in 2007 of 800 college students’ diets,
exercise habits and typical routines. Nearly 30
percent of the female students and almost half the
male students were considered to be overweight
or obese, according to the findings.
Freshman biology major Atusa Shirasb said
she wants to make more nutritious choices, not
just lose weight.
“I was interested in improving my diet before,” Shirasb said. “I wasn’t actively looking but
did want to find a group.”
She said she wants to learn about how to eat
properly and meet people with similar interests
for support.
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TECH gets new Macs
PAUL KLEIN TTN
Student Health Services Clinical Dietician Nicole Patience started the OWLS program five
semesters ago. Recently, it was approved by the Institutional Review Board for research.
Students register to vote
For its fourth anniversary, the TECH Center
installed 27-inch Macs, as well as other upgrades.
LARA TAYLOR
STRAYER
The Temple News
This year, the TECH Center
celebrates its fourth anniversary
with widespread changes and
upgrades, including 100 new
27-inch Mac computers and the
proposed replacement of 400 to
500 PCs.
“When the TECH Center
opened, everything was brand
new. Now that it’s been around
for a while, people just kind of
accept that it’s there. We try to
keep it new with new features,”
Executive Director of Computer
Services Jerry Hinkle said.
Sandip Patel, a lab manager
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LIVING
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Your sweet tooth is about to meet its newest vice
– Buttercream Philadelphia, a cupcake truck.
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Student political groups on campus are pushing to
register students for the gubernatorial primary.
ANDY WHITLATCH
The Temple News
LARA TAYLOR STRAYER TTN
Students can work from multiple windows simultaneously
on the TECH Center’s 100 new 27-inch Mac computers.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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Japanese rock hits Philly with industrial, electronic and gothic bands GPKISM and Seileen.
SPORTS
Although students will be moving out of their dorms a week
before the 2010 gubernatorial primary election, the Temple College
Democrats and College Republicans are forging ahead to hold oncampus voter registration drives this month.
According to a November 2008 survey conducted by the U.S.
Census Bureau, 14.2 percent of people between the ages of 18 and
24 did not vote because they were out of town, 3.2 percent due to
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The Temple News chatted with Hall-of-Famer
and former men’s basketball coach John Chaney.
INSIDE THIS WEEK
Peer mentors will
provide support
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Volunteer aids
local children
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Cheers and beers
for Haiti’s relief fund
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Despite injury, Brinkley
battles back
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Peer mentors will
provide support
Peer mentors, new live-in student workers for freshman
residence halls, will aid Living Learning Communities.
GRACE DICKINSON
The Temple News
The Office of University Housing
and Residential Life recently created a
new student staff position with its Peer
Mentor program. The peer mentors will
aid in creating supportive and positive
communities within on-campus resident facilities, according to the office.
Compensation for the position includes free housing for the academic
year.
Although both resident assistant
and peer mentor positions require student workers to live in the dorms where
they work, peer mentors are assigned
to specific Living Learning Communities. Temple currently offers 10 Living
Learning Communities, ranging from
programs such as “Deciding Student
Wing” to “Fox School of Business” to
“Peace and Conflict Studies.”
There will be two peer mentor positions available next year. One peer
mentor will be assigned to the academic LLCs, and the other will be assigned to the co-curricular LLCs. In the
future, the office intends to expand the
program.
“I can’t stress enough the role that
peer mentors will play in promoting
these LLC to new students,” Assistant
Director for Assignments and Billing
Sean Killion said.
The position is intended to help
acquaint students in the LLCs with
campus life and assist them in meeting their academic responsibilities.
They are expected to be available for
students to make one-on-one appointments and are also required to create
and maintain helping relationships
with students on their designated
floors.
“We want to make sure we’re committing resources to help programs that
we think will help students’ academic
interests,” Killion said. “We’ve taken
a look at our budget and decided this
is important, and we wanted to commit more resources towards the Living
Learning Communities.”
Additionally, peer mentors will
work with designated RAs to plan at
least one LLC program per semester.
“I like doing it because it’s fun,
and as a psych major, watching students and how they interact with each
other and their parents is interesting,”
Moriah Baxevane-Connel, a sophomore Honors Program peer mentor co-
GRACE DICKINSON TTN
Honors Peer Mentor Coordinators (left to right) Joe Buckshon, Moriah Baxevane-Connel and Christie
Francis discuss improvements to the Living Learning Community Web site at a recent meeting.
ordinator, said.
The Honors Living Learning
Community has already established a
peer-mentoring program designed to
help guide prospective Temple Honors
students. It is relatively similar to the
new, university-wide peer mentor program, with Honors peer mentors working to help orient incoming freshmen
around Main Campus.
“I take prospective students
around on visits, give them tours, have
lunch with them and let them sit in on
a class with me,” sophomore chemistry
major Megan Jennings, an Honors peer
mentor, said.
The new peer mentor program will
extend beyond prospective students
and work to assist current freshmen
living in LLCs within the residences.
The peer mentor program is aimed at
enhancing the various missions of the
current LLCs.
“It’s an additional resource that
will help for a smooth transition for
incoming students,” Killion said. “We
want there to be a peer-to-peer relationship with older students so that they
can provide feedback to new students,
so that they [can find] answers to the
questions they have.”
Grace Dickinson can be reached at
[email protected].
TECH expects new PCs
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WALBERT YOUNG TTN
Elliot Griffin promotes healthcare reform as part of her volunteer work for Organize for
America. She also volunteers with Temple’s Big Brothers Big Sisters student board.
Student spreads message
through volunteer work
OFA PAGE 1
in the Student Center every other week to help
promote its ideas. Although the group addresses
multiple issues, Griffin said they always carry
pamphlets about a story of someone who was left
uninsured.
“I try to put myself in other people’s shoes,”
she said. “It was hard to read any of those stories
without crying.”
Griffin has been active on the issue since she
was a summer intern for Organize for America,
an Obama campaign group, where she worked
40 to 50 hours per week. She spent most of her
time making phone calls to persuade others to demand reform from their representatives, as well
as passing out fliers in front of shopping centers.
According to its Web site, OFA is a grassroots movement to help communities around the
country with volunteer work while also helping to further the president’s agenda. The group
changed its name from Obama for America after
the president was inaugurated.
During her internship, Griffin helped organize goods at a food drives and lended a hand at
sponsored blood drives.
During winter break, Griffin went back to
OFA to help with City Year’s Martin Luther King
Day project, when the youth volunteer group revamped a high school cafeteria in North Philadelphia. She painted motivational words on columns, while others repainted walls.
Griffin, who is originally from Pittsburgh,
said she has been a 76ers fan since Allen Iverson
was first drafted in the mid-1990s. From then on,
her father would occasionally bring her to Phila-
delphia to see a few home games. Enrolling at
Temple seemed natural, she said.
“My mind was pretty much made up,” she
added.
But not all Griffin’s time in Philadelphia is
spent promoting healthcare reform. She also volunteered as a Big Sister for the Big Brothers Big
Sisters Temple program since the Fall, mentoring
her assigned child for about an hour a week.
Temple’s Big Brothers Big Sisters student
board started a year and a half ago to give students with conflicting schedules a chance to help.
Most volunteers spend a whole day with their little brothers or sisters, while their college counterparts only need to give an hour.
“All of our members have been really helpful,” Student Director Vanessa Smith, a sophomore political science major, said. “We would
have never made it this far if it wasn’t for our
volunteers.”
Griffin said her “little sister” wants to go to
law school when she grows up, so the two usually end up talking about politics and civic duty.
Dedicating her time to someone else was important she said, as she grew up with older siblings
who did the same.
“Philadelphia has offered so many opportunities to me,” Griffin said. “I wanted to be able to
give back.”
Ian Romano can be reached at
[email protected].
at the TECH Center, said the
new Macs are equipped with a
2.66 GHz processor and four gigabytes of RAM.
“I like how big they are,”
sophomore pre-nursing major
Lauren Fernald said. “It’s easier
to catch mistakes when writing
papers.”
Sophomore communications major Stephenie Foster
agreed.
“It’s nice for paper-writing.
You can put different documents side by side to do work
rather than go back and forth,”
she said.
“One thing I’ve noticed is
the login speed is a lot faster.
The old ones used to take three
to five minutes to start, but these
only take 30 seconds,” university studies sophomore Pete
Lundy said.
“You need more memory to
process faster,” he added.
Hinkle said the cost for the
Mac computers, which have additional memory and high-end
processors, was about $1,700
per unit.
“This is several hundred
dollars per unit less than we
paid for the original iMacs four
years ago,” he added.
The old computers were
sent to Temple’s Computer Recycling Center.
“Our goal is to take old
computer equipment, clean off
all information and get them
back into circulation,” CRC employee Jonathan Latko said.
When the computers go
back into circulation, they end
up in one of three places – they
can be redeployed to other
schools and buildings across
campus, students and faculty
can buy them, or they are donated to local schools, community
groups and nonprofit organizations.
For students and faculty interested in buying refurbished
equipment from the CRC, the
price of a computer depends on
the amount of restoration it underwent, Latko said.
“It’s about a $25 base, but
the more work or specialty added brings it up to about $150 to
$175,” he said.
The TECH Center also
plans to replace as many as 500
LARA TAYLOR STRAYER TTN
Sophomore dance major Kiera Mersky uses the Macs at
the TECH Center instead of her Dell at home.
PCs.
“[Replacing the PCs] would
definitely help, because [they]
are a lot slower, especially when
it’s busy,” senior computer science major David Lebson said.
Students waiting for the
upgraded PCs will have to wait,
though, as the TECH Center
employees search for the best
deals.
“Because we got very good
pricing on our Macs at this time
of the year, we have delayed the
purchase of the Dells by about
six months and will be installing
them over the summer,” Hinkle
said.
Much like a business, the
TECH Center tries to find what
people want when they use the
facility. Employees survey students every spring in an attempt
to find out who uses what, how
often and what changes students
would like to see.
Breakout rooms and other
space for students to work together are some of the reasons students spend time at the
TECH Center. Soon, the TECH
Center will introduce “open-air
booths.” These rooms will be
built where the current upstairs
lobby area is now.
“Students [will be able to]
come in, sit down and eat, while
working together on a computer,” Hinkle said.
It seems many Main Campus students will welcome the
addition of open-air booths to
the TECH Center.
“Breakout rooms should be
designed to let students make
noise. [The open-air booths]
would probably encourage
more students to come out, and
it would be a great expansion,”
Michael Ashery, a freshman
university studies major, said.
“With the comfy chairs, I
can definitely see an advantage
[of the open-air booths] over
[the breakout] rooms,” sophomore film major Zachary Auron
said.
Another useful tool for students is the map of the TECH
Center on the plasma TV
screens upstairs, which indicate
the availability of different sections in the TECH Center. An
improved version of this tool
will soon be available online.
“That way,” Hinkle said,
“if you’re on the subway [or] in
your room and you want an idea
of how busy the TECH Center
is, you’ll be able to check your
phone or the Internet to get an
idea.”
Lara Taylor Strayer can be reached at
[email protected].
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NEWS
New program finds homes for kitties
COLONY PAGE 1
leads to a crawl space.
“It’s getting to be an expensive habit,” Martin said. “I go
through 10 to 12 cans a day.”
Martin feeds the cats once
in the mornings and once in
the evenings on her way to and
from the train. She has been doing so for more than two years.
She’s even been known to make
the trip on the weekends to ensure that the cats are getting
their meals.
“The funny thing is, I
wasn’t really a cat person,” she
explained. “But it just breaks
my heart.”
Both Martin and Burke said
they realize feeding the cats is
not the solution.
“I think people see the cats
here and think, ‘This is a good
place to dump my cat. At least
he’ll be with other cats,’” Burke
said. “But I have seen my fair
share of cats get hit by cars.”
She recounted picking up a
badly injured and bloody cat off
the road recently.
“He didn’t survive,” she
said.
The weather, living conditions and lack of food and water
pose a danger to the felines.
Though they are unsure
about the feral ones or others
born on the street, Martin and
Burke said many of the cats are
adoptable.
“Most of them seem friendly and have probably been
dumped here,” Burke said.
“There are dozens of
Temple cats that we are taking
constantly to the clinics to be
spayed/neutered,
vaccinated,
put into foster homes and adopt-
ed out,” Kathy Jordan, president
of the Philadelphia Community
Cats Council, said.
In Philadelphia, generally
59 to 69 percent of stray, feral
and abandoned cats can be adopted, Jordan said. These numbers inspired Burke to organize
efforts to rescue these cats.
“I have pulled a couple of
cats out of this area, and I just
got frustrated,” Burke said. “I
saw another pregnant cat out
there, and I thought, ‘We have
to trap her, so why not trap them
all?’”
Burke recently set up a
Web site, temple-cats.org, to
take donations and share stories
and pictures of these cats with
the Temple community. She
said she hopes to obtain volunteers and donations to help trap
the cats and ultimately get them
adopted.
Student
organization
Prompters of Animal Welfare
recently met with Burke to plan
some events and get involved
with her efforts.
“We have a bake sale coming up on Feb. 3,” PAW President Kristina Paulk said. “We
are going to donate the proceeds
of the sale to the project. We will
also be accepting donations.”
Paulk plans to have pictures of the cats and will offer students the opportunity to
sponsor specific cats and follow
them through the process.
Burke will use the money
raised by her site and PAW’s
efforts to trap the cats and take
them to a low-cost clinic to be
spayed and neutered.
Jordan, of the PCCC, said
the cost for spay/neutering, vaccinations and flea treatments is
WALBERT YOUNG TTN
Stray cats near campus hide in broken vents under houses at a Philadelphia Housing
Authority community near campus. Employee Alanna Burke has saved several of them.
$25. The clinic the council runs,
also known as “The Cube,” is
open Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays at the Pennsylvania
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals’ Philadelphia headquarters on Erie Avenue.
Liz Williamson, a public
relations associate at the PSPCA, said her organization has
a certain amount of funding set
aside for “The Cube” that allows them to offer this low-cost
service.
Most students at Temple
seemed to be aware of the cat
situation and excited to hear
that real efforts were being organized.
Michelle Smith, a junior
Groups
encourage
students
to register
advertising major, said she sees
strays up and down 13th Street
near campus. Smith works at
the Fairmount Pet Shop, which
holds rescued cats for adoption.
She said she hopes to help Burke
and Martin in their efforts.
“I will talk to my employer
about donating food and gift
baskets,” she said. “We’ve done
it in the past.”
Burke has three cats herself and is currently fostering a
pregnant one that she trapped at
the colony.
“She could be giving birth
at any moment,” she said.
She will be fostering and
giving the kittens for adoption
with the help of the Philadelphia
Animal Welfare Society.
LEE MILLER TTN
The College Democrats display their “Obama Kool-Aid”
bottle.They, along with the College Republicans, are holding
student registration drives for the primaries this month.
gressman Joe Hoeffel, Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty, and
County Executive Dan Onorato,
Temple College Democrats
President Danny Dunphy wrote
in an e-mail.
The College Republicans
also plan to host a few guest
speakers who will be able to
thoroughly articulate conservative solutions to the problems
that Pennsylvanians are currently facing and will offer volunteer opportunities to help with
youth voter registration.
“We intend to engage students on campus when they
register to vote at the place they
feel most appropriate. Many
Temple students live in Pennsylvania outside Philadelphia,
and those that do will be provided the information on all the
Democratic candidates running
at their school address, as well
as their home addresses,” Dunphy wrote.
Students who live out of
state will be urged to register in
Pennsylvania and cast their ballot early or by mail.
“This is imperative because
Temple students that spend the
summers outside Pennsylvania
maintain their right to have their
voices heard in the state which
they attend school,” Dunphy
said.
Scatton said the College
Republicans want to encourage
voting in Philadelphia because
students who are registered in
their respective hometowns tend
to be lazier about the voting
process. It will be beneficial to
register in Philadelphia because
it will generate awareness of
the many important local issues
currently facing Philadelphia in
addition to other state-wide and
national issues, he said.
One issue Dunphy said can
be detrimental to college students voting power is disenfranchisement.
“Holding primary elections
or general elections when students are no longer on campus
are incredibly discouraging for
many students,” he said. “Why
do political pundits and elected
officials say students do not vote
when it matters? Maybe it’s because they schedule elections on
the days after thousands of students plan to move and are no
longer organized.”
Andy Whitlatch can be reached at
[email protected].
Burke said she is concerned
because earlier a resident mentioned to her that there might
be kittens. Their chances of survival are low in winter weather.
Burke and Martin continue
to watch the cats and check on
their statuses daily.
“That’s the pregnant one,”
Burke said. “We think she has a
few months to go.”
Martin pointed out a large
white cat in the distance.
“He’s the leader,” she said.
“I thought he might be sick, but
he’s a big cat, he must be taking
care of himself.”
It’s obvious the women
know the cats well from feeding
them each day.
“It’s a little overwhelm-
ing,” said Burke as she looked
around the housing project.
This is not an isolated incident. In fact, Brenda Malinics, director of alumni relations
at the School of Pharmacy and
PCCC member said she has
seen cat colonies on the campus of Health Sciences as well.
Colonies like these can be found
all around the city.
“The problem is that these
animals don’t get fixed,” Burke
said. “They just keep reproducing. Then you have a whole new
generation of cats that can reproduce.”
Just as Burke and Martin were ready to leave for the
morning, Burke spotted a group
of cats in a courtyard a few feet
away. She walked over broken
glass, trash and even a forgotten kitty litter scoop to another
sharp and rusty broken grate,
where two more cats peer out.
“I haven’t seen this one before,” she said. “There must be
a few a living in here as well.”
Behind her, a small black
cat quietly shivered behind a
fence. She stretched to reach it
and picked up the small animal.
When she brought the cat
close, it was obvious the animal
was ill. The cat was covered
in dirt and feces and breathing heavily, putting up no fight
when Burke reached toward it.
She wrapped the cat close
to her.
“I don’t have a crate with
me,” she said, cradling the cat.
“I will have to sneak him into
my office. I can’t just leave him
here.”
Andrea Hanratty can be reached at
[email protected].
Saved kitten survives and thrives
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illness or disability, 4.5 percent
forgot to vote and 12.1 percent
were not interested. An additional 21 percent reported being too busy, while others listed
transportation, weather issues
and polling place inconvenience
as reasons for not voting. A
WHYY report found that general voter turnout in Philadelphia
during the last election was 12
percent.
“We feel that the best way
to reach out to people is to speak
to them directly. Many students
are registered at home and this
is something we would like to
help change. It is very easy for
students to brush off the voting
process if they are registered
at home. We want to remind
them that it is important to stay
involved,” Temple College Republicans President Barry Scatton wrote in an e-mail.
“I would send in an absentee ballot, but I feel a lot of
students would be too lazy,”
New Jersey resident and senior
accounting major Janelle Ince
said.
In addition to the College Republicans’ efforts, the
Temple College Democrats are
also planning to encourage students to vote by having potential Pennsylvania Democratic
Party primary candidates visit
campus to engage students in
discussions on their respective
platforms.
Possible guests include
Democratic senatorial candidate
and Congressman Joe Sestak;
Democratic congressional candidates Brian Gordon and Bryan
Lentz; and all four Democratic
gubernatorial candidates – auditor general Jack Wagner, former
County Commissioner and Con-
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Riback had to take special
care of the little green-eyed,
black-nosed kitten, feeding her
on a strict schedule and making
sure her bowels were working
properly.
Now, seven months later,
Tux is still alive and well – and
causing plenty of mischief.
“She’s my favorite cat
ever. She has so much personality,” Riback said of the “tuxedo” cat, all black with a white
chest, paws and trail of white
fur down her stomach.
Jillian Turner, a senior risk
management major and Riback’s former roommate, also
has a soft spot for stray cats.
“I’ve taken in two stray
cats,” Turner said, explaining
that she took in her first cat as
a child. She and her mother
would leave cans of food out
for a calico that lived in the alley near her house, and eventually, they brought it in. Turner
and her mom took the cat to the
vet, who said it was healthy,
and named it Lucky.
At Temple, Turner accidentally took in her neighbor’s cat.
She was watching television in
her living room, she said, when
she heard loud meowing from
outside.
“I heard it over the TV and
the microwave,” Turner said.
Outside her window, Turner
found a large black cat hanging
on the window screen. She fed
and pet the cat, who made itself
at home in her apartment, she
said. Soon, though, she realized
it belonged to the neighbor and
brought it back in a day or so.
Riback explained that Tux
has some peculiar behaviors:
If she or any of her roommates
leaves a drawer open, Tux
will mischievously rummage
through her underwear – just
one of the cat’s quirky habits.
Among her other curiosities,
Tux eats vegetables and would
rather drink from a glass, the
toilet or the bottom of the bathtub than from a bowl, Riback
said.
“She’s a lover. She likes
coming to you,” Riback said,
but added that Tux won’t always stay for very long.
“She’s such a tease,” Riback added.
Despite her cheerful demeanor, Tux kneads blankets,
a behavior that likely comes
from being abandoned at such
a young age.
Riback has owned more
than 20 cats in her life and still
feeds strays when she sees them
going hungry.
Turner still keeps an eye
out on the strays in the neighborhood by making sure they
are fed and safe.
“We always feed the strays
that are around,” Turner said.
Rebecca Hale can be reached at
[email protected].
Students learn healthy lifestyles
OWLS PAGE 1
“Everyone’s different,” she said. “I have
some friends who eat whatever they want and
some who just don’t eat.”
The OWLS program was created to teach
weight control and healthy lifestyle skills.
“It’s really about clarifying and sorting
through a lot of the messages that are out there
about weight loss,” Patience said. “It’s also about
taking advantage of the group dynamic and the
peer support.”
Shirasb lives at home, but said she often finds
herself buying unhealthy food on Main Campus.
“Even though I don’t live here and don’t go
to [Johnson and Hardwick cafeteria], I’m still on
campus all the time,” she said.
“All my life I’ve been a soda addict. Pepsi
or Coke, I need it at least once a day. Another is
pasta. I’ve tried whole wheat, and it’s terrible. It
doesn’t taste the same at all,” she said.
Shirasb said part of the problem is a lack of
healthful and affordable options.
“Lunch trucks are very greasy. Here in the
[Student Center] there’s a Burger King, pizza, a
cheesesteak place. You don’t get that healthy of a
choice,” she said. “They have the crappiest salad
bar, and it doesn’t look as appetizing as everything else.”
Her remedy would be more nutritious meals
and a healthier selection of drinks, she said.
Temple is collaborating with the Center for
Obesity Research and Education on the study. They are currently establishing research protocol
and the measures for before and after.
When the program begins in February, participants will have a preliminary weigh-in and
physical to assess their current health status. Personal goals will be set in group meetings, and
progress will be tracked. For the purposes of the
study, not everyone is eligible.
“This is a weight loss group, so in order to
feel comfortable talking about struggles with
weight loss, it’s for students who are overweight,” Patience said.
Participants will be compensated, but the exact amount of money paid is undisclosed.
Last spring, there were two women’s groups
and one men’s group with 10 participants each.
Another goal of the program is to expand it
to other universities.
“We just want to help people understand,”
she said. “It’s action-oriented, with a little bit of
information and then how to apply it, to make
small changes, lifestyle changes.” Michelle Provencher can be reached at
[email protected].
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EDITORIALS
I
Adding
Impact
t is an important year for
voters in Pennsylvania. On
Nov. 2, our state will elect a
new senator, new members
to the House of Representatives
and, after eight years under the
leadership of Gov. Edward Rendell, decide on a new governor.
In this notoriously “purple”
state, it is crucial for anyone
who is eligible to cast a ballot.
Temple College Republicans
and Temple College Democrats
are planning an effort to register
as many students as possible to
vote, but there’s one problem:
Most Temple students won’t be
here for the primary elections,
which are scheduled for May 18
– six days after finals exams for
Spring 2010 end and students in
residence halls move out.
But considering that 72.4
percent of Temple students are
Pennsylvania residents, including Temple Japan, the registration drives won’t be in vain.
TUCD and TUCR should
continue their efforts to register
the students who will be in Philadelphia to vote, but they should
put more energy into promoting
election awareness. Potential
voters will be more likely to
vote at home if they are aware
of the players in the election
and their positions on the issues.
Students should also know they
Building
Character
I
n the past few years,
speakers welcoming the
freshman classes at student
convocations have made the
suffix “-est” a popular ending to
words in their speeches.
The newest class is
the largest, smartest bunch.
Temple’s Student Factbook
reported the GPA for each
freshman class has risen steadily
from 2.05 in 2001 to 3.37 in
2008. No one’s lying: According
to quantitative data, students are
accepted from a more intelligent
draw every year.
As Temple receives more
applicants – in 2008, it received
18,670 applications for firsttime first-year students alone
and accepted just 11,349 – and
more students choose Temple,
being accepted has become a
competitive game played in an
increasingly larger playing field.
To
accommodate
the
growing numbers, the university
has done its job to house
freshmen that choose to live on
campus. In Fall 2001, Temple
opened the 1300 residence hall.
Jay Falkenstein, the associate
vice president for facilities at
the time, said it would allow the
university “to admit 1,000 more
students.”
But in subsequent years,
as class numbers increased,
Temple began renting space
in the Edge at Avenue North
and renovated Temple Towers
to accommodate additional
students. Within a few years, the
metal piles at 1600 N. Broad St.,
will be student housing.
While The Temple News
applauds the university for
building on Temple property
instead of expanding into the
community, construction – a
Reminding young people
to vote is getting old. Get
to the polls this May.
can cast absentee ballots before
they leave the city.
The gubernatorial race is
important for all students regardless of state residency or
political affiliation. The new
governor will have the power
to make decisions that affect
the university – including state
appropriation funding and influence in the Pennsylvania Higher
Education Assistance Agency.
College students have more
power than they think. In 2006,
Gov. Rendell employed Temple
students to help campaign for
him, and in 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that voter
turnout among 18- to 24-yearolds rose by 8 percent. The nation’s young people were passionate enough to vote for a new
president and should be even
more driven to elect Pennsylvania leaders.
The results of the first-ever
non-voter survey conducted by
the California Voter Foundation show that the biggest impediments to voting are busy
schedules, a lack of confidence
in candidates and confusion
over absentee ballots. If student
organizations want students to
cast their votes, those groups
should address these concerns
before trying to rush students to
the polls.
DANNY DONNELLY TTN
PHOTO COMMENT
POLLING PEOPLE
Mentoring the masses
Last week on temple-news.com, we
asked if the area surrounding the Fresh
Grocer is pedestrian friendly.
Here are the results*:
47%
24%
24%
4%
Yes
I haven’t had the
chance to visit the
Fresh Grocer yet.
I never paid any mind
to the safety around
the supermarket.
*Out of 49 votes
NEXT WEEK’S POLL
Do you think the iPad is an
unnecessary piece of technology?
Aspects of the university
that need improving
should be re-evaluated.
theme of Temple’s 20/20 plan to
build up, not out, and improve
Broad Street – accompanies a
hefty price tag.
We understand that a
university is a business.
Businesses need to grow, expand
and, more importantly, make
money. But if the university
simply admits fewer people,
fewer students will enroll and
request on-campus housing.
We
also
understand
anything new and shiny can sell
a product. To ensure Temple
remains a commodity, updates
like the Tyler School of Art and
Temple Towers renovations
are necessary. Though a new
library on Broad Street will be
a great addition, The Temple
News would like to know
whether there is damage to Paley
Library or if it has outgrown
its book capacity. If the
answer to both questions is no,
we question the necessity of
such an expensive plan.
University
officials
sometimes forget that students
made the decision to come to
Temple with the understanding
that they would receive a
quality education in exchange
for payment. While students
will enjoy the additions to
Temple, we wonder if enough
money is being allocated to the
needs of academic departments.
The university is business
smart for building during a
recession and planning for
the future, but it is imperative
that the university maintain
its primary role, as a higher
learning institution. If there is
enough money to build physical
structures, there must be a
sufficient amount to build upon
Temple’s craft – academics.
No
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY?
BECKY KERNER TTN
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the Peer Mentor program to make living conditions among dorm
residents ideal. Above: Peabody (top) and 1300 residence halls.
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CITY VIEW
Where a plastic surgeon’s scalpel cuts the most
In 2008, more than 10 million surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic procedures were performed in
the United States, 17 percent of which were surgical, according to the American Society for
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Below are the Top 5 procedures that required going under the knife.
Breast Augmentation
Rhinoplasty
MONICA ZUBER TTN
Liposuction
Blepharoplasty
Abdominoplasty
Number of procedures performed: breast augmentation, 355,671; liposuction, 341,144;
blepharoplasty, 195,104; rhinoplasty, 152,434; abdominoplasty, 147,392
COMMENTARY
Deciding
on
plastic
surgery
is
more
than
skin
deep
While some undergo plastic surgery out of medical necessity, others take procedures too far, fueling a beauty-obsessed culture.
TUESDAY, FEBURARY 2, 2010
M
ichelle Kendra was
14 years old when
she underwent surgery to have her ears
pinned back; it was the summer
before she would enter high
school. Her peers had teased her
relentlessly because of her ears.
Kendra, a junior
nursing
major at
Neumann
University,
is not the
only perJOSH
son who
FERNANDEZ
has
corrected an
“imperfection” through plastic
surgery. The American Society
for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
reported that in 2003, nearly 2
million individuals in the 19 to
34 age group underwent some
sort of cosmetic procedure. In
2008, this number grew to 2.2
million.
On top of that, the media
has exposed young adults already dealing with body image
problems to stars like Heidi
Montag, star of MTV’s The
Hills and co-author of How
to Be Famous: Our Guide to
Looking the Part, Playing the
Press and Becoming a Tabloid
Fixture, who had 10 cosmetic
procedures in the same day and
was subsequently featured on
the cover of People magazine.
Anyone who is unfamiliar with
the blond-haired wannabe pop
star should know that Montag
was no leper prior to her plastic
surgery onslaught.
If there is something about
an individual’s body that compels him or her to go under
the knife to change it, then by
all means, that person should
change it. But when someone
like Montag enters a hospital
and leaves looking more plastic than a Barbie doll, there’s a
problem.
Body image certainly plays
a large role in an individual’s
decision to have a cosmetic procedure.
“There wasn’t anything
wrong with [my ears], per se.
They just stuck out, so I had
them pinned back,” Kendra
said.
person,” she said. “When I tell
Like Kendra, Sarah Fox, a people now that I had my nose
Neumann senior business and done, they can’t believe it.”
marketing major, dealt with
The surgery cost Fox
harassment from peers because $13,000, $5,000 of which her
of her nose and had a cosmetic health insurance covered. Kenprocedure.
dra’s procedure cost $3,500, on
In addition to having her which she was given a 10 perdeviated
cent discount
Fox said Montag’s because her
septum
fixed, Fox
paid
surgeries are parents
had a rhiwith cash.
like going into ‘a
noplast,
H o w
or
nose
teens nowafood store and days can afreshap[picking] out any ford such
ing, and
received
surgery that she ep rxopceendsuirve es
a
chin
wants like it’s c o n f o u n d s
implant
because
nothing.’ me. I want
her doctor
said
more
than
she had a
anything for
recessed chin, meaning her chin people, especially teens, to be
was not in line with her nose.
content with what they have
Fox underwent the pro- and to find a balance between
cedure at 18, before she began inner- and outer-beauty. This is
college.
apparently wishful thinking on
“I wanted a complete fresh my part, since ASAPS reported
start because these people didn’t that more than 205,000 of indiknow me, and I didn’t want viduals 18 years or younger had
them to know me as a big-nosed undergone some sort of plastic
surgery in 2007, with the two
most popular procedures being
breast augmentation and liposuction.
The teens who received
breast implants or liposuction
paint a disturbing picture for
youth in the U.S. Along with
Montag, these teens and young
adults are sending a message
that unless every inch of you
is perfect, you need plastic surgery.
Fox said plastic surgery is
good for people who have accidents, health problems or are
just physically unhappy and
need a small change, but she
said Montag’s surgeries are like
going into “a food store and
[picking] out any surgery that
she wants like it’s nothing.”
“If you think beauty comes
from within, why are you getting so many surgeries?” Kendra said. “Ten-plus surgeries
later, and beauty isn’t coming
[from] within, it’s coming from
a knife.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Josh Fernandez can be reached
at [email protected].
Consumers buying into College-aged peacemakers can
‘it’ gizmos to stay on the talk about it without outside help
cutting edge need limits The functions of the Office of University Housing and Residential Life’s
Peer Mentor program cover the same responsibilities as responsible adults.
Apple’s new iPad, as well as other tech-gadgets,
oving from famil- means transferring rooms.
[who live] in Johnson and Hardmay be nothing more than a toy collector’s dream.
T
his past Wednesday,
Apple made the longawaited announcement
of its latest product: the
iPad. I immediately
squealed
with glee
at
the
thought of
having this
beautiful
KATHRYN
piece
of
LÓPEZ
technology in my
hands this spring.
Shortly following the mental kick I gave myself for not
making the switch to AT&T
from Verizon when I renewed
my contract last month, I began
spotting phrases like “no Flash”
and “no camera” on my Google
News feed. As I read further and
conferred with fellow techies,
I realized that Steve Jobs’s latest addition to the digital world
might be nothing more than an
extra large iPod Touch.
Nonetheless, this product is
already a hit – the Tech Herald
estimates 5 million will be sold
in the first year – but why?
Because we, along with the
rest of the digital world, love
technology. The market may
not be full of more reliable,
user-friendly or advanced tools
than those we already own, but
those of us who have grown up
in the Digital Age pine for touch
screens, 3G and paperless lives.
It’s predictable that Apple’s
iPad 2.0 will premiere a camera,
USB ports, et cetera, but most
won’t wait for that model.
“Being on the cutting edge
is really important,” computer
and information sciences professor Abbe Forman said.
Technology has infiltrated
our daily lives, especially as
students. Universities and other
institutions have been making
the shift to technology in the
classroom and workplace environments.
“You come from a computer age,” Forman said. “You were
all raised with computers. How
would you feel if you walked
into a classroom with a professor who didn’t know what they
were doing [in terms of technology]?”
The answer? Annoyed. But
while we expect access to the
latest technology and people
who know how to use it, we
don’t need to jump the gun on
products and services simply because words run on a battery and
appear on a screen, not on paper.
Even the American Association of Neurological Surgeons is taking the step to supply 3,500 iPod Touches – not
without an added fee, of course
– to its attendees at a conference
in Philadelphia in May, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Instead of being supplied with
approximately 165 pages of material, the neurosurgeons will be
forced to explore their PDFs on
a 3-by-2-inch screen. Although
this may seem more environmentally friendly, cost-effective
and “advanced,” it may not be
the better option.
Just for a five-day conference, the neurosurgeons will
have to pay for the iPod touches,
fiddle around on a small, difficult-to-read screen, take notes
using a separate medium and
learn how to navigate a touch
screen.
Sometimes this advanced
technology can be, in reality,
less cost-efficient, less reliable
and more difficult to use. While
it’s important to stay on the cutting edge, we should spend our
funds, time and energy on products and services that are actually worthwhile. When the iPad
becomes more than a super-sized
iPhone, I’ll be sure to make that
switch to AT&T.
M
iar and comfortable
homes to cramped
dorm rooms with
complete strangers can be a big
transition for incoming Temple
students, but employing peer
mentors to ease students’ growing pains is
not the answer.
T h e
Office
of
University Housing
and
CARY
Residential
CARR
Life’s new
Peer Mentor program is designed to make
it easier for students to build relationships with others on their
floors and wings. Peer mentors
must also be in tune to any concerns or problems residents may
have. But for students living
on Main Campus, most issues
can already be solved with an
already-existing tool: a Resident
assistant.
“I had a problem with a
roommate, but we resolved it
among ourselves and the RA,”
Luke Kockert, a freshman actuarial science major, said.
Kockert, who lives in 1300
residence hall, added that he
never entertained the idea of
seeking a third party, such as a
peer mentor, to solve his roommate problems.
Other than whose turn it is
to clean the bathroom, I have had
minimal roommate disputes as
a freshman living in 1300. Students work out their dorm room
battles independently, even if it
“Although I’m sure a peer wick [residence halls] have their
mentor could be useful, I would doors wide open and are friends
much rather go to my friends with everyone on the floor.”
One of the peer mentors’
who know who I am and know
background information about responsibilities is to create a somy situations and issues,” said cial community within residence
Jenna Keeney, a freshman nurs- halls, something Sweeney said
ing major who also lives in 1300. is lacking in her residence hall.
Similarly, if I had a serious But considering all of the other
problem I couldn’t possibly work activities and programs Temple
out on my own, I would seek ad- offers, having a peer mentor
vice from someone familiar with to bring students together isn’t
my personality and relation- necessary. There are dozens of
ships. Burdening a stranger with on-campus events, clubs and
my problems would feel uncom- opportunities in which students
fortable, and I would not be able can get involved. I met several
to truly open up to that person, people on my dance team, In
regardless of any training or ex- Motion, and even a few good
perience
friends from
Burdening a classes.
he or she
T h e
might
stranger with my
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Menh a v e
problems would tor program
in peer
men torfeel uncomfortable, was created
with
good
ing.
and I would not i n t e n t i o n s ,
A s
adults, it
be able to truly and someshould
times freshopen up to that men do need
be our
responsiperson, regardless a third party
bility to
to
diffuse
of any training or serious argube able
to overexperience he or ments, but
c o m e
we learned
she might have had. the elemensquabbles and
tary school
foster
principles of
new relationships.
compromise and forgiveness a
“My biggest struggle in the long time ago. Kind and caring
dorms has been meeting people,” mediators who hold our hands
Sara Sweeney, a freshman edu- and fix our problems won’t be
cation major, said. “Since I live readily available when students
in White Hall, all the rooms are are thrown into the real world.
suite-style, and a lot of the time,
Cary Carr can be reached at
people keep their doors shut.
[email protected].
“On the other hand, people
Becoming a peer mentor
Use the QR code to the left on your Web-enabled
mobile device to apply to be a peer mentor. For
more information on the position and why it was
created, turn to page 1.
Kathryn A. López can be reached at
[email protected].
VOICE of the
PEOPLE
If you could get plastic surgery, what
would you change about yourself?
“
SOMEONE
ELSE’S
OPINION
“It started with
a dispute on
Facebook.”
John Walker,
Lieutenant of Southwest
Detectives
on a gunfire battle that
wounded two young adults
and one minor
“He was a very
complex and
wonderful person.
He had great
compassion for
people, and he
could be very
intense. He was
a tough football
player, but he was
also gentle as a
teddy bear. He had
just an unbelievable
blend of positive
qualities. He’s a
Philadelphia icon
just like Chuck
Bednarik.”
Dick Vermeil,
former Philadelphia
Eagles coach
on the death of Tom
Brookshier, a former
defensive back for the Eagles
“...in the United
States of America,
no one should go
broke because
they chose to go
to college. And by
the way, it’s time
for colleges and
universities to
get serious about
cutting their own
costs because
they, too, have a
responsibility to help
solve this problem.” 
Barack Obama,
President of the United States
on forgiving student loan debt
after 20 years if he or she
goes into the service industry,
considering the price of college
“You would have
thought that
economic conditions
in the country would
make higher-priced
institutions a lot
less interesting to
families. But they
understand that
the recession, no
matter how severe
it may be, will end
fairly soon, whereas
the benefits of a
college education
are spread out over
a lifetime.”
Barmak Nassirian,
of the American Association
of Collegiate Registrars and
Admission Officers
on the overall increase of
California applicants to East
Coast schools despite the
current economic state
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MEGHAN HENRY
FRESHMAN
SAMANTHA HSUEH
FRESHMAN
PSYCHOLOGY
“My
nose, but if I
could, I would
probably get
a bunch.”
GAURAV MOOKERJEE
SOPHOMORE
PSYCHOLOGY
“Definitely
my butt
because
guys love big
butts, and
I was not
blessed with
a big butt.”
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BIOLOGY
“I would
get my butt
reduced
because
it’s big and
muscular, and
there’s a point
where it is just
too big.”
BECKY KERNER TTN
OPINION DESK 215-204-9540
[email protected]
COMMENTARY AND SUBMISSIONS
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COMMUNITY VOICE
on the
WORD WEB...
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Optimism about business endeavor waning
Unedited for content.
dave on a reader’s comment regarding the expense of the new T3 electric vehicles purchased by Campus Safety Services on Jan. 26, 2010 at 3:44 p.m.
Allan is correct. Why would you pay 50% more for a vehicle that does less than the
Segway, is less manueverable and requires much higher maintenance? It looks like
the folks at Temple campus safety succumbed to a slick salesman, flashy lights
and didn’t really do their homework. I wonder if they even completed a trial with
both types of vehicles before they made their decision……..?
Raj on Christian Audesirk’s commentary regarding the excitement of Allen Iverson’s
return to the 76ers on Jan. 27, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.
Great article. I need to go to more sixers game when I am visiting home in Philly!
M.A. Wheat on “The Potty Diaries,” which documents the best and worst of Main Campus’ toilet seats on Jan. 26, 2010 at 8:55 a.m.
Just loved this article! Very useful information and I thoroughly enjoyed laughing
on this Tuesday morning.
ASHLEY NGUYEN TTN
Alex on the Street Sounds of the Anchor Boys on Jan. 26, 2010 at 1:04 a.m.
A great band full of great guys. The most fun I’ve had a shows in a long time.
They put on the best show of their lives every time they play. Pumping my fist and
anxiously awaiting their EP
Angry Nerd on “Angry Nerd” columnist Keith Collins’ claim to the title, the angry nerd
on Jan. 26, 2010 at 1:06 p.m.
Yeah, well, back at you a-hole. I was the Angry Nerd first, and have been asking
Temple to give me a column under that name for 4 GD years now. This is horsepoop. To make matters worse… you suck at writing.
samantha on the positives of the Hot Potato Café on Jan. 28, 2010 at 5:25 p.m.
I am biased because my family owns this restaurant, but it really is a great place
that is pretty inexpensive and has a great atmosphere. It’s cheap enough for students on a budget, especially with it being a BYOB.
$
Rocky Patel’s main business plan is to patiently wait out the current economic state.
W
hen Rocky Patel
first acquired the
Shop For Less grocery store situated
at 2208 N. Broad St., he said he
saw potential. Located along a
busy Broad Street strip by the
Susquehanna-Dauphin subway
station and a block away from
Temple dorm White Hall, Patel
said he “saw a future here.”
Now, Patel said he sees little foot traffic from Temple students, though he doesn’t blame
his new business competitor,
Fresh Grocer, located just six
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blocks away.
“People used to come here
from Temple, but I don’t see
them very much now,” Patel
said inside his store, leaning
against a counter scattered with
three peanut jars and a saucy
dip for a South Indian recipe. “I
don’t know if they are buying
from somewhere else, but it’s
definitely overall because of the
economy. Business is down.”
Patel, who was the last
member of his family to emigrate from India to the United
States 10 years ago, said he still
sees the same community members coming into the store, but
traffic remains slow. He seemed
hesitant to say he was happy
he’d bought the business.
“Two years before, the picture was different,” Patel said,
folding his arms, “and now the
picture is different. I would say
not happy, but there’s nothing
you can do. Hopefully things
will pick up. That is why we’re
here.”
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[email protected].
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Main Campus Confection
In the debut of Carlene
Majorino’s community
service column, she
visits the Norris Square
Neighborhood Project.
Philly’s famed cupcake truck will now visit Main Campus every Thursday.
JOSH FERNANDEZ
The Temple News
I
nsomnia Cookies has a new delectable competition on Main Campus – a cupcake truck,
located at the corner of 12th and Montgomery streets.
The white truck, covered in large, rectangular multicolored shapes that resemble oversized
sprinkles, brings with it quantities of confectionery goodness. The cupcake truck, known as Buttercream Philadelphia, is a traveling food truck
that goes all over the city to serve up fresh baked
goods.
The truck will visit Main Campus every
Thursday from noon to 2 p.m.
“Baking, I would say, is my art, my vehicle
to make people happy,” Kate Carrara, the owner
and founder of Buttercream Philadelphia, said. “I
always think about what people are going to respond to, what’s going to make them smile.”
Carrara didn’t always start out baking velvety, frosting-covered cupcakes in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia’s buzzing baked goods entrepreneur, nicknamed “The Cupcake Lady,” was once
an attorney, graduating from the University of
San Francisco Law School and working at her
grandfather’s law firm, Lenahan & Dempsey in
Scranton, Pa. Carrara worked there for two years,
where she was known as “The Deposition Lady,”
she joked.
She said a friend told her Austin, Texas had
a baked-goods truck with late-night pick-up and
delivery options, and someone in New York City
was on the verge of starting up a similar business.
Carrara said she figured she’d take a shot starting
the same type of business in Philadelphia.
“I was defending hard things, hanging around
people who were fighting … I don’t miss that at
all,” Carrara said with a laugh. “Now I’m surrounded by people that smile and wave at me all
day, and I did not get that response with my brief
M
any people who go to
college end up joining groups, taking
up hobbies or doing community service at some
point during those years in academia.
The purpose of these activities is to
enrich ex- FREE LOVE
periences
with social good
and
interaction
– while
giving
students
an opporCARLENE
tunity to
MAJORINO
do more
in college
than just get the degree necessary for success.
Students’ involvement in
community service groups can
provide an entire experience, instead of just a degree.
But for people like Zerbo
Lara Omar, this experience
won’t be easy to achieve. First,
he has to learn English.
Omar is part of Temple’s
Intensive English Learning Program, which consists of six 14week levels of a crash-course
for non-native speakers. The
23-year-old from Burkina Faso,
West Africa is on Level 4 of the
program. Omar hopes to begin
business courses after he completes the IELP program.
“In my country, I was studying business, and then I started
at university,” Omar said. “And
then my friend [who] had come
to Temple six months before me
said it had a good program.”
One track of the IELP program that allows international
students to gain social experience is a connection with several local organizations in need
of volunteers.
In the six months he’s attended Temple, Omar has served
about four different organizations throughout the city, from
community centers to nursing
homes. Where he’s from, he
said, community service isn’t so
popular.
“I was very interested in
volunteering when I was in my
country,” Omar said, “but there
were few opportunities.”
Omar, like other students
in his volunteering track, gets
an assignment from IELP every
Wednesday and reserves those
mornings to volunteer. Those
students travel together to their
destination and collaborate on
work – when there are students
in that track.
CUPCAKES PAGE 16
Courtesy Buttercream Philadelphia
MONICA ZUBER TTN
MAJORINO PAGE 8
next week
inside
Temple alumna Raphaële Saïah dicusses the differences between
“gay” and “queer” labels in Josh Fernandez’s “Qchat” column.
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Lady Gaga isn’t the only chick out there who “doesn’t wanna be
friends.” Columnist Libby Peck examines relationship dynamics.
In The Temple News’ Valentine’s Day issue, we’ll look at everything
from romantic spots on campus to personal Feb. 14 stories.
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From West Africa to
Philly’s Norris Square
MAJORINO PAGE 7
PAUL KLEIN TTN
International student Zerba Lara Omar volunteers once a week tending the garden at
the Norris Square Neighborhood Project and visiting a Center City nursing home.
“Every seven weeks, you
choose a track,” Omar said. “I
was alone for 14 weeks.”
One of the organizations
assigned to Omar is the Norris
Square Neighborhood Project,
a community center located
near the intersection of Front
and Susquehanna streets. NSNP
runs programs that range from
after-school childcare to community beautification and even
a summer camp.
“[Norris Square] is not a
safe area,” Omar said, “so this
gives children and teenagers
something to do so they won’t
be bored.”
Omar volunteers at NSNP
on Wednesday mornings. NSNP
uses the resources of the neighborhood and many volunteers
to keep local children out of
The Temple News
presents...
People you
should KNOW
CHELSEA CALHOUN
The Temple News
Dr. Jayasinhji “Bapa” Jhala is an associate professor of
visual anthropology with some self-declared unconventional
teaching practices. Jhala says it’s his colleagues’ straight-andnarrow applications, though, that allow him to encourage students to “climb a hill of unfamiliarity” by engaging in “speculation, mad flights of imagination, crazy inventive behavior [and]
outside-the-box actions.” In perhaps one of the most unorthodox
interviews The Temple News has ever seen, Jhala sat down for
an in-class interview, where he talked about Indic philosophy,
the topography of heaven and a concept he may have hatched
– the ethnosurreal.
ple?
The Temple News: How long have you taught at Tem-
Jayasinhji Jhala: Literally, I think it was ’91. That’s a
nice, interesting straightforward question. (Laughs.) But I think
how I teach now and how I taught then is very different, and
what I’ve come to find important now and what I found important then is different, too. So, if you use the notion that I’m like
an amoeba or chameleon, changing over time, you’ll have a different answer about how long I’ve been teaching.
CHELSEA CALHOUN TTN
TTN: What was the first visual project you personally
completed?
JJ: The first movie I ever made was in New York. It was this Escher painting. It was that famous one about the turtle.
And so we, just, made the turtle walk.
TTN: You’ve been known to take on independent projects with your students. How often does this happen,
and how does this engage students in the learning process?
JJ: Now, this is my universal qualm. Some people I can seduce and others I can’t. The ones I do seduce, work with
me. And those who have better judgment, [do not]. (Laughs.) Right now, we’ve got four or five projects happening. And
this film-making business, it’s really astonishing. I’m kind of the old goat in front. Sometimes, [the students’] ideas are
superior to mine. Most often, they’re superior to mine because they see a way out of the problems [that can be encountered in filmmaking]. You guys, at your age, are much sharper than I am.
TTN: Currently, you’re working on a student-project involving the projection of images onto buildings from
inside a moving vehicle. Can you tell us more about that?
JJ: It’s an experiment. I don’t know if it can even work. But Philadelphia is very famous for [the Mural Arts Program] and graffiti. And so, we thought, “Is there a way to bond these but with other kinds of images, which they’re actually there, and [then,] they’re gone?” And at one point, I thought maybe, just show a film about a Yadamari fishing scene,
a 10-minute film, in one block, and [then] let’s move on. But we haven’t been able to [accomplish this] yet. Another
student here had a brilliant idea. He found a pram, a baby carriage, and he said, “We put the projector in the pram, and
then we can easily move it.” Because if you are cruising the streets in the car, it’d be kind of difficult to [maneuver]. The
power source is [also] the issue, and also, getaway is not easy in a pram. (Laughs.)
TTN: Is this “getaway” you speak of something you often encounter, where you’re working on a project in
public and find yourself running from some sort of law enforcement?
JJ: Well, that’s an interesting question. Maybe it’s because I’m not a U.S. citizen, I’m like a guest worker here, so
most of my work has not been what I would consider cutting-edge social-issue stuff. I admire a lot of that work, but it’s
not that I don’t think I can do it, or not that I don’t feel strongly about abortion issues or race issues and other things like
that, I just feel that, as I’m not a citizen, is it my right? So, by and large, I’ve had kind of soft subjects when I deal with
Americans. I think I made films about art collections, things like that. Rather innoxious. I do more of [the cutting-edge
projects] in India.
TTN: In your classes and projects, you’ve made mention of this concept of “ethnosurrealism.” How do you
define the ethnosurreal?
JJ: It comes out of my playing with visual anthropology and Indic ideas of “Maya” and “Leela.” Maya is “illusion,”
and Leela is “play.” Not play as nonserious, play as highly serious, provocative creative exercise. And that’s what the Indic philosophy says, all life is play, and all life is illusion. So, it’s mixing some of those ideas. Ethnosurreal takes imagery
from other places and puts them in contexts that are not exactly the same, ... like people talk about ancestors in another
place, but where are these ancestors? Our grandmothers, great-grandmothers, they’re dead. Now, they’re in heaven, but
heaven doesn’t exist except in imagination, so how are the people [there]? What’s the topography of the place? Are they
all sitting on cushions that float? Are they all eating ice cream up there?
Chelsea Calhoun can be reached at [email protected].
trouble. The nonprofit
When I give help,
has taken its resources
a step further with six
I’m happy. If I
themed gardens, each
need help one
representing a different culture, intended
day, someone
to tranquilize the
might help me.
community of Norris
Square.
Omar said he ZERBA LARA OMAR
helps with the upkeep nsnp volunteer
of these gardens since
obtaining a degree in business
the children are still in school.
from Temple. In the meantime,
At the nursing home where he will continue to gain social
he volunteers in Center City, skills through community serOmar was surprised by the en- vice.
thusiasm of the residents toward
“When I give help, I’m
volunteers.
happy,” Omar said. “And now,
“They feel alone and want if I need help one day, someone
somebody to talk with,” Omar might help me.”
said. “It’s very different [in
Burkina Faso].”
Carlene Majorino can be reached at
Omar’s goal is to open a
[email protected].
business in his country after
Drawing the
line between
LGBT labels
When defining sexual orientations, there can
be major personal differences between labeling
oneself as “gay,” “bisexual,” and now, “queer.”
A
fter the end of mind- while my without-a-sexual-label
numbing Spring 2009 friend did not refer to herself as
finals, a female friend queer, the term “queer” is a label
and I enjoyed a warm that, in a way, could potentially
night at the Gayborhood bar describe the orientation she’s
QLounge,
formerly QCHAT
trying to achieve.
known as Bump.
But she never
While eating fettucciused the term “queer,”
ni and sipping cosmos,
which was once used
we had an in-depth
as a derogatory term
discussion on sexufor effeminate gay
ality. We poked fun,
men and is now comguessing who among
monly used as an umour peers was possibly
brella term for the LGgay, lesbian, bisexual
BTQ community.
JOSH
or just open and evenLevitt explained
tually talked about our FERNANDEZ that the difference beown sexualities.
tween queer and the
During this time, my lovely other identities was that queer
female friend came out to me. It broke the binaries and that queer
was a coming out experience I as an umbrella term is good, but
was not familiar with, and it had still using other terms, like gay,
nothing to do with the fact that lesbian, et cetera, is important,
she was closeted, or that I was too.
in a bit of a shock.
“We want to have that range
What made this coming out because [these terms] mean and
experience unique was that my have meant historically differfriend did not come out as a les- ent things,” said Levitt. “Somebian or a bisexual woman. She times, it’s really important to
said she had been with both men use different words in different
and women, but she did not put contexts to help get at that.”
a label on her sexuality. She was
Queer, in addition to being
sexually label-less.
the alphabet soup synonym, is
“I’ll put it to you this way,” a complex identity, but in an atshe said. “I’m attracted to peo- tempt to make it clear, the purple, not gender.”
pose of being queer is that you
Ladies, gentlemen and ev- do no operate in a heteronormaeryone between and beyond, tive sexuality and/or gender.
believe me when I say that this
“This is my general undernight was the start of a summer standing, but the whole point
during which I was schooled on of the queer identity is that it’s
gender and sexuality.
tailored to the individual, and
My friend’s revelation it ushers in this conversation
opened my eyes to a world out- that you have to have for each
side the sexual binary. In our individual person,” Raphaële
heteronormative society, we Saïah, a Temple alumna, said.
think of sexuality in a two-tier “It’s based on a rejection of
system – heterosexuality, the heteronormativity, which then
norm, and homosexuality. This in return allows for conversais very similar to the way binary tions on consent in sexual pracsociety looks at gender: You’re tice…because it’s all formulated
either male or female, and you around what that person would
perform your societal gender potentially consent to in sexual
practice.”
roles as male or female.
Saïah, who graduated with
“I think the sensitivity to
labels is to really think about a bachelor’s degree in women’s
who is labeling whom in what studies in December 2009, selfcontext and what work the la- identifies as queer. She sees her
bel [does] for them,” said Laura queer identity as “being fluid,
Levitt, director of the women’s under the umbrella of queer
identities.”
studies program.
She was introduced to the
Levitt said “label-lessness”
could help the individual get out queer identity through a punk
of LGBTQ labels, so that those
FERNANDEZ PAGE 14
aren’t the only options. And
ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
J-rock
takes on
temple-news.com
Philly
Gothic, industrial and electronic bands GPKISM and
Seileen, both part of the Japanese underground scene,
will make their debut in Philadelphia with two shows,
starting tomorrow.
Co
ur
apanese underground icons
gothic Prince Ken, DJ SiSen
and Selia are embarking on a
U.S. tour with their new bands,
GPKISM and Seileen. They will
play for the first time in Philadelphia
Wednesday.
Like many Japanese musicians,
the two groups perform in elaborate
costumes and makeup. For some
groups like these, androgyny and
cross-dressing are common.
“For the stage show, expect lavish gothic costumes, neck-breaking
energy, danceable numbers, homosexual overtones and Selia [vocalist of Seileen] to blow you away
with his vocal prowess,” said Roger
Shackelford, who operates Tainted
Reality, the Philadelphia-based
company responsible for this tour.
“He really is one of the best
vocalists in J-Rock [Japanese
Rock] today.”
Many fans dress along with the
bands in a similar fashion. Most
costumes in the stateside audiences may not be as elaborate as they
would be in Tokyo, but attendees
are still likely to see a number of
memorable and creative costumes.
“Costuming-wise, everything
ranges from hardcore goth to Lolita to cyber and everything in be-
te
sy
Ta
in
te
d
Re
ali
ty
“
Expect lavish
gothic
costumes, neckbreaking energy,
“
J
LEE MILLER
The Temple News
danceable numbers,
and homosexual
overtones.
ROGER
SHACKLEFORD
owner, tainted reality
tween,” said Michelle Branch, a sophomore communications major at Temple
University Japan, who is active in the
Tokyo gothic community. “There’s really no limits.”
The nine-act performance tour
might not seem impressive compared
to other U.S. artists’ tours, but it is two
more dates than Japan’s all-time best
selling band, B’z, has played on either
of their headlining North American
tours.
Despite issues of piracy, the Internet’s ability to act as the ultimate
word-of-mouth machine has propelled
small Japanese bands to a place larger
J-ROCK PAGE 12
PAGE 9
Stories of
Reading
Terminal
Market
Summer Beckley finds
the facts on some of
marketplace’s vendors.
T
he aisles of Reading Terminal Market bustled
with college students, elderly couples and young
families.
A
t h o u s a n d PAST TIMES
scents filled OF PHILLY
the air, from
the
enticing aroma of
freshly baked
soft pretzels
to the exotic
fragrance
of
strange
SUMMER
spices.
My
BECKLEY
eyes couldn’t
decide whether to focus on the
tempting chocolate truffles in
front of me or the huge, bizarre
piggy bank in the Center Court.
Located at 12th and Arch
streets in Center City, Reading
Terminal Market is wonderfully
overwhelming. Covering nearly
two acres, with 80 diverse vendors, the market has been an
integral part of Philadelphia culture for more than a century.
“The Reading Terminal
Market is a Philadelphia landmark and a must-see for visitors to our city,” Alison Tress,
a Temple alumna and head of
advertising for the market, said.
“For students fortunate enough
to be attending school in Philadelphia, the sights, sounds and
especially tastes of the Reading
Terminal Market can be experienced often.”
Every day, thousands of
people enjoy such vendors as
Bassetts Ice Cream, Terralyn
and Miller’s Twists, but not all
of them know the history of the
Reading Terminal Market itself.
I remember visiting the market as a child – nose plastered
BECKLEY PAGE 13
Cheers
and beers
for Haiti’s
relief fund
inside
Ghost Steppers and Silk
City teamed up to help
the people of Haiti.
“On Stage” columnist Max McCormack looks at race relations in a
fraternity during the ‘60s in his review of The Eclectic Society.
REBECCA BLEZNAK
The Temple News
Last Wednesday, at Silk
City Diner in Northern Liberties, Ghost Steppers made their
debut and gathered to play for
a sold out crowd. The band
charged $10 for tickets, with
100 percent of the proceeds
being donated to the American
Red Cross’s Haiti relief fund.
The idea for the show came
from drummer Mike Greenfield, who headlined with two
of his bandmates, Jesse and
Luke Miller, also from Lotus,
an electro-jazz-style pop band
that’s split between musicians
in Colorado and Philadelphia.
The local three decided to form
Ghost Steppers after Greenfield
suggested playing a concert to
raise money for a good cause.
THO NGUYEN TTN
Ghost Steppers made their debut last Wednesday at the Northern Liberties bar and
diner. The band formed to raise money for the American Red Cross’ Haitian relief fund.
“I was watching the news
coverage of the earthquake in
Haiti, and I was deeply saddened by the devastation there,”
Greenfield said. “My first reaction was to simply donate some
money, but I figured I could use
my band to raise money to contribute more than I could individually to Haitians in need.
“Silk City was eager to
host the event, [and] everyone
is really excited about helping
out the earthquake victims and
throwing a great show.”
The other acts that played
at Silk City are electronic duo
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Sonic Spank, dubstep/street
bass DJ Sonkin and select members of Bodega and Brother’s
Past, two local electro-sound
groups. All were drawn to the
idea of raising money for Haitian victims of the disaster and
contributed their time and energy to the cause for free.
“I think there [are] a lot
of people thinking, ‘What can I
do?’” Jeremy Worthington, the
acoustic/electronic drummer for
Bodega, said. “There is a sense
of helplessness. Everyone’s
hearts go out to the people of
Haiti, and it’s reflected in peo-
ple coming together to organize
events like this one.”
Mikele Edwards, a Silk
City employee, handled the
event, promoting it through social networking sites with only
10 days to do so.
Edwards said Silk City
treated this Wednesday night
show like any of its busier
nights, which are typically
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
“We knew it would be busy
once the advance tickets started
SILK CITY PAGE 12
This week, “Street Sounds” features Andrew Lipke, a singer/songwriter and multi-intstrumentalist who made Philadelphia his home.
next week
Jump aboard the love train as The Temple News highlights the Mural Arts Program’s Love Letter murals in West Philadelphia.
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Courtesy Mark Garvin
Fraternity boys struggle with tradition when an African-American student enters their
house, turning their lives upside down and putting their open-mindedness to the test.
Racism and camaraderie in 1963
Columnist Max McCormack says Eric Conger’s script needs more urgency.
U
niversity
life
has
changed tremendously
in the last century. Today, college students
must
face
the conflicts ON
of their time STAGE
and
learn
how to deal
with
them.
The
world
premiere of
The
Eclectic
Society,
MAX
which opened
Jan. 19 at the McCORMACK
Walnut Street
Theatre, addresses issues of
keeping tradition in a progressing world.
Eric Conger’s play is about
social change, but beneath that
theme, there’s an honest desire
to keep things comfortable.
Under the direction of Ed
Herendeen, The Eclectic Society
follows a fraternity of the same
name during the fall of 1963.
The lives of the young white
academics are turned upside
down with the arrival of Darrell
Freeman, an African-American
scholarship student from Cleveland. Freeman doesn’t exactly fit
in with some of the khaki-wearing trust-fund kids, and thus,
the house is split: Some want
him gone, and others want him
to stay. However cliché, there is
conflict in the house.
What’s missing from Conger’s script, though, is a sense
of urgency and danger. The story
flip-flops from fear of change to
camaraderie and general fun. At
times, the young men’s heads
are so far in the clouds that their
opinions on Civil Rights and
progression seem to come out of
nowhere.
Little risks were taken in
the staging and writing. There’s
a level of cleanliness and safety
in the production, as if it’s too
afraid to offend, leaving the audience with drama that seems to
jump out and say, “Take me seriously!”
Despite its weak script, the
play feels honest in its portrayal
of East Coast college life during the 1960s. The men Conger
wrote were eerily similar to the
“phonies” Holden Caulfield describes in the late J.D. Salinger’s
The Catcher in the Rye. Their
characters may be a bit older, but
they are certainly no less naïve
or arrogant.
Each character was different
– something not easily done with
a cast of 11 similar men. There’s
Freedom Rider Seth Flugelman, played by Ed Renninger;
the actor, played by Jeffrey de
Picciotto; and of course Freeman, played by J. Alex Brinson,
with more ferocity than a shot of
5-Hour Energy.
Dan Amboyer plays the society’s president, Tom Rockwell.
As the staunch elegant leader,
Rockwell demands attention as
he attempts to do what’s best
for the house. He must balance
his responsibility as the president and star football player,
while appeasing his increasingly
feminist girlfriend, all of which
eventually brings him to a breaking point – and one of the play’s
many excellently delivered
monologues.
On the other hand, there’s
Sean O’Dey, played by Paul
Felder, who is openly disgusted
by Darrell’s presence. O’Dey’s
character is frightening because
OPEN CURTAIN
The Eclectic Society runs
until March 7 at the Walnut
Street Theatre (825 Walnut
St.).
Tickets are available online
at walnutstreettheatre.org or
by calling 215-574-3550.
of Felder’s multidimensional
performance. He turns from
charming and fun to revolting
and close-minded in a single
beat.
Set designer Robert Klingelhoefer created a grand – albeit generic – home for the
boys. The dirty white walls and
ancient photographs of previous
classes are exactly how I imagined the fraternity houses of an
Ivy League university.
The most captivating design
element was Colleen Grady’s
costumes. From the tweeds to
the loafers, it made me yearn
for a time when jackets and ties
were the only appropriate attire
for dinner.
The biggest problem with
this retro-drama is that it cannot decide whether to be filled
with good-hearted fun or heartwrenching drama. Either way,
change is at the heart of the Walnut Street Theatre Company’s
new production.
The Eclectic Society is
about the idea that civility and
education is nice, but sometimes, an alternative voice can
be the wisest.
Max McCormack can be reached at
[email protected].
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CALLING ALL ARTISTS
Tune in each week as The Temple News profiles a new
Philly band with an upcoming show in the city
Andrew
Lipke
Think
KEVIN BROSKY
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Listen Up
Use this QR code on
your Web-enabled
mobile device to listen
to Andrew Lipke’s
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Andrew Lipke bands together with The Prospects to bring more
depth, descant and distinctness to his lyrical and vocal measures.
infuses acoustic and electric guitars,
piano and string arrangements into a
hypnotic musical stew that typically
blurs lines of genres.
“Once I hit 16 or 17, I really
didn’t see any difference between
genres of music,” Lipke said. “Music was music, and I stopped aligning
myself to any particular scene based
around a sound and really just found
myself intrigued and inspired by any
good and interesting music.” The singer/songwriter lists a diverse collection of influences ranging
from Bach to ABBA to John Denver.
His four-piece backing band, The
Prospects, fill out the sound adding
depth and precision to every measure.
Lipke calls The Prospects “the most
versatile and talented group of musicians” with whom he’s worked. Lipke described his upcoming recording project as an operetta or song
suite album called The Plague, which
he hopes will be finished this year.
The songwriter calls it his most ambitious work to date.
“It’s a series of apocalyptic vignettes,” he said. “It’s mostly piano
based, and I’m writing a series of
string quartets to play behind the piano and vocal performances.”
ANDREW
PHILLY PLAYS
Andrew Lipke isn’t a singer/
songwriter so much as he is a composer. His complex, multilayered arrangements go beyond what most
Philly musicians do with a guitar or
piano. “I always felt a strong connection
to music, and ever since I can remember, I was either going to be a composer or a marine biologist,” Lipke
said. “Composing won.” Since arriving in Philadelphia,
the 31-year-old, South African-born
multi-instrumentalist has made a
splash in the local music scene, signing to Drexel University’s beloved
MAD Dragon Records, on which he
released two LPs in two years. Lipke’s brand of alternative rock
YOU
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Lipke began playing piano at age
5, before moving to the United States
at age 9. He came to Philadelphia in
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enough that you can form relationships with many people who are influential and active in the music scene
but big enough that you can discover
new and interesting people doing
wonderful things all the time,” he
said. “I’ve laid my roots here. This is
my home.”
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Ciccarelli assesses
the “situation” of
the Jersey Shore
This week, “Public Eyeglass” looks at Jersey
Shore, the land of fist pumps and fake tans.
A
dull glaze sets over
my eyes whenever I
hear the word “situation.” I’m finding
myself beating up beats in my
sleep. When my roommates
ask
when
PUBLIC
I’m going
to move my EYEGLASS
jacket, I respond with
“Get at me,
bro!”
I
am
addicted
to
Jersey
STEVE
Shore.
CICCARELLI
When
the trailers
for this beautiful fiasco made
their way around the Internet,
my reaction was likely different from yours. Unlike most of
the country, I’m actually from
the New Jersey shore. “These
people aren’t even from here!”
my friends would tweet, and
they’re not, except for Sammi
“Sweetheart.”
Is it so bad for Guido-ism
to be a philosophy? Do you see
how happy these people are?
Their lives are so exciting –
to them. A simple wrong look
can easily turn into a shouting
match among roommates and
a stranger can easily be “put
to sleep.” But just observe
their normal demeanor. Much
happier than most of the overstressed, overwhelmed and
under-slept people I encounter
in my life, myself included.
The fact of the matter is
this – no matter how absurd all
of these characters are – they
are insanely likable. The best
TV writers could not come up
with a character like “The Situation;” he’s stranger than fiction. Could someone as stereotypical as Ronnie really exist?
Who the hell would think of a
name like “Snooki”? These are
the kinds of things that make
Jersey Shore so great. On the
surface, it could be nothing
more than seven annoying
people in one house, but it
lends itself so well to analysis
that it’s impossible not to get
on board.
I find myself attacking
the show. I mean, if you look
at my byline it’s not hard to
tell that I’m not exactly Irish
or Russian. I already have two
strikes against me. My parents
react to the show the same way
they did to Steve “Stone Cold”
Austin – with some disdain
and a question as to why I love
it.
Jersey Shore has launched
into everyday conversation
quicker than it takes for Pauly
to drop a mix. We love these
characters because they have
no ulterior motives. Does Vinny come home from a night
at Karma and read Jean-Paul
Sartre and think about what his
place is in the grand scheme of
things? Yeah, I’m pretty sure
that’s not happening.
I think we live vicariously through the Jersey Shore
roommates. They say what
we want to say but would
never think of actually letting
out. We secretly admire their
brashness, as we laugh about
how absurd it is.
I found myself rewinding
episodes over and over again
just to hear gems like, “That’s
why I don’t eat lobster. They’re
alive when you kill them.” If
there was one word that would
get across: mouth wide open,
staring at the screen in disbelief, then I’d write it.
In 100 years, are people
going to look back and think
about Jersey Shore when they
look at our era’s pop culture
touchstones? I’d have to imagine not. What Jersey Shore
represents is exactly what it is,
pure momentary fun.
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make music and
money for Haiti
SILK CITY PAGE 9
selling quickly and when we
started receiving several phone
calls about the night,” Edwards
said. “So many people wanted
to be involved and show their
support for both the musicians
and the cause.”
Presale tickets were sold
out days before the show, and
the 50 at-the-door tickets were
gone by 10 p.m. Twenty-somethings packed tight into the
lounge area of the venue, pushing their ways to the bar for
$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon specials
and nodding their heads to the
catchy beats in the fluorescent
lights. Despite the large numbers in attendance, the musicians and management said
they agreed the vibe was good,
likely due to the positive atti-
tudes of the people dedicated
enough to the cause to come
out on a cold weekday night.
The show was a success,
raising almost $3,500 and a
car-load of donated threads for
the American Red Cross, from
a clothing drive that Greenfield’s friend, Jaime Melfi, organized. While everyone who
participated was pleased with
the outcome, that doesn’t mean
they’re finished being charitable.
“I think this is one of
the only events in the recent
past that [had] a lot of great
Philadelphia musicians [come]
together for such a cause,”
Worthington said. “We would
love to be a part of other benefits such as this one. There
THO NGUYEN TTN
Electronic duo Sonic Spank, DJ Sonkin and members of
Bodega and Brother’s Past contributed free talent and time
to raise money for Haiti at Silk City last week.
is even some talk about doing
another benefit for Haiti at a
larger venue.”
No matter what they end
up doing in the future, these
musicians have shown their
humanitarian nature and dedication to a cause that has made
a lasting effect on the United
States, especially when statistics show that this country is
needed more than ever.
“In Haiti, estimates suggest that 200,000 people have
died and 1.5 million people
have lost their homes,” Greenfield said. “The country is just
decimated, and Haiti doesn’t
have the resources to recuperate at this point. The international community has to step in
to help, and I am honored to be
a small part of the relief effort.
“When something like this
happens,” he added, “you can’t
really think about conceptual borders between ‘us’ and
‘them.’”
Rebecca Bleznak can be reached at
[email protected].
Japanese bands
debut in Philly
J-ROCK PAGE 9
Japanese bands can only dream
about: the U.S. market.
Being a smaller band and,
often, not having access to vast
reserves of cash can have its
own benefits when it comes to
touring abroad.
“Smaller groups are more
flexible and cheaper,” Shackelford said.
“[They are] flexible in that
they are more open to American business practices, catering to the fans and just being
all out, more open. [They are]
cheaper, as in their asking prices aren’t that high, and usually
there are less members, management or entourage to bring
over from Japan,” he added.
While B’z has a tightly
honed mainstream sound comparable to Aerosmith, with 75
million albums sold in Japan
alone, GPKISM and Seileen
perform in the niche realm of
gothic industrial electronic
music and are comparable to
obscure European acts such as
Razed In Black, E Nomine and
VNV Nation.
“The sound is more of a
European industrial/goth ordeal,” Shackelford said. “The
goth fans will feel more at
home, but some of the writing
structure maintains that Japa-
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of a refreshing experience.”
Without the Internet to get
their music to goth and electronica fans around the world,
these bands would likely be
limited to the Tokyo club
scene. A vast network of Internet forums and blogs has created a rather large worldwide
community that has dismissed
barriers of language and nationality in support of the music.
GPKISM formed in 2007,
and Seileen formed in 2005.
These groups have appeared
on four continents: Seileen in
Europe and Asia and GPKISM
in North America, Australia,
Europe and Asia. DJ SiSen of
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GPKISM and Seileen, like many Japanese musicians, are
mononymous and keep their true identities secret.
Seileen has made multiple appearances overseas under his
own name. Kiwamu of GPKISM toured Europe, Australia, Mexico and America with
the band BLOOD.
“This is the kind of tour
[that] bands like these should
be making,” Shackelford said.
“[They are] hitting as many
cities as they can, getting as
much exposure as possible,
getting new fans and building
a community.”
GPKISM and Seileen will
make their first appearance in
Philadelphia tomorrow, where
they will play a special acoustic set and hold an autograph
session at Digital Ferret. On
Feb. 5, they will play a full
concert at Club Polaris.
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From market to
historical market
BECKLEY PAGE 9
to the glass cases, eyes wide at
the sight of chocolate-covered
potato chips or tiny porcelain
elephants. Now, with majors in
history and communications, I
am entranced by the wealth of
history that waits to be discovered at Reading Terminal.
Markets have been an integral part of Philadelphia since
its founding. Rows of merchants used to line the roadway
now fittingly known as Market
Street. By the mid-1800s, this
collection of open-air markets
was seen as a health hazard and
was dismantled. The Reading
Terminal Market, as we know it
today, opened in 1892. With the Industrial Revolution came the expansion of the
railroad, and in 1893, the Reading Railroad Terminal opened
above the market, bringing
it unprecedented traffic and
booming success. Along with the rest of the
country, the Reading Terminal suffered through the Great
Depression, but it burst to life
again during World War II. With
the introduction of food rationing, more and more people
came to the market, appreciating the variety and quantity of
food it offered. During the 1960s, as economic problems haunted the
railway system, the market faltered. In 1976, after bankruptcy,
the Reading Railroad ceased
operations as a railroad. Reading Terminal Market was on the
brink of closing as well.
“Bassetts Ice Cream is the
last remaining original merchant in the Reading Terminal
Market,” said Michael Strange,
the president of Bassetts, which
has endured generations at
Reading Terminal.
“Founded by my greatgreat-grandfather, Lewis D.
Bassett … Bassetts Ice Cream is
a fifth-generation family owned
business,” Strange said proudly. Throughout the 1970s,
there was discussion about the
disposal of the market and the
selling of the terminal building.
In the 1980s, the Reading Company reorganized as a real estate
business and poured its energy
into revitalizing the market.
After years of negotiations,
the Pennsylvania Convention
Center Authority was created to
transform what had once been
the train shed above the market
into a lavish entranceway to the
new convention center. Along
with this new construction, help
was promised to bring the market back to life.
Stands like Terralyn - Bath,
Body, Spirit may not have been
in business very long but still
have fascinating stories. Elizabeth Eaby, a self-described
“kind of” retiree, works at the
stand selling its exquisite soaps,
lotions and bath salts, as well as
jewelry and her own photography. Although Eaby has only
been working at the Reading
Terminal Market for a year, she
recalled generations of involvement with the market. THO NGUYEN TTN
Terralyn - Bath, Body, Spirit is a stand at the Reading Terminal Market with more than just soaps and candles. The vendors are full of fascinating stories. Elizabeth Eaby told Beckley about the marketplace’s history and her own time there.
“I’ve lived in Philly my
whole life,” Eaby said. “I have a
lot of connection to the market.
My dad passed away recently,
but when he was alive, he would
come here.”
In addition, Eaby spoke of
connections to the railway business that shaped the Market’s
early years.
“My grandfather worked
for the Reading Railroad,” she
said. “I remember him taking
me through here.
“You get all kind of people
through here,” she added, observing the crowded aisles. “I
love working here. It’s really
interesting.”
Miller’s Twists is another
relatively new business, but it
continues a long tradition.
“[Miller’s Twists has] only
been in business for almost a
year,” Roger Miller, the store’s
owner, said. “I bought the business from Fisher’s, who was in
the Reading Terminal since the
early 1980s. They were the first
Pennsylvania Dutch or Amish
stand in the market.” Miller recalled a long history with Reading Terminal.
“I had worked in the market
for 10 years as the manager of
the Dutch Eating Place, which
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of the same pretzel principles.” Miller said he is proud of
the quality of his food.
“Our pretzels are made
from scratch,” he added. “We
mix the flour, let the dough rise,
roll and bake the pretzel all at
the market.” Today, the Reading Terminal Market once again stirs with
life. From homemade Amish
pies to fresh poultry and beautiful flowers to ethnic dishes
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variety is amazing. The market
draws approximately 100,000
visitors every week, both Philadelphians getting their week’s
worth of groceries and tourists
exploring the city.
Temple students should use
their time in Philadelphia to become familiar with the market. “The Reading Terminal
Market has so much going on,”
Eaby said. “It’s a really fascinating place.”
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‘Queer’ talk
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scene — called queercore,
which began in the mid-1980s
— that, while both privileged
and predominantly white at the
time, rejected the gender binary
and openly talked about sexual
assault, consent, and being
LGBT and genderqueer.
Saïah looked back on
Equality Forum 2008 and remembered an article that said
the queer identity was the buzzword at the event.
“I was like, ‘Where were
you in the early ‘90s when queer
theory came on the scene?’ and
even before that, I’m sure. It’s
just weird that it’s still not in
the mainstream view, that it’s an
alternative that doesn’t remove
all those other identities but still
puts the focus on the person,”
Saïah said.
Queer is such a radical –
and in my opinion, refreshing
– way of looking at sexuality,
that it perhaps took people until 2008 to make it a buzzword.
Regardless, the queer movement has been liberating for
people who label themselves
as queer because the ambiguity
protects against the rigidness of
traditional gay/straight labels.
So what would queers like
Saïah think of those who classify someone’s sexuality as the
equivalent of a “lazy bisexual”?
“It’s not fair because it’s
not being a ‘lazy bisexual,’ it’s
being someone who rejects the
implication in bisexuality that
gender works on a binary,” Saïah said.
And although queer appears to be the limitless sexual
label, I felt it important to get
Saïah’s opinion on the idea of
“label-lessness,” which also
screams endless possibilities.
“I think it’s totally valid,”
Saïah said. “You can say you
like people, not gender, but I
think it’s totally unfair to say ‘I
don’t see gender. I see people.’”
She added that it would be
fair to say that a person who
identifies as label-less does not
base his or her attractions on
gender – but that gender and
gender roles (or lack thereof)
are recognized.
Either way, label-lessness
or the queer identity, the idea
is that we as a society are uncovering our sexual repression
and realizing we don’t have to
be so rigid in how we think of
our sexuality and how it relates
to the people with whom we’re
intimate.
Whether you’re lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender,
queer, questioning, label-less,
gender-queer, et cetera, you’re
acknowledging that you are
not straight, heteronormative or
whatever other academic or cultural terminology falls into that
category.
The important thing in all
of this is that you don’t let others
label you. You label yourself.
We’re all human, and the only
way can understand identity is
if we talk about these things that
many of us aren’t aware of.
Josh Fernandez can be reached at
[email protected].
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Love game lessons from the Lady
Whether you “don’t wanna be friends” or are dating somone with some extra baggage, there is more than one factor to making or breaking a romance.
I
would like PILLOW TALK
to take a
brief moment
to
clarify some
things about
my
column
from my Fall
2009 semester
abroad,
“Wrecked in
LIBBY
Rome.” Now
PECK
that I’m back
on Main Campus, running into acquaintances who
have been newspaper-stalking my adventures, they usually say, after I tell
them I loved Rome, “it didn’t seem like
that from what you wrote.”
The grass is always greener on the
other side, even if that grass is across
the Atlantic Ocean. Despite my lovehate relationship with the semester,
now that I’m back, it’s painful to not
be in Italy instead. I compare my everyday tasks here to everyday tasks in
the Eternal City, even though the two
really aren’t comparable. I yearn for
what I used to have.
One thing I was able to take away
from my semester abroad – aside from
hundreds of photos, everlasting memories and Italian leather boots – was my
love for Stefani Germanotta, commonly known as Lady Gaga. You can’t hear
the “rah rah a-a-ah, Roma, Roma-ma”
battle cry in the very city it mentions
without feeling an inexplicable attachment to the song. “Bad Romance” is a
fantastic song with an even better video
and is chock-full of valuable life lessons from the Lady herself.
EXAMPLE 1
I used to be that girl in high school
who was embarrassingly in love with
her male best friend. OK, I was
that girl in middle school, too. I
always found myself pining after the boys I spent the most time
around, convinced that one day a
light bulb would illuminate over
their thick skulls and they would
realize they were in love with me.
But instead, I would hear
from a mutual friend that my love
interest “just wants to be friends.”
I wish Gaga was around for that
period of my life just so I could
‘Bad Romance’ is
a fantastic song
with an even
better video and
is chock-full of
life lessons from
the Lady herself.
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Counting cupcakes for Haiti relief
The Buttercream Philadelphia truck, which features traditional flavors of cupcakes, such as vanilla and chocolate, to
never-before-eaten varieties like blue velvet and Guinness flavors, will stop at Main Campus on Thursdays, noon to 2 p.m.
CUPCAKES PAGE 7
case.”
Once she heard about the truck in New York
City, she quit her job and looked frantically for a
truck, which would be the first step in starting her
business.
Carrara made the mistake of posting a drawing of the cupcake truck on Phillyblog before she
even had a truck. Then, Carrara got extremely
lucky, she said, with a Craigslist post about a mail
truck.
The current truck, covered in sprinkles and a
clean white-cream color, wasn’t always cupcake
transportation material. The former mail truck
was in a warehouse, covered in graffiti, so Carrara
gave it a sweet and sugary makeover.
Carrara was not able to put an oven in the
Buttercream Philadelphia truck, since it did not
have much room. She found a place she could
bake out of at J. Cabot Catering, located at 301
Callowhill St., but she is working on getting Buttercream a space of its own in 2010.
As everything fell into place, Carrara saw her
new career begin.
Carrara said that while she was at law school,
she had an interest in human rights law and humanitarian efforts, which is why she is collaborating with a student contact at Temple to work on a
“Cupcakes for Haiti” charity.
“I’ve reached out to the truck in San Francisco, the truck in New York, and we’re going to try
and have a day, or several days, where proceeds
go toward relief for Haiti,” Carrara said. “It’s nice
to pull up to things and events. It lends to helping
get the word out to people.”
“I can really use my truck, my Twitter and
my following to get people to [do] stuff that I
think is important,” she added. “Maybe that’s a
little power trip-y/Oprah-ish of me, but if I could
get my customers to care about important issues,
maybe the next stop for me is a book club.”
Josh Verlin, a sophomore broadcast journalism major said he appreciated Carrara using her
truck to help the efforts to aid Haiti.
“It makes me more interested in buying a
cupcake,” Verlin said.
Cupcakes are $2 each, and Carrara allows
customers to buy as many as six cupcakes per order. Buttercream offers everything from “vanilla
vanilla,” a yellow cupcake with vanilla frosting,
to red velvet and cream cheese frosting cupcakes.
Last Thursday, Carrara had a blue velvet cupcake
special.
“I was terrified,” Carrara said about starting
Buttercream. “I have a very supportive husband
who had gotten a job at Morgan Stanley, which a
couple of years ago was better than it seems like
it was in the last year. He had the stability that
gave us the benefits and all, but even that wasn’t
stable.”
Carrara’s business is still up-and-coming, at
least on Main Campus.
“I would definitely go to [the Buttercream
Philadelphia truck], but I think they should have
more hours open,” said Danielle Utianski, a freshman psychology major. “If they don’t, I don’t
think I’ll be able to take part in the potential deliciousness, which is rather disappointing.”
Utianski added that if Buttercream was to
expand its hours of operation when visiting Main
Campus, she’d love to try all types of cupcakes
the truck has to offer.
“I actually heard about the truck and I have
yet to check it out … Cupcakes are a great snack
but insomnia cookies is stationary,” said Ashley
Pro, a sophomore broadcasting, telecommunications and mass media major. “Unless the cupcake
truck parks itself [at a known location] on campus, I’m not sure it will be successful.”
Carrara assured that once the temperature
outside gets warmer, Buttercream will look into
expanding its one-day-per-week Temple visit
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“People ask if I [miss being at the law firm],
and I say ‘no’ because I’m so much happier,” Carrara said. “If you don’t have integrity and passion
for what you do, life is really hard. And when you
do have it, it’s like, ‘Oh I only have $10, but I
don’t care.’”
Josh Fernandez can be reached at
[email protected].
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breaking a
bad romance
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Temple Tweets
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t a young age, most of us start to learn fun, stereotypical facts about the 50 states. Old people live
in Florida, most people from Connecticut will think they are better than you, and New Jersey is
dirty.
Now, dirty might sound like a negative term, but let’s think of it in terms of Christina Aguilera. Tack on a few more R’s, and then we can truly understand the essence of Jersey: Greased up bodies, fake hair, sex and the wrestling rink can easily be replaced
by a boardwalk. “Dirrrrrty” is raw and maybe a little bit too real – kind of like
MTV’s Jersey Shore. Seven horny guidos and guidettes sharing a relatively crappy
shore house while working at a T-shirt store – it doesn’t get more real than that.
Each week night when the show airs, my Twitter timeline blows up almost as
large as Snooki’s fake breasts. With such high ratings, I am sure the producers at
MTV fist pumped until they felt carpal tunnel-like symptoms, and word on the street
is that the sale of Bumpits increased exponentially. Apparently, bronzer, protein
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shakes and, without a doubt, Vladimir vodka make for the perfect “situations” in a
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reality TV show. Tweeps love to tweet about either their love or hate for the show.
Although the first season is over, people are still going buckwild over this phenomenon.
@finickyfocalor: Dear Snookie, that orange bronzer looks good on your face, but it would look
even better on my sheets-I’m just kidding, but like, seriously.
Good thing you aren’t very good at using Twitter, @finickyfacalor, and did not @reply Snooki.
Clearly, you did not see the episode in which she revealed her body image issues.
@MissNicolie: Every time I hear or say “situation” now, I think of The Situation from Jersey
Shore.
Me too, @MissNicolie. Me too. It also kind of makes me think anyone who says the word “situation”
in any context is some kind of sexual deviant.
@Isabellaiq52: lotto ! Leonardo DiCaprio is huge fan of Jersey Shore
Lotto? More like jackpot. There is nothing in life I would rather do than be the Snooki to Leonardo
DiCaprio’s “situation.” Or maybe Leo and I would be more like Ronnie and Sammi. Which is sexier?
Either way, my fists would be pumping all night.
@DJpH0: Gratz=fire! TRON HOUSE JERSEY SHORE PARTY TONIGHT!!! Get ready to
pump them fists, we alls is getting shitty
Club Karma on Gratz Street. In true Jersey Shore form, I hope some chicks fell off the couch they
were dancing on and flashed their vajayjays. It wouldn’t be much of a party if that didn’t happen.
What happens at the Jersey Shore doesn’t always stay there – for example, STDs.
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PECK PAGE 15
wail, bare-faced and earnestly,
“I don’t wanna be friends, want
your bad romance,” to them.
My best male friend in high
school was tall and lanky, with
a head full of shaggy red hair.
I was a complete sucker for his
big smile, distinct laugh and
tight hugs – and so was every
other girl in school.
So it caught me by surprise
when, after his Barbie-like girlfriend dumped him, he asked
to take me out to dinner. Me! I
was ecstatic, wore my favorite
Hollister tank top and applied
my most glittery eye shadow to
prepare for the best night of my
life.
Imagine my shock when
he, after paying for dinner and
a movie, told me he just wanted
to be my friend. I cried myself
to sleep that night. Sometimes
bad romances are the ones that
never happen.
EXAMPLE 2
I’ve recently been seeing someone who immediately
seemed perfect: a self-proclaimed poet and musician, with
that head full of thick red hair
I’ve lusted after since my first
male best friend who inevitably
broke my heart. (Gingers seem
to be a constant in my life.) I
should’ve realized something
was awry when, after receiving
the coveted Facebook friend request, I saw something disturbing in his profile picture album:
wedding photos. His wedding
photos.
Weddings are definitely not
something to have a deep virtual conversation about, so I was
hesitant to ask. Did I really want
to find out if I was the other
woman? Did some terrible accident happen to her, making him
forever scarred and mourning
her? If we were to ever get married, I would be his second wife
while he was still in his 20s.
That freaked me out enough to
ask the question.
Yes, he had been married.
And divorced. He told me they
had dated for seven-and-a-half
years, decided to tie the knot
and eventually grew apart.
They loved each other, but they
stopped being in love. The papers were filed when he caught
her cheating on him. Sometimes
bad romances are the ones you
never thought would end.
FOR COLLEGES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES
EXAMPLE 3
In the past semester, three
of my best friends have gone
from single to taken. In respecting their privacy, I’ll just share
the basic specs: One was the
rebound after a year-long courtship, one chose to date the best
friend of the guy she was originally with, and the other had a
great relationship, dumped the
other half for no reason and
wound up getting them back together after a matter of weeks.
All these relationships grew
out of complicated circumstances some would even call
negative. But, at least for now,
they’ve proved that the potential of success needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis.
No two couples are alike, and
neither are the reasons they end
up together. Sometimes bad romances — like these and Gaga’s
— could be the best romances.
So, despite the bad romance I had with Rome (and
Romans), it had an undeniable
effect on me — just like all the
aforementioned romances with
actual people. Gaga, it really
doesn’t matter whether your
manly muse wants to just be
friends or not. Whether you like
it or not, he’s made his way into
your life – for better or worse.
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[email protected].
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McLaughlin anchors
men’s first-place finish
Spiders, Owls
splitting images
of one another
Temple and Richmond rank in the Top 3 in the
Atlantic Ten Conference in scoring defense. The
Spiders trail the Owls by one game in the A-10.
PETE DORCHAK
The Temple News
JAZMYNE ANDERSON TTN
Freshman Alex Tighe scored a 13.900 in the rings portion of the Alumni Homecoming competition Sunday afternoon.
Senior Patrick McLaughlin led the way for Temple with a career-high all-around score of 87.000.
RAYMOND BOYD
The Temple News
The No. 11 men’s gymnastics team had its first appearance at home in McGonigle
Hall this season, and the Owls
did not disappoint their home
crowd, as they finished in first
place at their Alumni Homecoming meet.
Temple took on the State
University of New York-Brockport and the defending conference champions, the University
of Illinois-Chicago.
The Owls came into last
Sunday’s meet looking to build
on their strong performances so
far this season. The team took
second place in its first competition, The West Point Open,
and finished in first place in the
Navy Open.
Temple has been led
this season by senior Patrick
McLaughlin, who has established himself as the team’s catalyst. He was named the Eastern
College Athletic Conference
Men’s Gymnast of the Week in
January.
“He’s the anchor of the
team,” coach Fred Turoff said.
“He goes last on every event,
and he’s my best guy on every
event.”
McLaughlin validated his
coach’s comments by posting
an overall score of 87.000, his
highest this season. Entering the
event, he had averaged a score
of 85.950.
“This was a strong day for
me,” McLaughlin said. “All in
all, I’m happy, especially with
the team performance. That’s
what I’m really happy about”.
McLaughlin’s performance
was accompanied by strong performances from his teammates.
The Owls posted a team score
of 343.750.
Although
McLaughlin
posted the highest all-around
score for the entire event, he
still said he saw room for improvement.
“87.000, that’s my highest
this year, but I still had bobbles,” McLaughlin said. “Three
places I kind of fell, so that’s
promising.”
“He is going to get better
because he made a number of
errors today, but still he’s doing
a great job for me, and I think
he’s established himself as the
all-arounder to beat in our conference, and hopefully, he continues to develop,” Turoff said.
McLaughlin’s development
will be crucial to the Owls’ continued success. Several Temple
male gymnasts will travel to Las
Vegas Thursday for the Winter
Cup Challenge, a national team
selection meet.
“It’s judged by stricter standards, and we’re going to be up
against everybody in the whole
country,” Turoff said. “It’s a real
good place to measure yourself
against what’s there in the country.”
The Owls’ confidence is
soaring right now with back-toback first-place finishes in their
first three events this season, as
the team has achieved two firstplace finishes through their first
three events.
Raymond Boyd can be reached at
[email protected].
The men’s basketball
team avenged its upset loss
at the hands of Charlotte last
Wednesday night with a 64-52
victory against Big 5 rival La
Salle last Saturday.
In doing so, the Owls
(18-4 overall, 6-1 Atlantic
Ten Conference) shot 47 percent from the field and held
the Explorers to less than 30
percent shooting. Temple shut
down the inside-out play of senior guard Rodney Green and
freshman center Aaric Murray
and held the duo to a combined
24 points on 9-of-29 shooting.
This Saturday in Richmond, the Owls’ defense will
try to stop one of the top backcourts in the conference when
they battle the Spiders (16-6
overall, 5-2 A-10).
Leading the charge for
the Spiders is A-10 Player of
the Year candidate Kevin Anderson. The junior guard has
eight 20-plus point games and
averages 15 points per game.
Anderson was named A-10
Rookie of the Year in 20072008 and was selected to the
conference Second Team last
season, when he led the team
with 16.6 points per game.
“Kevin Anderson is probably the best guard in the
league,” George Washington
coach Karl Hobbs said two
weeks ago, after Anderson
scored 21 points in the Spiders’ 62-57 victory against
the Colonials.
Joining Anderson in the
backcourt is senior guard David Gonzalvez. Gonzalvez
broke out of a mini-slump by
shooting 4-for-7 for 10 points
in Richmond’s 62-36 win versus Saint Louis last Saturday
afternoon. He also grabbed
five rebounds. For the season, Gonzalvez is averaging
roughly 13 points per game
to go along with just fewer
than four rebounds and three
assists. He is a threat from
behind the arc, where he averages more than two 3-pointers
a game.
The Spiders can also
turn to junior forward Justin
Harper. The 6-foot-10-inch,
225-pound big man paced
Richmond with 16 points,
four rebounds and four steals
in the Spiders’ trouncing of
the Billikens last Saturday.
Harper has emerged as a third
option for Richmond, as he
averages nearly 11 points and
six rebounds a game.
Philadelphia’s own Chris
Mooney is in his fifth year
at the helm for Richmond.
The Archbishop Ryan graduate was a four-year starter at
Princeton and led the Tigers
to two Ivy League titles and
two NCAA Tournament appearances. Mooney led the
Spiders to their 16th 20-win
season last year, as well as a
second consecutive Top 5 finish in the A-10.
The Spiders are on pace
for another 20-win season
this year, as they are just four
wins shy of the mark, with
nine games remaining in the
regular season. They got off
to an 11-4 start against a nonconference schedule that included wins against Florida,
Mississippi State and Missouri.
Richmond is off to a 5-2
start in the A-10 and is tied
for third with Rhode Island.
The Spiders trail the Owls
and Xavier by one game for
the top spot in the conference
standings.
When the Owls and Spiders tip off Saturday afternoon in Virginia, it will be
a battle of two very similar
teams. Both teams are tough
on the defensive side of the
ball, as Temple ranks first in
scoring defense in the league,
and Richmond sits at third. On
the offensive end, the Owls
average 65 points a game,
while the Spiders, who are 9-1
at home this season, average
roughly 67 points per game.
Pete Dorchak can be reached at
[email protected].
Rematch will break conference deadlock
Earlier in the season, Temple defeated Big 5 rival Saint Joseph’s, 58-55, in overtime. The Hawks have
won three of their last four games and enter Tuesday’s home game tied with the Owls for fifth place.
KYLE GAUSS
The Temple News
When Temple coach Tonya
Cardoza and the women’s basketball team travel across town
to play the Saint Joseph’s
Hawks tonight, they’ll be looking to rebound from a disappointing loss while also facing
a squad that took them into
overtime less than three weeks
ago.
Leading the way for the
Hawks (11-10 overall, 4-2 Atlantic Ten Conference) is senior forward Brittany Ford.
Ford, despite coming off the
bench in all but two games this
year, leads the team with 11.2
points per game. She is also
near the top of the conference
in field-goal percentages at
51.4 percent. Also contributing is freshman guard Ashley
Prim, who won A-10 Rookie
of the Week honors for her performance last week when she
averaged 10 points per game
for the Hawks. While Ford is
the only St. Joe’s player who
averages double-digit points,
the Hawks have a balanced offense with seven players who
average six or more points per
game.
On the year, the Hawks
average 62.2 points per game
while giving up 59.3 points per
contest. The Hawks have the
best 3-point defense in the conference, allowing opponents to
complete only 29.1 percent of
their 3-point attempts.
St. Joe’s has won three of
the four games it has played
since the loss to the Owls, including a 63-47 thrashing of
George Washington. In that
game, Ford had 23 points
on 10-of-13 shooting for the
Hawks, while senior guard
Amy Gillespie also had 12
points and seven rebounds.
The Owls are fresh off a
64-54 loss to St. Bonaventure.
In that loss, the Cherry and
White gave up 34 points in the
paint and turned the ball over
16 times. Stopping an opponent down low is something
the Owls need to approve upon,
Cardoza said.
“[The loss to St. Bonaventure] is a very tough loss to
swallow,” Cardoza said. “They
knew what our weaknesses are,
and they took advantage of it.
We gave up too many points
in the paint. It’s something we
have to continue to work at and
try to get better.”
Senior center Jasmine
Stone scored 14 points and
grabbed 11 rebounds, while
sophomore forward Kristen
McCarthy had 16 points in
the loss. Senior forward Dana
Mitchell, a 6-foot-1-inch player with a similar build to that
of Ford’s, led the way with 18
points for the Bonnies. Mitchell’s size presented a mismatch
defensively for the Owls,
something they need to adjust
for if they want to stop Ford.
“Mitchell is just unstop-
pable,” Cardoza said. “You
can’t guard her one-on-one.
Even when you do a good job
and you stop her, she can shoot
over you.”
When St. Joe’s and Temple last faced off, back on Jan.
16, it took an extra period for
the Owls (15-6 overall, 4-2
A-10) to put away the resilient
Hawks, 58-55. Senior guard
LaKeisha Eaddy led all scorers with 17 points, while Stone
pulled down a game-high 11
rebounds.
Neither team shot the ball
well, with the Owls hitting 29.4
percent of their shots and the
Hawks making only 31.6 percent.
The two squads will face
off at 7 p.m. at the Hagan Arena
on St. Joe’s campus. The Owls
then travel to La Salle to play
the Explorers Saturday. Tipoff
is set for noon.
Kyle Gauss can be reached at
[email protected].
ANNA ZHILKOVA TTN
Senior center Jasmine Stone goes up for a basket
against St. Bonaventure forward Megan Van Tatenhove.
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Team
steps up
after loss
Chaney praises
Dunphy’s success
GAUSS PAGE 20
CHANEY PAGE 20
came to us, Indiana came to us, Duke
came to us. I felt that Temple needed
that kind of visibility, and we eventually
got it. We were always a ranked team,
just like we are today with the great job
that coach Fran Dunphy’s doing. I find
that he was equal to the task. His hands
were tied when he first came here. I
think that what he’s done since, in terms
of the schedule, is to find the top teams
in the country and play those top teams,
and that is bringing in a great deal of
respect. Of course, he doesn’t need that
because he’s been a great coach all his
life, including at the University of Penn.
TTN: What do you hope you will
be remembered most for during your
time here at Temple?
JC: I just think that one of the
most important things for any coach is
to make sure he works with a great deal
of integrity, in terms of making sure he
doesn’t cheat. That’s something that I
was very proud of. I made it very clear
that my coaching staff, when they went
out to recruit, that they would never find
themselves stooping so low as to making promises or making statements of
any kind that would lead to us being put
on probation. You have to operate with
a great deal of integrity. With me, that
was high on my list. I required that of
my coaches. In terms of the youngsters
we recruited, maybe they weren’t AllAmericans, but we made sure they went
to class and operated with the kind of
honesty that was required.
TTN: Does it bother you at all that
you never made a Final Four appearance?
JC: I think having been in the final
eight five times in 14 years, only Duke
had a better record in 14 years than us,
and they won many titles. When you put
that kind of perspective on it, and that
you had that kind of opportunity, just
remember there are more than 330 Division I teams, and if you end up in the
final six or the final two, just remember,
you’re still going to be somewhat unhappy if you don’t accomplish that final prize. My mama always said to me,
‘You’re only as good as the company
you keep.’ Keep in good company, and
guess what? You’re damn good yourself.
TTN: Do you have any regrets?
JC: I’ll start trouble, you know.
The only regret I have is that I exposed so much of myself to the media.
Certainly, I regret the language I used
with Calipari [Chaney threatened thenMassachusetts coach John Calipari after
a Feb. 13, 1994 game]. I should have
waited until after the game was over and
then took him outside and beat the hell
out of him.
With the Saint Joseph’s incident
[Chaney sent in Nehemiah Ingram to
commit hard fouls against the Hawks,
and Ingram ended up breaking the arm
of St. Joe’s senior John Ingram], remember, at the time, it was just a hard foul.
It wasn’t called a flagrant foul. It wasn’t
called a bad foul. It was just a foul, and
he went to the line and shot two foul
shots. It was only when I went in and
told the media that in the old days, every
team had players they would send in,
and they called them their ‘goons’ [that
the uproar started]. But I don’t regret
teaching basketball and making people
understand that when you come to the
basket to shoot layups, we’re going to
deny you.
TTN: How would you evaluate the
job coach Dunphy has done so far?
JC: Magnificent, magnificent. Second to none. With the youngsters that he
had, second to none. I know him. He’s
the best-kept secret in this city, and he
was that way at the University of Penn.
Not a lot of hoopla, not a lot of anything
for that great man. He won more championships in the Ivy League than I did
[in the Atlantic Ten Conference]. I think
he thought Temple would be good for
him because he’s a Philadelphia guy.
TTN: How would you compare
this year’s team to some of your teams
in the past?
JC: I think each team has its own
identity. Each one of them is completely
different. It’s difficult to compare. Our
guys played under a great deal of scrutiny in some years when I made it very
ANNA ZHILKOVA TTN
John Chaney (middle) holds his Big 5 Hall of Fame plaque during the La
Salle game Saturday. It is the third Hall of Fame he has been inducted to.
difficult, and yet they still overcame.
I think Franny would agree with that.
Each of his teams [at Penn] were completely different.
TTN: Does this year’s defense
make you proud?
JC: There are two things that make
me very proud of this team. You can
look at the stats from game to game.
First of all, the defensive principle that
coach Dunphy has, even though he
plays a lot of man-to-man, is the same
as when we played zone and matchup.
We led the country every year with our
defensive differential. Nobody wanted
to play our defense. The other thing is
that you can look at the stats and see the
turnovers. We led the country every year
with low turnovers. Our average was
nine turnovers. We were able to stay in
every game and have a chance to win
those games. Protect that basketball.
Make sure you run an efficient offense. I
mean, you don’t take the gun out of your
hand and give it to someone to shoot
you. You don’t walk out Friday night
with the money you made and give it to
a bum. No, that’s a turnover.
TTN: How far do you think this
year’s Temple team can ultimately get?
JC: You’re going to have to be
lucky. You’re going to have to be healthy
also. That’s extremely important. Look
at what happened to us in football [when
freshman running back Bernard Pierce
injured his shoulder]. We died a natural
death. You’ve got to hope that your team
stays healthy. The other thing is, you
need luck. There’s no way you’re going to be on your game every night that
you play. With so many great teams out
there, I think what we want to do is hope
and pray that our team gets through the
conference again [and wins] the conference championship. When you get to
the NCAAs, anything can happen.
Jennifer Reardon and Pete Dorchak can be
reached at [email protected].
Editor’s note: To listen to The Temple News’ exclusive interview with former Temple coach John Chaney in its
entirety, visit temple-news.com.
“I think every game it
should be a mindset [to get production in the paint],” Moore
said. “With Lavoy [Allen] and
Mike [Eric] in foul trouble
down in Charlotte, we were settling for a lot of 3s, which hurt
us. We needed those guys to get
the ball in the middle and drop
it down. In practice, we worked
on that a lot. I think we did good
against La Salle’s zone today.”
Individual players also
used the Charlotte loss as motivation. Sophomore center Micheal Eric, who had two points
and three fouls in 11 minutes of
play against Charlotte, scored a
career-high 13 points last Saturday. Bouncing back from a bad
performance fueled him, Eric
said after the game.
“After a bad performance
against Charlotte, I just wanted
to step up,” Eric said. “My team
needed me today to step up. I
think I had to come out aggressive, and I did.”
Temple is in good shape
from here on out. Even though
every conference game is tough,
the Owls have a fairly easy remaining schedule. Other than a
trip to Richmond and a couple
home games against Rhode
Island and Dayton, no other
games scream “tough” to me.
Assuming Temple plays to its
talent level, the Owls should roll
into the A-10 Tournament with
around 25 wins to their credit.
For the first time in a long time,
the Cherry and White will not
be fighting for a NCAA Tournament spot in Atlantic City, N.J.
They will be jockeying for a
higher seed instead.
By the time the NCAA
Tournament comes around, the
loss to Charlotte will be nothing
but a distant memory.
Kyle Gauss can be reached at
[email protected].
Brinkley offers insights and observations from bench
BRINKLEY PAGE 20
like déjà vu,” Brinkley said.
When she tore her ACL
the first time in high school,
she played through it before
learning she had a season-ending injury. This time, Brinkley
knew right away something
was wrong.
“This time it was like, ‘Ah,
I can’t walk,’” she said.
If an athlete is injured
during a practice or game, the
university has secondary insurance that covers the cost for
surgeries and anything else an
athlete may need. It is up to
team trainers and team physicians to coordinate the aspects
of a player’s treatment by handling everything from finding
transportation to rehabilitation
before and after surgeries.
Right now, Brinkley still
cannot put weight on the affected leg and will remain on
crutches for about six weeks.
This affects the type of rehabilitation she can do.
“There’s always limitations,” Jemionek said. “Every
surgery is different, depending
on if they go in and find something unexpected. If they have
to do something different, then
there’s going to be limitations
based on the procedure they
did. Depending on what they
do sort of dictates how far you
can push them.”
For now, Brinkley and
Jemionek meet twice a day
for rehabilitation, where they
work on “small stuff” to get
her strength in her quadriceps
muscles back, Brinkley said.
“I have a high tolerance
for pain, so I try to push myself,” she added.
Injured players typically
do not travel with the team to
away games, except for weekends or during a break in the
school year. During games,
Brinkley will sometimes offer
insight or observations from
the bench to her teammates as
a way to contribute.
“If we see something,
we’re going to say something,”
Brinkley said. “It’s hard to
watch because you just want to
get out there and help them.”
“I think she wants to be a
coach in some ways,” Cardoza
added. “I think that’s something she might look into down
the road, but that’s just her way
of trying to bring something to
the team.”
Brinkley has remained upbeat despite the circumstances,
which has impressed Cardoza.
“I’m shocked by it,” Cardoza said. “There’s never been
a time where she’s been like,
‘Woe is me,’ or feeling sorry
for herself. She walks around
with a smile on her face even
right after it happened. You
love to see that in a kid because
it shows that she’s selfless and
didn’t want the focus to be on
her and her injury.”
Even though Brinkley may
be unable to take the court this
season, she still does work behind the scenes to not only get
back into shape but to help her
team.
“I’m going to work hard,
not only to get back to where
I was but [to be] even better,”
Brinkley said. “You’ll see me.”
Brian Dzenis can be reached at
[email protected].
ANNA ZHILKOVA TTN
Forward Danielle Brinkley sits next to Jim Gillespie, the women’s basketball Director of
Basketball Operations, during Temple’s 64-54 loss to St. Bonaventure last Saturday.
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CHANEY PAGE 19
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No reason to
panic after loss
to Charlotte
After taking 35 3-point attempts in
the Charlotte loss, Temple went back
to its inside game in the La Salle win.
W
ell, that was bad timing.
A little more than 24 hours
after I declared the men’s basketball team “The Team to Beat” in
the Atlantic Ten Conference, Temple lost to
the unranked Charlotte
49ers, 74-64.
Turn off the lights.
Bring in the bulldozers.
The season is over, right?
Not quite.
Even as I watched
players like sophomore
KYLE
guard Juan Fernandez and
GAUSS
senior guard Ryan Brooks
avoid getting run over by an enthused Charlotte crowd who rushed the court, I could not
help but think that the loss was not that big
of a deal.
Sure, nobody likes to lose, but if it has to
happen, losing to a team as good as Charlotte
is the best way to do it. After all, the 49ers had
already traveled to Louisville and routed the
Cardinals, 87-65. Sophomore guard Derrio
Green scored 20 points for the 49ers in that
game, before he scored 26 against the Owls.
It is difficult to defend against an opponent
simply going off against you.
Also, the 49ers have a RPI lower than
50, and the matchup was in Charlotte, so the
loss was hardly a bad one.
Despite all this, the Owls used the loss
to Charlotte as both motivation and a learning
experience, Temple coach Fran Dunphy said.
“We learned some lessons against Charlotte,” Dunphy said. “It’s a really tough environment to play in. It’s not like that was a
real letdown for us, by any stretch. They’re a
really good basketball team.”
True to Dunphy’s word, the Owls improved considerably in Saturday’s 64-52
win against La Salle. They won despite off
shooting days by Fernandez and Brooks and
instead relied more on unsung heroes off the
bench to provide a balanced attack. The Owls
shot 47.4 percent in the game, while limiting
the Explorers to a mere 29.8 percent shooting.
It marked the third time all year that the Owls
have held an opponent to less than 30 percent
shooting from the field.
More importantly, the Owls learned from
their mistakes on offense. After jacking up a
season-high 35 3-point attempts in the loss to
Charlotte, the Owls focused more on getting
production in the paint, sophomore guard Ramone Moore said.
GAUSS PAGE 19
Despite injury, Brinkley vows to battle back
A walk-on last year, junior forward Danielle Brinkley injured her knee in the first game of the season.
BRIAN DZENIS
The Temple News
Junior forward Danielle Brinkley told
herself that this would be the season she
made an impact on the court. Last year,
Brinkley took one of the more difficult
routes to becoming a NCAA athlete by
making the women’s basketball team as a
walk-on. Walk-ons are players who are not
actively recruited or given a scholarship.
“It was a new experience,” Brinkley
said. “Honestly, I didn’t know what I was
getting into. I was happy with the opportunity [coach Tonya Cardoza] gave me to be
on the team.”
Brinkley and two other girls showed up
at the team’s first practice last year. After
just one drill, Cardoza asked one of the girls
to leave. Ten minutes later, it was another
girl’s turn.
“Some of the kids that were there, I
just knew it would be a waste of their time
for them to be there, and Danielle obviously
wasn’t one of them,” Cardoza said.
“I was feeling nervous, but after an
hour, I was like, ‘OK, I’m still here, so I
must be doing something right,’” Brinkley
added.
Brinkley did not come out of nowhere
to join the team. Cardoza knew Brinkley
had played for Elizabeth Seton High School
in Maryland, and she had worked out with
the team before that first practice.
Last season, Brinkley appeared in 16
games.
“She just has a work ethic and an attitude about her that she was serious about
this,” Cardoza said. “She wasn’t like, ‘Oh,
let me try this.’ She worked really hard over
this past season to get in shape, and I told
her at the end of last season that the expecta-
tion level was going to be a lot greater, and
she came back in great shape and ready to
contribute, and I think she would have been
in the rotation.”
In Temple’s season opener against Illinois, Brinkley entered the game off the
bench. But after pulling down two rebounds
in two minutes, she went down with an injury.
“I was trying to make the catch for the
rebound, trying to make an awesome catch,
and just landed incorrectly,” Brinkley said.
After further evaluation from the team
trainer, Mischa Jemionek, and the team
physician, it was determined that Brinkley
had a dislocated tibia, which partially tore
her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and
caused a micro fracture in her knee.
“At first, it felt like, ‘This is happening
all over again,’ because in my senior year
[of high school] I tore my ACL, so it was
ANNA ZHILKOVA TTN
Junior forward Danielle Brinkley, who is out for the
season, watches her teammates practice from the stands.
BRINKLEY PAGE 19
next week
inside
The men’s gymnastics team defeated the defending conference
champion and finished in first at its Alumni Homecoming meet.
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The women’s basketball team plays Saint Joseph’s Tuesday at
Hagan Arena. The Owls beat the Hawks earlier this season.
Senior guard Ryan Brooks, the men’s basketball team’s leading
scorer, joined his mother on Temple’s campus four years ago.
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