Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Celebrate in green

St. Patrick’s Day is similar to Halloween, that is, it’s celebrated for an entire month by most, especially college students. Whether you already attended State Patty’s Day in Happy Valley, Scranton’s Parade Day or Philadelphia’s own parade celebration last Sunday, don’t miss out on the festivities happening on the real day for the Irish – [...]

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Doubleheader: Show your Temple Spirit Saturday

This Saturday, Feb. 11 show your Temple spirit by attending the basketball doubleheader at the Liacouras Center. Both Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams will be playing, with the Women’s team starting at 5:30 p.m. against UMass. The Men’s team will take on A-10 rival Xavier at 9 p.m. in a nationally televised game on ESPN2. [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Lynda.com spares future headaches for students

Lynda.com, a website focused on creating quality how-to content with 900 courses and more than 56,000 tutorials, has recently swept the hearts of Temple students. Computer Services signed a contract with Lynda.com, a website providing free tutorials organized by subject software and expert instructors on video editing, business, photography, web design, graphic design and much [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Ready to Rage: Dayglow 2012

It looks like the craze has returned to Philly. Dayglow is back with an all new show: L!FE IN COLOR. According to the Dayglow Philadelphia Facebook page, there will be improved paint cannons that shoot more than 100 feet into the crowd, a brand new laser show and refined stage and lights to enhance everyone’s [...]

Friday, January 27th, 2012

South Africa SCT Study Away Program Suspended

The inaugural South Africa 2011 summer program, led by journalism professor Dr. Shenid Bhayroo, achieved more than Temple’s SCT ever thought possible. Eleven journalism and research students conducted stories, produced news videos and documentaries, while completely embracing an entirely new culture more than 15,000 miles away. News stories were published on the Department of Journalism’s [...]

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

“SEPTA Sweethearts” share their stories

From now until February 6, SEPTA is calling for all couples who met on busses, trains or trollies to submit their love story to http://septalovestories.org/. The public will vote for the most “moving” stories, pictures and/or videos and the “SEPTA sweethearts” with the most votes will receive prizes. One prize offers a ride on the [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Social event website reaches Temple

Having a hard time finding something to do in your “oh so often” free time? Then Qwicklr, a new nationwide social event planner, might be for you. Today as I was leaving the Student Center, a nice man holding the door for me handed a blue and white business card with www.qwicklr.com written on it. [...]

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Dating website attracts students

Looking for…… A wife? Husband? Partner? A study buddy? An adventure? A friend? A free dinner? A relationship? Free drinks? A partner? A green card? Eternal love? A date? A free movie? If so, then datemyschool.com might be for you! Located conveniently on the sinks in the TECH Center girl’s bathroom today were copies of [...]

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Electronic devices hinder new relationships

This is what our lives have come to. Free wireless Internet in the Amtrak station, although extremely convenient, has changed the way Philadelphians are interacting. After taking a seat on the bench to wait for my train today, I whipped out my laptop with happy intentions of scoping my social network world and checking my [...]

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Sustainability Day welcomed by Temple students

From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. today, the Bell Tower was swarming with students checking out all that The Sustainability Day Fair had to offer. The Bell Tower is a great place to hold events like this, because most students have to walk through this area to get to class. In my eyes, The Sustainability [...]