Category Archives: Temple Living

Help save the birds!

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Hundreds of birds die from crashing into windows of buildings on our campus, and as expansion of high risers and office buildings in Philadelphia increase, this problem will only continue to escalate.

Daniel Featherston, the faculty advisor for PAW, is working with Audubon, the Philadelphia Zoo, and some Temple people to reduce the deaths of the wild bird population during their migratory and seasonal travels.

If you want to get involved, you can help install patterns on windows at Paley for one day for a few hours in a week or two. These patterns were applied to windows at the Philadelphia Zoo, and are working.

If anyone is interested in helping, contact danielf@temple.edu.

Alumni goes to Emmys tonight

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Kunal Nayyar – a Temple alumni who received his MFA in Acting – is among the other stars to hit the red carpet tonight at the 2011 Emmy Awards. Kunal stars on CBS’s television series “The Big Bang Theory” as Rajesh  Koothrappal, an astrophysicist at California Tech.

According to a “Big Bang Theory” fan-run website, the show is nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, with competition against “Glee,” “Parks and Recreation,” “The Office,” “Modern Family” and “30 Rock.”

Broadcast is set to start at 8 p.m. on FOX.

Mugshots to open on Cecil B. Moore

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Quick: Where can you get coffee on Main Campus? There’s Saxby’s, Dunkin Donuts, the Barnes and Noble Starbucks, the TECH Center Starbucks (which, in my humble opinion, is much better), 7-Eleven and the various lunch trucks on Montgomery Ave., 12th and 13th streets. While the TECH Center Starbucks offers the comfy couch area, the coffee is really only sub-par and is always packed with zombie students filing a line that stretches to the security desk. The “coffee shop” image has really dwindled on campus. Can’t a girl just get coffee with a friend anymore without waiting for half an hour?

Yes, yes she can. And you can, too. Mugshots, a local cafe with locations in Brewerytown and Fairmount recently closed its Manayunk location and is looking up Broad Street for its new home. The coffeehouse is set to open at 1520 Cecil B. Moore Ave. in the Beech International Village building, according to an article on Naked Philly.

There is no expected open date yet, but we assume when Beech opens, Mugshots will follow suite. And with a menu consisting of vegetarian, vegan and all-around delicious options (Vegan Reubans, black bean burritos, custom breakfast sandwiches, the list goes on…), I certainly can’t wait to ditch the ole’ ‘Bucks for something a little, well, yummier.

“Don’t call it a rave”

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Tomorrow, the Liacouras Center will warm the hearts of house music listeners, as it hosts the first Dayglow experience North Philadelphia has ever seen.

Dayglow, “the world’s largest paint party” is described as a unique entertainment experience that combines music, art, and dancing into one large venue. With gallons of neon paint shooting from cannons all over the crowd, aerialists flying high above, laser shows and an incredible performance from famous DJ Sidney Samson, it is bound to be a great time.

Tickets went on sale over a month ago, and sold out in a matter of minutes. Because of this, another Dayglow experience will be hosted on Friday, Sept. 16.

Free Snapple at the Edge

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On an 85-degree day, what more could someone ask for than free Snapple?

A truck parked on the corner of Cecil B. Moore Ave. and Broad St. is giving away free 16 oz. glass bottles of Snapple.

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The giveaway is apparently apart of an ad campaign in partnership with Maroon 5.

The truck is adorned with a large graphic of the band with a slogan reading, “And tea will be loved,” playing off Maroon 5’s hit, “She Will Be Loved.”

University announces Hart’s resignation

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Temple announced that President Ann Weaver Hart will step down from presidency on June 30, 2012.

Because of the need to be nearer to family in Utah, she decided that it would be beneficial for the Temple community to have a president who can make a “multiple-year commitment to the university.”

After 5 years of leadership, Hart made this announcement now with hopes of having the Temple Board of Trustees “embark on a thoughtful and measured nation-wide search for a new president for Temple University.”

Lancaster County Produce

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Lancaster County Produce is open for business.

The produce stand, located just off the corner of Cecil B. Moore Ave. and Broad St., is run by residents of Lancaster County, Pa. and sells high-quality fruit, vegetables, baked goods, and cider for a cheap price.

Most fruit was priced at a meager $1.50 per pound. I purchased four onions and four peaches for under $5.

The stand will be open in the same spot every Thursday from 2-6 p.m.

Club TECH goes viral

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According to the TECH Center’s Wikipedia page, Main Campus’ technological hub – and frequent finals week hot-spot – bears similarities to Azkaban, the fictional prison in the “Harry Potter” saga. According to the page:

“…[The] TECH Center has been gaining a reputation as an instrument of torture for students of all majors. Comparisons have been made to Azkaban, in which one can feel their soul being sucked out as they spend endless sleepless nights pouring over the computers and books.”

The page continues to cite the TECH Center as a popular location for studying, and has become colloquially referred to as “CLub TECH.”

The next time your professor says Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source, pull up this entry and prove him or her wrong.

Temple’s got talent

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It is no surprise that students at college are going to have immense amounts of talent in all different subjects and interests, but when it comes to Temple University, our artistic, diverse, creative and innovative minds shine through mere academic life.

At Sunday’s Welcome Week concert, B-Eazy and Chocolate Milk, two extremely talented music groups from Temple opened for Chiddy Bang. Brady Ettinger, better known as DJ Sylo, kept the students’ spirits up during breaks in the concert and proved his talent again after opening for Kid Cudi over the summer.

The members in Ground Up, another uprising band from Temple, are also growing as artists after performing at 618 Fest at Penn’s Landing this summer.

Keep an eye out for the talented, promising individuals of these groups on campus – maybe even grab an autograph when you see them on Liacouras!

Non-Temple student poses with gun on class of 2015 Facebook group

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First impressions can say a lot about a person and are especially important for the average habitually awkward incoming freshman, who usually just wants to make a new friend. But that was not the case for Jamall “SwaggedOut” Edwards, who posted the above picture of himself wielding a gun and making sure his first impression meant having no friends.

Edwards posted the picture in the “Temple University Class of 2015” Facebook group. Within 24 hours it received more than 50 comments from angry students who mostly denounced the photo. Temple University Police looked into the matter and said hte student has no affiliation with Temple, and now, the post appears to have been removed.