Alter cuts ribbon on namesake

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Artistic
Awareness
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Renowned artist Isaiah Zagar
is highlighted in a new film.
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All-American Katie Canning
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Tuesday, april 21, 2009
Big names in business came to campus to celebrate the official opening of Alter Hall yesterday.
Storm forces
Spring Fling
date change
Heavy rain forced the campus-wide carnival to be postponed, but weather remains
a concern tomorrow, as well.
VALERIE RUBINSKY
The Temple News
and today, we celebrate our collective achievement with individuals who played pivotal roles
in bringing about this building,” Cordasco said.
“These are exciting times for Temple and
the Fox School of Business. Progress abounds,
a fact so clearly reflected in every inch of this
spectacular building,” he added. “I’ve chosen to
stay involved as a graduate because this is one
Due to weather problems, Temple’s annual Spring Fling, organized
by Main Campus Program Board, has
been postponed until tomorrow.
MCPB President Tiffany Thompson said it is up to the administration
when Spring Fling is held.
“MCPB does not actually decide
when and why it’s canceled or postponed. The administration gets to decide that,” said Thompson, a senior
kinesiology major.
Though the official date of Spring
Fling was postponed, many events still
occurred.
“A lot of other things go on, just
the date of Spring Fling itself was postponed until the following Wednesday,”
Thompson said.
Weather services have predicted
scattered showers for Wednesday, as
well. Thompson said MCPB is not sure
what it will do if it rains again. A backup plan has not been established yet.
“That has yet to be determined,”
she said. “Once we know, we’ll certainly let the student body know.”
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JULIA WILKINSON TTN
Alter cuts ribbon on namesake
Dennis Alter, a 1966 Temple graduate, celebrates Alter Hall’s opening. Alter and his wife donated more than $15 million for the new building.
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KATHRYN A. LóPEZ
The Temple News
onfetti rained in the lobby of Alter Hall
as a crowd burst into applause yesterday
when the ribbon was officially cut on
the new, $80 million home of the Fox
School of Business.
The day was packed with guided tours, a
student exhibit fair and a ribbon-cutting ceremo-
ny at the 217,000 square-foot building located on
the corner of Montgomery Avenue and Liacouras Walk.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was hosted by
Steve Cordasco, a Fox School of Business alumnus and member of the Fox Board of Visitors,
and host of Big Money on Big Talker 1210 AM.
“The opening of Alter Hall is nothing less
than a transformational event in the history of
the university and the Fox School of Business,
Fox School boasts Controversial author calls out profs
new online degree
The Fox School of Business will offer a cutting-edge online
MBA program instructed by on-campus professors.
VALERIE RUBINSKY
The Temple News
The Fox School of Business will
launch an online MBA program this
fall that will bring the traditional Fox
curriculum to the virtual world.
Faculty coordinator of Fox Online
Initiatives Darin Kapanjie described
the program as different from other online business schools.
“A lot of online programs adjunct
out their courses, but this is the same
Fox faculty and the same Fox curriculum,” Kapanjie said. “The only thing
we’re changing is the delivery.”
This change is possible because
of the technology the school will be
using. The delivery method will be
WebEx, a Web-conferencing tool that
uses headphones and webcams that the
program provides for weekly lecture
interaction.
WebEx can host as many as 200
students in a session, but Kapanjie said
the program will keep the class sizes
small.
“Students won’t get lost in the virtual world,” Kapanjie said. “We’re the
first fully accredited MBA program using Web-conferencing tools. Most others just use discussion boards, which
isn’t as robust.”
The cost for an online Fox degree
is $70,000. Kapanjie said the tuition
covers two years of the 54-credit program.
“Most of the time, their participation [in the program] will be virtual,”
said program director Jason Bozzone,
who serves as a liaison for the students
and the university.
In addition to the 54 credits, the
tuition covers two sets of five-day residencies and a two-day residency. During residencies, students will perform
course work and have more face-toface interaction.
With the residencies, students will
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David Horowitz spoke about
academic freedom. A chapter
of his recent book is titled
“Temple of Conformity.”
MATTHEW PETRILLO
The Temple News
David Horowitz judged the teaching methods practiced by some Temple
professors when he spoke on campus
last week.
Horowitz co-wrote One-Party
Classroom, a book accusing college
and university curriculums of implementing political agendas in classrooms and enforcing left-wing beliefs
onto their students. He devotes a chapter in the book to Temple titled “Temple of Conformity.”
Known for avidly opposing
American liberalism, Horowitz visited Temple Thursday. Throughout
the event, his voice maintained the attention of nearly 200 students, as well
as a handful of interested faculty and
three police officers who were present
to control the crowd.
Horowitz began describing his
quest for “academic freedom,” in
which teachers should teach “with a
diversity of viewpoint.”
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Conservative author David Horowitz addresses a crowded room
about how Temple professors enforce left-wing beliefs onto students.
Horowitz said Temple’s music
department enforces liberal views to
students, the women’s studies program
“rams feminism down [students’]
throats,” and “the race department is
political garbage.”
“If [students] go through four
years at Temple as an African-American studies major and come out with a
B.A. in afrocentricity, you have been
robbed of the opportunity to have an
actual education,” he said. “Temple’s
administration and faculty is intimi-
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dated to say this, but their race department is racist and an idiotic ideology.”
Temple College Republicans invited Horowitz to speak. Brian McGovern, the president of the College
Republicans, said he is familiar with
Temple’s left-wing agenda and described “horror stories” he’s experienced with certain instructors.
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Administrator takes job at CHOP
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Stuart Sullivan, vice president of Institutional Advancement since 2001, announced last week he will step down May 8.
SERGEI BLAIR
The Temple News
From SEPTA subways cars to
lightposts around City Hall, the university’s recent marketing ad campaign, “125 Facts,” has put Temple in
the spotlight.
The “T” is scattered throughout
the city as a result of the work by Senior Vice President of Institutional
Advancement Stuart Sullivan, who
manages the campaign.
Sullivan, who
has served in that
position since 2001,
announced his resignation from his
position last week.
He will accept a
new post as chief
Stuart Sullivan
development offi- Vice President
cer at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for
me to work with an incredibly dynamic and world-class institution,” Sullivan said. “At this point in my career, I
determined this was a logical step for
me to take.”
Sullivan’s resignation will be effective May 8, three days before he
begins his new job on May 11. A formal search will begin immediately for
his successor.
Sullivan said many of his new responsibilities at CHOP will be similar
to those he held at Temple, including
managing a large staff, working with
volunteers and raising money for operations at the hospital like building
and endowment programs.
Since he joined Temple more than
eight years ago as vice president for
development and alumni relations,
Sullivan said he never imagined seeing the financial and branding successes the school is experiencing.
In an effort to better market Temple, Sullivan and his staff created the
Office of Institutional Advancement
in December 2006. The office is designed to enhance the relationship between the School of Medicine and its
graduates and supporters.
Primary functions of the office
include organizing external outreach
for alumni, friends, donors and greater
community, raising funds for the uni- self. Temple has never raised anyversity, advertising, marketing, alum- where near this much money in any
ni relations and managing the school’s campaign in the past,” he said.
He attributes much of the sucWeb sites, print publications and other
cess of the campaign to President Ann
forms of communication.
Weaver
Hart,
“I believe
who he says is
that we have
At this point
a “tremendous
made a signifiin my career,
spokesperson
cant progress
and leader” for
in establishing
I determined
the school.
a new culture
this was a
Sullivan
of philanthropy
said he acknowlsurrounding the
logical step for
edges there’s still
university,” Sulme to take.
more work to be
livan said. “We
done even after
have
worked
he leaves his povery diligently
sition.
to try to increase Stuart sullivan
“All of the
the reputation vice president, institutional
work we do is
of the university affairs and advancement
really on a conover these years,
tinual basis,” he
and I think we
said. “What we do now is taking it to a
have been successful on doing that.”
After considering all the other certain level so people who come becampaigns his staff has been involved hind us will just continue doing things
with over the years, Sullivan said the we’re doing now.”
125th anniversary fundraising camSergei Blair can be reached at
paign, “Access to Excellence,” is one
[email protected].
of his biggest accomplishments.
“[The campaign] speaks for it-
Horowitz stirs the pot during speech
horowitz PAGE 1
mester of freshman year, I was kicked
out of [Intellectual Heritage] 52 for
arguing with a professor who said
America was a fascist nation,” he
said. “And she told me to get out of
her class, and I said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll
never be back.’ I dropped [the class]
that afternoon.”
Horowitz stressed Temple, as
well as many other schools, is teaching students what to think instead of
how to think, basing his information
on class syllabi, lesson plans through
Temple’s Web site and informational
handbooks.
When asked if has he ever spoken to teachers he wrote about in his
book or if he attended any of Temple’s
classes, he replied with honesty.
“No, I haven’t,” he said, “but I
haven’t been to Iran, either, to know
that it’s a horrible and oppressive
place.”
Dr. Keith Gumery, director of assessment and planning for the English
department, said he disagreed with
Horowitz’s claims.
Gumery said Horowitz manipulates context in an effort to make his
point.
“David Horowitz, in this book
and elsewhere, cherry-picks sentences, or even parts of sentences, to make
his points,” Gumery said.
In his book, Horowitz wrote that
Temple’s First-Year Writing Program
uses gender roles in a biased manner
that “overwhelmingly reflects only
one [radical] perspective on what is
admittedly a controversial issue…
namely, radical feminists and radical
agitators.”
Susan Wells, director of the writing program, said the curriculum encourages open discussion, and said it’s
Horowitz’s book that is one-sided. “He thinks that we’re teaching
people about gender roles, and that’s
wrong,” she said. “We’re not sociologists. We’re teaching people about
writing while responding critically.”
Students from Temple and other
area schools compared the event to a
talk show.
“I felt like I was watching The
View with all the screaming back-andforth,” said Kate Barns, a sophomore
health science major from Drexel University.
Before Horowitz arrived on campus, 20 students waited outside the
Student Center in the anticipation of
a fight. They held signs in protest that
read: “Diversity University, Temple
U for U,” “No Party Classroom” and
“America was Built of Dissent.”
Many were stunned, however,
when Horowitz expressed his empathy
toward the LGBTQI community and
told the protesting students he strongly
believes in equal rights for them.
After Horowitz spoke, students
peppered him with questions, some of
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Above: Students protest Horowitz’s speech. Police attended the address to prevent any potential violence.
Below: During the Q-and-A period, students and professors expressed their opinions on academic freedom.
which he said he found obnoxious. He
threatened to leave three times during
the event after “feeling disrespected.”
One student interrupted Horowitz because he was going away from
the question she asked. He then interrupted her, and in return she made a
sarcastic remark back, to which he
replied: “I hope your children aren’t
snot-nosed like you are.”
This prompted another student to
stand up and offer his opinion.
“By intimidating [Horowitz] and
disrespecting him, you have effectively proven his point,” the student said.
But to others in attendance,
Horowitz’s points consisted of weak
evidence and biased views. According
to Temple’s Student and Faculty Academic Rights and Responsibilities,
“The faculty member is expected to
train students to think for themselves
and to provide them access to those
materials, which they need if they are
to think intelligently.”
Horowitz said he believes teachers’ class-biases result in students’
academic-deficit, which limits their
educations.
“The courses at Temple are devoted to indoctrinating [its students],”
he said.
Wells called the book a rehearsal
of Horowitz’s January 2006 testimony
to the Pennsylvania House Subcommittee on Higher Education. During
the testimony, he spoke about Temple’s First-Year Writing Program. The
court rebutted his testimony, which
Wells believes mirrors the ideas of his
book.
“Not a single part of the testimony influenced or changed any of his
ideas,” she said. “He ignored all ideas
presented.”
But some at the event said they
believe the education system needs to
be reformed.
“I’ve seen the change of education
through my children, and I’m really
concerned about it,” said real estate
developer Connie Winters, a mother
of four college graduates. “I do believe
they are being indoctrinated. There is
too much of a prevalent attitude that
the liberal way is the only way.”
McGovern also recalled e-mails
from Temple listservs from professors
who asked for donations to support
then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Michael Nerozzi, a senior political science major, said he encountered
similar experiences.
“I had a professor that basically
told me the pharmaceutical industry
was placing extra chemicals in their
medications to get us sick just to buy
their products,” he said.
Nerozzi said he thinks the general
atmosphere of the school and environ-
ment is very liberal.
“Some of his thoughts in theory
are good, but his whole notion that
Temple is saturating us with what to
think and how to think is not wellgrounded,” said senior women’s studies major Kate Moriarty.
In order to gain feedback about
classroom environments, academic
departments encourage students to
anonymously write feedback about
their courses and instructors on the
end-of-the-semester evaluation forms.
Wells said since 2006, there have
not been any evaluations about a professor’s “left-wing political beliefs”
making students uncomfortable.
“Recognizing a historical fact is
not a left-wing thing or a right-wing
thing,” Wells said. “In education, it’s
just about learning while judging for
yourself.”
Matt Petrillo can be reached at
[email protected].
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Last year’s Spring Fling lured
many students to Liacouras Walk
and the Bell Tower.
Rain-out still
poses threat
for festivities
Fling PAGE 1
Many students were unsure why
Spring Fling was pushed back an
entire week instead of moved to last
Thursday or Friday.
“I’m not sure why it’s on another
Wednesday instead of [on Thursday],” said freshman business major
Alexis Canary.
She said she was disappointed
Spring Fling was not on April 15 because she made other plans the following Wednesday.
“It’s harder for the Temple Police to actually control the campus,”
Thompson said, explaining why the
administration does not want to hold
Spring Fling close to the weekend.
Due to the large volume of people, Thompson said things are less
likely to get out of hand if the event
is during the week.
“The administration is not fond
of it being on a Thursday or Friday,”
she said. “It’s harder for the Temple
Police to really handle the campus
because there will be such a large
amount of people there. They’d rather have it on a Wednesday.”
Thompson said it is very unlikely Spring Fling will be held on a
Thursday again, but Temple has held
it on Thursdays before.
“My freshman year, [Spring
Fling] was on a Thursday. I know the
Temple Police had a lot of issues with
underage-drinking. A lot more than
if it was held on the previous day,”
Thompson said.
Regardless of the date change,
the itinerary for Spring Fling will remain the same except for a few minor
changes.
“Everything is still the same,”
she said. “The only thing we had to
change was we had a digital caricaturist and digital T-shirt making, but because of booking flights, we couldn’t
switch that to the 22nd, so they actually did come out on the 15th, but we
had to move them to the atrium.”
Spring Fling will be on Liacouras Walk from Montgomery Avenue
to Norris Street, 13th Street from
Montgomery Avenue to Norris Street
and Berks Mall from Liacouras Walk
to 12th Street, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
tomorrow.
“No matter what day Spring
Fling’s on,” Thompson said, “everyone will have a good time.”
Valerie Rubinsky can be reached at
[email protected].
Corrections
The Temple News strives to be a
newspaper of record by printing factually correct and balanced articles.
Accuracy is our business, so when a
mistake is made, we’ll correct it as
soon as possible. Anyone with comments or questions about content in
this newspaper can contact Editor in
Chief Chris Stover at [email protected] or 215.204.6737.
The photographs for the baseball stories on April 7 and April 14
were taken by TTN photographer
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Pirated tunes land
students in trouble
BRIAN DZENIS
The Temple News
Some students cannot resist the
temptation of free music and movies
that can be downloaded from the Internet using file-sharing software like
LimeWire or BitTorrent.
“Why pay for something when
you can get it for free?” junior actuarial science major Jeffrey Brown said.
“It is never going to stop. You cannot
stop people from stealing.”
Since the beginning of this semester, Temple received numerous
notices from the Recording Industry
Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America
stating students have been using Temple’s network to illegally download
copyrighted material.
These notices have been coming
to Temple for several years, and it was
because of these notices that the university’s policy prohibiting file sharing was created.
“We used to get a bunch of them,
so we were concerned about legal action,” said Chief Information Security
Officer Ken Ihrer. “We put in some
products to stop peer-to-peer file-sharing and for the longest time, they were
effective. We would get maybe three
or four [students] a semester, but this
semester, it has increased.”
Normally, when a student tries
to download or use LimeWire or any
other file-sharing software on Temple’s network, he or she is blocked by
a filter.
Lately, due to newer versions of
file-sharing software, students have
been able to get around the filter. This
has become such an issue that Information Security sent out a memorandum to students in campus residence
halls warning them they could have
their internet connections disabled if
they use file-sharing software.
“Most of our students would not
go into a Walmart, take a CD and put
it in their pocket and walk out,” Ihrer
said. “Basically, that is what you are
doing when you take copyright material and download it to your computer.”
Since the notices from the RIAA
and MPAA threaten legal action
against students, Temple responds
by presenting its file-sharing policy,
which shuts down offending students’
Internet accesses to avoid potential
lawsuits.
Temple is not alone with this issue. The RIAA sent similar notices to
Drexel University, Ohio State University, Columbia University and numerous other schools. MPAA has filed
lawsuits in the past against students
at Boston University and Carnegie
Mellon University, according to the
respective organizations’ Web sites.
“We are usually able to nip this in
the bud right off the bat,” Ihrer said.
“So, we have not been in jeopardy of
a lawsuit for several years because of
our proactive stance.”
Temple tracks students who are
using file-sharing software by using
the IP addresses provided to them by
the RIAA and MPAA. Information
Security then turns the IP addresses
over to Network Services, which shut
down the student’s Ethernet port in his
or her residence hall.
When students realize their Internet connections are no longer available, they usually go to the university’s Help Desk, only to find they’ve
been flagged for downloading illegal
material.
For the student to get his or her
Internet access back, the Help Desk
must take the student’s computer and
remove all copyrighted material, as
well as the software used to download
said material.
Students must sign forms stating
they are aware of the university’s filesharing policy and that they will not
violate the policy again.
Repeat offenders are sent to the
University Disciplinary Committee.
If large amounts of copyrighted material are downloaded, violators are also
sent to the UDC.
On average, there are three or
four first-time offenses per semester,
but this semester, there were between
20 and 30 incidents.
“There are some technical reasons for that. Many of the file-sharing
programs have changed,” Associate
Director of Security Seth Shestack
said. “It is a constant game of cat and
mouse.”
The security filters track filesharing software by the program’s
signature, but the signature is changed
many times, and it takes a few days
before the filters pick up the new signature.
“People that manufacture these
programs know that people like us are
trying to filter them,” Shestack said.
“They change them just enough so the
signature becomes invalid and sneaks
through.”
While students and other people
may think they are anonymous on
the Internet, everything a person does
online leaves an audit that can be
tracked.
“You are not anonymous on the
Internet. There is no such thing,”
Shestack said. “It is actually easier to
get busted for doing something over
the Internet than it is to stick a gun in
someone’s face with a mask on and
rob them and then run away.”
Brian Dzenis can be reached at
[email protected].
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The Fox online program offers a more flexible way to attain degrees.
The business students will only complete a few on-campus residencies.
MBA goes online
for accessibility
FOX PAGE 1
solve real-world business problems.
The last six credits of the program consist of an enterprise managing consulting practicum, in which students are
placed in groups of three or four and
work for a real company.
“They will perform an in-depth
analysis of the situation and suggest
a solution in a business-plan format,”
Kapanjie said. “It’s a real-world experience, not just a simulation.”
In addition to the educational and
networking experiences, the residencies provide students with opportunities to be active at the university.
“Another reason why we have the
residency experience is so students can
feel like they are a part of Temple University, so they get the whole Temple
experience,” Kapanjie said.
The Temple experience will be
complemented by group- and teambased projects students have to complete in the online program.
“If you were taking the online
MBA program, we could place you on
a team where you’ll work on projects
using WebEx,” Bozzone said. “We
could be in different countries, states
or parts of the world. The program will
offer the world-class MBA faculty who
teach all of our MBA programs.”
The total program fee also covers
WebEx tools and training, an online
executive lecture series and graduate
career management and training.
“Also covered in the fee is a twoyear online subscription to the Wall
Street Journal. We want to make sure
they’re well-read,” Kapanjie said.
“We will assure quality student
services to the virtual students. We will
provide the same academic and financial advising to students participating
in the online program. It’s a very dynamic program,” Bozzone said.
The new online program differs
from the online courses previously offered.
“Previously, students could take
certain courses online for so many
credits, but this is a strict, fully accredited MBA program with a strict curriculum,” Kapanjie said.
Kapanjie said the school is marketing the new online initiative along
the East Coast to include people who
might not be able to undergo the traditional college experience.
“People who are balancing their
life and their work life, which is sometimes difficult for people who just started having families. Maybe people who
can’t commute regularly, people who
live closer to the Jersey Shore or near
Delaware or the Harrisburg area,” Kapanjie said. “We are marketing to the
whole Eastern seaboard.”
Valerie Rubinsky can be reached at
[email protected].
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Ribbon-cutting attracts alumni, administrators
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dynamic school with one outstanding
dean who knows how to pull people
together and get the job done. It makes
us all proud to be a part of Temple University.”
Speakers included Fox School of
Business Dean M. Moshe Porat, President Ann Weaver Hart, Board of Trustees Chairman Daniel Polett, Trustee
and Fox Board of Visitors Chairman
Richard Fox, men’s basketball coach
Fran Dunphy and the building’s namesake, Dennis Alter.
Alter, who graduated from Temple
in 1966 and serves as a member of the
Fox Board of Visitors, is also chairman and CEO of Advanta Corporation.
Alter Hall
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He and his wife, Gisela Alter, donated
more than $15 million for the construction of the building.
“I first joined Temple University
when this was a dirt lot, and there was
a wonderful, hopeful sign – ‘The future
home of the Dennis and Gisela Alter
building for the Fox School of Business
and Management,’” Hart said. “And it’s
here, and when I look back at that wonderful, wonderful hole in the ground
that came next, it’s hard to imagine that
this was only two years ago when we
put a shovel in the ground.
“We’ve held a number of very
exciting transition ceremonies from
a ground-breaking to a steel top-off,
and now, we’re here to celebrate our
ribbon-cutting,” she said. “It’s hard to
imagine how much this building has
contributed to the whole spirit of and
tenor of Temple University.”
The state-of-the-art facility contains more than 200 pieces of art by
local artists, a 177-foot elliptical ticker
– the longest at a U.S. business school,
– an indoor mural by the Philadelphia
Mural Arts Program, a kinetic flag
sculpture and a 6,400-pound revolving
stone-and-water globe sculpture, in addition to several smart classrooms and
abounding technology.
“The vision of the Fox School is to
become the best public urban business
school in the country and to be ranked
among the best business schools in the
world,” Porat said. “I know that it will
take some more work to make it happen, but Alter Hall will certainly be an
enabler in achieving this vision. Alter
Hall represents a historic transformation that will affect students, faculty,
staff and alumni for generations. [It] is
one of the most sophisticated business
JULIA WILKINSON TTN
Left: The event featured cake and confetti as part of Alter Hall’s official welcome to Main Campus.
Right: President Ann Weaver Hart addresses those in attendance at Alter Hall’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
school facilities in the nation.
“Its design is tailored to the needs
of students and faculty, and its advanced technology mirrors the real
world of business,” he said. “It also
reflects in its design of classrooms
and other spaces the major themes that
have been driving our mission: globalization, information technology, entrepreneurship and innovation and faculty
and students’ collaboration.”
Porat said it started with a dream in
1999 with Vice Dean Rajan Chandran,
Associate Dean Diana Breslin Knudsen and Associate Dean John DeAngelo. He dubbed them the “dream team”
who “shepherded [Alter Hall] from its
conception to its completion today in
every respect.”
Porat noted that the four “dream
team” members represent more than
125 years of “commitment to Temple
University and its mission.”
“Today, the Fox School celebrates
a new era of excellence,” Porat said. “It
is a big moment for me personally and
a dream come true.”
“This great building is a wonderful symbol of Temple University’s
commitment to excellence in business
education,” Polett said. “Our students
now have access to advanced technology, new learning tools and spaces for
intense study and collaboration.”
Alter, the closing speaker, gave a
humble and humorous speech.
“It’s daunting, a little embarrassing, to sit up here and have all of you
say so many kind things about me and
what we’ve tried to do. I’m a little over-
whelmed. But if you could, run through
that one more time,” Alter joked.
Alter told the audience several personal anecdotes about his educational
experience at Temple in an attempt to
explain why he and his wife chose to
donate $15 million to the construction
of the building.
“I learned from him that you teach
by encouraging,” Alter said of a former basketball coach. “Hopefully, this
building will allow tens of thousands of
others to learn and aspire, not necessarily always achieving what they started
out to do but being given an opportunity and the encouragement to do so.”
Kathryn A. López can be reached at
[email protected].
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EDITORIALs
I
Childish
Action
n what has almost become a common occurrence on campus, Temple presented another contract offer to the Temple Association of
University Professionals, and the union
planned a rally as its response to the offer.
The negotiations have been going
on for months since TAUP’s contract
expired in the fall. Many students are
unaware of the details of the situation,
and those who try to educate themselves
get lost in the back-and-forth between
the university and TAUP. The language
of the university’s most recent offer attempts to address the union’s concerns.
It reads like the university is tired of
the fight and wants to resolve the issue
quickly.
Quick isn’t what TAUP does best,
as it continues to reject offers and accuse President Ann Weaver Hart of
being anti-union. The contract dispute
will most likely continue into the next
semester as a new batch of students arrive on campus, wondering why some
of their professors are carrying giant
pink elephants that have the words
“Labor Relations” written on them.
The lack of knowledge is a big
weakness for TAUP when it tries to get
students on board for its fight. Even
T
Fuzzy
Numbers
he debate over whether Temple
is as diverse as it claims to be is
on once again in this week’s issue of The Temple News.
Once named the most diverse university in the nation by The Princeton
Review, the self-proclaimed “Diversity University” is now lower on the
list, though many Temple community
members insist the numbers don’t lie.
Temple’s student body is 55 percent female, 57 percent white, 17 percent African American, 10 percent
Asian, 3 percent Latin American and 3
percent international students, according to the latest student profile.
Though the numbers are indisputable, they are also superficial.
According to the U.S. Census, the
estimated population of Philadelphia in
2006 was 45 percent white, 43 percent
African American, 4.5 percent Asian
and 8.5 percent Latino. But like Temple, a quick look around Philadelphia is
evidence enough that numbers can be
meaningless if there is no interaction
among the different racial and ethnic
groups.
Temple offers its students a
glimpse of cultural reality by hosting
several groups like the Muslim Student
Association, Arab Student Association,
Temple Students for Israel, Students
for Justice in Palestine, Dholidaz Indian Dance Club and Common Ground.
These clubs, along with the Office of
Multicultural Affairs, work to foster
Temple and TAUP need to
stop talking past each other
and work for a resolution.
those who try to stay abreast with the
issue are undecided in their allegiance
to TAUP or Temple. The Temple News
has tried its best to keep our readers
informed, but it is often hard to determine if Temple is trying to make things
difficult for the union as some TAUP
leaders have said or if the union is asking for unreasonable demands.
The April 8 offer to TAUP addresses concerns that if a contract is
negotiated for the next five years during these tough times, and the economy
improves, Temple would be willing
to reopen negotiations if both parties
agree to negotiate in good faith.
Negotiating in good faith has not
been part of the process up until now,
so it is hard to imagine that this time
will be forgotten when it is time to head
to the negotiating table again.
TAUP is usually very eager to take
to the press to get its message out, while
Temple has been more restrained in its
comments, usually only responding to
a TAUP event or posting the offers to
the union on the Temple Web site.
Both parties need to do a better
job talking to each other and listening
instead of yelling their sides with their
fingers jammed in their ears.
Diversity doesn’t mean much
unless it includes interaction
among various groups.
supportive environments for their respective cultures. But their existence
may not fully facilitate communication
among them.
Diversity is not about numbers,
it’s about interaction – creating relationships built on tolerance, respect
and understanding. In that respect,
Temple – and Philadelphia – needs a
little help.
Groups like Common Ground and
the Muslim Student Association are
positive things, but they need to work
together more rather than serving as
self-sustaining organizations. The leaders of these groups can look to Philadelphia as an example. A city that is
almost equal in its number of white and
African-American residents still has
undeniable racial tension, which often
leads to bigger problems like redlining,
white flight and crime.
When organizations devote themselves to being just symbols of pride
rather than sources of information, the
basic principle of respect is not there.
While it’s important for individuals
and associations to be sources of pride
cultural identification for their respective communities, self-pride does not
earn respect from other organizations.
In order for everyone to be on the
same page, they first have to have the
opportunity to be informed about one
another.
Diversity is lost without communication.
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OPINION
temple-news.com
russell’s forecast
statistically yours
10x
Soon-tobe Temple
graduates
may find
themselves
gambling
after finding
out their odds
of getting
jobs within
their chosen
careers.
The number of U.S.
states that have
lotteries.
3x
By percentage, how
much the crime rate
increased around
Atlantic City, N.J.,
after casinos opened
there.
How many
times bigger the
gambling industry
is today than it
was in 1975.
37
How many times
more people with
incomes less than
$10,000 bet on
lotteries than those
with incomes more
than $50,000.
100
Source: Experience.com
letter to the editor
Alert system doesn’t ease concerns
Dear Editor,
After the tragic events at Virginia Tech, many universities across the country have adopted
an immediate alert system to notify students of immediate threats on campus. Temple is one of
those schools, or so they say.
One service that Temple provides is an alert system, TU-Alert, that can either send you a text
message, call you or send an e-mail providing details about current threats on campus.
The only time I have ever seen this in action was when they test the system.
Within the past few months, there were two shootings outside of White Hall, an armed robbery at the nearby Rite Aid and, more recently, a mentally ill person walked past security personnel at the Edge and attempted to force himself inside a Temple student’s apartment. In none of
those incidents was there an alert sent to Temple students.
This is a growing concern for many students who live on or near campus. Temple holds
students accountable for their actions in areas up to 500 yards of any Temple-affiliated building,
residence or service. But, when a shooting or robbery or any other crime happens within that 500
yards, Temple ignores the problem.
I was very shocked, among every other resident of White Hall, to hear that there were people
shot right outside of our residence hall. Two of my friends saw the shooting, and it was well
within the designated 500 yards. Temple did not question my friends. They didn’t alert the residence hall that was next to the shooting. No e-mail was sent the following day to explain what
had happened.
Many students share this concern and have addressed Temple’s administration without any
luck. It frightens many students because our safety is in the hands of this university. We deserve
the right to know if any part of campus or the surrounding area is unsafe. Even the resident assistants share concern for the safety of their residents in the residence halls near Cecil B. Moore
Avenue and Susquehanna Avenue. This is Temple’s responsibility to keep us safe, and so far, this
university has a failing grade in being able to alert students of the dangers around them.
Nathan Kadish
Freshman, BTMM
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David Horowitz, the right-wing pundit who has campaigned against what he calls “academic conformity”
in universities, speaks on Main Campus last week. See Kathryn Lopez’ commentary on Page 5.
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Horowitz ignores his own lesson
The right-wing author’s visit to Temple revealed his own shortcomings in being open to his opponents’ voices.
C
onservative author David
Horowitz has never set foot
inside a Temple classroom, but
he has dubbed the university
the “Temple of Conformity.”
I agree political indoctrination
does not belong at a university, but
after reading his book, One-Party
Classroom, I was
unconvinced that
it exists – at least
to the extent he
claims – in Temple’s classrooms.
H o r o w itz strategically
picked his sources
Kathyrn A.
rather than conlópez
ducting an all encompassing study
of Temple. At a university with “some
34,000 students,” as he writes, a study
of only a handful of courses and professors says nothing about Temple as
a whole, even if he is right about said
professors and courses.
Horowitz also misconstrued the
syllabi of some courses to convey the
message he was digging for: a liberal
lean. He wrote as if the ideologies conveyed in some texts were being forced
upon students, rather than acknowledging that the texts were used as subjects
of criticism and analysis in courses like
Intellectual Heritage.
The author admits he has never sat
in on a Temple class or heard professors
trying to indoctrinate their students, but
what completely invalidated his argument was the insertion of his own conservative ideology in the book.
I compiled a list of questions for
Horowitz about these issues and went
to hear him speak at an event hosted by
the Temple College Republicans. I expected to hear him defend his findings
about liberal indoctrination at Temple
and explain why academic freedom is
so important. I was wrong.
We never got around to discussing
academic freedom. Horowitz was too
busy commenting on silent protesters
holding “I disagree” signs in the back of
the room while attempting to indoctrinate the audience with his own beliefs
regarding gender and sex, feminism,
biology, class, race and racism. The silent tension brewing in the room began
to escalate, however, when Horowitz
continued to refer to the “ignorance”
and “stupidity” of silent protesters.
While it was clear from the mo-
Betting bad odds
Gambling can be an innocent habit, but when it takes over
a person’s life, it can be as bad as any drug.
A
mid growing concern for al- decks, and we would play in my basecoholism, sexually transmit- ment with no money, just with chips
ted diseases and stress among for practice.”
college students, gambling
Cucinotta is now 21. Having been
addiction is sometimes overlooked.
of age for eight months, he realized
Gambling can be the root of all practicing for “the real thing” has
evil for college students. It’s every- come in handy. Atlantic City, N.J., is
where: NCAA brackets in newspapers, a location he prefers for gambling beinviting Web sites and even in twice- cause he lives an hour away.
a-week card games among classmates.
Keeping a chart on his computer,
A small bet isn’t a
he has tracked his winnings since his
big deal, but getbirthday. The most he’s ever won in
ting into the habit
one night was $450, and the most he’s
can be a painful
ever lost in one sitting was $200. He
thing, especially
goes into the casinos with nothing less
for college stuthan $100, and when it’s all gone, he’s
dents.
done.
According
“Only put down what you’re willto a 2007 study
Tom ing to lose,” Cucinotta said. “Someperformed by the
RowaN body has to win, but honestly, the only
Annenberg Pubreason I wanna win is because I want
lic Policy Center
to stay there longer. The more you
of the University of Pennsylvania, 40 win, the longer you stay, the more fun
percent of 18- to 22-year-olds report- you have.”
ed having a monthly gambling habit.
But gambling can be addictive and
About 5 percent gambled weekly easy to fall into. For college students
and had severe financial problems. who already bear the burden of debt,
Though that percentage is lower than wishing their money away without a
statistics reported
full-time job can
by the center in
become costly.
The only reason
2006, the change
I find one
has more to do
common denomI want to win is inator in gamwith a federal law
because I want to bling: getting
restricting Internet gambling than
stay there longer. even.Students just
youths passing on
The more you win want to cover
making a bet.
So
what
losses for
the longer you their
drives students to
peace of mind.
stay, the more fun Even though
gamble? Is it the
prospect of winaware
you have. they’re
ning big or simthey lost, they
ply the love of the
didn’t lose more
game?
than they had to.
Domenick Cucinotta
South
JerGambling
gambler
sey resident Docan be fun, but
menick Cucinotta
when you go behas been perfectyond your means,
ing the art of gambling since he was you lose more than a good time.
15.
The money you bring into the ca“I don’t like to gamble as much sino should be your fun money. The
as I like to play blackjack,” the junior second you start betting with grocery
film and media arts major said. “I got money is the moment gambling bestarted…playing poker in my base- comes addictive.
ment, you know, [Texas] Hold ‘em,
Tom Rowan can be reached at
like everyone else. And then my buddy
[email protected].
told me about blackjack and the strategies behind it. I bought a shoe and six
VOICE of the
PEOPLE
Do you gamble or know anyone you think has a
gambling problem?
ALYSSA FURUKAWA TTN
OPINION DESK 215-204-9540
ment he began speaking that he pos- acker said. “You’ve used terms such
sessed a smug arrogance, I never as stupid, brain dead, idiotic, ignorant,
expected him to stoop to the level he reactionary, abnormal and racist. How
did. Instead of answering the questions do you preach for an open dialogue beasked by the largely student audience, tween different viewpoints when you
he began ridiculyourself resort to
ing and degrading
attacks of a disrethem, as well as
I fought for your spectful nature?”
demeaning liberals
We are still
right to hold the awaiting
in general.
an an“You’re just a
swer.
views you do, but
snot-nosed brat,”
P e r h a p s
I don’t appreciate Horowitz
he yelled at a sturesorted
dent after she asked
to
these
bullying
the disrespect
what views of fembecause he
you’ve shown. tactics
inism he would
was unable to delike to see taught at
fend his flawed reTemple.
search. I know I’m
Even
when
just another one
junior political sci- Kevin inacker
of those “stupid,
ence major Kevin junior, political science
brain dead” liberInacker, a foundals, but if there’s
ing member of Temple Students for one thing my professors at Temple have
America, a bipartisan organization, taught me, it’s not my political ideoland former member of the U.S. Air ogy; it’s how to conduct research and
Force, respectfully asked him a ques- how to argue and defend it in a logical,
tion, Horowitz resorted to yelling and coherent and respectful way.
refused to respond.
Kathryn A. López can be reached at
“I fought for your right to hold
[email protected].
the views you do, but I don’t appreciate the disrespect you’ve shown,” In-
University money needs to
be seen in new perspective
Universities spend millions of dollars on contractors, but
those amounts should be compared to other schools.
U
niversities are big money. position is similar to Temple’s presiThey retain professors, phy- dent, earned about $60,000 more than
sicians and administrators Hart.
for hundreds of thousands of
Five hundred thousand dollars is
dollars a year. They spend millions of a lot more money than most people
dollars a year on lawyers and archi- will ever make, but it’s not an exortects.
bitant amount to run a large univerAnd, perhaps most relevant to sity. And while it’s easy to find excollege students, they charge thou- cess in such huge salaries when we
sands of dollars
see our tuition going up every year
for students to
(and outpacing inflation by a signifiattend. But huge
cant amount), taking out our anger on
figures
alone,
the administration is not a productive
though daunting
way to bring change.
and worth lookThe legal services are more difing at, do not
ficult to compare. Penn’s IRS Form
mean anyone’s
990 lists multiple contractors, some
money is being
Stephen of whom were paid more than $30
spent unwisely.
Zook million in 2006, but none who are
All
this
listed as providing legal services.
money is an easy
Pitt’s financial forms do not list
target for recession-impacted students any independent contractors.
and critics. Do university presidents
Temple’s highest paid contractor
really need to get more than $500,000 was not a law firm, but it is important
in compensation and benefits, they to note. AlliedBarton Security Serask. Did Temple need to spend almost vices was paid more than $6 million,
$800,000 in 2006 alone for the ser- and the architecture firm Ballinger
vices of Ballard Spahr
Company
Andrews & Ingersoll
paid
While it’s easy was
LLP, one of the most
more than
to find excess $5 million.
prestigious law firms in
Philadelphia?
in huge salaries fact T hthate
Beyond that, Temwhen we see our the Temple
ple spent $670,000 in
the same year for the
tuition going up administralegal services of Booth
tion salaevery year, taking ries are not
Tucker L.P., in addition to the $481,000
out our anger... exorbitant
it paid George Moore,
compared
isn’t productive. to their
who serves as General
Counsel for Temple.
counterThis is, simply,
parts does
big money. It’s easy to
not mean
doubt the need for a public university more cannot be done to help make
to spend that level of funds.
college affordable.
A closer look adds perspective
It doesn’t make sense that Temto such large figures. In the same ple students, and students at any uniyear that President Ann Weaver Hart versity, are paying more money each
earned $572,000 in benefits, compen- year when today’s weak economy
sation and an expense account, Amy means fewer career opportunities.
Gutmann, president of the UniverStephen Zook can be reached at
sity of Pennsylvania, earned more
[email protected].
than $1.1 million. The chancellor of
the University of Pittsburgh, whose
ANDREW SCHYULER
FRESHMAN
ROBERTO HANNIBAL
SOPHOMORE
ENGINEERING
“No. The
only people
I know that
gamble are my
sister’s motherin-law who
buys a lottery
ticket not too
often – maybe
every holiday.”
“
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Else’s
Opinion
“Probably somebody
that’s highly intelligent,
in great shape
physically, has a heart
and is up to speed on
what is happening
in terms of the city’s
financial crisis.”
Blondell Reynolds Brown
Philadelphia City Councilwoman
The councilwoman was
asked what she thinks a
man wants, after a women’s
empowerment seminar she
hosted included a session on
“What a man wants.”
“A lot of graduates who
thought they were set
with a firm job feel like
the rug has been pulled
out from under them
because the job has
either been rescinded or
deferred. I’ve talked to
people who are thinking
about taking part-time
jobs at coffee shops just
to pay their loans. I even
spoke with one person
who was thinking about
babysitting to pay back
her loans.”
Amanda Nordstrom,
Rutgers law student
Law students are facing high law school tuition
and poor prospects when
they graduate from school,
prompting some to look for
other jobs and careers.
“We retooled our
message to say, ‘Hang
up, just drive.’ That’s all
you should be doing in
your car.”
Pam Fischer,
N.J. Division of Highway Traffic Safety
Handheld devices have
often escaped cell phone
bans like the one approved
for Philadelphia, but studies
have shown they are involved
in almost as many accidents.
The Philadelphia City Council has unanimously passed
a ban on speaking on cell
phones while driving.
“This raises important
questions about the entire process of utilizing
confidential informants
and demonstrates yet
again the critical role the
courts have in acting as a
check on such abuses.”
Bradley S. Bridge,
Assistant Public Defender
More Philadelphia Police
officers have been linked
to a corruption case that
has already found abuse by
several officers on a narcotics
taskforce. Multiple criminal
cases are under review as
a result of the abuse found
in a newspaper and internal
investigation.
CHAD LANGFORD
PUBLIC HEALTH
“Yes. My
dad has a
gambling problem. We go to
the casinos
until, like, 5 in
the morning.”
JUNIOR
ACTUARIAL SCIENCE
“Yes. I
gamble money,
food, clothing.
I mostly only
gamble with
large sums of
money overseas. Money
is worth more
elsewhere.”
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BEN KOHL on an article about ongoing contract negotiations between Temple and TAUP. April 18,
2009 @ 2:24 p.m.
Temple and TAUP have never had a five year agreement. Why doe Temple administration insist on
one now?
It is not clear what Temple administration is aiming to do by insisting on a 5 year ‘framework’ that
does not have a defined salary adjustment mechanism, which is common in multiyear agreements.
To agree to ‘reopen’ talks about salary adjustment is not the same as saying that if there is inflation in
years 3-5 of the contract that pay scales will be adjusted automatically to reflect increases in the cost
of living.
J on an article about a student who was punished by the UDC for not obeying police officers who
told him to stop taking pictures. April 16, 2009 @ 8:59 p.m.
The only thing wrong that happened was the Police officer grabbing the student and the student
being punished for journalism. Cops should NOT be allowed to touch anyone like that just because
they’re mad. It’s unnecessary and was total abuse of power of part of Temple Police. He was doing
nothing illegal.
SEAN on an editorial about the money Temple spends on advertising its 125th anniversary. April 16,
2009 @ 8:51 p.m.
Advertising is seen by many as a waste of money. As a marketing major I know first hand the effects
of a positive ad campaign and the value in creating value around a brand. All of these ads and flags
are adding real value to the Temple University brand. The $100,000 spent on advertising on public
transportation will be seen by possibly millions of people.
STUDENT/EMPLOYEE on a story about Temple’s attempt to close an area hospital. April 16, 2009 @
10:07 a.m.
It seems that this colosure has been executed in classic Temple fashion. I dont really know how the
university works with this kind of thing, but the hospital system seems to have a very abrupt way of
making decisions regarding the closing of facilities, cancelling of benefits, and releasing employees. I
dont think anyone was at all surprised that Temple didn’t look to local government officials, or community organizations and leader.
AN EX GIRLFRIEND on an opinion article about a softball team that wore a controversial T-shirt during its games. April 16, 2009 @ 12:59 a.m.
OKay, So Leah could relax, and yes she is putting herself out there on an opinion, and yes she is
OBVIOUSLY a feminist, but why is everyone personally attacking her? There is absolutely no reason
to attack her looks and personal life. I personally know her - I’m sure most of you moron’s don’t - and
she is a wonderful person.
TUrDOOR USER on a story about the debut of the TUrDoor program, which shuttles students to their
homes. April 15, 2009 @ 7:02 p.m.
I use TUrDoor everyday I have night classes and I am a huge fan. I live a block away from Girard Ave
in a not so nice neighborhood. This service not only saves my legs after a long day of classes, but it
could possibly be saving my life/property. Personally, I would like to thank Temple Student Government for putting this initiative into action.
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The Art Education Club understands the importance of the arts in
the community and attempts to spread awareness and knowledge.
ESTHER AKINTOYE
The Temple News
L
et’s face it – there aren’t that many clubs dedicated to community-based art on Main
Campus.
This scarcity is what inspired junior art education major Samantha Davis to create
a club that appeals to students interested in the arts.
Founded in the Fall 2008, the Art Education Club focuses on advocating for community
arts, building awareness and assisting education and art majors who want to pursue art-related
professions. Although the club targets art majors, students concentrating in any field are welcome
to join.
“Art is a way to connect people,” Davis said.
She said the club is also a way “to build confidence and teach other disciplines like reading,
writing and math.” As an education-based club, members aim to work with Phila-
Worst days
bring good
perspective
Art education PAGE 15
ESTHER AKINTOYE TTN
Art Education Club founder Samantha Davis assists a young student with an art project.
Photo Illustration MONICA ZUBER TTN
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Campus diversity not so
black and white an issue
The racially, ethnically, demographically and religiously diverse campus at Temple is often touted. But some argue this
superficial variety does not always equate to racial dialogue among student groups.
QUENTIN WILLIAMS
The Temple News
Diversity at Temple is visible to the naked
eye, but how many students move past staring
at a tossed salad of people and are brave enough
to taste it?
These are the numbers: 55 percent of Temple students are female, 45 percent are male, 57
percent of students are white, 17 percent are African American, 10 percent are Asian, 3 percent
are Latino, and international students make up
another 3 percent of the university’s population.
On Main Campus, students identify themselves as Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, gay, straight and bi-
Temple has a
lot of numerical
diversity, but I’m not
sure students are
really engaging in
deep, meaningful
interactions.
Walidah JUSTICE
associate director
office of multicultural affairs
sexual.
“Temple has a lot of numerical diversity, but
I’m not sure if students are really engaging in deep,
meaningful interactions,” said Walidah Justice, associate director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
“It’s a lot of different types of people in one
area who have different goals and interests,” said
Stephanie Do when asked what diversity means.
Do, a junior pre-pharmacy major, is a member
of the Vietnamese Student Association and said she
feels race is just a small part of diversity.
Before enrolling at the university, Nansi
Khalil, a junior biochemistry major, said she heard
Temple was a diverse school.
hat is the worst thing that
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comes to visit and notices a condom in
your bathroom
trash can. Maybe OffBeat
you lose a big Academia
chunk of money
playing gin rummy on Thirsty
Thursday.
But I bet you
didn’t get poison
ivy on your face!
I was wearing a
SARAH
red, puffy, oozSANDERS
ing beard of itchiness for most of
last week. Not
only was I suffering physically, but I
was quite an awful sight to behold. I
tried to keep my face hidden behind my
bandana, but you can only do so much
to hide swollen, blistering cheeks when
you’re talking to your professor.
So then, I opted to just stay home.
I hibernated for the weekend. At home,
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next week
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No matter how bad your
day may be, there’s always a
worse case out there.
IMPORTANCE OF INDEPENDENCE:
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April 29 for Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day.
TEMPLE MUSIC SCENE:
In next week’s Music Issue, we’ll take a closer look at some
Temple bands and other interesting campus musicians.
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Abosede Ogunmefun, community service chair of the NSBE executive
board, organizes sales for her group’s snack stand.
Engineering students turn
to business for funds
Two student engineering organizations have come up with
a simple fundraising idea – open snack stands in the Engineering and Architecture Building.
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IAN ROMANO
The Temple News
emple students pay only 50
cents for a Dr. Pepper or a bag
of Doritos at student club stores
operated by the National Society
of Black Engineers and the Institute of
Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
“We want people to feel that they’re
getting their money’s worth, rather than
to get ripped off from a vending machine,” said Jenner Cole, a senior civil
engineering major and public relations
chair of NSBE’s Temple chapter.
Both organizations sell products
for half the price that a vending machine charges by getting their products
from BJ’s Wholesale Club. NSBE has
sold cans of Red Bull at $1.50, and
IEEE has offered free coffee on Fridays.
“It doesn’t cost us anything, since
coffee isn’t expensive,” said Michael
Korostelev, a senior electrical engineering major and president of the
IEEE Temple chapter. “It was a great
idea that attracted a lot more customers.”
The NSBE store has operated out
of its office on the second floor of the
Engineering and Architecture Building for more than 20 years. Located on
the seventh floor of the same building,
Temple’s IEEE chapter followed suit,
jumping on the idea in 2007.
“I’m here from 7 in the morning to
7 at night,” Korostelev said. “We want
people to find out about our store and
our organization.”
Profits from both stores pay for
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Poison ivy breakout
induces productivity
poison ivy plant). The paranoia really
hit when I realized how the line separatI could lather my face with calamine ing the top of my face and the infected
lotion and lie under the ceiling fan in lower half of my face fit perfectly with
my bedroom. I loaded up on Benadryl the position of my bandana – it even
(given to me, appropriately, by Student stretched up to my ears. I decided that I
Health Services) and dozed around, must wash everything. So, anything on
watching free movies on the Internet the floor was thrown into the washer,
and eating dry cereal.
as it was probably something I wore
Mind you, I have a point. Although within the past few days. I guess that’s
the poison ivy rash seemed like a curse one way to do your chores.
from Mother Nature (I guess she didn’t
Like I said, I gained some insight
want me to weed the strawberry patch), from this experience as well, so it
I did a lot of soul-searching, which wasn’t just crossing things off my list.
helped me see the silver lining in this ir- Maybe it was the Benadryl or the cabin
ritated, seeping cloud. There was good fever, but being alone with an ugly rash
that could come out of this ailment.
on my face for the weekend was someFirst, but certainly not most im- what comforting. In other words, I grew
portantly,
I
more comfortgot a considable with myI did a lot of soulerable amount
self. I could
searching, which
of work done.
even laugh at
My weekend
my face when
helped me to see
of
solitude
I lowered my
the silver lining
without cable
chin to make
left me withmy neck alin this irritated,
out much else
most disapseeping cloud.
to do, so I was
pear.
actually able
A l s o ,
There was good
to scratch evwithout comthat could come
erything off
pany or telemy list, and I
vision, I had a
from this ailment.
wasn’t doing
lot of time to
it just to make
think, mostly
myself
feel
about unimbetter.
portant things. But, because of their
School may not be everyone’s nature, they don’t usually get a lot of
priority – it’s not mine – but there is attention. So, instead of contemplatsomething to be said about catching up ing the world or its issues, I focused on
on work. It feels good. It’s been chas- things that don’t require much thought,
ing you for a while, so when you finally like how many bricks are in the wall
get ahead, it’s significant. You might or how to catch our unwanted house
even feel exuberant enough to go out guest, Frederick. (He’s a mouse.)
and get drunk, in which case you’ll be
Call me stir-crazy, but I feel like
back where you started – but school’s I did some real growing while my
not your life.
face was breaking out. Anyway, it was
This might not be an issue for ev- enough of an experience to fill this coleryone, but the rash also pushed me to umn. In the future, however, I will atwash my clothes. Normally, I just use tempt to feel and see these things withthe smell test to determine what’s clean out the itchiness.
and what’s dirty. But not this time –
you can’t smell the urushiol on clothes
Sarah Sanders can be reached at
[email protected].
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Awaking
in a dream
In the new film In A Dream, Jeremiah Zagar chronicles the lives of his
famous artist parents – Isaiah and Julia, with tales of love and strength.
S
GABRIELLE DIPIETRO
The Temple News
ince most South Street novices are initially enamored with the massive mosaic display of broken bicycle wheels and
beer bottles, it’s no secret they eventually question its wacky origins. Frequenters
and novices alike are unaware of the origins of
painted tiles and seemingly random rubbish
affixed to nearly 50,000 square feet divided into more than 100 murals
that become a canvas
of sorts on the
South Street strip.
In A Dream, a film produced by Jeremiah
Zagar, is bent on clearing up the ambiguity.
“My father’s pretty famous already,” said
Zagar, who is the son of Isaiah Zagar, “so maybe he’ll be even more famous.”
Now playing at the Ritz at the Bourse, In A
Dream is a lyrical documentary that chronicles
the lives of Zagar’s father and mother as artists
during the 1960s. The film depicts how the entire family unit and the surreal, iconic artwork
of his father were emblazoned on edifices in
South Philadelphia.
“We wanted to combine the real and the
surreal,” Zagar said of the documentary. “The
real is the work, and the surreal is the slow-motion, animation and the film.”
Narrated by Julia Zagar, Isaiah’s wife, In
A Dream is a love story about the strength of
family and is told in three parts. One of the three
parts is titled “Part II: The End of an Era.”
“That era is the belief that family is
stronger than everything else in the world,”
Zagar said. “It’s an era of familial perfection. The end of that era is that
families are not always strong.
They are living in a dream,
and the end of the era is
the end of that dream
and the beginning
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of a reality.”
The reality is that despite an
idyllic childhood as described
by Zagar, he and his brother
Ezekiel’s upbringings were
anything but conventional.
“My father is very attentive but kind of nutty,” he said.
“You would go to an art opening, and he’d be naked and
Courtesy Herzliya Films
covered in mud. It was awkIsaiah Zagar, a notable Philadelphia mosaic artist, is the
ward because I was 5 years old,
star of the new documentary, In A Dream.
and all I wanted was my friends to
think I was good at soccer.”
“My father is a product of Philadelphia,
Growing up in a castle of shattered glass and he’s quite the performer, so the first footage
with a surreal family history, Zagar describes I got was not very good,” Zagar said.
his childhood simply as “cool.”
When he first began capturing footage, Za“I lived in a house people thought was cool, gar said his father grew closer to him outside of
so we’d invite them over and make them pasta, the city.
and they thought we were rad,” Zagar said.
“I took him to the country, and when he was
“I always loved the basement in my house isolated from the comforts of home, he became
because it’s circular,” he said. “It’s small, and much more intimate,” he said. it’s completely mosaic from floor to ceiling, so
Zagar said the five days in the country were
you can see all the way around. It’s total immer- incredibly difficult, as his father told him a story
sion in the work – a glittered cavern.”
about being molested as a child, his love for his
As a child, the cinema was Zagar’s sanctu- wife and his battle with balancing art and his
ary.
presumed madness.
“I wasn’t the most handsome kid,” Zagar
“I knew our relationship had changed from
said. “I was a little chubby and a little awkward, father and son to subject and filmmaker and that
and I just loved the movies. Movies were the I had some incredible footage,” Zagar said.
dreams that other people dream.”
Zagar said the footage obtained in the counAfter years of watching dreams of other try was a chronicle of the memories that built a
people, Isaiah’s very own dream, showcased person — his father.
throughout South Philadelphia, turned out to be
At first glance, Isaiah’s work appears only
the inspiration for a poetic verite narrative.
as shattered glass and Philadelphia debris craftIn A Dream, essentially a life labor, was ed into a pastel paradise. But look closely, and it
seven years in the making, after Julia encour- becomes clear that his work documents the life,
aged Zagar to begin filming his father.
profanity and sexuality of his life.
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Behind the Barricade
inside
Barricade, a local hardcore band, proves that it is doing more than just kicking and screaming.
B
KATIE ANNESLEY
The Temple News
arricade might be the biggest
band in hardcore – literally. The
weight of an average band member is about 250 pounds. Barricade’s motto states: “You shouldn’t be
able to beat up your hardcore band; your
hardcore band should be able to beat you
up.”
However, that does not mean violence is Barricade’s main game.
The Philadelphia-based hardcore
band fought an uphill battle to get where it
is today in the hardcore scene but is proud
of Demons, its second album, which was
produced by Eulogy Recordings.
To promote the record, Barricade recently shot a music video for the song “Michelle” with Philadelphia underground
hip-hop artist Reef the Lost Cauze.
Senior film and media arts major
Noah Grant-Levine, who has directed
and produced music videos for artists like
Peedi Crakk and Gillie da Kid, produced
the video and said it stirred up some controversy.
“[Barricade] wanted to do a stereotypical club hip-hop video,” Grant-Levine
said. “We took the negative imagery like
the objectification of women, poor fiscal
responsibility and conspicuous consumption and turned it into a fun spoof, a sat-
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ire.”
Though many see the video as adding
to the negative stereotypes, Grant-Levine
and the band said they are simply critiquing and making a mockery of them.
“People are taking us seriously, [assuming] that that’s what we do or that’s
how we are,” said Tom Tarrant, a senior
criminal justice major and Barricade guitarist.
Barricade, like any hardcore band,
has a set of values. While some hardcore
bands focus on personal choices like vegan or straight-edge lifestyles, Barricade’s
values are less exclusive.
“We all have personal values and
convictions, but as far as being a band, we
don’t have one specific cause,” Tarrant
said. “We talk about whatever makes us
mad or what we think is a problem – from
our views on the government to our views
on religion.”
Though most of the band members
consider themselves to be atheists, it
doesn’t mean they do not care about their
community. Barricade gets involved with
many benefit shows – from helping a family whose relative was killed by a drunk
driver to various cancer benefits.
Barricade’s most recent benefit show
was for Trey Love, a Phoenixville, Pa.,
child diagnosed with stage-four neuroblastoma, a rare childhood brain cancer.
As good as the band’s intentions were,
ALL KNOWING:
Juliet Snowden, a former film and media arts student, credits
Philadelphia and her time at Temple for her rising career.
ON THE BALL:
TTN’s music columnist
Kevin Brosky reviews
Fastball’s latest album,
Little White Lies.
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Barricade’s latest album, Demons,
was released in October 2008.
the show was going to be canceled due to
the outward appearances associated with
hardcore.
“Our singer was in the newspaper,
arguing for the benefit for Trey Love
because no one would let the show happen,” Tarrant said. “The minute that they
heard it was a hardcore show, they turned
it down – they wrote us off because they
thought we were just troublemakers with
tattoos.”
They were able to put on the benefit
show, but Tarrant said he thinks hardcore
band members get an unfair reputation.
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help families recover from the violent deaths of their loved ones.
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Band releases new album after drummer troubles
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“There’s violence associated with
[hardcore], but in the long run, there’s a
lot of good people doing good things,”
Tarrant said. “It’s like with anything
– a couple people do something bad
that are associated with hardcore, and
then everyone associated with it is seen
as bad.”
It took a lot of time, patience, hard
work and a totaled tour van for Barricade to get where it is.
Since its formation in 2004, Barricade got what any band strives for in
2006 – a record contract. What seemed
like a dream contract with Blackout!
Records, the record label responsible
for establishing the careers of the first
big hardcore bands in New York during
the 1980s, turned out to be more of a
mess than a deal.
“They offered us a record deal, and
we took it because it was the only thing
we had at the time,” Tarrant said. “They Blackout! Records ended in 2007, but
the saga was far from over. The band
already had songs written for us.”
Be Heard, Barricade’s first al- continued touring and recording its
own demos but
bum, came out
faced strenuous
in 2006 with
rotations of bass
Blackout! ReWe lost one
players and drumcords. Though
bass player to
mers.
it sold out at all
“We lost one
of its pressings,
drugs. After we
bass player to
the band was
kicked him out,
drugs,”
Tarrant
not happy with
said. “After we
what was prohe broke into
kicked him out,
duced.
our practice
he broke into our
“I guess
practice space and
some
people
space and stole
stole all our monliked it. We
all our money.
ey. Then, when
didn’t like it,”
we were on tour in
Tarrant
said.
Tom Tarrant
“We don’t sell
Denver, we had to
barricade
it anymore or
kick our drummer
even tell people
at the time out.
that we ever
We left him there
made it, and none of the songs get – we threw all his bags out, threw his
played.”
drums at him and left him in Denver.”
Barricade’s yearlong contract with
The band lost another drummer
and bass player on top of that, and the
most recent bass player is currently on
probation.
A later tour in summer 2008 did
not go well for Barricade either, as it
was cut short due to lack of funds. But
the band’s seemingly endless struggle
was about to be rewarded.
Barricade recorded its own 7-inch,
self-titled record, which found its way
into the hands of record executives at
Eulogy Recordings. Eulogy offered to
put a digital version of the album out,
and in October, Demons was released.
“Demons was the album that our
sound finally came together, the one
that we are most proud of,” Tarrant
said. “When you get something in your
hands that you make that other people
can like, it means a lot.”
Katie Annesley can be reached at
[email protected].
BARRICADE VIDEO
Use the QR code above
on your Web-enabled
mobile device to view
Barricade’s hip-hop
music video “Michelle.”
Under
the
Radar
There’s no reason not to celebrate Earth Day and Arbor
Day this year. Even if you’re unable to attend events
during the week, the activities extend to the weekend.
SHERRI HOSPEDALES
Arts & Entertainment Editor
WEDNESDAY, April 22
Arbor Day of Service
Celebration
The Woodlands
4000 Woodland Ave.
free, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
215-386-2181
www.woodlandsphila.org
The Woodlands is known for being a national historic landmark for its
architecture – including the mansion,
carriage house, stable and the garden
landscape. The land was owned by the
famous Philadelphia lawyer Andrew
Hamilton, who was an active botanist.
He owned 10,000 species of plants and
frequently traded with neighbors the
Bartram family, who are responsible
for the nearby Bartram’s Garden. This
Arbor Day, which isn’t until Friday,
join naturalists, volunteers and tree
lovers as 70 certified arborists cut and
prune the arboretum.
SATURDAY, April 25
followed by a tree-planting demonstration, which will start at 2 p.m. Arborists will be also on hand for tree climbing activities that will demonstrate the
proper way to climb a tree.
SATURDAY, April 25
Earth Day Volunteer Cleanup
John Heinz
National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
TerraMar Adventures
8601 Lindbergh Blvd.
free, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
484-716-8331
www.terramaradventures.com
The TerraMar Adventure organization is teaming up with the Fairmount
Park Commission, the Wissahickon
Restoration Volunteers, the Philadelphia Rock Gym and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Commission for a day of
service to the environment. The event
has expanded to three sites: the Wissahickon Valley, where you will work
with the FPC on projects such as trail
reconstruction, the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, where
you will work with the U.S. FWS on
projects aimed at marsh restoration,
and the Ralph Stover State Park, where
you will assist in efforts to preserve the
many rocks used for climbing. Free
Earth Day T-shirts and reusable grocery bags will be given to participants
as complimentary gifts for their efforts.
TerraMar recommends you wear comfortable clothing you can get dirty and
that you come prepared for April showers – the show goes on rain or shine.
SATURDAY, April 25
Philadelphia Zoo
Party for the Planet
Courtesy sustainable_gardening.com
The Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania offers free
Arbor Day festivities, including a
tree-planting demonstration.
Morris Arboretum Celebrates
Arbor Day
Morris Arboretum
100 Northwestern Ave.
free, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
215-247-5777
www.business-services.upenn.edu
Just in case you can’t make it to the
Woodlands, the University of Pennsylvania is offering its own Arbor Day activities. Witness renowned artist Patrick
Dougherty create abstract sculptures
with hundreds of sticks and saplings,
3400 W. Girard Ave.
April 25 – April 26
free with museum admission,
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
215-243-1100
www.philadelphiazoo.org
It’s a party for the planet, and everyone’s invited! If you missed out on
Earth Day activities Wednesday, make
up for it at the Philadelphia Zoo this
weekend. It will have games, crafts,
music and information from environmental organizations in the tri-state
area. Don’t forget to bring your old
sneakers, cell phones, paper and plastic
bottles for recycling!
Sherri Hospedales can be reached at
[email protected].
Courtesy Herzliya Films
The film In A Dream follows Isaiah and Julia Zagar’s rise to fame as artists in Philadelphia in the 1960s.
Film finds beauty in unique family
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Zagar said it is because his father
sees everything — even his own feces
— as beautiful.
“The scene says you can take this
dream too far,” Zagar said. “Playing
with your poop is unhygienic, regardless of whether it’s beautiful or not.
There’s a certain craziness to someone
who wants s--t in his hand.”
Zagar said his father had the tendency to go over the edge.
“I think everything he does is a
little bit over the line,” he said, “which
is part of what makes it so great.”
Refreshingly obscure and appropriately surreal at times, it is the
stunning cinematography interspersed
with 8 mm film and Super 16 mm footage of his father and mother from the
1960s that makes the documentary a
loving representation of an arts-driven
family.
Zagar’s years of cinematic appreciation paid off visually.
“We shot the movie on 35 mm
film, but most documentaries are digital,” Zagar said. “Film is silver – big,
giant blocks of silver. It’s a true reflection of what we see in light and shadow, and it gives you this feeling of the
surreal world.”
The vintage footage of his father
and mother was easily obtained, since
Isaiah compiled massive amounts of
footage. As prominent artists and owners of Eyes Gallery, the couple was involved in the South Street corridor’s
1960s hippie movement.
“People were documenting my
parents from back then,” Zagar said.
“We had about 30 hours of archival
footage, and we tried to use all of it
that we could…because the movie is
very much a mosaic itself.”
Gabrielle DiPietro can be reached at
[email protected].
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Simple suggestions for
Recycle clothing for a change
a sustainable Earth Day
Give worn clothes and the environment some extra love this Earth Day.
Make recycling fun with suggestions from Temple environmentalists.
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LAURA STANDLEY
The Temple News
omorrow is Earth Day, and it’s the
time of year when many feel guilty
about their dwindling recycling habits. Some might feel the need to pitch
in and stem the guilt by cleaning up litter or
planting a tree. For some nontraditional ways to give back to
planet Earth, take a look
at this list for some less
common – but just as
easy – ways of reducing impacts on the
environment.
Reuse those
special red cups
Geography and
urban studies professor
Benjamin Neimark and
his Sustainable Environments class want you to think
about the last party you attended.
As the music faded and guests trickled out,
the area was probably littered with red plastic
cups used to hold a certain carbonated substance college students have been known to
enjoy.
Neimark wants you to imagine how many
of those cups were thrown away in a landfill
rather than a recycling bin. Next time, save
those cups for the next party. Plastic cups are
easy to wash and can go in the dishwasher a
couple of times. See how many uses you can
get out of one, and challenge your friends to
do the same.
Convince nonbelievers
Global warming has been confirmed by a
majority of scientists as a serious threat to the
Earth. However, some people choose to deny
the consensus because they love their gasguzzling SUVs or refuse to believe anything
Al Gore says because of their political views.
Politely convince nonbelievers by referring
them to study materials and explain why putting in a little effort to reduce their impact can
help.
Rent, don’t buy
Textbooks can often be found at the top
of the list of college students’ biggest expenses. Bookstores charge top dollar for textbooks
and then buy them back for a fraction of the
original cost.
“There is a Web site where you can rent
books for a semester and then mail them
back,” said Dina Maslennikova, a sophomore geography and urban studies major and
Students for Environmental Action member.
“The Web site also plants a tree for each book
it rents out.”
Try chegg.com next semester. According
to the Web site, students can rent and
return textbooks and pay about
60 percent less than they
would at a bookstore. This
theory helps the environment in two ways – by
reusing books and
supporting the site’s
tree planting. If you
decide the book is
worth keeping, you
can change from rental to purchase at any
time.
Advocacy
Student groups are a great
vehicle for change.
“We’re dealing with a young, educated
group of people who are energetic and politically active,” Neimark said. “They can get the
job done.”
Become a political advocate for environmental change. Write to your congressmen.
Request that your friends reuse and recycle.
Take your own knowledge, and teach others
what you have learned. Get involved.
No more new clothing
Instead of going to a chain clothing store
to buy a new T-shirt, arrange a clothing swap
with your friends. Have everyone go through
their closets and pick pieces that don’t fit or
are no longer wanted and arrange a trade. This
is a great way to freshen your wardrobe with
no detriment to the environment or to your
wallet.
Shop in second-hand stores whenever
possible. Philadelphia is a great city for vintage shopping, and every time you purchase
a second-hand item, you reduce carbon emissions from clothing factories. Create a unique
look with vintage clothing rather than buying
mass-produced Abercrombie & Fitch pieces.
The planet will thank you for it, and you’ll
look fantastic.
I
n our eco-living age, it is not just our paper and
plastic that need to be recycled. Our fashion
could use a second-hand spin as well.
With ever-changing trends, women and
men are always adapting to
new styles. For a fresh change Shop
of pace, stop turning to stores class
for new styles, and look inside
your own closet. That heap of
old T-shirts, shrug cardigans
and flare jeans do not need
to be abandoned. Your outdated denim can be converted
into skinny jeans, and grubby
white T-shirts can be dyed or
nicole
embellished.
Outdated styles also keep
saylor
coming back. A vest that was
stylish your senior year of
high school can make a comeback.
My growing eco-consciousness and dwindling
bank account pushed me to go through my own
landfill of a closet and see if anything could be salvaged. I brought back a few pieces and thought up
a few do-it-yourself projects for the rest. Fashion is
always changing, so why not recycle?
After getting a sewing machine for my birthday, I was smitten but had no project ideas. Tempted to put my present to good use, I dug out my old
Abercrombie & Fitch flare jeans from high school.
They still fit well, but the leg openings were outdated.
I flipped them inside out, put them on and
pinned them down along the outside of the leg to
create a tighter fit along the knees and calves. Using
denim thread, I sewed down the leg. They fit perfectly and looked amazing tucked into ankle boots.
To restore the factory look, I took up the hem
using a thick, gold thread and wide stitching. It
was amazing how they turned out. My DIY project
looked like something I had just brought back from
the mall.
After the denim success, my clothes-recycling
kick continued.
I wanted to grab a few new T-shirts in bright
colors for spring; however, I did not have the extra
cash to blow $20 a piece on my favorite American
Apparel T-shirts.
After digging around a bit, I remembered my
stash of white Hanes T-shirts that had been shrunken to a perfect fit. I grabbed a box of aubergine
powder Rit Dye at A.C. Moore and colored one of
the T-shirts in the kitchen sink. After following the
instructions, I had a vibrant purple V-neck T-shirt
that cost only $2.50 to make. The Rit Dye was easy
to use and comes in 25 different colors in liquid
and powder. Ritdye.com even gives instructions on
dying techniques and how to make custom colors.
I have transformed three other shirts and a scarf
since then.
The next DIY scheme was to update an old
jacket. A tan tweed blazer from Old Navy had been
an eyesore in my closet for years, yet I never had
the heart to throw it away. I decided to give it a little love by adding different buttons and by sewing
gold ribbon along the sleeve openings and above
the pockets. Stores like Jo-Ann Fabrics have a humongous inventory of buttons that could be used to
update any old jacket or coat.
Trust my college-student-on-a-budget plan, try
some of these projects, or come up with a crafty
idea of your own. These tricks to recycle fashion
won’t turn you into Martha Stewart, but maybe you
will do it yourself right into sustainable style.
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Patience influences
writer’s life, career
Juliet Snowden, a former film and media arts student, appreciates Philadelphia’s culture and uses it as a basis for her screenwriting career.
fessors enjoy putting down their students’ work...
what they should be teaching is that it takes years
and years to master your craft as a writer, painter,
musician, dancer or whatever you aspire to be.”
Powell suggested Snowden move to Los Ann March 20, the film Knowing was released nationwide. A father, played by geles if she was serious about making movies.
Nicholas Cage, and his son race to de- Still, she said Philadelphia played an important
code messages found in a time capsule. role in her career.
Snowden said she loved to walk the streets
The messages hold information about disasters
that occurred in the past and ones that will occur and admire the architecture in Philadelphia and at
in the near future. It is up to them to find out when Temple.
“The city oozes history,” she said. “I can’t
the disaster is going to occur and save the world
wait to come back and show my 5-year-old son
before it’s too late.
Juliet Snowden, a former film and media arts the old stomping grounds.”
Snowden said with
student at Temple, co-wrote
the film Knowing, she has
the screenplay. Her journey
Pursue
already made her contributo Hollywood wasn’t easy,
tion to the film industry.
but the end result was resomething
“I write from my heart
warding.
you love, and
and soul, and if someone
After graduating from
responds to that, [it’s] wonLouisiana State University
hopefully the
derful,” she said. “I feel
in 1988, Snowden, then 22,
money will follow.
like that has happened.”
moved to Philadelphia, unSnowden said people
certain about her career as juliet snowden
have had strong reactions
a writer. A friend asked her screenwriter
to her film. She recalled a
what she wanted to do, and
blog post in which one perSnowden answered, “film.”
Per her friend’s advice, Snowden began taking son said the film made him want to be a better
parent.
film classes at Temple.
For Snowden, this is the reward of screen“I loved it. It was the most exciting thing I’ve
ever done in my life,” Snowden said. “I was writ- writing.
Throughout her career, Snowden has writing my own shorts. I was directing them and then
editing them. [It was] the first time in my life I felt ten 10 screenplays, two of which have been produced. She said a career in media does not happen
really alive and excited about something.”
While at Temple, Snowden took three film overnight.
“[My husband and I] spent two years writing
courses. She said former professor Alan Powell
a script [that] never got picked up,” she said. “We
was her favorite instructor.
“He really wanted each and every one of us began working on another script for one year,
to flourish as artists,” she said. “Too many pro- which was eventually optioned by Wes Craven.”
O
ALEXANDRIA BROWN
The Temple News
Courtesy Knowing
Rose Byrne and Nicholas Cage star in Knowing, a science-fiction movie co-written by
former Temple student Juliet Snowden. The movie hit theaters nationwide last month.
Snowden’s career has been 15 years in the
making, but she loves movies and writing. She
said making money was never her main focus.
“You have to love the craft you are in,” she
said.
Snowden and her husband, Stiles White,
work full time during the day and write scripts in
the evening.
Snowden also wrote Boogeyman, which was
released in 2005.
Snowden and White recently finished writing
the remake of the Poltergeist, which is planned
to be released in 2011. Snowden’s other projects
include The Birds and a television pilot.
“Pursue something you love, and hopefully
the money will follow,” she said.
She said aspiring media producers should
know it’s important for screenwriters to be patient.
Aspiring students get caught up in the glamour of
the media industry and do not realize screenplays
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years later, Snowden and her husband took on
the screenplay and worked on it for two years.
It would be another three years before Knowing
went into production.
Originally, the film included a time capsule
and predictions. Snowden and White turned it into
a science fiction film, adding disasters and changing the pay-off of the story.
Snowden also included some of her own experiences in Knowing. During the time she was
writing the screenplay, Snowden gave birth to her
first child.
“Although it was a blessing, giving birth was
one of the difficulties of writing Knowing,” she
said. “I was a new mother. [I was] sleep deprived,
had raging hormones, yet I was supposed to be
creative.”
But motherhood paid off for Snowden.
“Without being a mother, I don’t think I
could’ve written such compelling and convincing
scenes between a parent and a child.”
Alexandria Brown can be reached at
[email protected].
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Fastball maintains creativity without complexity
The 1990s group that created breakout hits “The Way” and “Out of My Head” is back with another solid record that showcases its musicianship.
lie,” a slow tango-style ballad.
The clap-inducing “Mono to Stereo” is catchy
enough for the entire album, with its two-guitar
melody and gripping chorus hook. Zuniga sings
about a girl who “changed my world from mono
to stereo” and whom he thinks about “from Sunday
to Saturday.”
The bouncy, piano-driven “She’s Got the
Rain” is similarly infectious, displaying the band’s
usual knack for effective major and minor chord
changes.
The daydreamy “Always and Never” mixes
guitar and keyboard melodies for a mellowed-out
sound unlike anything on previous Fastball recordings.
“Rampart Street” is a quick-paced rock tune
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an alternative punk rock band.
The album is rounded out by the brilliant finale, “Soul Radio.” Here, enchanting verses build
up to a highly exuberant chorus that drones on and
becomes gradually more intense to finish off the record.
Little White Lies is nothing extremely innovative for Fastball. It is not some kind of career-defining, artistic concept album. It is not an experimental
excursion into a new genre of music.
It is, however, the mark of a band’s continued
mastery of the three-and-a-half-minute rock song
and its staying power. Fans of the group’s earlier
work will truly enjoy this solid latest effort.
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Fastball has been known for its fusing of eclectic musical influences and varied instrumentation.
Little White Lies is not widely groundbreaking for
the group in terms of the apparent musical styles
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However, the band rather daringly experiments
on the disco-esque title track, “Little White Lies,” in
which Scalzo sings, “I tell myself these little white
lies, like I don’t miss you / I tell myself these little
white lies, and I just walk around with my eyes
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Students prepare
Israeli celebration
Temple Students for Israel hopes to spread the meaning of
Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, on April 29.
ELIZABETH GROSSMAN
The Temple News
ties.
Senior KateLynn Plotnick, vice
president of Temple Students for Israel,
arked by more than a said the celebration will show people
backyard barbecue and what Israeli Independence Day means
a fireworks display, Yom to her and her fellow members.
“Israeli Independence Day repreHa’atzmaut, Israel’s Indesents
democracy, justice and freedom,”
pendence Day, commemorates the decthe
public
relations major said. “It replaration of the state of Israel by David
resents
a
miracle.
It was a miracle for
Ben Gurion on May 14, 1948.
the
Jews
to
survive
the Holocaust and
That day still has special meaning
to
have
their
energy
and motivation
for many people, including a group of
to build a
Temple stunew coundents
who
try. It is
It
represents
a
hope to ina miracle
form
the
miracle. It was a
that
IsTemple comrael
is
the
miracle
for
the
munity about
youngest
the
signifiJews to survive the
country to
cance of Yom
have made
Holocaust
and
to
Ha’atzmaut.
so much
On April
have their energy
progress
29, Temple
technologand
motivation
to
Students for
ically, soIsrael plans
build a new country.
cially and
to emphasize
physically
the message Katelynn plotnick
over such a
of unity dur- vice president
small span
ing the day temple students for israel
of time.”
by hosting a
Each
celebration on
year,
on
the
evening
before
Yom
Main Campus at the Bell Tower. The
Ha’atzmaut,
the
speaker
of
the
Israeli
all-day event will feature an Israeli
Army obstacle course, reading materi- Parliament makes a televised speech.
M
als, T-shirt tie-dyeing and other activi-
Israel PAGE 17
ESTHER AKINTOYE TTN
Members of the Art Education Club participated in an event earlier this
month, in which it worked with students from Visitation BVM Elementary
School on various art projects.
Art club aims to
impact community
der to reduce expenses.
Like any subject, art helps to structure a student through engagement and
delphia students.
Members said they want to inform education, and students’ involvement
and engage the Temple and Philadel- in programs like the Art Education
phia communities about the impor- Club allows them to be productive in
positive activities.
tance of art.
Earlier this month, the organiza“Philadelphia has so much to offer
tion took part in a community arts day
in art,” Davis said.
Since the Art Education Club is with 18 sixth graders from Visitation
new, members are making themselves BVM Elementary. Club members were
able to engage students in a dialogue
known through the events they host.
The club is involved in “Just about the significance of art.
The group also held a program
Cause” month, a community service
on springtime and recycling, giving
initiative that
the elementary
began March
school students
18. Just Cause
Art is a way
a chance to
activities are
to connect
take junk and
designed
to
recreate it into
connect Tempeople...
artwork.
Elple students to
Philadelphia
ementary stuthe community.
dents were also
The Art Educahas so much to
able to work
tion Club will
offer in art.
on a clay artfocus on comwork project,
munity arts.
in which they
The club
molded clay
will be in- samantha davis
to form leaves
volved
with junior, art education
and decorated
COSACOSA
them. A teacher
art at large,
Inc., a Philadelphia-based nonprofit from Visitation BVM brought her stuorganization that funds community arts dents to the event because she said she
projects. On April 26, the Art Education wanted her students to participate in art
Club plans to hold a Just Cause Silent projects outside of school.
The Art Education Club will make
Benefit Auction. The event’s proceeds
will benefit COSACOSA. The club an appearance at Spring Fling tomorplans to raise money by auctioning art- row, where they will host a face-painting table.
work made by some of its members.
The city’s murals show how sigEsther Akintoye can be reached at
nificant art is in Philadelphia, but the
[email protected].
current budget crisis is forcing some
schools to cut their art programs in or-
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Ex attempts
to topple
cake’s tiers
Sooner or later, the ghosts of
relationships past come back
into your life and haunt you.
T
PECK PAGE 17
IAN ROMANO TTN
Michael Korostelev (left), a senior electrical engineering major and president of IEEE, has put a lot of
time into his organization and appreciates the customers who frequent the stand. Some of the items for
sale include Red Bull, chips and pretzels.
Student-run stores fund trips, events
ENGINEERING PAGE 8
travel expenses to regional conferences, which could be held anywhere from Pennsylvania to South
Carolina.
“The IEEE members that started
this didn’t have any money,” sopho-
more electrical engineering major
Joseph Gro said. “Last year, we used
the store’s profits to reimburse our
members for our NASA trip.”
The two groups use cash left
over to buy drinks and pizza for
members at certain meetings.
Engineering professor Dennis
Silage said he occasionally stops
by the IEEE store to buy food and
snacks.
“I feel like I’m helping the organization,” Silage said, “and my office is right down the hall.”
Ian Romano can be reached at
[email protected].
cheap bites
here’s a quote inspired by
Shakespeare on the Washington
Monument that reads, “What is
past is prologue.”
We learn from the trials and tribulations of our past and move on, taking
what we’ve learned in stride and using
it to help prevent
the same things
Pillow
from happening
Talk
again. Our pasts
are our foundations: everything
that happens in
our lives just
builds up, layer
after layer, like a
sloppy birthday
cake made by
libby
your best friends
Peck
that just manages to be held
together by sticky Pillsbury icing from
Rite Aid.
Like tiers of a cake, different layers of our pasts can’t just be plucked
out and switched around on a whim
– otherwise the entire structure would
be imbalanced, messy and in a state
of complete destruction. It would look
even more awkward than it already did,
with uneven icing layers and amateur
frosted script. To make us the people
we are now, things had to happen in a
certain order, for better or for worse.
But what happens when, out of the
blue, one of the lowest layers of your
cake becomes enchanted and tries to
rearrange itself or tries to duplicate itself on top of everything else you’ve
already begun to bake and decorate?
I’ve never seen an enchanted cake,
so I don’t think we’ll have a real answer to that. But for the sake of meta-
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temple living
TTN File Photo
Temple students
will flood campus
tomorrow for Spring
Fling festivities. The
school has been
ranked in the top
10 most diverse
college campuses
by The Princeton
Review for the past
few years. But
interaction among
student groups
does not necessarily represent the
touted diversity.
Diversity more than numbers
DIVERSITY PAGE 7
“I didn’t realize just how diverse
it was,” she said. “Temple has an incredible range of students coming
from many unique backgrounds. I was
pleased to find that the Temple society includes people from all different
income levels and different racial and
ethnic backgrounds.”
Khalil, who is from Egypt, is a
member of the Muslim Student Association and the Arab Student Association. She said she feels the diversity that Temple has is great, but she
admittedly hasn’t made an effort to
branch out.
“It’s important for us to appreciate people who are different from us,
and it’s also important that we maintain those aspects of ourselves that
make us unique,” said Alex Chambers, a senior tourism and hospitality
management major and president of
Temple’s chapter of Omega Psi Phi, a
traditionally black fraternity. “Omega
Psi Phi was founded to bring together
men of color to help develop them into
stronger men and build strength in the
black community.”
The focus on community remains
a cardinal principle of the Omegas,
and the same emphasis can be found
in other cultural groups on campus.
Sometimes, it takes a visit outside the
Temple community to begin to appre-
ciate others.
“It’s funny, before this trip, I can’t
remember really having a deep conversation with someone who wasn’t
white or Jewish,” said junior Jewish
studies major Pesach Kessler, treasurer for Temple Students for Israel and
alumni chair of Alpha Epsilon Pi.
Along with 25 of his fraternity
brothers, Kessler volunteered during
his spring break at several centers in
impoverished neighborhoods in Los
Angeles.
“My most memorable experience
was when I shared stories with the administrator of the [Watts Labor Community Action Committee], a community center where Coretta Scott-King
donated many of her personal photos
of her life with [Martin Luther King
Jr.]. It was incredible.”
“If you look at it from a business
perspective, you can really be more
successful if you know how to communicate with people from different
backgrounds,” said Harshil Kakadia, a
member of the Dholidaz Indian Dance
Club. “Temple is a very unique place,”
said Christopher Carey, associate director of the Office of Student Affairs.
“It’s rare that you find an environment
where you can have conversations
with people from different parts of the
world.”
Justice’s work with the Office of
Multicultural Affairs helps to create
spaces for such conversations to take
place.
“College is a place where young
adults are still forming their worldview and identity,” Justice said. “They
can use these conversations to share
their thoughts with others and have
those ideas challenged.”
Justice said these conversations
can influence students to form wellrounded identities of who they want
to be.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs has held these kinds of talks in
the past and plans to do more. One of
its biggest accomplishments has been
its Campus Unity Program, which
brought more than 110 students from
different backgrounds and organizations together for a night that featured
ethnic foods and entertainment.
Student Affairs also holds programs to help facilitate diverse interactions. Some events include campus
concerts and Free Food and Fun Fridays, held every Friday from 10 p.m.
to 1 a.m. Last Friday’s theme was “A
Night in Bollywood” and celebrated
aspects of Indian culture and cinema.
Quentin Williams can be reached at
[email protected].
Page 17
Old relationships
tend to die hard
peck PAGE 16
phor, I’ll say things would get extremely complicated really quickly.
Just as I promised myself to shift
my focus to topics not-so sexually
based, the very base of my teetering
relationship cake popped up out of nowhere – four years after conception,
expecting to get back on top of things.
I’m pretty bad at keeping promises.
My first boyfriend, who I’ll refer
to as Stan, swept me off my feet. He
picked me up from school every day
in his beat-up, Barney-purple Honda
– not because he was in college and had
the extra time, but because he was expelled from his public high school (and
had the extra time). He would take me
to the local outdoor mall and hold my
hand until he felt an itch to smoke. He
took me to all-ages hardcore shows…
that I had to pay for. I guess my standards were pretty low when I had nothing else to compare him to.
I took pictures on what ended up
being my favorite night with Stan:
our silhouettes glow yellow from the
parking lot lights that illuminated the
backseat we layed in. We lounged, listening to “Passenger Seat” because we
had nothing else to do and nowhere
else we would have rather been. It was
simple, but I was so happy at the time.
I thought it was the perfect date. Little
did I know, it would become my last
pleasant memory of him.
After that night, Stan completely
ignored me for a week — not a returned phone call, not a single instant
message. I had no idea if he was dead
or alive or if I had just done something
to set his unpredictable temper off. He
finally called me out of the blue to say
he’d been up in the mountains, drinking Bud Light every night and thinking
about how his life was less complicated when he didn’t have to spend time
teaching me things I didn’t know yet.
“I don’t have time to give you experience,” he said.
“I’ll learn,” I promised. And as the
sobs came tumbling out of my trembling lips, he hung up on me.
I guess he decided four years was
long enough for me to gain enough experience for him because Stan randomly decided he wanted to be my Facebook friend, asking me for my phone
number and telling me I’ve managed to
change in all of the right ways. Is this
normal, or is this yet another case of
a secretly embedded crazy magnet in
my body? Either way, as charming as
it may be, it pisses me off.
It doesn’t make any sense for Stan
to try reconnecting with someone who
has matured enough to know not to
believe the, for lack of a better term,
BS. Plus, I live hundreds of miles away
from my old Kentucky home now, so
I’ve shortened any chances for him
weaseling himself back into my life
from 52 weeks to only one – not that
I’d want to get back with him at all.
He’s managed to change in none of the
ways I wanted him to.
Stan belongs on the bottom of my
tiers. Granted, this layer consists of
cigarette butts, money he owes me and
crushed coffee cups, but it’s a foundation nevertheless. Changing his place
in my relationship cake would completely change everything else: layers
would crumble in on themselves, have
totally different ingredients, spontaneously combust. And, as much as parts
of it may suck, I wouldn’t alter a single
layer. I’m pretty happy with the pastry
chef I’ve become.
So, it’s time to delete that name and
number, ignore those Facebook messages and put Stan back in his rightful
place at the beginning. Besides, I actually do have a man in my life right
now. His name is Insomnia Cookies,
and he’s probably not going to be too
happy that I used a metaphor involving
a different baked good.
Libby Peck can be reached at
[email protected].
“Part morality tale, part voyeuristic time trip.
Strong stuff !”
-Michael Cieply, The New York Times
TTN File Photo
Temple Students for Israel is planning celebrations for Yom
Ha’atzmaut, mirroring festivities planned in Israeli towns like the one
shown above. The day honors democracy, freedom and justice.
“Impresses with style.”
-Troy Patterson, SPIN
“A supremely talented young cast.
Electrifying performances!”
-Dennis Dermody, PAPER Magazine
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Delivers guilty pleasures aplenty.”
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Jewish holiday
carries significance
israel PAGE 15
The presentation includes groups of
Israeli soldiers who carry Israeli flags
and other symbols of Judaism. The final piece of the ceremony is the lighting of 12 beacons to represent the 12
tribes of Israel.
“Israeli Independence Day to me
stands as a constant reminder that only
61 years ago, the prayers and dreams of
the Jewish people were answered and
came true,” said Tom Harari, a senior
liberal arts major and member of Temple Students for Israel.
“As a son of both Sephardic and
Ashkenazi parents, I see Israeli Independence Day from a unique lens,”
Harari added. “My father’s family fled
Tunisia, while my mother left communist
Romania. Both sought refuge and
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Temple Students for Israel aims to
show other students and the surrounding community that peaceful things
happen in the small Middle Eastern
country. In light of recent attacks on the
Gaza Strip, Temple Students for Israel
is hoping to educate Philadelphians on
the many positive aspects of the country.
“This day is portrayed as a celebration, but many Zionist Jews suffered and fought for years in order to
declare independence and have a free
Jewish state for the Jews to call home,”
said Ziv Noah, a junior art major.
“The anthem proudly states, ‘the
soul of a Jew yearns,’” Harari said.
“Israeli Independence Day stands as
a reminder, a symbol of what the Jewish soul has yearned for for more 2,000
years.”
Elizabeth Grossman can be reached at
[email protected].
sports
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women’s gymnastics
Canning brings home the gold at USAGs
The All-American placed first in the vault and the all-around to cap a banner season.
CHRISTIAN AUDESIRK
The Temple News
Sophomore gymnast Katie Canning’s accomplishments are starting to
pile high, and she’s only getting started.
At the USAG Championships,
Canning took first place in the allaround, first place on the vault with
a score of 9.825 and tied for second
place in the floor exercise with a score
of 9.800. In turn, she also gained firstteam All-American honors for the
weekend. It went down as one of the
best performances in the history of
Temple women’s gymnastics.
The best part of winning at the USAGs for Canning was that she realized
her dream of competing in the NCAA
regional.
“It’s an honor. I’m really happy
and excited,” Canning said. “My
coaches and my captains [seniors Natasha Crawford and Winter Sneed] got
me here. The hard part is once you
make it here, it’s anybody’s game.”
Canning is the first Owl to qualify for this rigorous tournament since
Lexi Zafferes did it in 2005. Granted,
Zafferes only qualified for the vault,
whereas Canning qualified as an allaround performer and performed in all
four events (floor exercise, vault, balance beam and uneven bars).
Canning’s coach, Aaron Murphy,
was not at all surprised by her success.
Murphy, who is in his third season, had
difficulty finding the right words to say
when talking about how Canning performed and how proud of her he was.
“It means everything to me as a
coach,” he said. “For her to be consistent all year long and finally bring
down a title is great. She’s a wonder for
women’s gymnastics here at Temple.”
Murphy and Canning already sat
down and talked about goals for the
future.
The two said they’ve set their
sights only on returning to NCAA regionals for Canning’s remaining two
years but also have ambitions to obtain
an all-around Eastern College Athletic
Conference title and break the elusive
record for the all-around title score.
Canning came close to knocking that
accomplishment out this season, as she
only missed out by one point.
men’s gymnastics
Turoff’s team falls
short at NCAAs
After winning the ECAC championship the last three years,
the Owls didn’t defend that title this year, nor did they send
anyone to the NCAA Championships.
ERIC PELLINI
The Temple News
Some adversities prove too much
to overcome.
The men’s gymnastics team did
not defend its Eastern College Athletic
Conference title this year and did not
advance anyone to the NCAA Championship finals in Minnesota this past
weekend, despite qualifying eight
gymnasts.
For the Owls, there were just too
many injuries this year.
In a season where the Owls had
some amazing team performances,
they could only count individual performances at this year’s NCAAs, as
they did not qualify as a team. Much
like the ECAC Championships, it was
a meet during which the Owls often
found themselves quite frustrated.
“My intent is always to have
someone advance to the championship
round, at least one and, hopefully, several,” coach Fred
Turoff said. “And I
had guys who could
have, but I also look
at it as I had guys
who came into this
meet with injuries,
and that certainly
hindered their training.”
Tyler Croteau
Many of the Men’s Gymnastics
gymnasts
Turoff
took to Minnesota will be returning
next season.
One of those gymnasts is sophomore Tyler Croteau, who captured
Temple’s top individual performance
of the day, finishing tied for 16th on
floor exercise with a score of 14.800.
The gymnast advancing ahead of Croteau only bested him by one-fifteenth
of a point.
Like many of the Temple gymnasts, Croteau was able to carry some
of his experience from last season’s
NCAA Championship into this meet
and was able to share some of that with
freshman Chris Mooney.
Mooney turned in one of the Owls’
best performances with a 22nd-place
finish on rings.
“I just told [Mooney] that he’s
been hitting his sets all year long and to
keep doing that, and that’s pretty much
what he did, and it turned out well for
him,” Croteau said.
For Mooney, the atmosphere was a
trial run, but he said that he would now
know what to expect next year and be
more focused.
Also competing at the Championships for the first time was freshman
Jeff Zack, who finished tied for 28th on
vault with a score of 14.950.
Senior John Vogtman put on a
Temple uniform for the final time, and
although his best finish of the day, 26th
on the rings with a score of 14.250, was
not reminiscent of his top performances, he still leaves the Temple gym with
no regrets.
“I gave it everything I have,” he
said. “I didn’t hold anything back.”
The Owls turned in other respectable performances from future team
leaders sophomore Adam Al-Rokh and
junior Patrick McLaughlin, who put
in 20th-place and 26th-place finishes,
respectively, as their top performances each. Al-Rokh competed on the
pommel horse for his best finish, and
McLaughlin competed on the high bar.
Both Al-Rokh and McLaughlin were
among the Temple wounded, battling
injuries that sum up
what was the Achilles’ heel of this
Temple team.
However, those
who take a closer
look into this program might measure its success not
solely on numbers John Vogtman
but perhaps on heart Men’s Gymnastics
and determination.
In a year when the Owls constantly battled injuries and frequently
started freshmen, they still managed to
post impressive individual highs and
team performances.
The week of Feb. 14, the Owls
ranked No. 4 in the ECAC and took
down No. 1 William & Mary by posting a team-high score, at that point in
the season, of 332.550.
This was also the year Al-Rokh
made a comeback no one talked about.
The junior crash-landed during a
release move in practice that had him
hovering at least 15 feet above the
ground, hitting his face on the steel bar
of the high bar event. And yet, he still
finished the season.
In addition, Turoff was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of
Fame. He also coached two freshmen
to ECAC Rookie of the Week honors.
All that will be taken into next season.
“The guys did what they could,”
Turoff said. “But we’re about a year
away.”
Eric Pellini can be reached at
[email protected].
“[Murphy] has done a lot for me
and my teammates,” Canning said.
“He’s held us together when I’ve been
tired and sore and really got me through
the rough times. I love my teammates,
and I want them to know that. They really get me through everything.”
That includes battling through injuries, as Canning’s first year was cut
short after she injured her leg during
the first half of the season. But, with
the help of her teammates and Murphy,
she recovered.
While Canning gives credit to
those who have helped her, Murphy
puts all the praise on his star sophomore’s 5-foot-3-inch shoulders.
“She is in a league of her own. I really can’t compare her to anyone else,”
Murphy said. “I’m without words about
that. For her to go to this level is extremely hard, and anyone has a chance.
I need to make sure she is prepared for
this. I feel that we can get her to place
in the top two in one of the events,
which will give her an automatic bid to
NCAA Nationals.”
Christian Audesirk can be reached at
[email protected].
ANNA ZHILKOVA TTN
Katie Canning leaps during a routine at team practice last week at McGonigle Hall. The sophomore gymnast took first place in the all-around
at the USAG Championships two weeks ago in Connecticut.
Loss closes out season
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close in dramatic fashion with Richmond freshman Helen
Cunningham’s overhead slam on junior Anastasiia Rukavyshnykova that clinched a 6-3 and 6-1 victory and the title
for the Spiders. The victory sparked an on-court celebration
by Richmond.
“We really wanted to win it, and we thought we were
going to [win it],” junior Elyse Steiner said.
Richmond and Temple have established themselves
as the top teams in the A-10. Temple had last year’s A-10
Player of the Year in Dina Senkina, and Richmond acquired
some standout freshmen who contributed to this year’s title.
“It has always been Temple and Richmond as the two
Courtesy Atlantic Ten Conference
Felicia Frazier returns a shot last week at team
practice. Frazier helped put the Owls in the A-10
finals, but they fell short to Richmond.
biggest competitors,” Steiner said. “We are like the rivals of
the A-10.”
Before Sunday’s loss to Richmond, Temple entered the
final round with confidence and a nine-match win streak.
“We have always had a winning record,” Steiner said.
“We have been playing very well lately.”
The A-10 Championship was held in Monroeville, Pa.,
where Temple was the No. 2 seed, earning the Owls a firstround bye in the tournament.
“To make it to the finals, we had to beat two very good
teams in Duquesne and Xavier,” Mauro said. “We beat both
teams pretty easily, so we had a successful tournament.”
After the bye, the Owls faced No. 7 Duquesne and won,
4-0. Temple took the doubles point with Steiner and sophomore Lucie Pazderova winning 8-4 in flight one and juniors
Rukavyshnykova and Christine Clermont winning 8-1 in
flight three. Steiner, Pazderova and Clermont each won their
singles matches to seal the win.
In the second round against Xavier, Temple got three
straight-set victories from Steiner, Pazderova and sophomore Theresa Stangl. Clermont punched the Owls’ ticket to
the finals by winning the fifth flight with a score of 6-2 and
6-4.
While it may have been easy for Temple to reach the
finals, Richmond made things tough when it got there.
“All of the matches were pretty close,” Steiner said.
“They just came out a little stronger today.”
The loss snapped the Owls’ win streak that began in
March. Their season ends with an overall record of 17-6 and
a 4-1 record inside the A-10.
Other season highlights include four individual players
going undefeated in the singles events at the Dartmouth Big
Green Invitational in November and Pazderova and sophomore Josephine Bergman winning the Flight B doubles title
at the Cornell Invitational. Steiner, Rukavyshnykova and
Pazderova also earned A-10 Performer of the Week honors
over the course of the spring season.
Next season, the Owls will return eight letter winners
and six starters. From there, they look to make another run
at the A-10 title.
“[The season] was really good and really fun,” Steiner
said. “We definitely gave everything we had.”
Brian Dzenis can be reached at
[email protected].
sports rewind
Baseball
Charlotte took two out of three games from the
Owls this weekend at Skip Wilson Field.
The baseball team has always taken a backseat
to its neighbors in the south. Charlotte (20-13, 5-7)
held a 5-1 series record over Temple (14-20, 9-5)
entering this weekend’s three-game set.
However, this time around, the 49ers came to
Skip Wilson Field lower in the Atlantic Ten Conference pecking order. The Owls had high expectations but ultimately underachieved.
“I would say on the course of the weekend,
we probably came up a little bit short of what we
thought our goal would be and what we thought
we were capable of doing. And that was to win the
conference series. We had plenty of opportunities,”
coach Rob Valli said.
The Owls had their hearts broken on Friday, as
the 49ers won 9-6 in 10 innings. Then the bats lit
up Saturday and connected for three home runs.
Sophomore outfielder Byron McKoy hit one and
senior outfielder Sean Barksdale added two more,
resulting in an 8-6 victory.
Freshman pitcher Dan Moller struck out four in
six strong innings to earn his third win of the season. Junior pitcher Ryan Thomas pitched a scoreless ninth to notch his third save.
<<
Sunday, the Owls’ defense fell apart, as they
committed four errors. The pitching staff also got
banged up, as five arms combined for nine walks
and 12 hits. The Cherry and White fell, 14-5.
“We never got it going defensively with too
many walks too many errors,” Valli said.
The Owls are now two games out of first place
in the Atlantic Ten Conference. They have a Big 5
showdown with Villanova on Tuesday at Skip Wilson Field, then a three-game series at home against
Xavier this weekend.
Women’s Crew
The Owls finished in fifth place at the Atlantic
Ten Conference Championships on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, N.J.
It was a strong showing for seniors Laura Altimari and Jillian Ploof, who earned First Team AllConference and Second Team All-Conference honors, respectively. It was the team’s best result in
the tournament since 2000. Up next is the Bergen
Cup in Philadelphia April 25 followed by the Dad Vail
Regatta May 8 and 9. Coach Gavin White expects
his team to come away with the gold medal at the
Regatta.
- Anthony Stipa
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Brown and Green
look to fill shoes
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PAUL KLEIN TTN
Vaughn Charlton stands in the pocket Saturday at Edberg-Olson Hall during the Owls’ spring practice game.
The redshirt junior quarterback was tops on the depth chart at the beginning of the spring.
Praise goes to Kamara
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ican Conference selection after consecutive Second Team All-MAC honors.
Neblett and senior defensive end
Brian Sanford return as starters and
will be joined by junior defensive
tackle Elisha Joseph and sophomore
defensive end Adrian Robinson. The
unit is trying to improve on getting into
the backfield, as it allowed 165.9 yards
on the ground with only 18 sacks last
season.
“Obviously, we want to do better
going forward,” defensive coordinator
Mark D’Onofrio said. “We’d love to be
PAUL KLEIN TTN
Al Golden walks to the sideline
Saturday. The fourth-year coach
continues to finalize his roster.
more disruptive. We’ve left too many
sacks on the table each of the last two
years.”
Behind the defensive line are the
linebackers, who have a lot of depth,
beginning with seniors John Haley and
Alex Joseph and junior Amara Kamara.
“They’re really hard workers.
They’ve all played a lot of football,”
D’Onofrio said.
It was Kamara who was awarded
the Defensive Most Improved Player
for the spring practice period at halftime on Saturday. He posted 67 tackles
with two sacks and was challenged by
the coaching staff to improve his game
in the offseason.
“We wanted him to play a little
faster and stop trying to feel everything
out, just cut it loose and play fast and
react, and he’s done that,” D’Onofrio
said.
Kamara was humble when talking
about himself.
“Coming in, I just felt like I had
a lot of improving to do,” he said. “I
came out, and every day, I tried to work
at it.”
Golden said Kamara succeeded
and was the best choice for the award.
“Incredible work ethic. In here all
hours of the day,” Golden said. “Takes
care of his business. Takes care of his
academics. Really studies hard in the
classroom and in the facility. Spends a
lot of time preparing for each and every
practice.
“To have that kind of maturity and
have that kind of leadership and approach going into his junior year really
is what separated him from the group.”
The group that offers the biggest
question mark is the secondary. The
biggest issue with the unit has been
depth.
“Last year, we didn’t have as much
depth as we needed,” D’Onofrio said.
“We’re really happy with the safeties.
The corner position is up for grabs right
now. We’ve got a lot of candidates.”
Harris will start at strong safety
and will be joined by junior Jaiquawn
Jarrett at the free safety position. Redshirt junior Anthony Ferla, who had
five tackles over the weekend, looks to
have one of the corner positions, while
the other seems to be a battle between
sophomores Marlin Terrell and Jared
Williams.
“The corners you really have to assess with the film. They looked good,”
Golden said. “We finally have enough
depth on defense to hang in there
through a whole season.
“No excuses this year,” he added.
“If we get banged up, we better have
guys that are ready to step up.”
With nine starters returning on defense – and most of them juniors and
seniors – the unit knows it is running
out of time to complete the turnaround
of a program that had just two wins
combined over two seasons before last
year.
“Anytime you have guys that have
been here from the beginning, they
know we struggled back three years
ago, and now, as we’ve become a pretty
good defense, what kind of work that
takes,” D’Onofrio said.
Pete Dorchak can be reached at
[email protected].
said. “The receivers aren’t where we
need to be, but we continue to work
hard and get better every day. I definitely feel like there are receivers on
this team who can fill Bruce [Francis’]
shoes.”
One of those receivers could be
Brown.
The 5-foot-5-inch, 160-pound
freshman caught five passes for 48
yards and showed his quickness on the
rushing end, exploding for 36 yards on
a reverse.
“Height is not any reason on our
team not to play,” Golden said. “He’s
competitive. He still has some mental errors, but the bottom line is he’s
learned the whole offense here in four
months and performed very well today.
So, I’m encouraged by him.”
Brown could see time on special
teams or in the backfield, though he’ll
have to get past sophomore Kee-ayre
Griffin, redshirt senior Lamar McPherson and sophomore Ahkeem Smith
Quarterbacks
By now, it’s pretty much
common knowledge that redshirt
junior Vaughn Charlton and redshirt sophomore Chester Stewart
are battling for the starting quarterback position. Both players
stepped in for an injured Adam
DiMichele the past two seasons.
How much stock Golden puts in
past performances, Cherry and
White Day and the fact that he
redshirted Charlton last season
remains to be seen. Regardless,
both completed less than 50
percent of their passes Saturday afternoon. A decision should
come about 10 days into training
camp.
Grade: C+
Running Backs
The Cherry and White teams
combined for 59 rushing attempts
Saturday afternoon. Sophomore
Ahkeem Smith excelled between
the tackles, whereas sophomore
Kee-ayre Griffin and freshman
Matt Brown offered more explosive opportunities.
Grade: A-
Wide Receivers
This group lost its star and
most reliable player in senior
Bruce Francis, and it showed
Saturday afternoon when receivers dropped a number of catchable passes from both quarterbacks.
Tight Ends
Senior Steve Maneri received
the Offensive Most Improved
Player award during halftime Saturday. He caught two passes for
17 yards. The player behind him
on the depth chart, redshirt sophomore Matt Balasavage, caught
two passes as well, including one
for 30 yards.
Grade: B
Offensive Line
PAUL KLEIN TTN
Jennifer Reardon can be reached at
[email protected].
spring Grades
Grade: B
Andre Neblett chases down Vaughn Charlton Saturday at Edberg-Olson Hall. The senior defensive tackle is
expected to lead the Owls’ charge this season, along with fellow senior, defensive end Brian Sanford.
first.
Of those three, Griffin had the
most balanced day running and receiving, though Smith racked up the most
total yardage on the ground, gaining 78
yards on 22 carries.
“Ahkeem’s had a good spring. I
think he helped himself,” Golden said.
“We hope he can give us the power
running game that we need. He’s got
good vision and gets downhill.”
With the last of the 15 spring practices ending with Cherry and White
Day, Smith and the other players on the
offense now must wait until August to
make further impressions on the coaching staff.
“I was happy with the attitude and
effort all spring, but I was just disappointed in our discipline today,” Golden said. “We have no excuses come
August. It’s time for some of those
guys to grow up and step up.”
This unit lost graduating
seniors Alex Derenthal, Jabari
Ferguson and Andre Douglas.
Sophomore Wayne Tribue would
appear to have the inside track to
start at center, but junior Derek
Dennis started there for the Cherry team on Saturday instead. The
biggest area of concern for coach
Al Golden with this group, however, remains the penalties.
“Devin [Tyler, a redshirt senior] got a penalty, and Derek
Dennis got two penalties. That’s
it. If you want to know if you’re
playing a good game as an offensive lineman, look in that column
first. Four offensive linemen got a
holding penalty today. That’s not
good enough.”
Grade: C
Defensive Line
The unit is led by Preseason
First Team All-Mid-American Conference selection senior Andre
Neblett and senior Brian Sanford.
It needs to improve on getting to
the quarterback after recording
just 18 sacks last season.
Grade: B+
Linebackers
It’s an experienced group led
by seniors Alex Joseph and John
Haley and junior Amara Kamara.
The three combined for five of
the defense’s 18 sacks last year.
Attacking the line of scrimmage
more will take pressure off the
line and improve rushing yards
allowed and sacks.
Grade: A-
Secondary
The safety position is secure
with redshirt senior Dominique
Harris and junior Jaiquawn Jarrett. The question lies at the cornerback spot. Golden said the
team has depth there but needs
clear favorites to emerge.
Grade: C+
Kicking
Redshirt
senior
Jake
Brownell struggled last season
and was benched at times. On
Saturday, he made a 19-yard attempt but missed wide left on
a 47-yard try. Junior punter Jeff
Wathne showed a strong leg but
missed just right on a 50-yard attempt. Wathne did not punt in the
game because it was not used on
fourth downs.
The real competition begins
when incoming freshman kicker
Brandon McManus joins the
team in August.
Grade: C-
Intangibles
Things have been improving slightly since Golden arrived
on campus four years ago. But
slight improvement isn’t always
good enough. People have been
waiting for something really impressive to happen, and they’re
still waiting.
Grade: Enjoy the summer,
and get ready for Villanova.
- Jennifer Reardon
and Pete Dorchak
SPORTS
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Football
A little spring in its step
The defense stole the show at Cherry and White Day, as only the White team found the endzone in the Owls’ annual spring practice game. Andre Neblett led the defensive charge.
T
PETE DORCHAK
The Temple News
his sounds familiar.
The last play of spring
practice featured a Hail Mary
attempt from redshirt junior
quarterback Vaughn Charlton that was
intercepted inside the redzone by redshirt senior defensive back Dominique
Harris.
Harris’ game-ending interception
preserved a 10-0 shutout by his White
team in Saturday afternoon’s annual
Cherry and White intrasquad spring
football game at the Edberg-Olson Hall
Football Complex.
It also brought back chilling memories from last season. In the third game
of the 2008 season, Buffalo defeated
the Owls, 30-28, on a last-second Hail
Mary completion between a handful of
Temple defenders.
“We were practicing on that hard
all spring, and that was kind of a flashback,” Harris said. “I didn’t want to
have it happen again. You have to get
the ball out of the air.”
The Owls already conquered one
of their demons from a disappointing
5-7 record last season. Now, as spring
practice comes to an end, and summer
camp looms in the future, the defense is
still looking to improve before the Owls
open the 2009 season at home Sept. 3
against cross-town rival Villanova.
“I thought the first-team defense
played like they practiced,” fourth-year
coach Al Golden said. “They practice
hard, and they have excellent leadership right now.”
It starts up front at the defensive
line, where the unit is led by senior defensive tackle Andre Neblett. Neblett is
a Preseason First Team All-Mid-Amer-
PAUL KLEIN TTN
Andre Neblett grapples with the Cherry offensive line in the Owls’
spring practice game Saturday afternoon at Edberg-Olson Hall.
The arms race continues
defense PAGE 19
Chester Stewart outplayed Vaughn Charlton at Cherry & White Day, but neither quarterback was particularly impressive in the spring practice game. No decision will be made
on the Owls’ starting signal-caller until practice picks up again in August.
the field at the start of the fourth quarter for its lone endzone
score.
But he wasn’t without his own on-the-field blunder, committing
a 15-yard personal foul at the Cherry 5-yard line that
Amid the chattering fans, bellowing bullhorns and
ultimately
cost his team another scoring opportunity.
wafting smell of food, the football team took the field
“I
thought
I played well, but the penalty really killed my
at Edberg-Olson Hall Saturday afternoon, breaking
day,”
Stewart
said.
“It was a stupid penalty that took us out of
into two squads – Cherry and White.
scoring
range.
It
ended
that drive. Coach said something about
The White squad may have won the game,
it
during
the
game,
but
I still expect to hear about it. He was
10-0, but the performances by both offenses
just
letting
me
know
that
I have to be a leader on this team,
clouded an otherwise clear, sunny day.
and
that
was
a
selfish,
immature
play.”
“We’ve got to start playing the guys who
Former
starting
quarterback
Adam DiMichele, set to
make the best decisions,” coach Al Golden
graduate
in
May,
said
he
thinks
the
determining factor in who
said. “That’s not acceptable, especially in the
wins
the
starting
spot
will
come
down
to minimizing those
realm of penalties and decision-making.”
mistakes.
And for the offense, that might not neces“I think both of them played well today. Obviously, Chessarily mean those who currently top the depth
ter
has
the more gaudy stats and made some deeper throws, but
chart.
I
don’t
think coaches really judge who won the game,” he said.
The biggest question mark entering the
“It’s
been
pretty even in my eyes. But [redshirt sophomore
spring and, now, the summer,
Mike]
Gerardi’s
lies at the quarterback posigot
a
really
good
tion, which Golden said will be
Oh, yeah, I thought
arm
and
is
a
pretty
decided about 10 days into trainChester helped himself
good athlete. He’s
ing camp in August. Redshirt
just looking for that
junior quarterback Vaughn
today. The lights came
one opportunity.”
Charlton did himself no faon.
He
did
a
good
job.
And that seems
vors Saturday afternoon,
to
be
the prevailthrowing three interceptions Al golden
ing
theme
entering
for the Cherry squad, and al- football coach
training
camp.
lowing counterpart redshirt
Senior wide
sophomore Chester Stewart to
receivers
Jason
Harper
and
Dy’Onne
Crudup
seem
fairly engain ground in the all-important competition.
trenched
in
their
starting
positions
but
didn’t
do
much
to fill
“Oh, yeah, I thought Chester helped himself toup
the
stat
sheet
or
make
their
presence
felt
during
the
game.
day,” Golden said. “The lights came on. He did a good
Instead, that belonged to junior wide receiver Delano
job. He didn’t have the first-team line in front of him. I
Green
and freshman wide receiver Matt Brown.
thought he did a good job of commanding the offense.
Green
spent most of last season on special teams returnBut it can all be washed down the drain when he takes
ing
punts.
Saturday
afternoon, he caught eight passes from
a personal foul on the 5-yard line. And that’s the bottom
Stewart
for
102
yards.
line.”
“I’ve been preparing for this day, and I came out today
Both quarterbacks completed 14 passes in the scrimmage
and
just told myself I would work extremely hard,” Green
for 125 yards and 197 yards, respectively, but Stewart won the
JENNIFER REARDON
The Temple News
PAUL KLEIN TTN
Al Golden talks to Chester Stewart Saturday. Stewart led the White
team to a 10-0 win, as he completed 14 passes for 197 yards.
touchdown-to-turnover battle, leading the White team down
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Women’s Tennis
Back-to-back quest ends in finals
Richmond beat the Owls, 4-0, Sunday in the final round of the A-10 Championship. The
Owls were hoping to repeat as champions, but they ended up falling short.
BRIAN DZENIS
The Temple News
The women’s tennis team fell short of defending its title
when the Owls lost to Richmond in the final round of the
Atlantic Ten Conference Championship on Sunday.
Last year, Temple narrowly defeated Richmond to win
the A-10 title, but this year, the Spiders returned the favor
with a 4-0 win to capture their fifth title in six seasons.
“It was actually a very close match,” coach Steve Mauro
said. “It really could have gone either way.”
From the start of the match, Richmond quickly got the
first point in doubles by winning the second flight. In the
doubles first flight, Richmond rallied from a 4-3 deficit to
come back and beat Temple, 8-5, to secure another point.
Temple then gave up another point with a 6-1 and 6-2 loss in
the singles first flight.
The Owls’ hopes for defending their title came to a
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Courtesy Atlantic Ten Conference
The women’s tennis team failed to repeat as A-10 champions, as it fell
to Richmond, 4-0, Sunday in the final round in Monroeville, Pa.
inside
next week
YES SHE CAN:
Katie Canning of the women’s gymnastics team had one of the
best seasons in Temple history this year.
sports DESK 215-204-9537
NCAA NO GO:
Eight members of the men’s gymnastics team competed in the
NCAA Qualifier, but none made it to the next round.
GETTING KNIGHTED:
Defensive tackle Terrance Knighton is expected to be selected in
the middle to late rounds of the NFL draft this weekend.
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Alter cuts ribbon on namesake

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