Category Archives: In the paper

Bone marrow drive today, Rm. 200 of the Student Center South

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Temple Football team manager Michel’Le Daughtry/Paul Klein TTN

Temple Athletics’ football team is holding a bone marrow drive today, Apr. 14, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in room 200 of the Student Center South. Below is an excerpt from “Football team directly touched by bone marrow drive,” explaining how you can help and what the screening process is. Click here to read the entire article, which profiles the football team’s team manager, Michel’Le Daughtry, who is battling acute myeloid leukemia for the second time.

Temple football began hosting its annual bone marrow drive in Spring 2008. That year, the team screened a collegiate record 630 potential donors for the National Marrow Donor Program. Last year, the number of people screened dropped to 218 individuals. Ryan McNamee, the director of player development, said the team hopes to screen 800 potential donors this year. The bone marrow drive will be held in Room 200 of the Student Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. The process takes about 20 minutes to complete. Potential donors, who must be between 18 and 60, fill out forms first and then get the four corners of their cheeks swabbed.

-Jennifer Reardon

TTN gets a little afternoon love from G. Love

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We just got off the phone with G. Love of G. Love & Special Sauce (and more importantly, from Philly) and let’s just say you’re sure to get a few laughs when you read the Q&A in our upcoming music issue debuting Tuesday, Apr. 20. Topics of conversation? Chicks, fake IDs, a special type of urban gardening involving souvenirs from Amsterdam and of course, music. But by the time it hits newsstands, G. will already have played at the Music Box at the Borgata in Atlantic City, just a short I-95 slide away.

As parting words, G. Love said, “Let everyone know we’re playing at the Borgata and they should come down.” We’re letting you know. Go down.

And if you need more YouTube videos to watch while you’re not doing your work, click here to check out G. Love’s “Cookin’ With G” video. It won’t make you hungry, but it will certainly make you laugh.

Setting the TSG tickets straight

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In today’s March 30 issue of The Temple News, the candidates’ names’ and respective tickets beneath the photos of two Temple Student Government tickets are incorrect. The Temple News apologizes for this error. The tickets are: Break Thru TU: Damon Williams, Natalie Ramos-Castillo, Alex Shelow, Owls United: Maggie Thompson, Malcolm Kenyatta, Chanee Lay, TU360: Jessica Reed, Jamira Burley and Mark Fabbi. The captions to the photos accompanying “TSG candidates eagerly await April 6 elections” in today’s issue should read as follows:

Break Thru TU (left to right): Damon Williams, Natalie Ramos-Castillo, Alex Shelow

Owls United (left to right): Maggie Thompson, Malcolm Kenyatta, Chanee Lay

The caption for TU360 was correct and is as follows:

TU360 (left to right): Jessica Reed, Jamira Burley and Mark Fabbi

Additional Help for Haiti drop-off locations

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In case you still wanted to donate supplies to help Haiti but missed the Help for Haiti event yesterday, the Haitian Students Organization has set up various drop-off locations around campus. For more information on how HSO is getting the supplies to Haiti and how the earthquake has affected Temple students, click here to read the article in the latest addition of The Temple News or watch TTN’s video coverage.

All items:

Temple Student Government: Room 244 of the Student Center North

Main Campus Program Board: Room 249 of the Student Center North

The Village: Room 249 of the Student Center South

Johnson & Hardwick residence halls

1300 residence halls

Paley Library

Medical supplies only:

Tuttleman Learning Center lobby

Tyler School of Art lobby

Hygiene items only:

Anderson Hall lobby

TECH Center, second floor

Non-perishable food only:

Conwell Hall by the first floor elevators

Baby supplies only:

Mitten Hall, lower level

TOM’S Shoes founder comes to Temple to talk entrepreneurship, philanthropy

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Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOM’S Shoes, an organization that donates shoes to poor children, will be speaking at Temple in Student Center room 200 next week as part of the Main Campus Program Board and Office of Leadership Development-sponsored Homecoming Lecture/Diamond Leader Vision Showcase series.

The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 and is open to anyone.

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Look for coverage of Mycoskie’s talk and an upcoming TOM’S Shoes campus

Former TTN Editor recognized in City Paper’s Choice ’09 Awards

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In this week’s issue of City Paper, the weekly publication released their Choice ’09 award winners, recognizing some of Philadelphia’s unsung heroes in categories such as Music, Politics, Activism and Watchdogs, Food and Drink, Film and Screen, Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

Their choice in the category of Journalism and Media was last year’s Managing Editor, Shannon McDonald. Shannon received a great deal of attention after writing a story for her Media Urban Reporting Lab capstone class, which detailed a police officer’s racist comments she observed during a ride-along. Her story painted a vivid picture of the racial tension between the community and police and led to the eventual firing of the officer.

Photo courtesy citypaper.net

Photo courtesy citypaper.net

Also receiving honorable mention in the category were former TTN staff members Christopher Wink, Sean Blanda and Brian James Kirk, for their work on Technically Philly, their Web-based project that covers the Philly-area tech scene.

Metro takes a four-day weekend

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Sometimes even major newspapers need a long weekend.

And that apparently was the case with the Metro, as the newspaper decided to make today’s (Thursday’s) issue the weekend issue, instead of the usual Friday paper, which is intended to cover Saturday and Sunday, as well.

An Editor’s note on the top of the second page noted, “Like many of you, we’ve planned a long weekend, so there won’t be a newspaper tomorrow.”

There’s no word on whether this will become a common practice for the free daily paper or whether the staff simply needed a day off.

The front cover and some of the News section of the issue memorialize recently deceased Senator Ted Kennedy, which no doubt may still be of major importance come Sunday. However, you might find your Phillies coverage a little more outdated if you’re riding the train that afternoon, looking for something to read.

TTN letter published in Inquirer

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In our final issue, the Editorial Board criticized the choice of President Ann Weaver Hart as the highlighted commencement speaker this year in the 125th anniversary.

In turn, Inquirer columnist Daniel Rubin criticized us saying “these speeches are not for [students].” He also implied many would be hungover for the ceremony itself.

Not ones to take such stereotypical criticisms lightly, TTN responded with a letter, which was published in Monday’s Inqurier. Take a look here (it’s the first one).

OBSESSED tickets!! :)

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The Temple News is sponsoring free advance tickets for a screening of OBSESSED is now available at The Temple News office! Come on in and pick them up! Room 243 of Student Center!

*Continue to keep an eye out for more TTN promotions!*

Temple’s WOF contestant wins $100K

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Today, we told you about Temple student’s Drew Magathan’s appearance on Wheel of Fortune.

The show aired tonight, and Magathan won. And won big.

He advanced to the final round with a total of $10,450. For the bonus round, he correctly solved the puzzle — “Tight Grasp” — and inside the envelope was $100,000.

Magathan’s father and sister joined him on stage following his big win. In an interview with Pat and Vanna, he said the money would go to grad school and “cool stuff.”

He’s got to have a “tight grasp” on that money, so just don’t go asking for favors.

Image courtesy Wheel of Fortune.