Sometimes Temple students find themselves asking “What does TSG do?”
Well students, look no further than the newest addition to the long list of photo blogs of people doing stuff: ColinSaltryDoingThings.tumblr.com
Now we get a chance to see what our student body president is up to and hopefully have a more transparent TSG.
If you’d like more people-doing-things blogs I’d also suggest kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com
Enjoy!
According to an email from the Office of University Housing and Residential Life, residence halls are to have a wireless network by September 14th, available on the turesnet and turesnetextra wireless networks. It, like Temple’s main wireless network Wifi4Owls, allows wireless printing and access to Temple’s online resources.
It will be available in Johnson, Hardwick, White Hall, Temple Towers, 1940, 1300, Peabody and the Podiatry residence halls. For more information on how to access this network, visit Computer Service’s wireless page.
Prior to this, all residents in university housing had to connect their computers to Ethernet cables in their rooms, or use the Wifi4Owls network in study lounges and social lounges.
For more coverage, student opinions and a review of the network (will it overload? will Computer Services crash and burn? Or make it to the finish line?), visit temple-news.com on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Temple officials have confirmed that President Ann Weaver Hart will be stepping down as of June 30, 2012.
According to a Philadelphia Inquirer article posted minutes ago, Hart will be leaving Temple. She plans to resign to take care of her mother in Utah. No announcement on a replacement has been made yet.
According to university communications, the university is in the process of making an announcement.
Follow The Temple News for more information as it becomes available.
This weather not only brings with it the appearance of ridiculous patterned rain boots all over campus (Yes, I know they keep your feet dry, but couldn’t you have gone with a pair that didn’t have neon-zebra stripes all over them?), but it also makes trouble for students and professors who have to commute to Main Campus.
SEPTA’s website reports that service on the following regional rail lines are suspended due to flooding: Chestnut Hill West, Lansdale/Doylestown, Manayunk/Norristown, Warminster and West Trenton. A number of local buses are also experiencing detours.
Earlier this morning, officials reported that the road on Kelly Drive was beginning to buckle, and a mud slide was reported on Ridge Avenue at the I-76 interchange. Portions of Main Street, Kelly Drive, Lincoln Drive and Ridge Avenue are all closed. Officials said that if Schuylkill flooding continues, Kelly Drive will remain closed until at least Friday.
Did you have a nightmare commute to Main Campus today? Did your professor cancel class because they couldn’t get there? Comment and let us know.
Mary Kay cosmetics, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan magazine stopped by the SAC today to give makeovers for their Fall Into Your Beauty Tour. Students lined up to get free makeovers, makeup kits and advice about their own specific looks. Makeovers will be held until 4pm today.
Mural dedicated to Roswell Frind
Just outside Avenue North is a mural dedicated to Roswell Friend. It is a beautiful addition to the plaza and seems to make a cloudy day shine. On Temple’s campus, Friend’s memory will live on forever.
Remembering Roswell Friend, a facebook page dedicated to his memory, displays his profile picture that show’s just how contagious his smile was and will always be.
While vacationing in Ocean City, Maryland over the weekend, my friends and I took a much-needed trip out of hetero-ville and into what is popularly known in the gay dictionary as Rehomo, but what you, reader, might know as Rehoboth Beach in Delaware.
It sits about 20 minutes away from OC and I was the designated driver for the night. In a friend’s car, I drove a few of us over state lines to a gay club.
My friends and I arrive. They grab a drink and we begin dancing and enjoying ourselves, until a guy in a red T-shirt with an over-sized forehead decides to randomly give the guy I’m seeing a nuggee.
I asked my boo if he knew him. He said he didn’t and continued to dance as if oblivious to what happened. I didn’t care at the time, largely because I thought it was just drunk stupidity, but a few minutes later the red T-shirt douche-bag comes back, trying to talk to him.
“Hey, you gotta back off.” I told him. He told me they were just talking. I told him again to back off. He finally did so, but arrived shortly after with a tall looking friend, trying to show off something. I wasn’t really paying attention, however, because I was just trying to have fun with my man.
A third time, this loser comes by and wants to talk to me to explain something. I ignore him and tell him I don’t want to talk. This determined SOB doesn’t give up, and so I try positioning my back towards him to block any dumbass conversation from happening.
I just wanna dance!
As I continuing to boogie, the red T-shirt douche-bag hops over with some chick on his back, and the two bounce and bump around my sweetheart and I. They’re hopping around in a circle around us like idiots, seemingly determined to be as annoying as can be. Red T-shirt DB then slap me in the face–either intentionally or accidentally, I’ll never really know.
But being that he already tested my often-short patience, I didn’t need a reason to respond. I grab him by the shirt (with the girl still on his back) and quickly wind back my arm. Clenching my fist, I crack him in his cheek and grind my hand into his nose.
His head whiplashes backward with a spray of blood, and he and the girl lose their balance. She falls on top of them as they both slowly collapse and slam on the floor.
He tries to get himself up, obviously hurt. I look at him, waiting, not really knowing what to do next. He, too, looks confused, so I proceed to leave, which is when he begins to chase after me.
I decide I am not running away and turn around. He tries running into me with his first, but my arm is way longer than his and I dodge it, grab his body and throw him into a wall. I’m told a bartender jumped over his counter while bodyguards quickly came and tired separating us. They bring us to opposite sides of the club. One is talking to me and asking what happened, and I assumed the DB was being questioned, as well. Focused on answering the bodyguard, I explain to him what happened, and the piece of shit comes from behind and punches me in my eye.
I could have walked away from the entire situation and left the club. I could have kicked his ribs in while he was on the ground.
But it’s not over, yet.
He gets kicked out of the club.
After my friends and I decide to leave briefly later, the broad who was on his back is waiting for me with a girlfriend at the exit of the club.
“Where you the one that punched my friend?!” she yells at me. I want to tell her I didn’t bust up her already ugly-ass face, but I ignore her and walk to my friend’s car while my two friends and my boyfriend follow. As I approach the car, I look behind to see the crazy girl and her friend running toward us in skanky high heels.
I get into the car and lock the doors. My friends are inside, and the crazy girls get close enough to make eye contact with me as I sit guarded by the window of the car and they just inches on the outside. She tries to open the door. Time stops for a few seconds, and I pray I correctly locked the doors.
I did. She squirms to open the locked door and I take off with her hand not letting go. She finally releases her hand, but not before she tries punching a window.
We get home safely. And that was my Labor Day Weekend.
Children in the North Philadelphia neighborhood take turns riding a pony in the street during a labor day block party. CONNOR SHOWALTER TTN
Philadelphia residents, Lonnie Sullivan, 50, and his son Jamal, were at the block party to teach children and adults how to ride ponies around the block. Lonnie Sullivan, who said he is the boss of the organized pony rides, has been traveling around the Philadelphia community with his horses throughout the summer. He receives his business from residents who hold events ranging from catering parties to sweet sixteen birthday parties.
“Any events that they call me for I do the events,” Lonnie Sullivan said. “The message is to let the kids see that there’s more stuff in the city then just selling drugs. We don’t want our kids to be on the corner selling drug, so we got horses.”
The cost to ride the pony to the end of the block and back is $3 per kid, $5 per adult. If a person wants to take a joy ride to center city, they can rent a horse for $75 an hour.
For more coverage of the community block party sponsored in conjunction by Temple Student Government, continue to visit www.temple-news.com.
After a student was shot early this morning, Temple and Philadelphia police have arrested a suspect, according to a TU Advisory.
The advisory states the suspect in the shooting of an unnamed student near 12th and Dauphin streets at approximately 2 a.m. has been arrested and charged.
The student, injured, is reportedly recovering at Temple University Hospital.
The Temple News will continue to provide additional information as it becomes available.
