A 31-year-old student who attended Temple Ambler admitted to using software to hack professors’ passwords last spring, the Washington Post reports. Edwin Kim reportedly used keystroke logging software to obtain the passwords of some professors, in order to boost his grades. One professor reportedly could not enter the system, and later found Kim’s grade had [...]
A video of a scuffle near 16th Street and Montgomery Avenue involving two Temple Police officers has surfaced online. In the video, Temple officers are seen attempting to apprehend a male, as he fights them off and a few fellow onlookers attempt to assist him. The officers are taken to the ground as they attempt to [...]
Temple’s largest residence hall underway at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue will likely don a trustee’s name, pending finalized paperwork. At today’s Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees approved the authorization for the university to name the new residence hall, dining and retail complex. Although documents will still need to be finalized, David [...]
The Philadelphia Police Department has released the identities of two men believed to be responsible for a series of robberies near Main Campus. Four out of five robberies and attempted robberies included students, police say. The robberies occurred on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the two men are asked to [...]
Those in need of heart and lung transplants can breathe easy again. Temple recently hired a Pittsburgh surgeon and researcher, Yoshiya Toyoda, to bring back Temple University Hospital’s heart and lung transplant programs, according to Philadelphia Magazine. Both of the programs became inactive at the end of the spring semester. Toyoda came to Temple in [...]
No–he’s not running in the Nov. 8 municipal elections, but could former Governor Ed Rendell be campaigning to…come to Temple? While Rendell filling in the shoes of President Ann Weaver Hart, who’s stepping down as of June 30, 2012, may seem like a stretch for some, a few people don’t seem to think so. In [...]
More than a month and a half after President Ann Weaver Hart announced her resignation, the university announced its Presidential Search Committee, today. Twelve members of the Board of Trustees, two faculty members and one student representative will sit on the committee. The 12 committee members include: Chairman Patrick J. O’Connor, Theodore Z. Davis, Ronald [...]
The university’s $10 million architecture building is taking shape in the courtyard near the Tyler School of Art. The building, funded through the commonwealth, is expected to be complete in September 2012. Studio space needed for the architecture program will be provided in the new building. The project is one of many outlined in Temple’s [...]
Retired vice president for university relations and communications professor Jim Shea, 84, was attacked in Fairmount Park Monday, 6abc.com reports. Shea was reportedly walking along the Forbidden Drive area when four young men approached him. Two of the young adults attacked him with rocks and kicked him, taking him to the ground. The other two [...]
Temple College Republicans are planning to protest in front of Sen. Pat Toomey’s (R-Pa.) Philadelphia district office on Thursday, Oct. 13, against the Occupy Philadelphia demonstration taking place at City Hall, according to a Facebook event created by the group. The Occupy protestors are reportedly protesting for their cause at the same location on Thursday. [...]
